#Victoria Poyser

[oldschoolfrp]

Prince Kadakithis, Imperial Governor of Sanctuary, called Prince Kittycat by those contemptuous of his reliance on diplomacy instead of tyranny (Victoria Poyser, Thieves’ World boxed set for use with 9 different RPGs, Chaosium, 1981)

#Thieves' World #Victoria Poyser #Prince Kadakithis #Prince Kittycat #Robert Lynn Asprin #Chaosium #Sanctuary #fantasy RPG #Robert Asprin #Robert L Asprin

[gameraboy2]

The Hidden Temple by Victoria Poyser-Lisi, 1988

#the hidden temple #victoria poyser-lisi #1988 #1980s #vintage #fantasy #fantasy art #painting #art #illustration #paperback cover

[vintagerpg]

This is Fez II: The Contract (1983), the 2nd installment in the saga of the time-traveling wizard Fez, which was neatly concluded at the end of the first module. Many things repeat — Fez has spent time setting the stage for the adventure but is, for most of its duration, asleep. The players and their characters are then required to find their way through a skein of Seven Impossible Tasks in order to ensure Fez gets the bound service of Mephistopheles, which is integral to the events…of the first module (time traveling wizards gotta do things out of of order, I guess). They also do not know their character classes, thanks to some amnesia.

Unlike the previous module, most of the PCs are from the real world. There’s a football player, a curator, a rabbi, an engineer. The adventure is as much about figuring out the pregen character identities as it sorting out the Seven Impossible Tasks (especially since the authors suggest that player actions adhering to their class that are used in service to the quest should auto-succeed their rolls). There is a little calculator gizmo that can tell the players their attribute values, and Fez’s trusty robot, Warrior, hands out class-hinting weapons before sending the players off.

The players have to pick their way through a dungeon and a chunk of wilderness before they get access to the Tasks. That’s where things get interesting. The tasks are all very riddle-y and all have multiple possible solutions, one almost always being an annoying perversion of the spirit of the thing. Like the Third: “Destroy Spring.” You can travel to the monastery and defeat the Grandmaster of Spring in combat, or, you know, you can just find a mountain spring and drop a boulder on it. “Defeat the Beast of Antiquity” implies combat, but just winning a game of chess will work too. And so on. The success of these modules is going to depend largely on your personal tolerance for such smug cleverness. I’m generally here for it.

Solid art by Victoria Poyser throughout.

#roleplaying game #dungeons & dragons #d&d #rpg #tabletop rpg #ttrpg #Role Aids #Fez

[vintagegeekculture]

Victoria Poyser.

#fantasy #sorcery

[the25centpaperback]

Kirlian Quest by Piers Anthony, cover by by Kevin Eugene Johnson and Victoria Poyser (1986)

#1980s #kevin eugene johnson #victoria poyser #piers anthony #avon books #paperback #science fiction #vintage #book #kirlian #quest #cluster

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[jellobiafrasays]

Dicing with Dragons (1983 ed., cover illustration by Victoria Poyser)

[daeva-of-erosia]

“Sorceress In Her Study” by Victoria Poyser

[paperbacksciencefiction]

Four From The Witch World by Andre Norton Tor Books (2000) This book does not appear to have been read and is a very clean copy in excellent condition. Andre Norton, Grand Master of Fantasy, brings together a quartet of the finest fantasy talents to produce short novels of extraordinary power and beauty, set in the Witch World, her greatest fantasy creation. The cover artist is Victoria Poyser. . Overall Excellent Condition, Excellent Spine With No Crease, Binding Tight, Pages Look Excellent . . . #fourfromthewitchworld #andrenorton #paperbacksciencefiction #sciencefiction #andrealicenorton #instabooks #bookstagram #instabookstagram #paperback #bookcollector #bookstore #science #fantasybooks #instabook #bookaddict #bookishlove #bookish #library #witchworld #victoriapoyser #torfantasy #scifiart #syfy #scifibooks #torbooks #torsciencefiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CI02kY-gUC7/?igshid=odwhl3xvqv90

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[steliosagapitos]

            Rowena Ana Morrill

   Rowena Morrill (born on the 14th of september 1944 in Mississippi, USA) is an American artist known for her science-fiction and fantasy illustration, and is credited as one of the first female artists to impact paperback cover illustration. Her notable artist monographs included The Fantastic Art of Rowena, Imagine (in France), Imagination (in Germany), and The Art of Rowena and her work has also been included in a variety of anthologies including Tomorrow and Beyondand Infinite Worlds.

Morrill received a BA from the University of Delaware in 1971 and then studied at the Tyler School of Arts. in Philadelphia. After dropping out of the Tyler program, she worked for an advertising agency in New York City. After showing her portfolio to Charles Volpe at Ace Books, she was commissioned by Vlope to illustrate a romance cover. Morrill's first design for a horror novel was Jane Parkhurst's Isobel (1977).

   Morrill continued to work in horror, producing cover art for H. P. Lovecraft collections before turning her attention to science fiction and fantasy. To create these illustrations, Morrill uses oil on illustration board, coating the image with a high-gloss glaze and thin coats of paint.

   Morrill has created several covers for books by such authors as Anne McCaffrey, Isaac Asimov, Samuel R. Delany, Piers Anthony and Madeleine L'Engle. As well, her paintings have appeared on hundreds of calendars, portfolios and in magazines such as Playboy, Heavy Metal, Omni, Art Scene International, and Print Magazine.

She has been nominated for the Hugo Award five times, four times in the Best Artist category. In 1984, she received the British Fantasy Award. She was named Artist Guest of Honor for Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention, held in 2012.

Following the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Morrill's paintings King Dragon and Shadows Out of Hell were discovered hanging in one of his houses.

She is credited under multiple names, including Rowena, Rowena Morrill, and Rowina Morril.

   American artist who often signs herself simply Rowena; she and Victoria Poyserwere among the earliest women who had a major impact on sf and Fantasy art. After leaving college to marry a military man, Morrill began fascinated with art and returned to school to earn a BA from the University of Delaware and to enter the MFA program of the Tyler School of Arts, though she left without obtaining a degree. She then moved to New York City to launch a career as a cover artist, beginning with her cover for Jane Parkhurst's Isobel (1977), showing a naked woman holding up a chalice for a demonic Monster. She demonstrated the ability to handle sf tropes with her covers for a 1978 edition of Harry Harrison's Skyfall (1976), a straightforward depiction of a Spaceship in Earth orbit, and for a 1979 edition of Robert Sheckley's Dimension of Miracles (1968), wherein a man confronts a Dinosaur wearing a bow who has emerged from a space warp. However, she became better known for painting covers for works of Heroic Fantasy in a manner that recalled Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo; one representative example is her cover for Ellen Kushner's anthology Basilisk (anth 1980), showing a topless, sword-wielding woman confronting a naked male wraith with a two-horned unicorn in the background.

Still, Morrill's covers could display great variety and creativity as well: among many examples, one might mention her cover for a 1979 edition of Bob Shaw's Night Walk(1967), with a blind man staggering toward an array of floating eyes; her cover for Theodore Sturgeon's The Stars Are the Styx (coll 1979), featuring the venerable author as a boatsman on the river Styx; and her cover for Philip K Dick's The Divine Invasion (1981), foregrounding a baby drifting in space. Her work also attracted attention for her unusual artistic techniques, as she employed a combination of acrylics and oils rather than one or the other, finally coated with a high-gloss glaze, and she cannily promoted herself by prominently placing her signature, "Rowena", on her covers. As she built her reputation, she received the first of four Hugo award nominations for best professional artist in 1982 and published a compilation of her artwork, The Fantastic Art of Rowena (1983), which also garnered a Hugo nomination as best nonfiction book.

Morrill worked steadily throughout the 1980s, and while her pace of production slowed in the 1990s, she remained a prominent figure: her cover for Anne McCaffrey's The Dolphins of Pern (1994), depicting a man on a fire lizard next to a figure riding on a dolphin, was later reused as the cover of Robin Roberts's biography Anne McCaffrey: A Life with Dragons(2007); she received a Chesley Award nomination for a subdued cover for Victoria Strauss's The Garden of the Stone (1999), featuring a woman in oriental dress placing a flower in a vase; and another collection of her artwork, The Art of Rowena (2000), appeared in 2000. One assumes that she now considers herself retired, since her website has not been updated for several years. Morrill was named the Artist Guest of Honour at the 2012 World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago, but could not attend due to health issues.

[fromthewastes]

By Jack Lovejoy.  1984.  Cover art by Victoria Poyser.

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A Vision of Beasts By Jack Lovejoy.  1984.  Cover art by Victoria Poyser.

[oldschoolfrp]

Creeping realism and sloshing chamber pots (Victoria Poyser, Game Master’s Guide for Sanctuary, from the Thieves’ World box set, Chaosium, 1981)

#D&D #Victoria Poyser #Thieves' World #Sanctuary #dnd #Chaosium #Dungeons & Dragons #Robert Lynn Asprin #Dungeons and Dragons #Game Master's Guide for Sanctuary #chamber pot #fantasy city #urban adventure #brothel #pickpocket #picking pockets

[dasschwarzeauge]

Tödliches Al’Anfa - Im Schatten der Nacht

Количество страниц: 116 Дата выпуска: август 1988 Авторы: Mike Stackpole, Fantasy Productions Иллюстраторы: Victoria Poyser-Lisi, Liz Danforth, Ralf Hlawatsch, Helmut Loch «Смертоносная Аль’Анфа» — региональный справочник по городу Аль’Анфа, включ... Читать дальше »

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NEWS: Upcoming Events at the Burgess Foundation (May 2017)

Look out for events celebrating the 100th birthday of Anthony Burgess, marked ‘Burgess 100’ below.

Our website is the hub for Burgess 100 activities, including the Burgess Memories Project, in which  writers, musicians, artists and politicians who knew Burgess share their reminiscences. If you’d like to contribute, or would like to know more about the project, please contact Graham Foster at [email protected]

We are opening up the archive in a virtual exhibition on the Burgess 100 website. Object of the Week sheds new light on rare and little-seen archival objects, including manuscripts, photographs, music, books and more.

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Exhibition: Cartomancy – Anthony Burgess and the Tarot

Open weekdays 10am-4pm, and in the evenings during events FREE Anthony Burgess was fascinated by the possibility of predicting the future. Drawing on previously unseen material from the Burgess Foundation collections, this exhibition explores Anthony Burgess’s creative relationship with dreams, horoscopes – and the mysteries of the Tarot.

Burgess 100 at the Manchester International Festival

The World Was Once All Miracle

Tuesday 4 July 2017, 7:30 Bridgewater Hall, Manchester ￡16-38

The World Was Once All Miracle is a special concert celebrating Burgess’s words and music. For MIF17, acclaimed composer Raymond Yiu has set text from six Burgess poems into a major symphonic song cycle to be given its world premiere on Tuesday 4 July. The piece will be performed by baritone Roderick Williams and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, who will also perform Beethoven’s Symphony No.8. and the European premiere of Burgess’s Symphony in C.

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No End to Enderby

Friday 30 June – Sunday 16 July 2017 The Whitworth, Manchester FREE

Director Graham Eatough and artist Stephen Sutcliffe pay tribute to Anthony Burgess in an installation which blends visual art and film drama. No End to Enderby is centred on two new films inspired by Burgess’s ‘Enderby’ series: Inside Mr Enderby, in which a school trip travels back in time to pay desultory homage to the title character, a dead poet; and The Muse, in which a young historian journeys to a parallel universe to investigate whether Shakespeare wrote everything credited to him. These films are presented with some of the original sets from the Manchester shoot.

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  RedEye: Lightbox Launch

Wednesday 3 May 2017, 6:30pm

FREE

To celebrate the launch of Lightbox 2017-18, photography network Redeye has asked previous Lightbox participants to share their experiences of the course. This event is an opportunity for prospective applicants to learn more about the course content and have any questions answered before applying.

Lightbox is a year-long course that aims to launch or develop the careers of the best emerging photographers. It is aimed at photographers who already have a high standard of photography and are keen to experiment and develop their work further. Speakers at this event include:

> emerging photographers Richard Stout and Karen Rangeley, selected by an expert judging panel during last year’s Lightbox. Their practices range from the constructed image to documentary.

> Tristan Poyser, Peter Barker and Simon Bray from the Strand Collective, a group of seven photographers that came together during last year’s Lightbox. Their Second Skin exhibition debuted at the Brighton Photo Fringe Festival 2016.

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  Concert: The Tom Barber Trio & The Adlib Quartet

Friday 5 May 2017, 7:30pm

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The innovative jazz group The Tom Barber Trio, formed at the University of Manchester, are joined by the Adlib String Quartet to perform some of the trio’s original compositions and arrangements written specially for this occasion.

The young trio comprises Tom Barber on keys and trumpet, Thomas Betts on bass, and Joshua Mellard on drums and trumpet.

They have brought contemporary jazz to venues such as Antwerp Mansion and the Southport Jazz Club. Influences include Nina Simone, Laura Caviani, Esperanza Spalding and Kendrick Lamar.

Tickets available on the door.

Chris T-T: 20th Anniversary ‘Best Of’ Concert

Saturday 6 May 2017, 7:30pm ￡12

His infamous Manchester jinx finally overcome, acclaimed radical alt-folk singerChris T-T returns to the city for a solo ‘Best Of’ concert to mark his 20th anniversary making music. This will be a seated concert in the beautiful International Anthony Burgess Foundation, including songs on Burgess’ own baby grand piano.

“Outstanding, indispensable genius. A modern-day William Blake. Music so unfettered it never had mornings to slip.” Sunday Times (Top 5 Album Of The Year twice)

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  Discussion and Concert: Exchange New Music Forum

Sunday 7 May 2017, 3:00pm FREE

This edition of the ~Exchange New Music Forum explores OCEAN, an immersive performance event recently created for the Victoria Baths by geode (Elizabeth Ditmanson & Gavin Osborn – pictured above). The creators will be in discussion with OCEAN performers The Vonnegut Collective. There will also be the premiere of new work Vial by Elizabeth Ditmanson for ensemble, video and electroacoustic sound.

geode is a collaborative practice encompassing multimedia installations, mixed-media performance and sound art. The Vonnegut Collective is a chamber ensemble based in Manchester, formed in 2014 by two members of the BBC Philharmonic.

Elizabeth Ditmanson is a composer, sound artist and amateur photographer who has worked with Trio Atem, Psappha and the Manchester Confucius Institute.

This event is free and runs from 3pm until 8pm. Discussion take place from 3pm, with performances starting at 7pm.

Literature: Ocean Vuong & Kayo Chingonyi

Tuesday 9 May 2017, 7:00pm ￡8/￡6 concs.

Manchester Literature Festival and the Burgess Foundation are delighted to welcome two of the most promising debut poets of a generation to the city for an extraordinary evening of poetry and reflection on desire, conflict and cultural upheaval.

Night Sky with Exit Wounds from young Vietnamese American poet, Ocean Vuong, has already won many accolades in the US and explores the most profound of subjects: love, loss and grief with visceral passion. Zambian-born British based poet Kayo Chingonyi’s first full length collection Kumukanda features innovative and urgent lyrics on race, masculinity, identity and music. The evening will be hosted by Andrew McMillan, author of the multi-award winning debut collection Physical.

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  Talk Series: 4×4 2017

Weekly between Wednesday 10 and Wednesday 31 May 2017, 5:30pm FREE

4×4 Manchester is a series of talks held every Wednesday in May. 4 speakers are invited to talk each week for 15 minutes each. The session ends with a lively audience debate.

4×4 Manchester wants to challenge how you think about your discipline be that architecture, art, music, urban design, planning etc etc. This will not be architects talking about their new buildings or an author promoting their new book; 4×4 wants to promote a real debate about the state of our cities, stimulated by interesting, diverse and provocative speakers.

The themes for the four weeks are as follows:

May 10: Tolerant

May 17: Safe

May 24: Welcoming

May 31 – Radical

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  Film Screening: Shutter Island

Thursday 11 May 2017, 6:30pm FREE

University of Manchester’s Science and Entertainment Lab have teamed up with film scholars at the University of East Anglia to host a brand new film series in the spring of 2017.  This screening of Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010) is the fourth in the Demons of the Mind series which tackles difficult questions regarding causes, symptoms, and treatments of mental illness and contribute to our understanding of what it’s like to experience psychological disturbances.

How do films portray psychological trauma and mental disorders? Why are filmmakers and audiences fascinated by characters with unusual and severe psychological disturbances? In what sense does the medium of film reflect and shape our understanding of clinical conditions such as bipolar depression, schizophrenia, and mass psychogenic disorders (hysteria). What do films focusing on mental illness tell us about notions of mental health and wellbeing?

These events are free and open to the public – no booking required. At each film screening an expert speaker will provide a brief introduction at 6.30pm and then lead a post-screening discussion with the audience. The evening will include an opening reception from 6.00pm where drinks will be available for purchase.

Concert: W.H. Lung

Friday 12 May 2017, 8:00pm ￡7

The hotly tipped W. H Lung’s first ever live gig will be at the Burgess Foundation. The performance marks the release of their debut 10′ single ‘Inspiration! / Nothing Is‘ on Melodic Records, recorded at The Nave in Leeds.

“Inspiration is completely gripping with a hypnotic intensity, barely stopping to take a breath. It’s seven and a half minutes or pure psych-pop perfection, with chiming guitars, and is packed with groove and hooky riffs.” – GetIntoThis.co.uk

This is the start of a series of live dates that sees the Manchester trio play the Blue Dot Festival, End Of The Road Festival and the Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia.

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  Concert: Matana Roberts presents Coin Coin Chapter Three

Sunday 14 May 2017, 8:00pm ￡10

Matana Roberts is an internationally renowned composer, band leader, saxophonist, sound experimentalist and mixed-media practitioner. Roberts works in many contexts and mediums, including improvisation, dance, poetry, and theatre.

She is perhaps best known for her acclaimed Coin Coin project, a multi-chapter work she has described as “panoramic sound quilting”. Roberts aims to expose the mystical roots and channel the intuitive spirit-raising traditions of American creative expression from jazz to noise, opera and spoken word, taking on history, community, storytelling and political expression.

River run thee, the third chapter of Coin Coin, was released on Constellation in 2014. It finds Roberts constructing a sound art tapestry from field recordings, loop and effects pedals, and spoken word recitations, alongside her saxophone and singing voices. It unfolds as an uninterrupted album-length flow, this time in what Roberts calls “a fever dream” of sonic material, woven in surrealist fashion.

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  Literature: Uncanny Stories About Birds with Nicholas Royle and Nicholas Royle

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 7:00pm FREE

Myriad and the Manchester Writing School are co-hosting a special evening to celebrate two extraordinary writers who happen to share not only a name and a profession but also a love of birds.

Sometimes confused with one another, even by themselves, Nicholas Royle (author of Quilt and other works) and Nicholas Royle (author of First Novel and other works) talk about their shared interest in birds, stories and the uncanny, and read from their new books: An English Guide to Birdwatching and Ornithology.

Burgess 100: M/F – The Concert

Friday 19 May 2017, 7:30pm ￡6

A concert of brand new music inspired by Anthony Burgess’s novel M/F, a book that deals with riddles, delinquency, incest and talking birds. Four composers will present specially commissioned work for violin, cello, flute, clarinet, percussion, with spoken word and visuals.

M/F tells the story of a college drop-out who sets out on a pilgrimage in which he meets a repulsive doppelganger, an ugly sister, a lion-faced man, a bird-whisperer and many shocking discoveries. Burgess’s use of language is at its most ambitious in M/F: the story is a roller-coaster ride with the taboo subject of incest at its core.

The composers taking on this challenge are: > Shaun Davies, a guitarist and a newcomer to contemporary classical composition. He draws his influences from jazz, metal, 20th century/modern classical and film-score. > Anna Disley-Simpson, a BBC Proms Inspire winner in her second year at the RNCM. She is currently writing for the European Union Chamber Orchestra and has had her work played at Tate Britain. > William KZ Hearne, a third-year RNCM student with a keen interest in acoustic and electronic performance. > Philip Rousiamanis (pictured), performance artist and founder of the White Noiz Ensemble, and violinist for the Lux quartet. He has written for short films and has worked with dancers, actors, poets and visual artists.

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  The Burgess Foundation Cafe

Weekdays, 10am-3pm

The Burgess Foundation Cafe is open weekdays from 10am-3pm. The cafe is a relaxed space where you can work, read, chat and drink great coffee. Soups and cakes are made daily. We are proud to use locally sourced and organic ingredients. You can also take advantage of our free WiFi, and browse the bookshop.

[vintagegeekculture]

Victoria Poyser. 

#fantasy art #sorceress #demons

[artsytoad]

Victoria Poyser, Sword and Sorceress 

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#Victoria Poyser #Poyser #art #fantasy art #sword and sorceress #illustration #cover art #marion zimmer bradley #bradley