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"Stella di Gondwana" portrays what the Middle East was like 10,000 years ago, where the adventurous Amazons of the Aphra Lowlands, the warlike Sumerians, the sensitive green-skinned Shang and a very ancient people who inhabited a mysterious continent considered then, a legendary place: Gondwana, an island surrounded by coral banks, which counts only its last guardian, Khoinè, worshipped by the people for the power of the small white star carved into the palm of her left hand.

One day, the Doctors of the Dark create a kind of evil Khoinè´s twin sister, called Alybrea, known as “the Black Star”, who seeks to defeat her "sister".

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"Stella di Gondwana" (1983) is a fantasy novel that forms part of Gianluigi Zuddas' so-called "Amazonian cycle".

It portrays what the Middle East was like 10,000 years ago, where the adventurous Amazons of the Aphra Lowlands, the warlike Sumerians, the sensitive green-skinned Shang and a very ancient people who inhabited a mysterious continent considered until then a legendary place: Gondwana, an island surrounded by coral banks, which counts only its last guardian, Khoinè, worshipped by the people for the power of the small white star carved into the palm of her left hand.

One day, the Doctors of the Dark create a kind of evil Khoinè´s twin sister, called Alybrea, known as “the Black Star”, who seeks to defeat her "sister".

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A characteristic of Gianluigi Zuddas is the recurrent use of female characters. His Amazons, for example, have a high concentration of realism and little fantasy. He considers his texts to belong to the "heroic fantasy" genre, focusing more on human beings themselves than extraterrestrial events and phenomena.

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As an adult, Gianluigi Zuddas had several jobs, such as metalworker, mechanic, medical radiology technician and painter. Only after all these jobs did he decide to dedicate himself to writing. His first novel, "Amazon" (1978), won an award in Italy. After 1989, he focused on translations, which meant he no longer had time for his own writing, and he began to publish short stories and novels sporadically.

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Gianluigi Zuddas was born in Carpi, a small town near Modena, in 1943. He is a science fiction author and translator.

He moved to Livorno with his family when he was very young, which is why many biographies consider this town as his real birthplace. His father was a non-commissioned navy officer. As a child, Zuddas read authors such as Salgari, Zane Grey and Steinbeck, and was enchanted by Frederik Pohl, Robert Sheckley and Jack Vance.

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Ancient old mini conceptual sketches.

Circa early 1990s.

To be bound in a one-off book.

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Compiling some very old mini conceptual sketches.

To be bound in a one-off book.

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Sometimes. the only inspiration I need, is to look out the studio window.

Cerulean Blue, with an over-glaze of Cadmium Yellow Deep & Light.

Opaque foreground of Mars Black.

Limited palette.

Job done.

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Dark Fusion has received several reviews in magazines such as ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment), Amiga Joker, ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) and Crash!. Sometimes it even received two reviews in different years, like in Your Sinclair, The Games Machine (UK) and Power Play magazines. The game is simple, but daring to mix three modes into one, which for its time was not common.

The cover art was done by Peter Andrew Jones. It is rare for this artist to portray the protagonist in the foreground in his artworks, but if PAJ agreed to do so he did not spare the beautiful details of the space suit of the hero, who wielded two laser guns and faced the enemy with an open chest. The hero doesn't even seem to care about the colossal burning buildings and threatening spaceships in the background, because like every hero who wants to triumph sooner or later will face his problems in the most practical way possible. PAJ is like that hero: a multi-shooter of art, whose mission is to do what he wants and still be admired by fans of beautiful art. His brush is his weapon, his paints are his infinite fuel, his studio is his spaceship and his enemies are the abstract ideas that, when brought down, take shape and life through his skillful mind and hands.

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Dark Fusion is a 2D side-scrolling game released by Gremlin Graphics in 1988. The player is a member of the elite Corps of Guardian Warriors and after a certain moment must choose between allying with the defeated enemy or continue the game in the same way he/she started. Such a decision will be made when the player reaches his/her most horrifying ordeal: entering the Chamber of Metamorphosis.

There are three zones in this game: combat zone, alien zone, and flight zone, which correspond to the levels of the game. The player has access to each of them thanks to a fusion capsule, and without it nothing can be done.

In the combat zone, the player controls an armed astronaut who kills aliens, some of them leaving important "power ups" to him/her. In the alien zone, the player controls a spaceship – as if the game were to turn into a shoot'n'up – and must destroy the enemy forces until the alien final boss. In the flight zone, the player also controls a spaceship, but the game switches to flight simulation style, also having to eliminate the enemies with its heavy weaponry.

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Gene Wolfe lived in Barrington, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, with his wife Rosemary, and had four children and three grandsons. In 2010, Wolfe had to have a double bypass surgery and in 2013, the year his family moved to Peoria, Illinois, he also had cataract surgery on his right eye. Later that year, his wife, already with Alzheimer's disease, passed away.

Peter Andrew Jones illustrated the series "Book of New Sun", responsible for giving Wolfe the initial fame he deserved. The cover art is one of the most varied, which perfectly connects the talent of both artists. In this series, PAJ contributes with cover art that mixes fantasy with science fiction which can be seen in Wolfe's works.

If some authors are easily classified as belonging to a particular artistic movement or literary classification, these two masters of art go beyond any attempt to be assigned to a particular category.

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In the 1990s Gene Wolfe decided to continue the series "The Book of the New Sun" and published two more book series: "The Book of the Long Sun", consisting of four books - "Nightside the Long Sun" (1993), "Lake of the Long Sun" (1994), "Caldé of the Long Sun" (1994) and "Exodus From the Long Sun" (1996) - and "The Book of the Short Sun", consisting of three others - "On Blue's Waters" (1999), "In Green's Jungles" (2000) and "Return to the Whorl" (2001) - closing his "Solar Cycle".
In 1998, Locus magazine considered "Book of New Sun" as the third best fantasy novel (or series of novels) published before 1990, based on the opinion of the magazine's subscribers. Its books have received dozens of awards, including books outside the "Solar Cycle".

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Gene Wolfe's debut book was "Operation Ares" in 1970, but it was "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", published in 1972, which received positive criticism and was translated into German and French.

His main work is the series "The Book of the New Sun", which is composed of the books "The Shadow of the Torturer" (1980), "The Claw of the Conciliator" (1981), "The Sword of the Lictor" (1982), and "The Citadel of the Autarch" (1983).

In 1984 Wolfe decides to stop working as an engineer and devotes more time to his writing. After the four highly successful books he published, he also released "The Urth of the New Sun" (1987) to connect what would be little explained in the previous four volumes, but this work is generally considered a separate work from the other four. This series gave him the opportunity to write several essays on the writing of the series, which were published in "The Castle of the Otter" (1982).

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Gene Wolfe's parents were Mary Olivia and Emerson Leroy Wolfe. Wolfe had polio as a child. He attended Lamar High School in Houston. While attending A&M University in Texas, he published his first speculative fiction in "The Commentator," a student literary magazine. Wolfe dropped out in his first year of college and was later recruited to serve in the Korean War.

After returning to the United States, he became an industrial engineer at the University of Houston. He worked as a personal senior editor at “Plant Engineering” magazine for many years, and then decided to become a full-time writer. A curiosity in the engineering field was that he contributed to creating the machine used to make the famous Pringles potatoes snack.

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Gene Rodman Wolfe, better known as Gene Wolfe, was born on May 7th, 1931 and died on April 14th, 2019 of cardiovascular disease. He was an award-winning American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was known for his dense and allusive prose, as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, most famous for his magnus opus "Book of the New Sun" (1980-1983), series that constitutes the first part of "Solar Cycle".

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Spring IS coming, but not quite as quickly as 4 years ago!

The surrounding countryside, on a day trip from the studio - back then . . . . .

Sunlight!

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Spring IS coming (honestly!)

Wonderful frost on the wooded area opposite.

Beautiful!

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Ongoing . . . .

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Spring IS coming.

This is just another temporary set-back!

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2 years ago . . . . . ..

Shropshire's Myths & Legends.
"The White Witch of Bala Lake".

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Meanwhile . . .
out in our Magick Studio Garden . . . .
In the gardens of the estate lying between here and our market town, a well had been sunk in the days before running water.

With this I was familiar, as were their friends and the neighbours who visited the house.

Having never ventured in that direction or visited the garden, the garden residents were not cognisant of this fact.

However....
The Witch had recently knocked at the front door early, early on a bleak winter’s morning, to report an accident to the an Elfin ringleader and two supporters.

The Elves, Imps and Pixies, apparently, had become bored with seeing the same old faces every day.

Undecided as to what to do, they began walking along the road to the market town.

As they passed beside the fence surrounding the estate, their mindset altered and. instead, they climbed through its iron bars.

Once inside, they stopped and listened to determine whether or not, patrolling guard dogs would immediately ruin their newest adventure.

Silence.

They pushed through snow clad bushes, under dripping trees, along muddy paths till, rounding a corner, they came face to face with an immaculately maintained garden, beyond which rose a Georgian country house and stable yard.

The Elves and their friends ventured on through the garden and ascended a stone staircase before pressing their noses to the French window panes.

T’was dark, but in the gloom they did ascertain that the Withdrawing room was elegantly furnished.

There was no practical method to obtain an unnoticeable entrance, so they wandered through the stable yard to a side door.

The door was, incredibilmente, unlocked, so they entered and there, barring progress, stood a massive, sharp-toothed Bullmastiff....

Debbie & Peter

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The Garden's Residents were looking for early signs of Spring.

Temporary set-back!

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3 years ago this month >

Pinterest sent me another e-mail this morning suggesting more "pins" I might like to see.

Would I be interested in seeing this "pin'?

Well, I get to see it every day . . . . framed on my studio wall.

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Busy week in the print room!

The Warlock of Firetop Mountain

Limited Edition Print release.

You can e-mail us and "just ask for any print/picture you want" (quote a catalogue number if you have one but don't worry if you don't).

Image size is to the nearest approximate size/proportion that fits/suits
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3 Years ago this month!

Ha !

Pinterest sent me an e-mail this morning, and not for the first time . . . ..
suggesting "pins" I might like to see.

Apparently, according to the e-mail, I might be interested in this picture?

Certainly it has happy memories for me, so, unintended though it was -
yes, I was happy to have it brought to my attention today!

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The Garden's Residents are looking for early signs of Spring!

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Snow . . . . . .(again)

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Started today -

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"SPRING IS COMING"

Anticipating . . . .

Beautiful light this morning.

Picture planning.

Time to start getting the Spring Palette set up.

Brighter greens, ochres, mellow yellows, and bright yellows and blues.

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Snow . . . . . .(still)

"FANTASTICAL MEMORIES"

Four years ago today.

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This Titannica page made and edited by aficionados can be accessed at: https://fightingfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Peter_Andrew_Jones. It can be a good beginning for those who (still) don't know the artist's art, and direct it to a much, much bigger universe, where everything created by the artist waits.

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The interesting thing is that Peter Andrew Jones's artistic production goes beyond game-books, possibly because the publishers of the page recognise the genius of the artist in other media such as television, aviation and even important media quotes about him.

https://fightingfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Peter_Andrew_Jones

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Peter Andrew Jones's Titannica page works as a simplified wikipedia and, of course, focuses on the production of the cover art of game-books that PAJ created that marked an entire generation of readers-players.

In addition, there is a short biography of the artist.

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Being a fundamental name in the game-books History, it was expected that Peter Andrew Jones would have a page of his own in Titannica, a wiki-style page focused on all productions and personalities involved with the universe of Fighting Fantasy.

https://fightingfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Peter_Andrew_Jones

"WELCOME"

This time last year.

More pertinent this year?!

Wishing you all the _best_ for 2021.

So - LET'S GET STARTED!

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Snow . . . . . .(finally!)

"HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU!"

All the very best for 2021 - stay safe - take care.

"HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU!"

All the very best for 2021.