Here’s the presentation I made at the publishing event of my new book States of Play, courtesy of Nordic Larp Talks. The event was held at the PRKL club in Helsinki on the 11th of April.
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Mass Effect 3:n loppu
(Kuva: Mass Effectin päähenkilöstä voi tehdä haluamansa näköisen. Kuvassa oma komentaja Shepardini Mass Effect 3:ssa.) Kirjoitan Cityn sivuilla Mass Effect 3:n lopusta.
States of Play has arrived from the printer
My new book States of Play has arrived from the printer. Upper left is the version reserved for the people who contributed to the book. Lower left is the commercial version. On the right is the Solmukohta version. (Photo: Maria Pettersson) More information about the book here.
States of Play sent to the printer
My fourth book, the larp and roleplaying article collection States of Play: Nordic Larp Around the World was just sent to the printer. The book will be physically released on the 11th of April, but a PDf version will be made available for free in a few days. This is Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #108: Peter Wilkins
Fiction: Robert Paltock: Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man (U.K. 1751) Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man has the distinction of being the first Antarctic novel ever written, by the English lawyer Robert Paltock. Unfortunately, it’s not very good. Peter Wilkins loses his inheritance Continue Reading
Paheksuntaa
Professori Matti Kuusimäki paheksuu joulukuussa Hesarissa ollutta juttuani: Alkuperäinen artikkelini käsitteli Modern Warfare 3 ja Battlefield 3 -pelien kilvoittelua. Se julkaistiin 15.12.2011, ja Kuusimäen kommentti 18.12.2011. Tunnen oloni… imarrelluksi.
The Thing, revisited
John Carpenter’s movie The Thing is but the most famous example of a lineage of remakes and “inspired by” short stories and movies. And claymation movies starring penguins.
Research Blog Antarctica #107: No Horizon Is So Far
Non-fiction: Liv Arnesen, Ann Bancroft & Cheryl Dahle: No Horizon Is So Far (Penguin, 2004) No Horizon Is So Far is the account of the Norwegian Liv Arnesen and American Ann Bancroft’s expedition to cross the Antarctic continent unsupported. Books about modern Antarctic expeditions like this one are more like Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #106: Icequake
Novel: Crawford Kilian: Icequake (toExcel, 1998) What if there was an earthquake on Antarctica? That’s the premise of Crawford Kilian’s disaster novel Icequake, a novel that’s at its best when describing tons of ice moving in chaos. Following all the traditions of genre literature, its at its worst when it Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #105: The Thing
Film: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.: The Thing (U.S.A., 2011) The movie The Thing is a remake/prequel of John Carpenter’s 1982 movie The Thing, which is a remake of a 1951 movie called The Thing From Another World, which is based on the short story Who Goes There? by John W. Continue Reading