Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium – new book

05 Monday Mar 2012

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A new book, Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium…

“Essays, articles, artworks, and documents taken from and inspired by the symposium on Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, which took place on 11th March 2011 at The New School. Cyclonopedia is a key work in the emerging domains of speculative realism and theory-fiction.”

The volume includes “Symptomatic Horror: Lovecraft’s ‘The Colour Out of Space’” by Kate Marshall.

Above: gratuitious-but-great illustration of the crossing scene in “Innsmouth” by Alberto Vazquez.

Incognitum Hactenus – new scholarly journal

05 Monday Mar 2012

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Added to my comprehensive ‘Lovecraft on the Web’ directory: Incognitum Hactenus, a new scholarly journal.

The first issue (available now) includes Ben Woodard’s essay “A Nature to Pulp the Stoutest Philosopher: Towards a Lovecraftian Philosophy of Nature”.

The journal is an offshoot of The Real Horror Symposium (London, October 2010). The second issue is on “Gods and Monsters”, and is pencilled in for release on 12th March 2012.

Above: gratuitous-but-awesome picture of a shoggoth, by Eclectix.

Verminomicon

05 Monday Mar 2012

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Verminomicon: a Field Guide to the Vermin of Yuggoth; Abominations of a Haunted World (Raw Dog, 2012) is a new illustrated book featuring the sculptures of Anthony DeBartolis…

“In a tribute to H.P. Lovecraft, Verminomicon showcases the imagination and skill of sculptor Anthony DeBartolis who has spent years crafting more than thirty different species of vermin from Yuggoth. This disturbingly beautiful volume not only explores the multidimensional menace of the fungoid Mi-Go race established in “The Whisperer in Darkness,” but expands on Lovecraft’s twisted vision—at the reader’s peril. Full-color images of DeBartolis’ sculptures are paired with descriptive text from author John Edward Lawson to deliver a field guide of diabolic scope that also details the story of a scientist caught up in the Mi-Go plot against humanity.”

Pre-ordering now.

Conference on the green man motif in literature

28 Tuesday Feb 2012

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Not really very relevant to Lovecraft (perhaps the nearest Lovecraft gets to this ancient theme is “The Strange High House in the Mist”?), but interesting enough to mention here…

“A two-day multidisciplinary conference will take place in Trinity College Dublin, 20th-21st July 2012, to explore the role of green man and wild man motifs in twentieth and twenty-first century children’s culture.”

Two new “hard” SF publications

27 Monday Feb 2012

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The veteran publishers of the New Scientist magazine have started a speculative science fiction / near-future magazine, possibly aiming to get a first-mover advantage ahead of the economic upturn (apparently touted in big publisher circles as likely to drive a new generation of young people away from fantasy, and toward “hard” SF). The new title is Arc…

“A new digital magazine about the future […] forthcoming new fact and fiction”

MIT Technology Review magazine has also announced a hard SF venture, TRSF…

“the first installment of a to-be-annual hard SF collection.”