After reading 1984 and Kallocain, I picked up Brave New World from my public library. Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel about a society 600 years into the future where everyone is engineered to be happy with their pre-destined place in society. Everyone is grown in a bottle and raised in batches of genetic twins. Through behavioural … Continue reading Brave New World
In which I review of the book Outside the Box by Magnus Seter, about how Swedish publishers became major players in the niche market of tabletop roleplaying games.
I love learning about history; how people have lived before, and how the world has evolved into the amazing, wonderful and crazy place it is today. Since I moved to Sweden 10 years ago, one of the ways I have improved my Swedish is by reading books in Swedish, often about Sweden and often about … Continue reading Reading tip: The Engineers by Gunnar Wetterberg
A closer look at the story game Red Carnations from a Black Grave
In the Year of the Covid, a group of gifted Swedes published a Swedish edition of Call of Cthulhu. However, it isn’t just a translation into Swedish of the game mechanics and the monster tables...
