Roleplaying game supplement: Charles and Janyce Engan: Beyond the Mountains of Madness (Chaosium inc. 1999) Beyond the Mountains of Madness is a Thirties campaign adventure published for the Call of Ctulhu roleplaying game. Some of the best roleplaying adventures ever made have been published for the Call of Cthulhu game, Continue Reading
Antarctica
Russian Antarctic Photos
English Russia has some great photographs from a Russian Antarctic base, by Anton Chekalin:
Antarctic Research Blog #89 – Planet Earth: Ice Worlds
Documentary tv-series: Planet Earth, episode Ice Worlds (U.K. 2006) Planet Earth is a spectacularly produced BBC nature program aiming to cover the entire planet Earth. Episode number six, Ice Worlds, covers the polar regions. Given the general nature of the show, not much of the content is new, but the Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #88 – Under Antarctic Ice
Documentary: Norbert Wu: Under Antarctic Ice (U.S.A. 2001) This is an hour-long documentary following the photographer Norbert Wu as he’s taking pictures for his book, also called Under Antarctic Ice. Content-wise this is a bit vacuous, but the images are perfect and gorgeous. Everything in the documentary is beautiful, from Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #87 – The Lost World of Lake Vostok
Documentary: Jonathan Renouf: The Lost World of Lake Vostok (U.K. 2000) A documentary made for the British Horizon series of programs that began in 1964. Lake Vostok is a vast body of water underneath central Antarctica. It derives its name from the Russian Vostok base built on the ice on Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #86 – Megastructures: South Pole Super Station
Documentary: Megastructures: South Pole Super Station (U.S.A. 2007) This is an episode of the National Geographic Channel documentary series Megastructures, about huge construction projects. This time, the project is the new South Pole station that’ll replace the old geodesic dome. Some of the old explorers would probably have a heart Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #85 – Where Hell Freezes Over
Non-fiction: David A. Kearns: Where Hell Freezes Over (Thomas Dunne Books, 2005) During a U.S. Navy surveying operation in Antarctica soon after the end of WWII, an airplane crashes onto the coast. The survivors wait for two weeks before they’re rescued, all badly wounded except one. It’s a dramatic story, Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #84 – With Byrd at the South Pole
Documentary: With Byrd at the South Pole (U.S.A. 1930) This is a documentary shot during Richard Byrd’s First Antarctic Expedition, 1928-1930. Of the early Antarctic documentaries, this has the best images in the sense that the cameramen were able to shoot more than before, although they were not as artistically Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #83 – The Birth of the People’s Republic of Antarctica
John Calvin Batchelor: the Birth of the People’s Republic of Antarctica (The Dial Press, 1983) This is one of the strangest Antarctic novels I’ve yet to read. It’s about the son of an American draft dodger and a Swedish witch, called Grim Fiddle. It begins in Sweden, soon the stage Continue Reading
Abandoned Antarctica
The web publication Dark Roasted Blend has an article about photos of abandoned places in Antarctica. These are from Deception Island: These are from the island of South Georgia, long a base for whaling operations: via Ectoplasmosis!