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Tähtivaeltaja Award
Tähtivaeltaja Award is an annual prize by Helsingin science fiction seura ry for the best science fiction book released in Finnish. The winners 2016 Margaret Atwood: '' Uusi maa'' (MaddAddam, Otava) Shortlisted books: * Emmi Itäranta: '' Kudottujen kujien kaupunki'' (The City of Woven Streets, Teos) *Ursula K. Le Guin: '' Haikaran silmä'' (The Eye of the Heron, Vaskikirjat) * Jeff VanderMeer: '' Hävitys'' (Annihilation, Like) *Gene Wolfe: '' Liktorin miekka'' (The Sword of the Lictor, Gummerus) 2015 Antti Salminen: '' Lomonosovin moottori'' (Poesia) Shortlisted books: * Petri Laine & Anne Leinonen: '' Kuulen laulun kaukaisen'' (Kuoriaiskirjat, short story collection) *Thomas Pynchon: '' Painovoiman sateenkaari'' (Gravity's Rainbow, Teos) *Alastair Reynolds: '' Terästuulen yllä'' (On the Steel Breeze, Like) * Jani Saxell: '' Sotilasrajan unet'' (WSOY) 2014 Peter Watts: '' Sokeanäkö'' (Blindsight, Gummerus) Shortlisted books: *Iain Banks: '' Siirtymä'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tähtivaeltaja
''Tähtivaeltaja'' (literally ''stellar wanderer'') is a Finnish language, Finnish quarterly science fiction magazine published in Finland. History and profile ''Tähtivaeltaja'' was started in 1982. The magazine is published by Helsingin science fiction -seura. Toni Jerrman has been the editor of the magazine throughout its twenty-year history. Contributors to the magazine have included Johanna Sinisalo, Jyrki Kasvi, Petri Hiltunen and Jyrki 69, among others. See also * Tähtivaeltaja Award * Tähtifantasia Award References External links Official website WorldCat record 1982 establishments in Finland Finnish-language magazines Magazines established in 1982 Magazines published in Helsinki Science fiction magazines Science fiction magazines established in the 1980s Quarterly magazines published in Finland fr:Prix Tähtivaeltaja {{Sf-mag-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. ( , ; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For '' Gravity's Rainbow'', Pynchon won the 1973 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction."National Book Awards – 1974" National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-29. (With essays by Casey Hicks and Chad Post from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog. The mock acceptance speech by Irwin Corey is not reprinted by NBF.) Hailing from |
Silo (series)
''Silo'' is a series of post-apocalyptic science fiction books by American writer Hugh Howey. The series started in 2011 with the short story "Wool", which was later published together with four sequel novellas as a novel with the same name. Along with ''Wool'', the series consists of ''Shift'', ''Dust'', three short stories and ''Wool: The Graphic Novel''. Background Howey first began the series in 2011, initially writing ''Wool'' as a stand-alone short story. He published the work through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing system, choosing to do so due to the freedom of self-publishing. After the series grew in popularity, he began to write more entries for it. Howey began soliciting international rights in 2012, and has since signed a deal for dramatic rights in Brazil. Film rights to the series were sold to 20th Century Fox; Lionsgate also expressed interest. Howey signed a print-only deal for around $500,000 with Simon & Schuster to distribute ''Wool'' to book retailers ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Howey
Hugh C. Howey (born 1975) is an American writer, known best for the science fiction series ''Silo'', part of which he published independently through Amazon.com's Kindle Direct Publishing system. Howey was raised in Monroe, North Carolina and before publishing his books, he worked as a book store clerk, yacht captain, roofer, and audio technician. ''Wool'' He began the series in 2011, initially writing ''Wool'' as a stand-alone short story. His first book was initially published with a small press. After that, he decided to publish through Amazon.com's Kindle Direct Publishing system, because of the freedom of self-publishing. After the series grew in popularity, he began to write more entries for it. Howey began soliciting international rights in 2012, including signing a deal for Brazil. Film rights to the series were sold to 20th Century Fox; Lionsgate also expressed interest. In 2012, Howey signed a deal with Simon & Schuster to distribute ''Wool'' to book retailers across ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shining Girls
''The Shining Girls'' is a novel by South African author Lauren Beukes. The book centers on a mysterious drifter who murders the titular "shining girls" and one victim's attempts to expose him. ''The Shining Girls'' was published on 15 April 2013 by the Umuzi imprint of Random House Struik in South Africa, on 25 April 2013 by HarperCollins in the United Kingdom, and on 4 June 2013 by Mulholland Books in the United States. HarperCollins had won the international rights to the book in a bidding war with several other publishers. Unlike her previous novels, which are set in South Africa, ''The Shining Girls'' takes place in Chicago. Beukes said that because the story steps back and forth through history, she felt South Africa would not be a suitable setting because "then it would become an Apartheid story". Beukes added that race issues appear frequently in her work, but "Apartheid would have overwhelmed everything else I wanted to do with the novel". In 2013, ''The Shining Gir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Beukes
Lauren Beukes (born 5 June 1976) is a South African novelist, short story writer, journalist and television scriptwriter. Early life Lauren Beukes was born 5 June 1976. She grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. She attended Roedean School in Johannesburg, and has an MA in creative writing from the University of Cape Town. She worked as a freelance journalist for ten years, including two years in New York and Chicago. Career Books She is the author of '' The Shining Girls'', a novel about a time-traveling serial killer and the survivor who turns the hunt around. It was published on 15 April 2013 by the Umuzi imprint of Random House Struik in South Africa, on 25 April 2013 by HarperCollins in the United Kingdom, and on 4 June 2013 by Mulholland Books in the United States. HarperCollins had won the international rights to the book in a fierce bidding war with several other publishers. ''The Shining Girls'' won ''The Strand Magazine'' Critic's Best Novel Award, the RT Thri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transition (novel)
''Transition '' is a novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks, first published in 2009. The American edition was published under the name "Iain M. Banks", which is the name Banks used for his science fiction work. Background In an interview with ''The Guardian'' Banks explained what he was aiming for, "With Transition, I wanted to prove something. I wanted to show I could do something like '' The Bridge'' again because until now, that has been my favourite." While he has insisted it wasn't a commentary on American imperialism ("I don't think it's about America per se; it's more about power and the way that it is wielded in general") he does admit that the character The Philosopher is a way of addressing the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal. Plot summary Set between the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and the 2008 financial crisis, ''Transition'' centres on a shadowy organisation called "The Concern" (also known as "L'Expédience"), and how the workings of this organ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iain Banks
Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author, writing mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, adding the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies (). After the success of ''The Wasp Factory'' (1984), he began to write full time. His first science fiction book, '' Consider Phlebas'', appeared in 1987, marking the start of the Culture series. His books have been adapted for theatre, radio and television. In 2008, ''The Times'' named Banks in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In April 2013, Banks announced he had inoperable cancer and was unlikely to live beyond a year. He died on 9 June 2013. Early life Banks was born in Dunfermline, Fife, to a mother who was a professional ice skater and a father who was an officer in the Admiralty. An only child, he lived in North Queensferry until the age of nine, near the naval dockyards in Rosyth, where his father was based. The family then moved to Gourock d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blindsight (Watts Novel)
''Blindsight'' is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006. It won the Seiun Award for best translated novel and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The story follows a crew of astronauts sent out as the third wave, following two series of probes, to investigate a trans-Neptunian Kuiper belt comet dubbed "Burns-Caulfield" that has been found to be transmitting an unidentified radio signal to an as-yet unknown destination elsewhere in the Solar System, followed by their subsequent first contact. The novel explores themes of identity, consciousness, free will, artificial intelligence, neurology, and game theory as well as evolution and biology. ''Blindsight'' is available online under a Creative Commons license. Its sequel (or "sidequel"), ''Echopraxia'', came out in 2014. Plot In the year 2082 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Watts (author)
Peter Watts (born January 25, 1958) is a Canadian science fiction author. He specializes in hard science fiction. He earned a Ph.D from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1991, from the Department of Zoology and Resource Ecology. He went on to hold several academic research and teaching positions, and worked as a marine-mammal biologist. He began publishing fiction around the time he finished graduate school. Career His first novel ''Starfish'' (1999) reintroduced Lenie Clarke from his short story, "A Niche" (1990); Clarke is a deep-ocean power station worker physically altered for underwater living and the main character in the sequels: ''Maelstrom'' (2001), ''βehemoth: β-Max'' (2004) and ''βehemoth: Seppuku'' (2005). The last two volumes constitute one novel, but were published separately for commercial reasons. ''Starfish'', ''Maelstrom'', and ''βehemoth'' make up a trilogy usually referred to as "Rifters" after the modified humans d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jani Saxell
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Jani may refer to: * Jani (given name), a male name in Finland, Hungary; a female name in South Africa * Réka Luca Jani, a Hungarian female tennis player * Jani (letter), a Georgian letter * Jani, Iran, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran * Jāņi, a Latvian festival * Jani-King, a cleaning service company * ''Jani'' (film), a 2017 Kannada film See also *Janni (other) *Janis (other) Janis may refer to: As a first name *Janis Amatuzio (born 1950), American forensic pathologist * Janis Antonovics (born 1942), Latvian-British-American biologist * Janis Babson (1950–1961), Canadian child, organ donation *Janis Carter (1913– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
