Ein Beitrag von Wayne Borean
In September the FilKONtario Convention Committee
held the first meeting towards organizing FilKONtario 22. FilKONtario is
one of the largest Filk Cons in North America, and the largest in
Canada (your correspondent is one of the founding concom, and is married
to the original con chair, who is on this years con committee).
Filk
is the musical part of Science Fiction and Fantasy fandom. Instruments
are usually portable (and small enough to fit in the overhead storage on
an airplane).
Ein Beitrag von S. S. VAN DINE
The detective story is a game. It is more--it is a sporting event. And the author must play fair with the reader. He can no more resort to trickeries and deceptions and still retain his honesty than if he cheated in a bridge game. He must outwit the reader, and hold the reader's interest, through sheer ingenuity. For the writing of detective stories there are very definite laws--unwritten, perhaps, but none the less binding: and every respectable and self-respecting concocter of literary mysteries lives up to them.
Ein Beitrag von John Manning
Table top games as we know them today originated as family games meant to be played at home, usually around the dinner table. Aside from strategic or tactical games, such as chess or Avalon Hills Diplomacy, their content mirrored the society or culture in which they were created. Parker Brothers Monopoly, for example, was created during the Depression in the 1930s and reflected Americas struggle to cope with the financial woes and fears and reflected peoples desire for a better life.
Ein Beitrag von Richard Rumpel
Trojsvazková fantasy sága Gorian od Alfreda
Bekkera (Blanvalet: Odkaz čepelí/ Stráci magie/ Říe zimy) vyjde v
českém jazyce u nakladatelství Grada.
První a druhý svazek vyjdou na podzim 2011, třetí svazek na jaře 2012.
Nakladatelství představí ságu Gorian od 20 do 21. října 2011 na 21.
Podzimním kniním veletrhu v Havlíčkově Brodě (Česká republika).
Více zde.
Foto: Alfred Bekker
Memories of Anne McCaffrey
FilKONtario 22
TWENTY RULES FOR WRITING DETECTIVE STORIES
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