The excellent Japanese culture blog Pink Tentacle reveals the story of the “Ningen”, strange white humanoids inhabiting the Antarctic coast. Check out the rest here.
Antarctica
Research Blog Antarctica #94 – White-Out
Novel: James Vance Marshall: White-Out (Soho Press, 1999) James Vance Marshall’s White-Out is in many ways the quintessential Antarctic novel. Its centerpiece is a long sledging journey undertaken across the Antarctic Peninsula by a group of men fighting for survival. All the usual privations from hunger to the blizzards are Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #93 – Polar Obsession
Photo book: Paul Nicklen: Polar Obsession (National Geographic, 2009) Polar Obsession is a collection of photos of the polar regions from National Geographic nature photographer Paul Nicklen’s career. The most impressive thing about Nicklen’s images is the feeling of action, life, even violence they evoke. His images are not mere Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #92 – The Antarctic Express
Children’s book: Kenneth Hite & Christina Rodriguez: Antarctic Express (Atlas Games, 2009) Ken Hite’s Antarctic Express sounds like a joke: it’s a children’s picture book version of H.P. Lovecraft’s Antarctic tale At the Mountains of Madness. Surprisingly, it’s pretty good, probably because it feels like it’s been done in all Continue Reading
First Soviet Antarctic Expedition
English Russia has photos from the first Soviet Antarctic expedition, in 1955. Here’s a link to the original source.
J. Tuomas Harviainen reviews Ikuisuuden laakso
Game designer and academician J. Tuomas Harviainen reviews my game Ikuisuuden laakso (The Valley of Eternity) in his blog: … Compared to, say, Itras By or Stalker, it is a very simple game, almost a Forge-like one trick pony. Yet it does do its own thing really well, and it Continue Reading
Spore penguin
The antipenguins of my roleplaying game Ikuisuuden laakso (The Valley of Eternity) exist as Spore creatures, courtesy of user Tullius. Check it out:
Ikuisuuden laakso ja Itran kaupunki
Pohjoismaisen roolipelaamisen seura ry julkaisee tämän vuoden Ropeconissa kaksi roolipeliä. Toinen on norjasta käännetty surrealistinen peli nimeltä Itran kaupunki ja toinen on oma pingviiniaiheinen esikoispelini Ikuisuuden laakso. Ikuisuuden laakso on paikka, jonne pingviinit tulevat kuolemaan. Etelämantereen loputon jäätikkö on armoton vihollinen. Siellä selviävät vain rohkeimmat pingviinisankarit ja katalimmat antipingviinit. Pingviinisankari Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #91 – This Everlasting Silence
Non-fiction: ed. Nancy Robinson Flannery: This Everlasting Silence – The love letters of Paquita Delprat and Douglas Mawson 1911-1914 (Melbourne University Press, 2000) The Australian Douglas Mawson is an Antarctic explorer contemporary with his more famous colleagues Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott and Ernst Shackleton. He’s less known because he Continue Reading
Vintage Antarctic Photos
A friend sent me the link to this, a gallery of historical polar images called Freeze Frame. It’s maintained by the British Scott Polar Research Institute. There’s a lot of interesting stuff there, from photos almost a hundred years old to very recent stuff, like the one above.