I have in my hands something that’s probably destined to become one of the most obscure Finnish roleplaying books ever published. To be honest, it’s not even really a book, but a 24 page printed booklet. It’s called Manhattan 2010, and contains almost no information about its circumstances of publication, Continue Reading
Books
Non-Digital: Profound Larp Thoughts
This year’s Knudepunkt larp conference saw the publication of two books, first the Nordic larp yearbook 2014 and now a collection of articles about larp, the scene, game design, and other related matters. Edited by Charles Bo Nielsen and Claus Raasted, it’s called The Knudepunkt 2015 Companion Book, and you Continue Reading
Non-Digital: Last Year’s Nordic Larp
Knudepunkt is an annual conference dedicated to ambitious larps and other roleplaying games. Every year, one or more books are published along with the event. The Danish book editors Charles Bo Nielsen and Claus Raasted are attempting to start a tradition of a yearbook collecting articles about games played the Continue Reading
Life Under Occupation is out!
Life Under Occupation: A documentation book for the larp Halat hisar has been published! Edited by me, it’s a collection of articles, photos and other stuff about the larp we did last year. Download it for free from here.
Research Blog Antarctica #131 – Southern Exposure
Non-fiction: Alia Sorensen: Southern Exposure (AuthorHouse, 2005) Southern Exposure documents writer a year of Alia Sorensen’s working life on Antarctica in the early 2000’s. It’s not an ambitious book, and perhaps that’s its strength. Sorensen worked both a summer and a winter at McMurdo station in the kitchen. The book’s Continue Reading
Nordic Larp the book available for free
Nordic Larp, the seminal collection of articles about important games in the Nordic countries. Is finally available as a freely downloadable PDF. Get it here. I have an article in the book, about the larp Luminescence.
The New Knutpunkt Books Are Out
The Nordic larp conference Knutpunkt will be held shortly. The books published together with the conference are now available as free PDFs. This time, there’s two: a collection of new articles called The Cutting Edge of Nordic Larp and a collection of old articles humbly titled The Foundation Stone of Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #128: Lost Antarctica
Non-fiction: James McClintock: Lost Antarctica (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) James McClintock is an American scientist with a long career of work on Antarctica. His book Lost Antarctica is one of those that I can recommend with: “If you read one book about Antarctica…” Lost Antarctica is part career retrospective, part adventure Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #127: A Line in the Ice
Novel: Jamie Craig: A Line in the Ice (Carina Press, 2011) Jamie Craig’s A Line in the Ice is the first Antarctic Harlequin book I’ve read. Polar literature is not usually big on romance or sex, and this book has plenty of both. Charlie is a member of a small Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #126: The Ice Cave
Non-fiction: Lucy Jane Bledsoe: The Ice Cave (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006) The Ice Cave is a travel book, but more to the point, it’s a book about experiencing nature. The title refers to an ice cave the writer Lucy Jane Bledsoe visited as a child, and which she describes Continue Reading