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Author Melvin Burgess is best-known for writing YA fiction, including the Carnegie Medal-winning Smack, called Junk in his native UK. His first novel for adults takes on the ultimate unreliable narrator: Norse god Loki. While the noted trickster has a high profile these days thanks to Marvel, this is a completely unrelated take on the character. io9 has the first two chapters to share today!Yvette Nicole Brown on the Frog and Toad Series and Voice ActingHere’s what Loki is all about:With the trickster, Loki, as your…

Credit: Antiquity (2023). DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2023.13 Archaeologists have used wood taxa analysis to distinguish between imported, drift and native wood from five Norse farmsteads on Greenland. Historical records have long suggested that medieval Norse colonists on Greenland (AD 985–1450) relied on imported material such as iron and…

The X-citing X-Men news continues with the announcement of Realm of X, a new series that sees “a small band of mutantkind’s fiercest warriors are sent on a mystical mission across the Ten Realms.” From writer Torunn Grønbekk and artist Diógenes Neves, with a first issue cover by Stephanie Hans, the series finds Magik, former Valkyrie Dani Moonstar, Marrow, Dust, Curse, and Typhoid Mary on a mystical mission. Press release below: Since 2019’s revolutionary HOUSE OF X and POWERS OF X series, mutantkind has experienced…

In the lands of the north, where the black rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long, the men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they tell a tale … ” So began each episode of the 1950s and 1960s children’s TV programme The Saga of Noggin the Nog – one of countless iterations of old Norse myths that have filtered down to us, from the early 13th-century versions written down by the Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson all the way to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, via Jacob…

The inscription ‘He is Odin’s man’ is seen in a round half circle over the head of a figure on a golden bracteate unearthed in Vindelev, Denmark in late 2020. Scientists have identified the oldest-known reference to the Norse god Odin on a gold disc unearthed in western Denmark. Credit: Arnold Mikkelsen, The National Museum of Denmark via AP Scandinavian scientists said Wednesday that they have identified the oldest-known…

Spoilers ahead for God of War and God of War Ragnarok"Baldur is blessed with invulnerability to all threats, physical or magical," Mimir explains to Kratos and his son Atreus in 2018's God of War. Yet as soon as Sindri, the dwarven blacksmith, gave a bundle of mistletoe arrows to the young god, I knew Baldur's fate was sealed.I'm not an expert on Norse mythology, but the fables of Odin, Thor, the giants, and Vanir are something I've had an interest in for a number of years now. I know the broad strokes…

Earlier this year Sony announced that God of War would be developed as an Amazon Prime series, and since then, the latest installment Ragnarok has become a huge hit on PlayStation. Now, the series is officially a go at Amazon and we've learned more about what will take place, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  The series will follow the main character Kratos, The God of War, through roughly the events of the 2018 reboot based on Norse mythology. In that, he has quit his violent past and exiled himself to the Norse…

Melvin Burgess, 68, was born in Twickenham and lives in Todmorden, west Yorkshire. The author of more than 20 novels for teenagers and children, he won the Carnegie medal in 1996 for Junk, in which two 14-year-old runaways fall into heroin addiction; Malorie Blackman, introducing the book’s 20th anniversary edition, said it “opened my eyes to the possibilities when writing for young adults”. When Anne Fine reviewed Burgess’s 2003 novel Doing It for the Guardian – it’s about the sex lives of three secondary school boys –…

It’s no surprise that Melvin Burgess, author of Junk and many other powerful novels for teenagers, has chosen the Norse god Loki as the subject of his first adult novel: questioning, tricksy, gender-bending and anti-authority, Loki is perhaps the quintessential teen.We have not been short of treatments of Norse myth in fiction over the last few years. AS Byatt’s Ragnarok was exhilarating, richly wrought, written through the lens of her child self’s encounters, and with a focus on the end of the world. More recently, Neil…

Don’t worry, he won’t bite… Sony Santa Monica’s highly-anticipated sequel God of War Ragnarok is finally in the hands of players worldwide, who now have the opportunity to continue the epic odyssey of Kratos and Atreus as they look down the barrel of the fated cataclysm known as Ragnarok — said to bring death and destruction to the world and its Gods. God of War Ragnarok will see our protagonists come across new and familiar faces, from the returning witch Freya to the ferocious wolf-god Fenrir and the mighty,…