Traveler | 19. Februar 2012
This is one of the proudest moments in the history of this blog. Andy Frankham-Allen, Editor/Author @ Untreed Reads Publishing, Cardiff Office and responsible for the Space: 1889 & Beyond series of novels arranged an interview with Frank Chadwick, creator of the original Space:1889 role playing game and founder of Games Designers Workshop, for me. So, [...]
Traveler | 22. Januar 2012
I discovered this really interesting map recently while scouting the ætherweb for curiosities worthy of blogging about. What I find most interesting is obviously the entry at the bottom of the map: Dreamlands Now, I wonder if this is just for the places we all go to at night when we dream, or wether it [...]
Traveler | 13. Januar 2012
A call has gone out from the deepest crypts of the sacred city of R’lyeh. Chaosium is going to publish an anthology of Steampunk-Cthulhu Mythos crossover fiction. This is too good, to epic and too non-euclidean opportunity to miss. I will do my best to follow the call and hopefully get a piece ready in [...]
Traveler | 13. Januar 2012
At times I have these premonitions, I simply know when something is going to be good. When I first read about Empire State by Adam Christopher on the Angry Robot Books blog, I thought it could be a fun read. Turns out, my premonition was a bit off the mark. Empire State is not a [...]
Traveler | 10. Januar 2012
After Space 1889 & Beyond’s strong start, deep plunge and somewhat recovery with Ghost of Mercury, I started reading Abattoir in the Aether by L. Joseph Shosty with mixed feelings. This novel would basically decide whether or not I would read the next and the rest of the first series. The case has been settled. [...]
Traveler | 3. Januar 2012
If he would still be with us, J.R.R. Tolkien would celebrate his 120th birthday today. Today, Tolkien ist best remembered as the author of The Lord of the Rings and related works. He was also a philologist of note. Without the impact of The Lord of the Rings, Dungeon & Dragons would not exist. Role [...]
Traveler | 24. Dezember 2011
On Christmas 1914, the event called “Christmas Truce” occured on the Western Front of the Great War. It has been described as the last flickering of the spirit of the Belle Epoque, the believe humanity would become gradually better and better and more civilized. I have often wondered what would or could have [...]
Traveler | 18. Dezember 2011
This has been a terrible week, mankind has lost two great thinkers. First, Christopher Hitchens passed on and today, Václav Havel followed. Václav Havel, dissident, playwright, politician, leader, central figure of the Velvet Revolution. Few people have shaped post-Cold War Europe like he did. Few have been held in such high regard by so many, [...]
Traveler | 14. Dezember 2011
Right, my favourite publisher is doing it again (as if they ever stopped): Releasing fantastic books. Now, my preference for Angry Robot Books has several reasons: They’ve got Lavie Tidhar They’ve got Guy Adams They’ve got Dan Abnett They are based in Nottingham (home sweet home…) I have thus far not encountered a single book [...]
Traveler | 1. Dezember 2011
Yes, you read this one correctly. Cherie Priest’s fantastic novel Boneshaker is being turned into a movie. She has announced this on her blog, all I am doing is spread the good news. The official statement is this one: Los Angeles, CA – November 30, 2011 Brian Oliver, President of Cross Creek Pictures, Simon Oakes, [...]
I am an anthropologist and in this capacity a minor scholar of the Cthulhu Mythos and H.P. Lovecraft. I am also quite obviously heavily into Steampunk and Dieselpunk and like travelling.
More about me can be found here and also here (in German).
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