Finnish Sf in German
Just in time for the Frankfurt Book Fair (where Finland is a Guest of Honour this year) there are some interesting sf releases in German. The first part of Salla Simukka’s Snow White Trilogy, So rot...
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Turconen & Fantastik Next Weekend
Turconen is a one-day sf minicon held for the second time at the Turku main library. Turconen 2 takes place on Saturday, 10:30 AM to 3:30 PM at the library, and there will be evening program on Friday...
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Fafnir #3 Is Out
The third issue of Fafnir—Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research has been published. Fafnir is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Finnish Society for Science Fiction and...
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Finlandia Junior to Maria Turtschaninoff
This year’s Finlandia Junior award for best children’s or YA book was given to Maria Turtschaninoff for her fantasy novel Maresi: Punaisen luostarin kronikoita. Maresi tells the story of a young girl...
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Jääskeläinen Story on Tor.com
A very good Finnish short story Where the Trains Turn (Missä junat kääntyvät) by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen was published on Tor.com yesterday. The story won the first price in the Portti short story...
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Finlandia Prize to Jussi Valtonen
The Finlandia Prize (the major literary honor in Finland) was announced yesterday. This year’s award goes to Jussi Valtonen for his novel He eivät tiedä mitä tekevät (“They Know Not What They Do”),...
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Kalevi Jäntti Literary Prize 2014
The Kalevi Jäntti Foundation gives an annual literary prize to support young writers. This year the prize was given to two writers, Miira Luhtavaara and Antti Salminen. Salminen’s work, Lomonosovin...
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Cheeky Frawg Story Bundle
StoryBundle is currently featuring a Weird Fiction Bundle that has some amazing fiction from Finland and abroad as pay-what-you-want ebooks. The selection includes Datura by Leena Krohn and The...
View ArticleDon Rosa Dissertation in Jyväskylä
On Friday, Katja Kontturi will be defending her doctoral dissertation in Contemporary Culture Studies. Her subject is Don Rosa’s Disney comics as postmodern fantasy.
View ArticleThe Dying Embers
The Dying Embers, a beautiful short story by Inkeri Kontro, is published on Strange Horizons. I bet you never knew you could fall in love with a sentient sauna, but go read the story and tell me you...
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Portti Competition 2014
The results of the annual Portti competition were announced in Tampere on Friday. The top 3 this year is:Didin historiat by Oskari RantalaPaha, maahasi pakene by Lotta Dufva(tie) Takaisin valoon by...
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Hyperion Thesis
A master’s thesis in literature by Heidi Kyllönen titled “Unelmoija ja runoilija”: taiteilijakuvat ja John Keatsin ja Geoffrey Chaucerin subtekstit Dan Simmonsin romaanissa Hyperion (“‘Dreamer and...
View ArticleSf Book Circle in Turku
The Turku Sf Society and the Turku library organize a book circle that gathers once a month to discuss a book recently published in Finnish. The schedule for the first half of next year has been...
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Skiffy & Fanty
The Skiffy and Fanty Show podcast is doing a lot of good work promoting sf from all around the world. For the latest episode of their sf world tour they invited Jukka Halme, Maria Turtschaninoff, Janos...
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The Blood of Angels Excerpt on Tor.com
The Blood of Angels, Johanna Sinisalo’s latest translation in English, was published earlier this year by Peter Owen. Tor.com has published an excerpt of this fine novel on their site, so you can head...
View ArticleSpeculative Romance Roundtable
Sci-Fi Romance Quarterly has published a roundtable discussion on Finnish sf/f, with Anne Leinonen, Magdalena Hai, and J.S. Meresmaa participating.
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Tähtivaeltaja Has a Blog
Tähtivaeltaja hasn’t really had an online presence for quite a while. That has now changed at least a bit: Tähtivaeltajablogi has regularly updated content (mainly reviews) republished from the...
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Emmi Itäranta a PKD Award Nominee
As you’ve probably already seen, the nominees for the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award have been announced, and one of the nominees is the wonderful Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta. Congratulations!
View ArticleConference on Sf/f & Games Music
Suomen Etnomusikologinen Seura and the Musicology department of the University of Turku are organizing an open seminar day to discuss current news and trends in the research of science fiction,...
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Archipelacon Call for Programme Participants
If you’re coming to Archipelacon next summer and would like to take part in the program, you can now volunteer to participate! There convention takes place over four days so there will be lots of...
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