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20 Denmark Landmarks
Sarah Holmes
May 29, 2021 Updated on August 6th, 2021
Denmark is frequently named one of the happiest countries in the world and sits at the top of the UN World Happiness Report. With such beautiful landscapes and rich history, it's not surprising tourists from all over the world want to head to this Scandinavian gem. Denmark has the oldest flag design in the world. The Dannebrog was first acknowledged in 1219 and has flown ever since.
One of the biggest trends to spread across the globe, Hygge, originates in Denmark. The term embodies the Danish soul and is all about being cosy in both the home and in social gatherings. It embraces a feeling of warmth and welcoming atmospheres. While there have been many books published on how to create the sense of Hygee within our own lives, to experience it truly you need to head to Denmark. Even the bustling streets of Copenhagen ooze with Hygee spirit.
A common way to travel around Denmark, whether in the city or the countryside, is by bicycle. There are no mountains in Denmark, making it an easy country to cycle in. This is supported by its 12,000km (miles) plus of cycle tracks. If cycling isn't for you, head to the two oldest amusement parks in the world, both of which are in Denmark! Bakken is the oldest amusement park, a short 20-minute train ride from Copenhagen station, and Tivoli Gardens is immediately opposite the station. Both are filled with old-world charm with rides and events to attract visitors of all ages. Another famous amusement park is Legoland. Ole Kirk Christiansen invented the colourful interlocking bricks in 1949 in Billund, which is now the home to the park.
Denmark consists of 444 islands, however, only 76 are inhabited. This abundance of islands also means that you are never more than 52km (32 miles) from the sea. Denmark is a country you will pine for after departing thanks to its friendly locals, warm Hygee atmosphere, incredible food and fascinating history. Here are 20 landmarks in Denmark to draw you into this Scandinavian wonder.
Watch these Nordic Noir shows on Netflix and you might catch a glimpse of some of these Danish landmarks.
20 Landmarks in Denmark
Landmarks in Copenhagen
1- Nyhavn
2- The Little Mermaid
3- Tivoli Gardens
4- Christiansborg Palace
5- Rundetaarn
6- Amalienborg Castle
7- Rosenborg Palace
8- Freetown Christiania
9- Botanical Garden
10- The Marble Church
Natural Landmarks in Denmark
11- Møns Klint
12- Rold Skov Forest
13- Grenen
14- Mols Bjerge
15- Lille Vildmose
Historical Landmarks in Denmark
16- The Viking Ship Museum
17- Rubjerg Knude Fyr
18- Kronborg Slot
19- Roskilde Cathedral
20- Lindholm HøjeMuseum
The colourful buildings in Nyhavn are bright and cheery landmarks of Copenhagen.
Once a busy port where commercial ships would dock, today, the dock has been transformed into a trendy and Hygee filled area of restaurants, hotels and bars.
The buildings of Nyhavn are colourfully painted, making for some spectacular photographs.
Docked along its waters are many small boats, some with masts, giving this renovated area an old-world feel.
Hans Christian Andersen, the famed Danish fairy-tale author, lived for a time at number 20 where he wrote 'The Tinderbox' and 'The Princess and The Pea'.
Head to Nyhavn at the end of a busy day as it starts to get dark, as the docks, trees, ships and restaurants turn on warm fairy lights and put out candles for the ultimate Hygee appeal.
Nyhavn is at Nyhavn 1-71, 1051 København K.
The Little Mermaid is one of the famous monuments in Copenhagen.
The Little Mermaid statue is one of the most famous landmarks in Copenhagen.
The bronze and granite statue was gifted to the city by Carl Jacobsen, a local brewer.
The statue has rested on the edge of the harbour since 1913.
Edvard Eriksen, a sculptor, was tasked with creating a likeness of the Little Mermaid, following Jacobsen's trip to see the fairy tale performed as a ballet.
The sculpture was inspired by the Little Mermaid, written by Hans Christian Andersen.
The statue sits atop the granite rock, as the mermaid sits in the story, waiting to catch a glimpse of the human prince she fell in love with.
The Little Mermaid is at Langelinie, 2100 København Ø.
Tivoli Gardens (pictured at night) is one of the famous historic landmarks in Denmark.
Tivoli Gardens has been pulling the crowds through its gates since it opened in 1843.
The gardens were frequented by Hans Christian Anderson and inspired Walt Disney to create his own amusement park following a visit.
Unlike modern amusement parks, Tivoli Gardens prides itself on offering something for everyone.
The grounds are open for visitors to simply explore, while rides have an additional cost.
This allows visitors to marvel at the architecture, explore the gardens or stroll around its lake for free.
The rides on offer reflect the nostalgia of the rest of the park, including the wooden roller coaster which was opened in 1914.
Tivoli Gardens is at Vesterbrogade 3, 1630 København V.
Christiansborg Palace is one of the historic landmarks in Denmark's Copenhagen.
Christiansborg Palace on Slotsholmen, or Castle Island, follows more than 800 years of Copenhagen's history.
The castle was built above the ruins of an 800-year-old castle and some of the ruins are still visible today, accessible as part of a palace tour.
The palace was once the grand home of the Royal Family and today houses the Danish Parliament, Supreme Court and Ministry of State.
The Queen still uses parts of the palace for events including the Royal Reception Rooms and the Oval Throne Room.
Head to the Great Hall to admire the Queen's tapestries in imposing surroundings, which depict 1000 years of Danish history.
Christiansborg Palace is at Prins Jørgens Gård, 1468 København K.
Rundetaarn is another famous Danish landmark.
Rundetaarn (round tower) was built during the 17th century and serves as the oldest functioning observatory in Europe.
Christian IV built the tower to add to the astronomical achievements Denmark had seen over the preceding years.
The round tower was dedicated to Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and is open to amateur astronomers and the public.
Don't miss the floating glass floor, a new attraction allowing visitors to view the core of the tower from 25m (82ft) above the ground.
Rundetaarn is at Købmagergade 52A, 1150 København K.
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Here's a stunning aerial view of one of Denmark's royal landmarks, Amalienborg.
Another of Copenhagen's Royal landmarks is Amalienborg Castle.
Denmark's Royal Family still lives at the palace, however, the palace museum is open to the public to explore.
The palace is famous for its changing of the Royal Guard ceremonies. Each day the guards change posts at 12 pm.
Within the main palace square is a statue of King Frederik V, who ruled over Denmark during the 1700s.
Visit the palace museum to see some of the interior rooms of the castle, as well as exhibitions on the Danish Royal Family.
The rooms of Christian IX and Queen Louise, who ruler 150 years ago, are still intact and preserved in the style of the time.
Amalienborg Castle is at Amalienborg, 1257 København K.
Another Danish landmark in the heart of Copenhagen is Rosenborg.
Christian IV built Rosenborg Palace during the early 17th century.
The castle sits in the heart of the city and has been a royal landmark of Copenhagen since its construction.
Knights' Hall features the coronation thrones of the Royal Family of Denmark.
The thrones are guarded by three life-size silver lions.
Within the palace are well-preserved rooms featuring the King's private writing cabinet, ornate and highly detailed tapestries depicting battles between Denmark and Sweden, and of course the crown jewels.
Rosenborg Palace is at Øster Voldgade 4A, 1350 København K.
Freetown Christiania is often referred to as an anarchist district in Copenhagen.
The area was once a military base that lay abandoned for years before hippies broke in during the 1970s and began squatting.
The area is now lived in by approximately 900 people in a community that follows its own rules and is completely independent of the Danish government.
The buildings are colourful and often adorned with street art.
Due to its independent status, the area freely and openly trades in cannabis which is illegal in the rest of Denmark.
While the Green Light District is often the reason most visitors stop at Freetown Christiania, it is worth visiting this unusual Danish landmark to be immersed in a unique culture, surrounded by friendly locals, and to visit some of their eco-friendly cafes and restaurants that serve tasty dishes to cater to all dietary requirements.
Freetown Christiania is at Prinsessegade, 1422 København K.
The Botanical Garden in Copenhagen is another famous landmark in Denmark.
In the centre of Copenhagen stands the Botanical Garden, covering 10 ha of land, and features a glasshouse that is an instantly recognisable landmark of Copenhagen.
The Botanical Garden was founded in 1600 but was moved to two other locations before settling in 1870, where it remains today.
Within the gardens are more than 13000 plant species and features an area dedicated to Danish plants, annual plants, and a rock garden with plants from central and southern Europe.
There are 27 glasshouses within the gardens, however the most famous is the Palm House.
The Palm House was built in 1874 and the glasshouse is conditioned to have multiple environments, including an area that is air-conditioned to recreate the natural environment for Arctic plants.
Botanical Garden is at Gothersgade 128, 1353 1353 København K.
Another historic landmark in Denmark is the Marble Church.
The Marble Church is an eye-catching Copenhagen landmark thanks to its copper green dome.
The church's construction began in 1749.
Nicolai Eigtved was the architect until his death in 1754 when French architect Jardin took over.
The church was completed in 1894 following multiple postponements.
Today the church is open for visitors as well as scheduled services.
Head to the top of the dome, which is open for access at 1 pm each day, for spectacular views across the city.
The Marble Church is at Frederiksgade 4, 1265 København K.
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Møns Klint is a 70 million-year-old chalk cliff on the island of Møn.
Due to the cliffs soft chalk, they are gradually crumbling into the Baltic Sea.
Møns Klint is often referred to as the place where Denmark was born in local legend.
The age of the area offers up many ancient fossils at the base of the cliffs just waiting to be found.
For some of the best views of Møns Klint take to the water. The area is popular with sailing boats and kayaks.
The area is both a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and the first Dark Sky Park in Scandinavia. Visiting at night will offer not only spectacular night sky views but also an unusual illumination of the white cliffs.
Møns Klint is at 4791 Borre.
Rold Skov Forest in Denmark has many natural landmarks to admire.
Rold Skov is one of the largest forests in Denmark, covering 8600 ha of land.
Within the forest is a magical area called Troldeskoven, an area of the forest with links to magic as the trees here resemble trolls.
The beech trees here grow with twisted trunks covered in gnarled bark.
Despite Denmark being a mountainless country, there are lovely hills.
Some of the most beautiful hills are found within Rold Skov and are covered with thick layers of moss.
Rold Skov Forest is at Rold Skov, 9520 Skørping.
Green is the northernmost point of Denmark and a sandbar where two bodies of water, the Kattegat and the Skagerrak Strait, meet.
The waters here are incredibly strong, and therefore swimming is not allowed as the currents can be violent and unpredictable.
It is one of few places in the world where you can have your feet in two different seas.
Green translates to 'The Branch' in English and is slowly lengthening away from the coastline as the seas crash together.
As the sandbar is continually lengthening it is believed that over time the sandbar will connect Denmark and Sweden together with a new land bridge.
Grenen is at North Demnark Region, Skagen, 9990.
Mols Bjerge National Park covers 180 square kilometres (69 square miles) with forests, moorland, lakes and coastal areas.
The landscape was created by nature, shaped by ice and water, during the last ice age, giving it its unique landscape.
Whilst the entire park is well worth an explore it is the Mols Bjerge themselves that draws visitors in.
Mols Bjerge are heather-covered hills that reach 137m (449ft).
Some of the hills are in fact burial mounds dating back to the bronze age.
Mols Bjerge is at Grenaavej 12, 8410 Rønde.
Lille Vildmose, which means 'small wild bog', is Northern Europe's largest raised bog and it is surrounded by beautiful natural landscapes.
Lille Vildmose began life as an idea in the early 1990s to create a wild outdoor space that would educate visitors on the landscape and its flora and fauna, as well as providing them with nature experiences.
In 2015 five Swedish moose calves were released into the wild here, and are now thriving in their new environment.
A herd of 40 red deer were also released and the area is also home to golden eagles and wild boars.
Lille Vildmose is at Birkesøvej, 9280.
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The Viking Ship Museum is historic Copenhagen landmark where you can learn about history.
The Viking Ship Museum offers a lesson in history like no other because within its walls are five incredibly well-preserved 11th century Viking vessels.
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The first, The Viking Ship Hall, is home to the five Viking ships which have been carefully reconstructed.
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The museum features exhibits into Viking handcrafts which during the summer months allows visitors to make items such as their own shield or pieces of jewellery in the Viking style.
The Viking Ship Museum is at Vindeboder 12, 4000 Roskilde.
Rubjerg Knude Fyr is another historic Danish monument to the past.
Esbjerg Knude Fyr is a lighthouse on the Rubjerg coast, overlooking the North Sea.
The lighthouse was built in 1900 but its location proved to be a problem and during the 1910s, sand in the area began to drift.
The growing sand dune was initially tackled by planting more trees in the immediate area, however, this proved fruitless as the dunes grew.
Locals eventually tackled the dune, and the light was relit on August 1st 1968 for the first time since the 1920s.
The lighthouse was briefly transformed into a museum to chart its battle against the dune, but it sadly was closed in 1992 after succumbing again to the sand.
Today, the lighthouse looks like a relic from another time emerging from the sand, making for some interesting photography opportunities.
A local museum tells its story.
Rubjerg Knude Fyr is at Fyrvejen, 9800.
An aerial view of Kronborg Slot, which is a stunning historic landmark of Denmark.
Famous for being the inspiration for the castle in William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', Kronborg Slot is a spectacular historical landmark to visit in Denmark.
King Erik of Pomerania built the castle as a Krogen, a tollhouse, in the 1420s.
Over the centuries, the castle was expanded, destroyed by fire, and came under attack.
The castle that stands today was designed in the Renaissance style and features baroque spires topped with green copper domes.
Inside the castle are intricate murals painted on the ceilings, tapestries depicting historical events, and dungeons lit by paraffin lamps.
Kronborg Slot is at Kronborg 2 C, 3000 Helsingør.
UNESCO World Heritage Roskilde Cathedral holds the tombs of Viking kings Harold Bluetooth and Sweyn Forkbeard, as well as 40 kings and queens of Denmark.
The cathedral is built on an important religious site, as a church has stood on the same spot in various guises for more than 1000 years.
The cathedral that stands today was built in 1170 and took 100 years to complete.
It is designed in the Gothic style.
Roskilde Cathedral is at Domkirkepladsen 3, 4000 Roskilde.
Lindholm Høje is an important archeological site dating back to Denmark Iron Age and Viking Age.
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Following extensive excavations, more than 700 graves were found in the area.
The graves are arranged so that the oldest graves are at the top of the hill and the younger graves towards the bottom.
It was customary in the culture for the dead to be buried with a view.
Vendilavej 11, 9400 Nørresundby.
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Sarah Holmes is a travel and fashion writer living in the heart of England. From family adventures in numerous parts of the UK and Europe to exploring cities as an adult, Sarah has a wide knowledge of the best areas, sights and local tips that the UK and the neighbouring continent can offer. Sarah grew up in the North East of England, with incredible sights and landmarks only a short drive away. Her favourite places to visit include Seaham Beach, the Lake District and Alnwick Castle. Sarah has written for a range of fashion and travel blogs and print publications.


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>Several PNA boards ago, board members worked with the Parks Department to get some ICURA (Insterstate Corridor Urban Renewal Area) money slated for parks into Peninsula Park. Money was set aside to replace the wading pool and sandbox at Peninsula Park with a spray water feature for young children (Parks is moving to replace all standing water features with spray water features). Additional benches and a grassy knoll were also discussed.
Last summer George Lozovoy of the Parks Department held a community meeting, open to the public, at the Peninsula Park Community Center. Though sparsely attended, the neighborhood residents who did show up were able to vote on the style and color of water feature. The general consensus was that it should be colorful and geared toward smaller children, since it will be sited next to the smaller playground structures and since the Peninsula Park Pool is already geared toward older children.
Groundbreaking was scheduled for last fall, but according to Seve Ghose of Portland Parks, it was postponed until this June. PDC (Portland Development Commission), which manages ICURA monies, reshuffled priorities to other North Portland parks and put this project on the back burner. However, because construction during the summer would seriously interfere with Peninsula Park's great summer program, groundbreaking for the water feature is now slated for August 17, 2008.


Previously at Los, Love moved to University. Patric claimed a secondary aspiration of Family after acheiving the Knowledge IW, and started a new career in education. We had a stalkery burglar and a good police officer. Berit started sleeping in her parents' bed after the incident. Emilia cooked Grilled Cheese for her family and friends. Emilia and Patric became elders.
Berit, the Los oops baby learnt how to study, but is still painfully slow with her homework. She never reached a grade higher than C either. She struggles with intellectual tasks!
Emilia works in the Adventure career, just to do something with her life in between Grilled cheese meals. Today she got promoted to International Sim of Mystery and brought her son Love's father-in-law with her home. Her next shift starts immediately.
Patric gets promoted to Dean of Students and brings Emilia's sister Elisabeth with him home. Maybe it's because it's Berit's birthday tonight, finally. It seems she's been a child forever.
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And then it's time for Berit's birthday!
And j68's die has got stuck on a new aspiration – another Fortune teen! Maybe she's inspired by her elder brother Love who is a successful author and Fortune sim.
She turns on from fatness and brown hair but turns off from logic. Maybe she wants a Pleasure sim?
Berit and Emilia continues to have a close relationship even after Berit becomes a teen.
Saturday morning Berit has decided on her LTW, which is to become the Head of SCIA, and that she wants to attend private school, so she invites the headmaster for dinner.
Berit is attentive to headmaster BJ and shows him the house while Patric cooks salmon. BJ seems to like Berit a lot.
In the end we have 29 schmooze-points and a total score of 123. Good job, guys!
Patric is very happy that his daughter is accepted and can fill his aspiration panel. 3p!
Berit rolls the want to receive the young entrepreneur's grant, and applies for a job in Intelligence. Then she applies for the scolarship, but apparently she's not qualified for it yet. Guess she needs to reach the top first.
Emilia is the oldest child of CAS toddler Loke Mattsson and his wife townie Barbara. Emilia has two children and her brothers have one daughter each, while her sister Elisabeth has 11!
This lot is out of sync when it comes to the weekdays, so now – Family Sunday!
Hugo's wife Engla and Georg's wife Agnes are not exactly the best of friends.
The whole day turns out to be a bit awkward and not relation building.
Patric works Sunday and comes home promoted to Education Minister at age 56. This is his second TOC, so we get 1p.
By dinnertime the athmospehere is better, and Emilia has had the chance to cook Grilled Cheese for all, so eventually it's a nice family Sunday!
I know the selection of turn ons and turn offs is random, but it seems quite appropriate that a girl who struggles so much with her homework wouldn't care for logical (presumably brainy) guys. All the negative relationship signs seem oddly typical of a lot of family gatherings from all I've heard...lol. Glad they turned it around in the end. The magic of grilled cheese prevails to bring everyone together in harmony...lol.
Berit looks a lot like her mother!
And Fortune sims really aren't so bad. If they have a lot of money or a business anyway. I think it is probably better than so many Romance sims.
Fortune sims are pretty interested in affairs, too - they get a special green memory icon from that, but we'll see... Head of SCIA is not so bad as LTW, and quite often I succeed in giving them the IW too.
Berit looks very pretty as a teen. Hurray for Emilia reaching the top of her career, and for Patric filling in all of his reward panel! You scored lots of points in this update! Also, as always I just love your family get togethers. This family is huge!
I have a lot of families with newly- or soon-to-be-elder sims that I have had for many sim years, and now they start to fulfill their dreams.
If it weren't for Elilsabeth's Family IW, this family wouldn't be so huge, but I agree, it's fun to see them together!


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Grand Funk Railroad es un grupo de hard rock estadounidense cuya base interpretativa se sostenía bajo la modalidad de Power trio, y cuyo estilo está marcado por la fusíon del hard rock con el funk y el blues. La alineación original de Grand Funk fue muy popular durante la década de los años 1970, habiendo vendido más de 25 millones de discos y actuando en escenarios del mundo entero. También fueron galardonados cuatro veces por la RIAA en 1970, caso único en cualquier grupo norteamericano en aquel año. También fueron citados como "la banda de rock and roll más fuerte del mundo". Son conocidos con el sobrenombre de "La banda americana", proveniente de su famosa canción "We're an American Band" (Somos una banda americana). Conocida por su estilo de arena rock que agrada a la multitud, la banda fue bien considerada por el público a pesar de una relativa falta de aclamación de la crítica. [3] El nombre de la banda es un juego de palabras del Grand Trunk Western Railroad, una línea que atraviesa la ciudad natal de la banda, Flint, Míchigan .

Historia

La banda fue formada en 1968 por Mark Farner (vocalista, guitarra) y Don Brewer (vocalista, batería), de Terry Knight and the Pack, y Mel Schacher (bajo) de ? & the Mysterians en Flint, Míchigan. Terry Knight miembro inicial de la banda pronto se convertiría en su agente y la nombraría a partir de la Grand Trunk Western Railroad, una bien conocida línea ferroviaria de Míchigan. El primer reconocimiento que se tiene registrado fue en el Atlanta Pop Festival, la banda fue fichada por Capitol Records, estereotipada como Cream, pero desarrollando su propio estilo musical, en 1970 vendieron más álbumes que cualquier banda americana y se convirtieron en la mayor atracción en concierto. En ese mismo año ganaron su primer disco de oro por el álbum "Grand Funk" (también conocido como "El álbum rojo") y un éxito sencillo llamado "Closer to Home" (Cerca de casa) del álbum homónimo, que era estilísticamente parecido a los anteriores Terry Knight and the Pack. Un año después, batieron el récord de asistencia en poder de los Beatles, en el Shea Stadium, al vender todas las localidades en 71 horas. Ese récord sigue vigente hoy en día.

A pesar de las numerosas críticas y la poca cobertura que tuvieron en radio, los primeros 8 álbumes que la banda realizó en tres años fueron exitosos. Knight lanzó una campaña publicitaria intensiva para promover "Closer to Home", pagando supuestamente 100.000 dólares por los tiempos en las listas de popularidad de Nueva York Times Square. Ese álbum fue certificado con categoría multiplatino a pesar de la criticada falta de éxito. En 1972 Grand Funk despidió a Knight; Knight emprendió una demanda legal, por incumplimiento de contrato teniendo como resultado una contienda judicial prolongada.

En 1972 Grand Funk Railroad realizó su sexto álbum Phoenix y agregó a un cuarto miembro a la banda de nombre Craig Frost (teclados), y como resultado de la contienda legal que tenía en proceso, acortó su nombre a Grand Funk. Esto también se reflejó en un cambio de estilo en sus raíces originales en el Rock & Roll para perfilarse más a la orientación de estilo pop que sus principales fanes aclamaban. Dos sencillos pop, exitosos fueron "We're an American Band" y "The Locomotion"(escrita por Carole King y Gerry Goffin y anterior éxito de"Little Eva" del año 1962), que fueron seguidos por un álbum de estilo pop, All the girls in The World Beware!!, y el nombre regresó a "Grand Funk Railroad", la popularidad del grupo decreció. Después de finalizar Good Singin', Good Playin''' (1976) bajo la producción de Frank Zappa, la banda se desintegró. Farner comenzó una carrera de solista, mientras Brewer, Schacher y Frost formaron la banda "Flint" con la adición de Billy Ellworthy.

Grand Funk Railroad se reunificó en 1980 sin la presencia de Frost y con Dennis Bellinger remplazando a Schacher en el bajo, y realizando dos álbumes para el sello Full Moon filial de la Warner Bros Records. A pesar del éxito de los álbumes, el grupo se desintegró por segunda vez, Farner se convertiría al cristianismo y continuaría con su carrera solista, convirtiéndose en un cantante de Música cristiana, mientras que Brewer se integró a una nueva banda con su compañero de Grand Funk Frost en Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band. En 1996, Grand Funk Railroad (incluyendo a Schacher) se reunió una vez más para actuar ante 260.000 personas en 14 conciertos con las localidades completamente agotadas, durante un periodo de tres meses. En 1997, la banda daría tres conciertos más, con localidades agotadas en Bosnian Benefit Concerts y realizó dos álbumes CD en vivo llamados Bosnia cuyas ventas también fueron en beneficio. Después de tres años de giras Farner abandonó a la banda para continuar su carrera de solitario.

En el 2000, Brewer y Schacher decidieron reclutar al cantante líder Max Carl proveniente de ".38 Special" y al teclista Timothy Cashion y continuaron como Grand Funk Railroad. Viajando constantemente desde entonces, Grand Funk ha construido a nueva audiencia y recuperando fanes de la banda original.

La nueva encarnación de Grand Funk toca alrededor de 30 conciertos por año, recientemente rompiendo récords de audiencia en Buffalo, New York y Orlando Florida, al convocar a más de 20.000 fanes en ambos conciertos. La banda esta presuntamente escribiendo material nuevo con planes de efectuar un retorno próximo que incluiría el tema "Who Took Down The Stars", una balada inspirada en los sucesos del 9/11, escrita por Carl y Kulick.

 Trivia

 (De Los Simpson) Grand Funk Railroad es la banda favorita de Homer Simpson, Otto Mann el conductor del autobús escolar también es su seguidor. El productor ejecutivo Bill Oakley también ha manifestado su simpatía por el grupo.

 En el juego Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, es usado de fondo la música del sencillo de Grand Funk el tema. "Some Kind of Wonderful", para la emisora K-DST.

 Es tal la influencia que ha tenido la "American Band" sobre el hard rock y el stoner rock, que la banda de stoner rock Monster Magnet realizó una versión de la canción "Sin's a Good Man's Brother" que se incluyó en el disco Spine of God de esta última banda.

 Frecuentemente, durante la gira mundial Use Your Illusion, Guns N' Roses realizaba un intro antes de tocar Sweet Child O' Mine, el cual consistía en el coro de Sail away Sweet Sister de Queen, seguido de fragmentos de Bad Time de Grand Funk Railroad.

 Miembros

 Miembros actuales

 Don Brewer - Cantante, Batería (1969-1976, 1981-1983, 1996-1998, 2000-presente)
 Mel Schacher - Bajo (1969-1976, 1996-1998, 2000-presente)
 Max Carl- Cantante, Guitarra rítmica (2000-presente)
 Bruce Kulick - Guitarra solista, Corista (2000-presente)
 Timothy Cashion - Teclados, Corista (2000-presente)

 Miembros anteriores

 Mark Farner - Cantante, Guitarra, Teclados, Armónica (1969-1976, 1981-1983, 1996-1998)
 Dennis Bellinger - Bajo (1981-1983)
 Craig Frost - Teclados, Corista (1972-1976)
 Lance Ong - Teclados, Sintetizador (1981-1982)
 Howard Eddy Jr. - Teclados, Guitarra, Corista (1996-1998)

 Línea de tiempo

 Discografía

 Álbumes de estudio

 On Time - (agosto de 1969)
 Grand Funk (El Álbum rojo) - (diciembre de 1969)
 Closer to Home - (julio de 1970)
 Survival - (abril de 1971)
 E Pluribus Funk - (noviembre de 1971)
 Phoenix - (septiembre de 1972)
 We're an American Band - (julio de 1973)
 Shinin' On - (marzo de 1974)
 All the Girls in the World Beware!!! - (diciembre de 1974)
 Born To Die - (enero de 1976)
 Good Singin', Good Playin' - (agosto de 1976)
 Grand Funk Lives - (julio de 1981)
 What's Funk? - (enero de 1983)
 Monumental Funk -(1974)

 Álbumes en vivo

 Live Album - (Atlanta International Pop Festival Julio 5 de 1970)
 Live Album - (noviembre de 1970)
 Caught in the Act - (agosto de 1975)
 Bosnia - (octubre de 1997)
 Thirty Years of Funk: 1969-1999 - (1999)
 Live: The 1971 Tour - (junio de 2002)

 Recopilaciones

 Grand Funk / Live Album - (1970)
 Mark, Don and Mel: 1969-71 - (1972)
 Grand Funk Hits - (1976)
 Hits - (1977)
 The Best of Grand Funk - (1990)
 Capitol Collectors Series - (1991)
 Heavy Hitters - (1992)
 Collectors - (1993)
 Thirty Years of Funk: 1969-1999 - (1999)
 Super Best - (1999)
 Rock Champions - (2001)
 Very Best Grand Funk Railroad Album Ever - (2001)
 Classic Masters - (2002)
 Trunk of Funk - (2001)
 Greatest Hits'' (CD/DVD) - (2006)

Sencillos

Enlaces externos

 Sitio oficial

Artistas de Capitol Records
Grupos de rock de Míchigan
Grupos de hard rock de Estados Unidos
Grupos de música de los años 1960
Grupos de música de los años 1970
Grupos de música de los años 1980
Grupos de música de los años 1990
Grupos de música de los años 2000
Grupos de música de los años 2010
Grupos de música formados en 1969

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Perdita sexmaculata är en biart som beskrevs av Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell 1895. Den ingår i släktet Perdita och familjen grävbin. Arten förekommer i sydvästra Nordamerika.

Beskrivning
Arten är ett litet bi, med en kroppslängd på 4 till 5 mm och en framvingelängd på omkring 3 mm hos honan. motsvarande värden för hanen är 3 till 4 mm för kroppslängden, och kring 2,5 mm för vinglängden. Färgen på huvud och mellankropp är mörkt blågrön; hos honan kan området även vara mörkblått. Mellankroppen har knölar som är brunaktiga i spetsen hos honan, mer eller mindre helt gula hos hanen. Hos båda könen är vingfästena tegelfärgade, medan vingarna har bruna ribbor. Bakkroppen är mer eller mindre svart, hos hanen kan den ha ett brunt inslag. Arten har beige till vita märken på sidorna av tergit 2 till 4, hos hanen ibland även på tergit 5. Huvudet skiljer sig påtagligt åt mellan hona och hane: Honan har käkar som är gula vid basen, övergående till tegelfärgat på mitten och rött i spetsarna. Hos hanen är nästan hela käkarna gula, endast spetsarna är röda. Munskölden (clypeus) och kinderna är svarta hos honan, medan hanen har en gul mask som täcker hela ansiktet från strax under antennerna.

Taxonomi
Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life. ITIS listar emellertid Perdita sexmaculata sexmaculata Cockerell, 1895 och Perdita sexmaculata octonaria Timberlake, 1962 som underarter.

Utbredning
Utbredningsområdet omfattar Nordamerikas sydvästra fjärdedel från Wyoming i norr, Kansas och Texas i öst samt Jalisco och Hidalgo i syd.

Ekologi
Arten är polylektisk, den flyger till blommande växter från flera familjer, som korgblommiga växter (släktet Malacothrix), törelväxter (törelsläktet), strävbladiga växter (Faceliasläktet), malvaväxter (släktet klotmalvor) samt potatisväxter (släktena Chamaesaracha, lyktörter och Quincula).

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On behalf of Andrew Rubin, Esq. posted in Civil Litigation on Friday, September 14, 2012.
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ABC News began reporting on a product that the company makes, which is made from beef trimmings and treated with ammonium hydroxide, earlier this year. Soon after ABC reported on the product, other media outlets followed suit. Beef Products took a major hit from consumer backlash in the aftermath of these reports.
The company is seeking $1.2 billion in damages in an addition to an undisclosed amount of punitive damages, and it names ABC News, anchor Diane Sawyer and reporter Jim Avila as defendants.
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Happy birthday to the magnificent grandmaster Nalo Hopkinson
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Born in Kingston, Jamaica, the acclaimed Nalo Hopkinson spent her childhood in Trinidad and Guyana before her family moved to Toronto when she was sixteen. Her groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy, noted for diverse characters and the mixture of folklore, include the novels Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Midnight Robber (2000), The Salt Roads (2003), The New Moon's Arms (2007), The Chaos (2012), and Sister Mine (2013). Hopkinson's shorter workers has been collected in Skin Folk (2001), Report from Planet Midnight (2012), and FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS (2015). She wrote 22 issues of House of Whispers, a comic book series set in Neil Gaiman's Sandman Universe. The series was collected in The House of Whispers Vol. 1: Power Divided (2019), The House of Whispers Vol. 2: Ananse (2020), and House of Whispers Vol. 3: Watching the Watchers (2020).
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As an editor, Hopkinson has worked on many publications including Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction (2000), Mojo: Conjure Stories (2003), So Long Been Dreaming (with Uppinder Mehan; 2004), Tesseracts 9 (with Geoff Ryman; 2005), People of Colo(U)R Destroy Science Fiction! (with Kristine Ong Muslim; 2016), and Particulates (2018).
Beginning with her first novel Brown Girl in the Ring winning the Warner Aspect First Novel contest, Hopkinson has garnered numerous awards. Brown Girl also won a 1999 Locus Award and that same year, the author herself won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her second novel Midnight Robber was a 2000 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Skin Folk won the 2003 World Fantasy and Sunburst Awards as well as 2004 Gaylactic Spectrum Award (for GLBTQ themes in science fiction and fantasy). The New Moon's Arms received the 2008 Sunburst and Prix Aurora Awards. Hopkinson's superior editing skills were acknowledged with the 2006 Prix Aurora Award for Tesseracts 9 and a British Fantasy Award for People of Colo(U)R Destroy Science Fiction! She was named the 2021 SFWA Damon Knight Grand Master.
The movie Brown Girl Begins, directed and written by Sharon Lewis, serves as a prequel to Brown Girl in the Ring. The acclaimed film garnered several awards including IndieFEST Film Award and Houston Black Film Festival Prize.
Hopkinson currently teaches in the Creative Writing department at the University of California, Riverside. In 2016, she received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Anglia Ruskin University.
All of us at Tachyon wish the extraordinary Nalo Hopkinson a happy birthday. May those incredible and insightful folktales keep flowing!
Tachyon tidbits featuring Nalo Hopkinson, Carrie Vaughn, Peter S. Beagle, Michael Blumlein, Kameron Hurley, and Patricia A. McKillip
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Congratulations to Nalo Hopkinson on being named the 37th SFWA Damon Knight Grand Master.
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (SFWA) is pleased to announce that Nalo Hopkinson has been named the 37th Damon Knight Grand Master for her contributions to the literature of science fiction and fantasy.
The Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award recognizes "lifetime achievement in science fiction and/or fantasy." Hopkinson joins the Grand Master ranks alongside such legends as C. J. Cherryh, Peter S. Beagle, Ursula K. Le Guin, Anne McCaffrey, Ray Bradbury, and Joe Haldeman. The award will be presented at the 56th Annual Nebula Conference and Awards Ceremony, held online the weekend of June 4–6, 2021.
SOUTHERN TODAY GONE TOMORROW enjoys Carrie Vaughn's KITTY'S MIX-TAPE.
Absolutely I recommend this to anyone who is a fan of Urban Fantasy, who likes some stakes in their stories, or even those who like some re-imagined historical fantasy.
Dennis Callegari in SF COMMENTARY 104 praises a pair of Peter S. Beagle titles.
IN CALABRIA
A unicorn appears in a field beside the home of a man who lives in Calabria. At first this is his secret; the pain begins after other people discover his secret. The suspenseful climax to the story is heart-stopping. Everything works out for the best eventually, but his main characters have experienced the best and the worst aspects of human behaviour in sunny Calabria.
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The most memorable historical fantasy in the collection is 'The Queen Who Could NotWalk' (first published in 2013), which has a wonderful surprising-yet-inevitable ending. Other special favourites from this collection are 'The Story of Kao Yu' (2016) and 'The Way It Works Out andAll' (2011). There are other authors who can write a sentence as well as Beagle, but there are very few who keep inventing sparkling fantasy ideas for decade after decade.
Ian Sales on IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE RIGHT… in his review of Michael Blumlein's collection All I Ever Dream mentions THE ROBERTS.
The three novellas are probably the strongest works. THE ROBERTS is available separately from Tachyon Publications, and is typical of Blumlein's work: dense, intense and set somewhere at the intersection of science and technology and human relationships.
At REDDIT r/printsf, Kameron Hurley's Apocalypse Nyx books get an unexpected mention in Speculative Fiction for mental health?
at first i laughed when i saw "Stars are Legion and The Light Brigade" because i thought you were going to be listing fun, lighthearted reads. but actually Kameron Hurley's Apocalypse Nyx books (God's War) helped me a lot with my mental health. They're gruesome and brutal at times but the main character is such a badass that she makes you feel like you could do anything. It's a cool series and feels very cinematic.
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Patricia A. McKillip for TOR.COM crafts the essay Gingerbread Bricks, Cherry-Stealing Cats, and Other Culinary Disasters.
I've been asked if I cook as well as I write about cooking.
It's a fair question: I've been cooking almost as long as I've been writing. Writing was something I fell into, much like Alice down the rabbit-hole, when I was fourteen. I sat down one day to write myself a story instead of reading one, and thirty-two pages later—pencil and lined paper tablet—I finished my tale and realized that my predictable world had expanded wildly, enormously, with endlessly diverging and intriguing paths running every which way into an unknown I suddenly knew existed. Having ended one story (which is locked away, guarded by dragons and evil-eyed basilisks, and will never see the light of day if I have anything to say about it), I wanted to start all over again on another.
When or why I decided I needed to inflict culinary disasters on my long-suffering family and others, I don't remember.
My most vivid cooking memory, even after so many years, is setting my brother on fire with my Cherries Jubilee.
Tachyon and Nalo Hopkinson are proud to join Humble Bundle's Be the Change Supporting the American Library Association
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We are proud to announce the inclusion of Nalo Hopkinson's acclaimed collection FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS as part of Humble Bundle's Be the Change Supporting the American Library Association.
Be the change you want to see. We've teamed up with the American Library Association for this spectacular, one-of-a-kind book bundle! Unlike most of our bundles, which only last for a few weeks, this bundle will be three months long. The Humble Book Bundle: Be the Change Supporting the American Library Association lasts through February 8, 2021. Get ebooks and audiobooks like FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS, Neveryona, and This Book is Anti-Racist. Plus, your purchase will support the American Library Association and the Freedom to Read Foundation!
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Tachyon tidbits featuring Daniel Pinkwater, Peter S. Beagle, Nalo Hopkinson, Brandon Sanderson, Charlie Jane Anders, Michael Swanwick, and Cory Doctorow
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At KIDS BOOKBUZZ, Zara – Age 11 enjoys Daniel Pinkwater's ADVENTURES OF A DWERGISH GIRL.
I think that people ages from seven to one hundred and one could read ADVENTURES OF A DWERGISH GIRL. It is a great book for everybody! Also, if you like fun adventure books, along with some humor and fun facts! I would definitely recommend this book, so go buy it!!
TIME's The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time includes Peter S. Beagle, Nalo Hopkinson, Brandon Sanderson, and Charlie Jane Anders.
With a panel of leading fantasy authors—N.K. Jemisin, Neil Gaiman, Sabaa Tahir, Tomi Adeyemi, Diana Gabaldon, George R.R. Martin, Cassandra Clare and Marlon James—TIME presents the most engaging, inventive and influential works of fantasy fiction, in chronological order beginning in the 9th century
The book's charm lies in the ways it defies fantasy convention. In this cult classic, written in lyrical prose and rife with both whimsical humor and philosophical ruminations on what it means to be human, Beagle spins a quasi-medieval fairy tale that remains timeless. —Megan McCluskey
A hybrid of sci-fi, fantasy, eye-popping horror and Afro-Caribbean lore, the eloquent Brown Girl in the Ring is a true original—and the savior at its center is a beacon of strength in the body of a young single mother. —Judy Berman
The detail with which Sanderson explores the hows and whys of allomancy in the novel, setting up a crescendo of action and adventure by its end, is a solid illustration of his own "First Law of Magics," which posits that a writer's capacity to resolve a story's conflict using magic is directly correlated with readers' understanding of how that magic works. —Cate Matthews
The burgeoning romance brims with eccentricities, but the true fun of Charlie Jane Anders' Nebula Award-winning novel is its blend of the fantasy and science fiction genres. Anders reveals an intersection full of possibilities. —Annabel Gutterman
Tais Teng for MYTHAXIS REVIEW interviews Michael Swanwick.
TT: Some blockbuster fantasy writers are clearly paladins of Tolkien. I get the impression that you belong to a quite different tribe, harkening back to a time when each fantasy novel was one of a kind. Hope-in-the-Mist (which I read recently thanks to your glowing recommendation), The Night Lands, Gormenghast, A Voyage to Arcturus and The Gods of Pegana come to mind.
What are the novels and authors that inspired you when you just had started writing? Or better, when you yearned to become a writer but hadn't sold a word yet?
MS: As a boy, I was determined to be a scientist. Nothing could be surer. Then, at age sixteen, Tolkien turned me into a writer. I read The Fellowship of the Ring over one long, sleepless night and that was it, I knew what I was going to be. This was before commercial fantasy was a genre, so I had to hunt out fantasy works, which were few and far between. So I read everything from E. R. Eddison's Mistress of Mistresses to John Jakes' Brak the Barbarian (very highly not recommended), the books you mention most definitely included. This imprinted on me the idea that great fantasy must necessarily be different from everything else and written in imitation of nobody.
I've never gotten over this conviction.
Also, back in the 1980s, I was on the Nebula Award Jury, which was, for reasons that made sense at the time, tasked with adding a single worthy but neglected work to every category on the final award ballot. We made a valiant but futile attempt to read everything published in genre that year and in so doing I read so much fantasy written in lockstep with the common expectation of what it should be that I developed a revulsion for it.
To sum it all up, I love fantasy the way you love your firstborn. You have such high expectations for it that any failure to live up to them is a disappointment. If it's not astonishingly good, I'm not going to much like it.
For TORFORGE via YOUTUBE, Cory Doctorow discusses writing.
Tachyon tidbits featuring Nancy Kress, Nalo Hopkinson, Brandon Sanderson, Jacob Weisman, Tim Powers, and Nina Kiriki Hoffman
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At NEW SCIENTIST, Simon Ings' 11 of the best sci-fi books that transport you to another world includes selections from Nancy Kress and Nalo Hopkinson.
Beggars in Spain
by Nancy Kress
Where science fiction leads, reality follows. Consider the mutation in a gene called ADRB1, which allows some people to get by on just 4 hours' sleep a night. I would leap at the chance of a gene therapy that freed up my nights – but what would happen if everyone else followed suit?
In 1993, and blissfully unaware that any such mutation would ever make the headlines, Nancy Kress asked herself what would happen if a group of humans were born not needing to sleep. The result was a novella called "Beggars in Spain". Expanded into a novel, it cemented her reputation as one of the toughest thinkers and slickest writers in science fiction.
Kress's community of sleepless superheroes are of a very ordinary, picked-upon sort, desperately defending themselves against a world that sees them as a threat to their way of life. They don't get to compete in the Olympics (the extra hours they put into their training are unfair on others) and some cities have banned them from running 24-hour convenience stores. That the sleepless are congenitally a bit brighter and a lot happier than the rest of us doesn't promote their integration into society one bit.
It is quite a step from such petty prejudices to looming conflicts in outer space, but that is where we end up, as Kress follows her idea rigorously across the years to its almost-utopian conclusion.
by Nalo Hopkinson
In a decrepit near-future Toronto, teenage single mother Ti-Jeanne must juggle care for her newborn infant with looking after her grandmother, a tiresome traditionalist, always droning on about the old country, an apothecary and spiritualist beset by voodoo visions. But what if the wild powers she claims to control are real?
Ti-Jeanne's estranged boyfriend Tony, an addict who runs with a powerful criminal posse, is of no help to her whatsoever, and is anyway caught up in the search for a human heart for the Premier of Ontario (no mere Porcine Organ Harvest Program heart for him). Ti-Jeanne is still hopelessly in love with Tony – but she will learn.
Hopkinson's linguistically dazzling mash-up of Jamaican and Canadian patois and speech rhythms adds grit to her cyberpunk tale of street-smart folk pulling together in the face of City Hall inertia and political collapse. It is a future in which folk tales vie for public credence with far-out technologies, and who is to say, in this most post-factual of all post-factual futures, which things work and which don't?
Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring (1998) is riddled with stories, fantasies, ghosts, odd beliefs. It consequently has the most lived-in feel of all the futures gathered here. It is a rattling good tale, too.
Laura Steven for PUBLISHERS WEEKLY interviews Brandon Sanderson about his new novel Rhythm of War.
Sitting in his home office in Utah, Brandon Sanderson is backed by a stunning piece of original artwork commissioned for a leather-bound edition of his Mistborn trilogy. Designed and painted by Steve Argyle, the artwork is painted onto metal—an homage to the metal-based magic system in the series. Sanderson calls Argyle "a good friend who lives just down the street." They frequently get together to play the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, which Argyle worked on and Sanderson adores.
Sanderson's deep love of all things fantasy was spawned at the age of 14, when a teacher handed him a copy of Barbara Hambly's Dragonsbane. After devouring everything he could find within the genre, he started writing stories of his own. "The very first book idea I came up with when I was 16 was the story of the brother of an assassinated king," he says. That concept would serve as the foundation for the Stormlight Archive series, whose fourth book, Rhythm of War (Tor), publishes in November.
Dean Wesley Smith on his eponymous site shares a 20 year old group pic which includes a Jacob Weisman, Tim Powers, and Nina Kirki Hoffman.
This is a picture taken by photographer Beth Gwinn of a large group of writers and editors at Westercon in 2000 or 2001. Not sure. About twenty years ago. Looks like some sort of Locus Award ceremony.
Sadly, a lot of the people in this picture are now no longer with us.
And I suck at names, so I am going to miss a few. Very sorry about that.
Starting on the right and going left is Kristine Rusch, Gardner Dozois, Connie Willis, Lucus Shephard, Ursula LeGuin, Tim Powers, Mark Kelly, Steve Barnes, Jacob Weisman, Beth Meachem, Tom Dohorety, Charles Brown, Nina Hoffman, and Janice Gelb.
Tachyon tidbits featuring Bruce Sterling, Charles de Lint, Nalo Hopkinson, and Brandon Sanderson
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The latest reviews and mentions of Tachyon titles and authors from around the web
Charles de Lint with MaryAnn Harris
Paul Di Filippo, in a LOCUS review of In the Shadows of Men by Robert Jackson Bennett and Dispersion by Greg Egan, gives a shout out to Tachyon Publications.
Tachyon Publications. PS Publishing. NewCon Press. Subterranean Press. Four always reliable and stout bastions of the novella, that in-between-lengths type of fiction that offers the advantages of the short story (quickish reading time and lesser investment) and the advantages of the novel (space for complexity and depth). Win-win, for writers, readers, and publishers!
For MYTHAXIS, Jay Caselberg interviews Bruce Sterling.
JC: I am quite interested in the connections between the Shaper/Mechanist universe and Cyberpunk as a concept, the clashing or joining of the biological and machine. Do you believe we have a future where that melding becomes more real? Of course, I am talking about more than a pig with a chip in its head.
BS: That's a big metaphysical topic, and, like a lot of metaphysical topics, it tends to bog down in the tall weeds of reality. For instance, being on stage as part of the Kraftwerk "Man/Machine" is actually less interesting and culturally influential than being Ralf Hutter or Florian "V-2" Schneider. In other words, it's a cool creative schtick, but if it becomes a personal cult religion, you've got a problem.
With that said, I'm currently very interested indeed in robots that are "soft," meaning machines that have some degree of autonomy and that aren't traditionally metallic or "mechanical." That's not a Shaper/Mechanist issue from a novel, but is an issue about boundaries of machinery and biology; it's even about beauty; there's an aesthetics to robotic motion that interests me as an art critic.
My latest book — my Bruno Argento short-story collection — is titled ROBOT ARTISTS AND BLACK SWANS, and it indeed seems to have rather a lot of robot artists that turn out to be black swans — just, boundary-breaking, culture-crossing, animated, liminal, kinetic things that are beyond prediction and also beautiful.
Cover by Charles Vess
At REDDIT r/fantasy. FarragutCircle includes THE VERY BEST OF CHARLES DE LINT among their 2020 Bingo Challenge: Short Story Edition.
20. Novel by a Canadian Author:
THE VERY BEST OF CHARLES DE LINT by Charles de Lint (reprint collection)
Reason: It appears I picked this up in 2014 for some reason (I've never read de Lint before this year). But he's Canadian!
Favorite Story: There are honestly too many to say, but I'll say "In the Pines" for now.
Recommended: Yes, yes, yes. I basically added everything he's written to my TBR.
Hard Mode: Maybe, it was originally published in 2010 with Tachyon Publications, but in 2014 it was reprinted by de Lint's Triskell Press (which is the copy I have), which would count.
Other Options: A friend sent me an anthology edited by Dominik Parisien called Clockwork Canada: Steampunk Fiction, though I would've had to juggle square to get it to work. Nalo Hopkinson is Canadian, so Skin Folk would've worked, too. Jo Walton has a collection called STARLINGS.
K.W. Colyard on BOOK RIOT includes Nalo Hopkinson's Skin Folk among Horror Short Story Collections: 9 Books to Maximize Your Chills and Thrills.
Jamaican Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson has published a few excellent collections of short fiction. If you're looking for horror, though, I recommend checking out her 2001 collection Skin Folk. Among these 15 dark fables, you'll find the story of a skinless woman who kills and consumes children. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Cover art by Alexander Nanitchkov
Johanna Rupprecht shares their beautiful concept designs for a game based on Brandon Sanderson's THE EMPEROR'S SOUL.
Visual Development Project based on Brandon Sanderson's novella THE EMPEROR'S SOUL.
Based on an Asian-inspired fantasy setting, we follow the story of Shai, a so called "forger" with the magical ability to change an object's appearance and history by applying a "soul stamp" to it.
Huge Thanks goes to Yen Shu Liao, who helped me throughout this project with making sure I don't mess up the "Asian" (more particular, Taiwanese) inspiration too much, and also helped me out with Chinese search words when English & dictionaries failed me. Thank you!
Shai's Prison cell – specifically designed to hold people with magical abilities like hers.
Shai's work room – the dustist and most shabby place they could find for her.
Moving on to the Imperial Wing – a stark difference with its gold ornaments and hallways lined with ancient portraits and artifacts.
The imperial Wing – Mood Painting.
The awesome Nalo Hopkinson's FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS is about as weird as it gets
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The love for Nalo Hopkinson's FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS just keeps on coming.
For BOOK RIOT, Mel Ashford includes the collection among 8 Weird Genre Fiction Books by Diverse Authors.
FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS is a collection of short stories by the fantastic Nalo Hopkinson. It's about as weird as it gets, and Nalo Hopkinson is an excellent speculative fiction writer. There's a flying cat in one of these stories, and it's still the story that sticks in my mind the most.
Arianna Rebolini at BUZZ FEED NEWS in 20 Books To Read If You Want To Get Into Black Sci-Fi And Fantasy mentions two Hopkinson titles: Brown Girl in the Ring and FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS.
BuzzFeed Books recently asked Goodreads about its most popular Black speculative fiction titles. Below are 20 books that get high ratings and ample attention from the site's many lovers of sci-fi and fantasy.
7. Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
The rich and privileged have abandoned an alternate Toronto, leaving the rest of the population behind barricades and unable to escape. There, the inner city returns to an older way of life — farming, bartering, herbal medicine, and mysticism — until the wealthy decide to prey on the impoverished communities for organ donation, and a young mother must turn to spiritualism and ritual to save her family.
5-star review: "Compelling from beginning to end, I see how Hopkinson places Caribbean culture within the realm of scifi/fantasy, looking at race and gender in ways that resonate with current realities for many POC. Her work deserves the same recognition and reverence as Octavia Butler. Hopkinson is a masterful storyteller and gives us characters we can relate to and will remember long after putting down the book. I only regret that I didn't read this one back in '98 when it was released." —Inda
18. FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS by Nalo Hopkinson
Falling in Love With Hominids comprises over a dozen years of Hopkinson's new, uncollected fiction, which draws from Afro Caribbean folklore.
5-star review: "From macabre to magical, Nalo Hopkinson transports us worlds just half a step away. Horrific and beautiful characters and events weave a tapestry of stories that are engrossing and unlike anything you've read before. I savored every delectable story. You have to read this!" —Natalie Hébert
THE LESBRARY also include a pair of Hopkinson title (The Salt Roads and HOMINIDS) in The Sapphic Fantastic: Bi and Lesbian Fantasy Books.
The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson's books are always a trip, and The Salt Roads is no exception. This book bounces between different POV characters and time periods, all bound together by their relationship to the goddess Ezili. This has a focus on racism, colonialism, and slavery while also including several queer characters. The Salt Roads isn't linear, and you do rocketed from place and to place while also jumping through time, but it's fascinating and compelling throughout.
Check out my full review here.
FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS by Nalo Hopkinson
I'm cheating and putting in another Nalo Hopkinson book, even though only the novella has f/f content! FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS is worth reading for the novella alone, but this collection as a whole is one of my favourite books I've ever read. (And there is other queer content, just not f/f.) "Ours Is the Prettiest" is a Borderlands series, which means it shares characters and a setting with other authors. It also has an interesting look at a queer community and the complex, multi-layered relationships between everyone involved.
COOL CURRY BOOKS shares a fascinating info graphic, QUEER SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY BOOKS BY AUTHORS OF COLOR, that includes FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS.
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Angela Guh in SOCIAL DISTANZINER (ISSUE 2), includes FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS in Black Canadian Authors: A Reading List.
Non-Black readers, perhaps you have pledged to be an ally, or a better ally, in fighting anti-Black racism. Recognize that this is the first step in your commitment to a long journey of learning and unlearning. Allyship is not a status we can achieve by declaring it, it is something we have to continuously work at. As pandemic restrictions lift, and as we return back to our "normal" lives, we need to think about what this "normal" entails and recognize what needs to change, namely, the systems that perpetuate racial injustices.
Part of that work includes amplifying Black voices and reading more works by Black writers. This includes reading stories of Black joy in addition to stories of Black pain. It's time to read more. Here are some books by Black Canadian authors – this is by no means a comprehensive reading list, but it can serve as a starting point.
Fulton College Library Queer Book Club's August selection was FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS.
Celebrate Caribbean Literature Day with Nalo Hopkinson's FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS
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July 12 is the first annual Caribbean Literature Day. Honor the celebration with Jamaican Nalo Hopkinson's acclaimed FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS.
The House of Nehesi Publishers, on the occasion of the 18th annual St. Martin Book Fair, is hereby inviting all writers, aspiring writers, literary festivals, book clubs, journals, creative writing programs, and all creative artists, institutions, and media of the Caribbean region; all Caribbean peoples; and all lovers of Caribbean writings, authors, and books, from everywhere in the world, to join us in celebrating: July 12 as Caribbean Literature Day.
We envision this day as the first pan-Caribbean literature day, celebrating the roots, range, and excellence of writings and books across the language zones of our region.
Celebrate the day by reading the works of your favorite Caribbean authors; buying Caribbean books, published in the Caribbean and beyond, and by Caribbean authors; and presenting Caribbean books as gifts. Celebrate the day with books, recitals, and with discussions about books, of poetry, fiction, drama, art, music, and all the other genres by Caribbean writers.
458 years ago, on July 12, 1562, the Spanish Franciscan priest and bishop of Yucatán, Diego de Landa, with soldiers and colonial authorities in attendance, burned the sacred books of the Maya people. As July 12 marked the destruction of the first known books and library containing knowledge spanning millennia in the widest space of this region, we are inviting all of you to grace this day with the attributes of the Maya Itzamna's creative force of writing, of Legba, the opener of the gates of languages, of a brilliant phoenix, and now celebrate Caribbean literature, one of the world's youngest and most resilient literatures, which continues to flourish within the same region that had at its most ancient recorded foundation, encoded and written in books, the orature and literature of a great people.
Have a happy Caribbean Literature Day, to everyone in every Caribbean country and territory, to everyone in what George Lamming called the Caribbean's external frontiers and around the world.
Long live Caribbean Literature!
House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP) full statement calling for Caribbean Literature Day to be celebrated on July 12, 2020, throughout the Caribbean region and beyond.
Tachyon and Nalo Hopkinson join Humble Bundle's Be the Change Bundle
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We are proud to announce the inclusion of Nalo Hopkinson's acclaimed collection FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS as part of Humble Bundle's Be the Change Bundle.
Today, Humble Bundle, a company specializing in digital goods bundles and video game sales, announced that they released their Be the Change Bundle. This bundle represents a common interest from several comic creators to help support the Black Lives Matter movement. Humble Bundle worked with them to curate a unique selection of audiobooks, books, and comics both about and from people of color. A portion of the proceeds from this bundle benefits three charities that are also dedicated to helping support Black lives: The Bail Project, The Carl Brandon Society, and the National Urban League.
"We're thrilled that Humble Bundle committed to this inclusive project and asked us [to] curate this list of exceptional stories by incredibly talented creators."
-Karama, TheBlerdGurl
"This was the perfect opportunity to bring attention to a virtual universe of Black art and talent and show just how important it is to have representation both on and off the page."
-LL McKinney
"We wanted to highlight the array of Black talent in the industry and help support organizations that contribute to access to opportunities!"
-Mikki Kendall
"For me, the most exciting part of this is the incredible range of material here, everything from kids' books to hard-hitting adventure, to thrilling tales of heroes both imaginary and historic. This is an instant library of gorgeous reads."
-Gail Simone
The Be the Change Bundle released today, Wednesday, July 8, 2020, at 1PM Pacific and officially ends on Wednesday, July 22, 2020, at 12:59PM Pacific. The total MSRP value for this bundle is over $1,000USD.
Catch the magnificent Nalo Hopkinson in the 2020 Virtual Summer Reading Series: Summer of Science Fiction & Fantasy
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The acclaimed Nalo Hopkinson, author of FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS, is participating in the 2020 Virtual Summer Reading Series: Summer of Science Fiction & Fantasy with a virtual reading on Tuesday, July 14, 9 EST/8 CST/6 PST. You'll need to pre-register.
Readings include selections from recently published books, unpublished stories, or novels-in-progress. The featured reader also answers questions about writing, teaching, editing, and other topics.
The readings will stream live on YouTube.
About the Summer of Science Fiction & Fantasy Reading Series:
The Clarion West Summer Reading Series is sponsored by the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, King County 4Culture, Amazon Literary Partners, the University Book Store, and the Seattle Public Library. If you are interested in helping to sponsor the summer reading series or sponsor the Write-a-thon, please contact us at director@clarionwest.org.