Novel: Matthew Reilly: Ice Station (St. Martin’s, 2000) Ice Station is an action thriller about an American Antarctic research base that discovers something valuable under the ice, and various governments around the world who send military forces to capture it. It’s mostly composed of improbable action scenes. The book is Continue Reading
Books
Ikuisuuden laakso ja Keltainen kuningas e-kirjoina Elisalta
PRS:n julkaisemat kirjani Ikuisuuden laakso ja Unelma Keltaisesta kuninkaasta ovat saatavilla nyt myös Elisan kautta ilmestyvinä e-kirjoina. Pingviiniroolipeli Ikuisuuden laakso maksaa 8 € ja löytyy täältä. Tanskalaisia yhden illan pelejä kokoava Unelma Keltaisesta kuninkaasta maksaa 30 € ja löytyy täältä. Molemmat teokset on julkaistu ilman DRM:ää.
Research Blog Antarctica #114: Little America
Non-fiction: Richard E. Byrd: Little America (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1930) Little America is the U.S. explorer Richard Byrd’s account of his first Antarctic expedition. I’ve written before about Byrd’s two other Antarctic books, the account of the second expedition, called Discovery, and the account of Byrd’s winter alone (called Alone) Continue Reading
Stats for polar bears and space hamsters
Jukka Särkijärvi created stats for both polar bears and space hamsters for Valley of Eternity: There are many strange things in the Antarctic, and the giant space hamster is probably the strangest. This white-furred rodent is the size of an elephant seal, but much quicker in its movements. Nobody is Continue Reading
Greatest penguin RPG out there
Jukka Särkijärvi writes nice things about Valley of Eternity, now out in English. What is Valley of Eternity, you ask. Well, it is nothing less than the greatest penguin RPG of all time. Drawing from spaghetti westerns, Conan the Barbarian and March of the Penguins, it depicts a bleak and Continue Reading
Valley of Eternity published in English
In 2009, I published a roleplaying game called Ikuisuuden laakso. It was about the heroic struggles and tragic fates of lonely penguins and anti-penguins. In 2011 the game was translated into Danish as Evighedens dal by Rollespilsakademiet, and now in 2012 into English by Vagrant Workshop. The English title is Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #113: Black Ice
Novel: Matt Dickinson: Black Ice (Hutchinson, 2002) Black Ice is a paperback thriller set in the world of contemporary Antarctic exploration. It doesn’t have any particular literary aspirations, but the Antarctic milieu is depicted well. The story concerns an expedition to cross Antarctica at its widest point by two men: Continue Reading
Juhana Ropeconissa
Suomen paras, hienon tai ainakin suurin roolipelitapahtuma Ropecon järjestetään Espoon Dipolissa 27. – 29. 7. 2012. Mä olen mukana kolmessa ohjelmanumerossa: Larp ja Taide Su 13.00 – Su 15.00, Sali 26 Paneeli Järjestäjä: Katri Lassila, Vili Nissinen, Mike Pohjola, Juhana Pettersson Keskustelussa larppaavat taiteilijat ja taiteelliset larppaajat luotaavat taiteen ja live-roolipelien Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #110: Berserk in the Antarctic
Non-fiction: David Mercy: Berserk in the Antarctic (Summersdale, 2006) Berserk in the Antarctic is a travel book in which the author, David Mercy, makes his way to Antarctica from Chile in a small sailing boat staffed by him, the young Norwegian captain and an unreliable guy called Manuel. The craziness Continue Reading
About States of Play
Jukka Särkijärvi, one of the proofreaders of my larp article collection States of Play, writes about the book here.