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
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Roleplaying Game Movie Night #6: The Institute
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. (The Institute) The Jejune Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #5: King of the Nerds
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. (King of the Nerds, 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
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #4: The Gamers movies
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. (The Gamers: Hands of Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #125: Antarctica: A Year on Ice
Documentary: Anthony Powell: Antarctica: A Year on Ice (New Zealand, 2013) A documentary about a year working in Antarctica, this is one of the best Antarctic movies I’ve seen. The director Anthony Powell has worked on the continent for many years, and the movie reflects a deep understanding of the Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #124: Surviving Antarctica
Novel: Andrea White: Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 (EOS, 2005) Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 is a young adult book about a group of kids participating in a reality TV show where they emulate Scott’s second, fatal Antarctic expedition. It’s an amazing failure of a book. It reads like a Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #123: Heart of Ice
Graphic novel: Alan Moore: Nemo: Heart of Ice (Top Shelf, 2013) Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen started with two volumes of relatively straightforward intertextual adventure stories before ascending into the realms of conceptual psychedelia. The spin-off Nemo stories, focusing on the daughter of the submarine captain, are a little Continue Reading
Photos from Halat hisar
The photographer Tuomas Puikkonen has published a set from our larp Halat hisar. More here.
Research Blog Antarctica #122: Ocean Enough and Time
Non-fiction: James Gorman: Ocean Enough and Time (HarperCollins Publishers, 1995) The pompously titled Ocean Enough and Time is actually an ok Antarctic book, another product of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s decision to take artists and writers to Antarctica. James Gorman is an editor and a journalist, but his writing Continue Reading