14 Monday May 2012
A new genus and species has been named after Lovecraft. “Nanocthulhu lovecrafti” is an unusual bisexual wasp, and is described in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.
More photos here.
07 Monday May 2012
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Miskatonic Books is having a Hippocampus Press summer sale…
“over 70 titles at 40% to 70% off cover price”
I spotted An Epicure in the Terrible / Lovecraft Encyclopaedia / the Collected Essays series at 55% off. Lovecraft’s Library is 40% off.
18 Saturday Feb 2012
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After two years of silence (possibly while on a giant-airship expedition to the Antarctic), Steampunk Magazine has finally returned to civilisation with a new issue…
14 Tuesday Feb 2012
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Interesting illustrated new fannish article on Looping Wor(l)ds, “Midnight Tides and Lovecraftian Gods”. While ploughing through Steven Erikson’s ten-book fantasy series The Malazan Book Of The Fallen, the author of the article muses on the nature of the shoreline and sea, and the persistent human imagination of god-like entities lurking in the deeps…
20 Friday Jan 2012
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Missing the dust-jacket to your Arkham Press rarity? Facsimile Dust Jackets claims to be able to supply you with the requisite wrapper for H.P. Lovecraft titles…
Or you could just frame them?
19 Thursday Jan 2012
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Roundtable: Intersectionality and Lovecraft, from a 12th Jan Locus Online roundtable. “Intersectionality” is a feminist theory term that suggests one’s different social and cultural identities — being a woman, being lesbian, being black, being disabled, being a daughter — interact in society to form more intractable tangles of discrimination. It has since been ported more generally into a variety of leftist academic approaches such as sociology and cultural studies, where it knocks around with subtler theories of hybridity, ‘fluid identity’ versions of queer, and various ideas on how online identities are lived out.
14 Saturday Jan 2012
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IFC profiles Portland: The Science Fiction Capital of America?
17 Saturday Dec 2011
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You know you’re having a Lovecraftian Christmas when…
* You read At The Mountains of Madness to get “that snowy Christmas feeling”.
* You fasten your Christmas present parcels with tape printed to look like a tentacle.
* Roasting chestnuts by the fire reminds you of the cultists’ scene in “The Call of Cthulhu”.
* At parties you begin to gibber wildly that Santa is an anagram of Satan.
* Christmas carollers are met at your door by a wreath of mistletoe, ivy and holly twisted into a hideous pre-Christian mask.
* Scrooge seems like a rationalist atheist hero to you…
* Your oddly-shaped Christmas tree is delivered by an in-bred backwoods man, who warns you not to listen to the voices that may come from it.
* You think the Three Wise Men were named Alhazred, Atal, and Kuranes.
* “The Festival” seems like a description of an ideal Christmas with the family.
* You get the North Pole mixed up with the Plateau of Leng.
13 Tuesday Dec 2011
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“I think this entire ice sheet is alive. That has yet to be proven,” said John Priscu, a professor at Montana State University, who has been doing field work in Antarctica for 27 years. What is proven, Priscu said, is that bacteria are in the ice. [...] in tiny veins of liquid water that crisscross the solid ice [...] In the lab, ancient bacteria from ice samples 420,000 years old, retrieved from more than 2 miles inside the ice sheet, have quickly shown signs of life. “We melt the water, and they grow,” Priscu told Our Amazing Planet.
Above: common East Antarctica underground nematode.
Above: Halicephalobus Mephisto: new species found nearly a mile deep in the earth’s crust in summer 2011.
27 Sunday Nov 2011
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Sad news — the sweet W.H. Pugmire is in hospital with a serious heart condition.
