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July 04 2010
H.P. Lovecraft’s Stellar Seafood Chowder [brain harvest]
A short short story in recipe form."Buy 1 Cthulu. When buying, check for green pulpy head, prodigious claws, rudimentary wings. Between 14 and 19 tentacles. Store in large cooler.
"2. Buy 1 six-pack of Samuel Adams Boston Lager. Remember: it’s your birthday. You’re a big boy now, H.P. And you can go by “Howard.” Go back inside the store and buy another six-pack. Place in cooler with Cthulu.
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H.P. Lovecraft’s Stellar Seafood Chowder [brain harvest]
A short short story in recipe form."Buy 1 Cthulu. When buying, check for green pulpy head, prodigious claws, rudimentary wings. Between 14 and 19 tentacles. Store in large cooler.
"2. Buy 1 six-pack of Samuel Adams Boston Lager. Remember: it’s your birthday. You’re a big boy now, H.P. And you can go by “Howard.” Go back inside the store and buy another six-pack. Place in cooler with Cthulu.
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March 09 2010
What It Might Be Like to Live in Viriconium
Fantasy/SF author M. John Harrison: "The great modern fantasies were written out of religious, philosophical and psychological landscapes. They were sermons. They were metaphors. They were rhetoric. They were books, which means that the one thing they actually weren’t was countries with people in them. The commercial fantasy that has replaced them is often based on a mistaken attempt to literalise someone else’s metaphor, or realise someone else’s rhetorical imagery. For instance, the moment you begin to ask (or rather to answer) questions like, “Yes, but what did Sauron look like?”; or, “Just how might an Orc regiment organise itself?”; the moment you concern yourself with the economic geography of pseudo-feudal societies, with the real way to use swords, with the politics of courts, you have diluted the poetic power of Tolkien’s images."January 06 2010
Patricia C. Wrede's Worldbuilder Questions
A large set of questions to ask yourself when designing a world, country or culture for fiction or a game. Originally posted by the fantasy author Patricia Wrede to FIDOnet in the dark ages of the Net.December 28 2009
I, Cthulhu, or, What’s A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9' S, Longitude 126° 43' W)?
A silly short story by Neil Gaiman, with an illustration.December 04 2009
In a Wicked Age: four oracles
Random story idea generator from Vincent Baker's game "In A Wicked Age". An example: "KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door. 1H: A girl with the soul of a leopard, born inappropriately into a human body. QS: A golden armlet, still on the skeletal arm of its owner. 3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute."November 29 2009
Boing Boing Gift Guide 2009: Fiction!
Dozens of SF & fantasy novel recommendations from Cory Doctorow and Mark Frauenfelder, with links to the full reviews in Boing Boing.September 29 2009
Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple
"Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple is a game in which you tell stories about young travelers flying to distant worlds. They have spent their childhood living in a mysterious temple in the center of the skies, but now they’re on a Pilgrimage, coming of age in a universe full of wonders and perils. "Pilgrims are the only people who can fly unaided. Everyone else rides airships powered by sails or is tugged along by flying animals. "The universe of Do has no “outer space” as we know it. Instead of dark, deadly vacuum between the worlds, there are endless skies full of billowing clouds and filled with all sorts of creatures and cultures. It has planets, but they’re much smaller than ours."September 25 2009
Hobbit 419
"Dear MR BAGGINS, Fellow Conspirator, I am Thorin Oakenshield, descendant of Thrain the Old and grandson of Thror who was King under the Mountain. I am writing you to discuss our plans, our ways, means, policy and devices for rescuing our treasure from the dragon Smaug. ..."September 01 2009
Good Novels Don’t Have to Be Hard Work - WSJ.com
"The revolution is under way. The novel is getting entertaining again. Writers like Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Donna Tartt, Kelly Link, Audrey Niffenegger, Richard Price, Kate Atkinson, Neil Gaiman, and Susanna Clarke, to name just a few, are busily grafting the sophisticated, intensely aware literary language of Modernism onto the sturdy narrative roots of genre fiction: fantasy, science fiction, detective fiction, romance. They're forging connections between literary spheres that have been hermetically sealed off from one another for a century."August 16 2009
Our Whale We Call Home
New short-short story on Brain Harvest, by Michael Landis. "... Nothing sates the whale. The stomach’s inventory ranges diatoms to dreadnoughts, restocked hourly. We have been privy to many fortunes (within the greater misfortune of being ingested) that we as petty fishermen would otherwise never taste. Scavenging from wreckages, we live luxurious lives: an elaborate costume set from Tartuffe; casks upon casks upon casks (only once have we intoxicated the whale, leading her to perform terrifying barrel rolls); a herd of milk-cows, while an astonishing bounty, were sadly unaccompanied any bulls; arbitrary billions in unspendable bullion. ..."Mythmere Games: Swords And Wizardry
A rewritten clone of the original 1974 Dungeons & Dragons rules; very lightweight compared to today's D&D. Free PDF download or $10 book. Just won an ENnie award at GenCon.August 07 2009
Adventure Ideas Generator
Randomly creates brief ideas for adventure plots (useful for RPGs). An example of Obstacles: "The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch. A lunatic, imprisoned in a palace and worshipped as a god. A skeleton, dressed in fine robes and turned into a puppet, which priests operate on sacred occassions."March 07 2009
Suvudu Free Book Library
SF e-book site by Random House; they're giving away the first books of some series as *free* PDFs, to get people hooked. The first five include Kim Stanley Robinson's "Red Mars", which is probably the best hard-SF book I've ever read -- a very realistic epic of colonizing Mars, which also has well-drawn characters and interesting political and ecological ideas. There's also Naomi Novik's "His Majesty's Dragon", which my wife says is a kick-ass combination of Patrick O'Brien style 19th-century seafaring plus dragons.March 03 2009
Medieval Demographics Made Easy
By noted RPG author S. John Ross. “Most realms of fantasy, no matter how baroque or magical, can not get by without a supply of ordinary farmers, merchants, quarreling princes and palace guards. Clustered into villages and crowding the cities, they provide the human backdrop for adventure. “Of course, doing the research necessary to find out how common a large city should be, or how many shoemakers can be found in a town, can take up time not all GMs have available. To the end of more satisfying world design, I've prepared this article.”October 02 2008
Cthul-B-Que
It's H.P. Lovecraft meets Iron Chef meets Pokémon: "Cthul-B-Que is a card and dice game. Your goal is to summon monsters from the Cthulhu Mythos, cook them, and prepare the tastiest meals. In addition to summoning monsters you’ll cast sanity-shattering spells, wield fine cookware (and the occasional piece of heavy weaponry), and read from long-lost tomes of forbidden lore like the delectable-but-blasphemous Necrocookbookicon!"August 12 2008
The Complete works of H. P. Lovecraft
Only place I've found them online (Project Gutenberg doesn't have any.)
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