As you know, Bob, life in a pandemic kind of sucks, so I’ve been pretty quiet here. But no more! There should be some announcements…
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Musing on the necessary conditions that need to be fulfilled in order to classify something as superhero fiction.
Suomen satavuotissyntymäpäivän kunniaksi luolaromaani Pimeyttä tappavampi on 75% alennuksessa perjantaihin saakka!
Due to the Finnish centenary, the caving novel Not the Dark That Kills You is 75% off until Friday (local time).
Netflix has just cancelled Sense8. There are probably countless opinion pieces out there in the Internet: this one is mine. To summarize: Sense8 was really dear to me, and I’m sad to see it go.
Even though writers are all notorious liars, the following is something resembling a true account of a caving trip I took on my New Year vacation. This is the kind of stuff that inspires my caving-related fiction.
Ogof Ffynnon Ddu: Top Entrance to the Crevasse
Shortly after noon Duncan, Tor and I crawl in through the top entrance hatch of OFD. Tor is tasked with navigation at first; I’ll back him up should he need it. We clamber over the boulders making up the first part of the cave, and in ten minutes we have reached the point, where a blocky climb called the Corkscrew heads down. Instead of down, we go up – up a slippery, muddy set of steps that’s almost unnoticeable if you go the way people usually go. The climb is unsecured and scary – a harbinger of what to expect today.