Video Game Pick #2: Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim

A wonderful real-time strategy game set in a fantasy world, the various missions require you to build up your town and develop your heroes while fighting against various monsters bent on your destruction.

David Teniers the Younger painting

Temptation of St. Anthony
by David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690)
Circa 1665, Oil on Canvas, 43.9" × 58.6"
Flemish artist born in Antwerp

Jan ten Compe painting

Delft: A View of the Town Hall Seen from the Grote Markt
by Jan ten Compe (1713-1761)
Between 1745 and 1755, oil on panel, 11.4" x 14.6"
Landscape painter, born in Amsterdam

Literature Pick #83

Vanishing Point
by C. C. Beck
A sci-fi short story from the July 1959 issue of Astounding Science Fiction.

Charles-François Grenier de Lacroix painting

Fishermen at Dusk (1768)
by Charles-François Grenier de Lacroix (1720-1782)
French painter, born in Marseille

Tang Yin art

Lone Fishermen on the River in Autumn
by Tang Yin (1470-1524)
1523, ink and colors on silk
From a renowned Chinese artist from the Ming dynasty period. 

Literature Pick #82

The Miracle of the White Wolf
by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863-1944)
A marvelous tale from the 1902 short story collection The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales.

Niklaus Manuel painting

Demons Tormenting St. Anthony
by Niklaus Manuel Deutsch I (circa 1484-1530)
1520, oil on panel
Swiss artist, born in the city of Bern

Literature Pick #81

One-Way Ticket to Nowhere
by Leroy Yerxa (1915-1946)
An action-packed science fiction short story from the December 1942 issue of Amazing Stories.

Hans Leu the Younger painting

Orpheus and the Animals
Hans Leu the Younger (1490–1531)
1519, Tempera on Panel, 22.8" × 20.1" 

Hugo Ullik painting

Landscape with the Křivoklát Castle (Křivoklát)
by Hugo Ullik (1838-1881)
1876, oil on canvas, 21.7" x 29.5"
The artist, born in Prague, painted the castle in the Bohemian town of Křivoklát.

Literature Pick #80

The Jupiter Weapon
by Charles L. Fontenay (1917-2007)
A wonderful science fiction short story from the March 1959 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories.

August Schaeffer von Wienwald painting

Cliff
by August Schaeffer von Wienwald (1833-1912)

1876, oil on canvas, 31.3" x 24.8"

Austrian painter

Carl Svante Hallbeck artwork

Njommelsaska in Lapland
by Carl Svante Hallbeck (1826–1897), Swedish illustrator and painter
1856, Chromolithograph,  7.76" x 10.79"
A depiction of the waterfall Njommelsaska (now known as Harsprånget) with the aurora borealis.

Paintings of Markus Pernhart

Julian Alps
by Markus Pernhart

Grossglockner
by Markus Pernhart
13.4" × 16.5"

Traunsee mit Traunkirchen und Traunstein
by Markus Pernhart
1851

Grossglockner from the Hohenwartscharte
by Markus Pernhart
oil on canvas, 12.6" x 15.7"

Fisherman's Cottage on Lake Wörthersee
by Markus Pernhart
oil on canvas, 12.6" x 15.7"