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 sports narratives than exploration, stories about [...]

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 has to deal with people.
The premise [...]

The Nordic tradition of publishing collections of larp and roleplaying game theory and design articles together with the Knudepunkt conventions has inspired similar books in other parts of the world. One of these is the Italian Larp Frescos, published in two volumes and edited by the Italian Andrea Castellani and the Finnish J. Tuomas Harviainen.
Part [...]

Non-fiction: Alexa Thomson: Antarctica on a Plate (Random House Australia, 2003)
Many different kinds of people go to Antarctica. Scientists, adventurers and the people who keep the infrastructure running. Often, this last category produces the best books. Alexa Thomson writes about her experiences as a cook at an Antarctic tent camp providing support for a semi-improvised [...]

Art book: Paul D. Miller: The Book of Ice (Mark Batty Publisher, 2011)
Paul D. Miller, also known as DJ Spooky, created a multimedia performance piece called Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica in 2009. This book is a part of that project. It’s kind of a documentation book or an artbook, a scrapbook of graphics and images.
The [...]

Novel: Mat Johnson: Pym (Spiegel & Grau, 2011)
Mat Johnson’s Pym is a stellar example of what an Antarctic novel can be. It’s the story of a black American university man preoccupied with Edgar Allan Poe and issues of race. He gets sacked from his university for failing to serve in the diversity committee, and decides [...]

Ropecon on ensi viikonloppuna, ja meitsi on mukana seuraavissa ohjelmanumeroissa:
Unelma Keltaisesta kuninkaasta -julkaisutilaisuus
Perjantaina 16:30 – 17:30 klondykessä, vetäjänä Juhana Pettersson
Unelma Keltaisesta kuninkaasta -kirja kokoaa yhteen 12 parasta tanskalaista yhden illan roolipeliä. Julkaisuesitelmässä pelien tanskalaiset tekijät ja kirjan suomalainen kustantaja kertovat peleistä, projektista ja siitä, miksi tanskalaiset pelit ovat niin hienoja. Ohjelma [...]

Unelma Keltaisesta kuninkaasta ja muita tanskalaisia roolipelejä on kokoelma Fastaval-pelitapahtuman puitteissa syntyneitä yhden illan pelejä. Sen toimittivat minä, Kristoffer Apollo ja Tobias Wrigstad. Virallinen julkaisuhäppäri on 29.7.2011 Ropeconissa. Kirjaa saa pikapuoliin Fantasiapeleistä.

(Kuva: Maria Pettersson)

My roleplaying game Ikuisuuden laakso (The Valley of Eternity) will be published translated into Danish by Rollespilsakademiet. The official publishing date is the 6th of July, 2011.
Here’s the cover of the Danish edition:

Novel: Jules Verne: An Antarctic Mystery (Mondial 2006, orig. 1897)
An Antarctic Mystery is Jules Verne’s sequel to the most enduring classic of Antarctic fiction, Edgar Allan Poe’s novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Poe’s novel has spawned a number of sequels by various authors. It follows in the typical pattern of a [...]

Solmukohta is an annual larp and roleplaying event held in the Nordic countries. Next year, it will be in Helsinki. Traditionally, the convention has been accompanied by a book of articles by the best and brightest of Nordic and world roleplaying writers.
This year, the book will be edited by me. I’m looking for contributors. More [...]

Knudepunkt 2011 is still a few weeks away, but the unprecedented three books published this years are already online.

Do Larp, edited by Lars Andresen, Charles Bo Nielsen, Luisa Carbonelli, Jesper Heeboll-Christensen & Marie Oscilowski, features “scripts” from larps made in recent years. I have one article in this book, detailing the production of my game [...]

I published an article called Role-playing and the Mainstream in Andrea Castellani’s anthology Larp Graffiti (2010). It’s been translated into Czech. Part 1 is here and part 2 here.

Nordic Larp is a photobook about the Nordic larp scene and the best games it has to offer. It’ll be released on the 22nd of December, 2010. I wrote for it an article about Luminescence, a game I did with Mike Pohjola.
Here’s info about the release parties:
Nordic Larp hit the printers a few weeks ago. [...]

I wrote an article for the book Larp Graffiti, edited by Andrea Castellani and published in conjunction with the Italian roleplaying convention Larp Symposium 2010. Larp Graffiti is a collection of classic Nordic articles translated into Italian, as well as some new English and Italian language material.
My article is called Role-Playing and the Mainstream and [...]