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ALT The FIFA Prize for Literature Following the success of their Peace Prize, FIFA establishes a literary prize judged by the footballers at the world cup. (image of trophy) All does not go well... Players arrive at games exhausted by reading hundreds of novels and heatedly debating their merits long into the night. (image of tired players on pitch reading) The south American teams boycott the tournament when an official disparages Isabel Allende's use of magic realism. (Image of players angrily leaving) Seventeen plavers receive red cards after a discussion of radical honesty in the works of Karl Ove Knausgaard turns into a brawl. (Image of players fighting) However, all is forgiven as Joyce Carol Oates takes the thrilling final to extra time, before losing on penalties to Haruki Murukami. (image of Haruki holding the trophy aloft)
ALT Title: “A pie chart of what the Mars Rover can see” Image: A pie chart. The lower half is orangy red. The upper half is divided into three, with a small browny red area and a small darker browny red area on each side with a larger cream section in the middle Key: Orangy red area: Surface of Mars Cream : Sky Browny red: Mountain Dark browny red: Another mountain
ALT Panel 1 Caption: The town is famed for its year-round book festival, but for one weekend in summer, it closes. The literary people leave on a fleet of coaches and the tents are dismantled. Image: Workers take down a tent. A bus departs. Panel 2 Caption: The unbroken parade of bookshops on the high street move novels and tote bags to back rooms and fill their shelves with everyday items Image: A bookshop with shelves containing eggs, loo roll, a bucket, bleach, etc Panel 3 Caption: With no talks, signings, or workshops to attend, the townsfolk gather on the green, conversing uncertainly on non-literary topics. Image: people on the green with speech bubbles labelled "The weather", "Football", and "Proposed Ring-road" Panel 4 Caption: Everyone enjoys the novelty, but agrees that one weekend is enough. On Monday morning the festival resumes with a kev-note address from Robert Macfarlane. Image: A fascinated audience watches Robert talk, a projector shows a book with a bird on the cover.
ALT Title: "Literary ecologists celebrate the successful reintroduction of rare species to the Yorkshire moors." Image: The sun is going down on a bleak windswept moor, various figures and trees are each labelled as one of the following: 1. Classic literary Cathy and Heathcliff 2. Young, carefree Cathy and heathcliff 3. Sexy Hollywood Cathy and Heathcliff 5. Ghost Cathy, tormented Heathcliff 5. Spooky tree
ALT Title: Bertrand Russell, 1933 Panel 1 Bertrand sits at his desk, puffing on his pipe. He says 'The problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are so full of doubts.' Panel 2 He gets up and walks over to a mirror. Panel 3 Pondering his reflection, he muses 'But if I'm certain about this...' Panel 4 'Does that make ME a fool or fanatic?' Panel 5 He walks back to his desk. His reflection in the mirror says 'Talking to yourself in a mirror seems pretty doubtful to me.' 'Good point.' says Bertrand.
ALT Panel 1 Caption: 2025, Middlemarch Is voted the best novel of all time and wins the right to represent earth at the IGCLC\* finals. Image: The cover of George Eliot's 'Middlemarch' \*Intergalactic literary Champions league Panel 2 Caption: 2028, A young Editor from Penguin Classics climbs Aboard Artemis VII for the thirty-year journey to host planet, Kepler-22b. She carries a first Edition of the book in a lead-lined briefcase. Image: Astronaut boarding spaceship. Panel 3 Caption: 2089, She returns with news that earth placed a very respectable third, and that she bought rights to the two winning novels. Images: The capsule returns to earth and splashes down in the sea. The astronaut emerges and waves to the rescue helicopter. Panel 4 Caption: 2092, The alien books are translated and published to critical acclaim and modest sales. Image: Two books. 'Magnesium Sunset' by Zylob Pyrxx and 'Orbital Amnesia' by Unaha Closp More caption: Middlemarch is a runaway success in gas form
ALT A photograph of a library containing large and small prints of cartoons by Tom Gauld.
ALT A man sits at a desk working on a laptop. He thinks: "Why do I always end up next to the volcanologists" at the next desk, two figures in protective silver heat suits take samples from a small volcano which spits outlava, flames, sparks and ash.
ALT A cartoon in which the speech bubbles are categorised by colour. Panel 1: A man cooks dinner for a woman who is looking at his bookshelves. He calls from the kitchen"I hope you're not judging me on my bookshelves?" (Blue) She replies "Haha, no!" (Orange) Panel 2: She takes a book off the shelf and asks "Have you read all of these?" (Blue) He replies "Of course!" (Orange) Panel 3: she leafs through the book and asks "Can I borrow this?' (Blue) He replies "Sure, I love lending my books!" (Orange) The key below explains that Blue represents a question and orange represents a lie.
ALT Physik für die Katz Germany tour 6&7th June, erlangen various times, comics salon. 8th June, Berlin 6pm, modern graphics, kastanienallee. 9th June, Frankfurt 8pm, land in sicht buchladen. 10th June, Munich 7pm, comics bar.
ALT Image: three figures look awkwardly at a fourth figure in a flying-car-type-vehicle that seems to have landed clumsily a few metres from them. Caption: As the gyro-saucer's systems failed, ending its maiden flight 249.99 miles early, Professor Baxter wished his parting words to colleagues had been something other than "So long, losers! See you at my Nobel Prize ceremony!"
ALT Panel 1 Caption: The town is famed for its year-round book festival, but for one weekend in summer, it closes. The literary people leave on a fleet of coaches and the tents are dismantled. Image: Workers take down a tent. A bus departs. Panel 2 Caption: The unbroken parade of bookshops on the high street move novels and tote bags to back rooms and fill their shelves with everyday items Image: A bookshop with shelves containing eggs, loo roll, a bucket, bleach, etc Panel 3 Caption: With no talks, signings, or workshops to attend, the townsfolk gather on the green, conversing uncertainly on non-literary topics. Image: people on the green with speech bubbles labelled "The weather", "Football", and "Proposed Ring-road" Panel 4 Caption: Everyone enjoys the novelty, but agrees that one weekend is enough. On Monday morning the festival resumes with a kev-note address from Robert Macfarlane. Image: A fascinated audience watches Robert talk, a projector shows a book with a bird on the cover.
ALT Scientist type: Modern professional scientist vs Enlightenment gentleman scientist Funding: research grants and private investment vs enormous inheritance Assistance: team of ambitious young scientists vs maid, nephew, gardener Method: cautious experimenting in a controlled environment vs test on self at home Safety: detailed risk assessments and standard operating procedures vs heavy tweeds Reporting: paper published in peer-review journal vs tell the chaps at the club
ALT Panel 1 A small girl and boy are reading on the floor. A father appears at the door and says: "This is so nice to see! I heard that kids these days weren't reading." One of the children says "Ugh, reading? So lame!" Panel 2 She continues "It's called Booksmaxxing now, Dad!" He replies as he is leaving "'m just happy you're enjoying it." Panel 3 The boy says "Booksmaxxing?" The girl says "I like to mess with him."
ALT 1. Freed from their labours By bots and AI, The writers wander into the wilderness. 2. Living on grasses and dew, their bodies grow light as thistledown and they flutter on the breeze, murmuring poctic fragments to the flowers and hummingbirds. 3. An unexpected gust blows sally rooney Into the fiction-generation district Where a robot is Outputting content For the 'normal people' franchise. 4. Sally whispers something, but before the robot can open the triple-glazing, the plant's exhaust fumes have carried her off into the stars.
ALT Panel 1 A figure addresses an audience from a lectern: "Welcome to the IWAS*! Today I'm Going to talk about ARPs* in our communications." Notes *1 Institute-Wide Abbreviation seminar *2 Abbreviation-Related Problems Panel 2 She continues "These fall into two categories:" gesturing to a screen wshich reads: 1. ROAs* 2.WUAs* Notes *3 Ridiculously Obscure Abbreviations *4 Wrongly-Used Abbreviations Panel 3 She says: "...In conclusion: Stick to WRAs* and use them correctly and sparingly." One of the audience thinks "WTF!" Notes *5 widely-recognised Abbreviations *6 Well, that's fascinating.
ALT Panel 1 A figure addresses an audience from a lectern: "Welcome to the IWAS*! Today I'm Going to talk about ARPs* in our communications." Notes *1 Institute-Wide Abbreviation seminar *2 Abbreviation-Related Problems Panel 2 She continues "These fall into two categories:" gesturing to a screen wshich reads: 1. ROAs* 2.WUAs* Notes *3 Ridiculously Obscure Abbreviations *4 Wrongly-Used Abbreviations Panel 3 She says: "...In conclusion: Stick to WRAs* and use them correctly and sparingly." One of the audience thinks "WTF!" Notes *5 widely-recognised Abbreviations *6 Well, that's fascinating.