Skribentene bak [Fantasiportalen] forsøker å favne de fantastiske interessene i Norge (stort sett sammenfallende med bokhandlen Outlands vareutvalg – eller, kanskje kommer egget før høna her?) De trenger flere med på laget.
Helgetraumer: Oslo Frightfest
Akkurat nå (og i morgen) på Studentersamfundet. Skaperen av Cannibal Holocaust kommer. Kan du være dårligere?
Til inspirasjon
Eller: Noen burde gjøre noe slikt her på fjellet også.
The Games of Satan
It’s been a while since «we» were under attack, so maybe it’s time to revisit this thing. I mean, water under the bridge and all. It’s all settled down, now, so perhaps certain things can now be said without causing undue burning of books and howling and looting of the streets.
Because, well, yes, gamers really are satanic. Not all of them, of course, but a fair few. Not just to the kind of people who find a nice morning stroll to be satanic if it raises an amount of sweat that might be considered lascivious (though, like me, those people are usually rather uncertain what that word really means. No, I refuse to submit to the Gøøgle at this time). Not even «satanic» like the Harry Potter books. But satanic by the definition of the world’s majority religions; those of them which come with a satan included, that is. [Read more…]
Cyberpunk in the nineties
Cyberpunk was a voice of Bohemia – Bohemia in the 1980’s. The technosocial changes loose in contemporary society were bound to affect its counterculture. Cyberpunk was the literary incarnation of this phenomenon. And the phenomenon is still growing. Communication technologies in particular are becoming much less respectable, much more volatile, and increasingly in the hands of people you might not introduce to your grandma.
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