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My translation: Edith Södergran – “Framtidens skugga” (1920) […] 
[Just moving some of my longer book reviews here from elsewhere. This one was originally posted on 16 june 2013.] This short story collection had been lying around the house for a while, but when Vance sadly passed away recently, decided to dust it off. Although I already had a pretty positive opinion of Vance […] 
[Just moving some of my longer book reviews here from elsewhere. This one was originally posted on 2 jun 2014.] Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Eye of the Heron is an engaging novella about oppression and resistance in a new world. The planet Victoria has been minimally settled by outcasts from Earth. A group of criminals, […] 
[Just moving some of my longer book reviews here from elsewhere. This one originally posted on 18 jun 2014.] Now and again I read these Scandinavian books that make want to be a translator. It’s opportunistic, I know, to only want to translate those rare books that really get at you. Professional translators have […] 
Mona is a short story by Leigh Alexander with gorgeous illustrations by Emily Carroll. The story is part sensual urban horror, part homage to the game Silent Hill 2. The story recently went on sale, and I provided the design for the e-book versions. Have a look at the design below, and don’t forget to buy a copy of the story! […] 
Recently, I had the honour of being guest editor on Memory Insufficient, the games history ezine. I edited the special issue on Language and Games. You can read the editorial from the issue below, but really you should just go and download the whole issue here [pdf], because it’s free. […] 
Recently, I’ve become more and more interested in book design and typesetting, and I decided that I wanted to become better at it, and offer it as a service to other people. In the growing world of e-books and digital reading, there is something of a dearth of good design, and the aesthetics that I admire in printed books have for the most part not found their way into the digital realm. As an exercise, I’ve started playing around with some public domain fantasy literature that I wanted to read anyway, such as the (early) works of Lord Dunsany. In that spirit, I’ve recently completed a PDF setting of The Sword of Welleran And Other Stories, originally published in 1908. […] 
Over on First Person Scholar, I’ve published an extensive book review of Nordic Larp, an impressive and beautiful overview of the Nordic live-action roleplaying scene. In it I discuss how the book shows the diversity and experimental drive of the LARP scene in Scandinavia, and approach it briefly from a play-theoretical perspective. […] 
While reading Annalee Newitz’ intriguing blog post on io9 about the history of the word cyber, I came across the name Norbert Wiener (not Weiner — get it straight, you Englishers) who had introduced the term Cybernetics as “the study of control and communication in machines and living beings”. His other works include the book God and Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion, and that title immediately caught my eye. Studies of the interaction between science, technology, and religion always interest me a lot, as do Golems and Jewish folklore, so Wiener had sold it to me easily. […] |
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