Non-fiction: Roland Huntford: Nansen (Gerald Duckworth & co., 1997) Another peripheral Antarctica book, this is the biography of Fridtjof Nansen, whom many regard as the greatest polar explorer of all time and who was the hero of the great explorers of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Huntford’s book is Continue Reading
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Research Blog Antarctica #6
Non-fiction: Maria Coffey: Where the Mountain Casts its Shadow (Hutchinson, 2003) After reading so much Antarctic literature, I started to feel that they all drew their inspiration from a very limited canon of sources, the same canon I’m going through now. The same references come up all the time. To Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #5
Fiction: J.M. Coetzee: Elizabeth Costello (Secker & Warburg, 2003) I actually started to read this book to get a break from the endless procession of books about Antarctica. I was surprised, and somewhat dismayed, when it turns out that I can’t get out so easily; Antarctica is featured in this Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #4
Non-fiction: Tom Avery: Pole Dance (Orion, 2004) First off, Avery’s book has a great name, a name that makes it stand above the rest in the cluttered field of Antarctic memoirs. It belongs to the genre of modern-day accounts of private expenditions to the South Pole, and describes how Avery Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #3
Non-fiction: John C. Behrendt: Innocents on the Ice (University Press of Colorado, 1998) Finally a proper Antarctica book! The last two have been a bit peripheral on the subject, but this one tackles it straight on. It is the story of the Finn Ronne expedition of 1957, seen through the Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #2
Non-fiction: Jenny Diski: Skating to Antarctica (Granta Books, 1997) There’s two distinct trends in the titles of books about Antarctica. One is featured in the title of Diski’s book, the X to Antarctica. Another example of this is a swimming biography called Swimming to Antarctica. The other big trend is Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #1
Fiction: Maarit Verronen: Kylmien saarten soturi (Tammi, 2001) I’m attempting to write a novel set on Antarctica. Whenever I do anything creative, the first thing I do is to read every book, see every movie, go through everything I can find on the subject. I do it to get ideas Continue Reading
Elementary School Art
Here’s a scan of one of the group excercises the players made in my Ropecon larp Ala-aste (Elementary School):