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Tähtifantasia Award
Tähtifantasia Award is an annual prize by Helsingin science fiction seura ry for the best foreign fantasy book released in Finland. Recipients 2015 *(winner) Terry Pratchett: '' FC Akateemiset'' (''Unseen Academicals'', 2009.) Translated by Mika Kivimäki. Karisto, 2014. Other shortlisted books: * Kate Atkinson: '' Elämä elämältä'' (''Life After Life'', Schildts & Söderströms) * Robert W. Chambers: '' Keltainen kuningas'' (''The King in Yellow'', Basam Books) * Machado de Assis: ''Kuolematon ja muita novelleja'' (short story collection, Sammakko) * Liz Williams: '' Kultainen lohikäärme'' (''Precious Dragon'', Like) 2014 *(winner) Bruno Schulz: '' Kanelipuodit ja muita kertomuksia'' (''The Street of Crocodiles'', short story collection, 1934.) Translated from Polish by Tapani Kärkkäinen. Basam Books, 2013. Other shortlisted books: * Aloysius Bertrand: '' Yön Kaspar'' (''Gaspard de la Nuit'', Savukeidas) * Eowyn Ivey: '' Lumilapsi'' (''The Snow Child'', Baza ... [...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] |
Eowyn Ivey
Eowyn Ivey is an American author based in Alaska. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 for her debut novel '' The Snow Child''. Life and career Ivey was raised in Alaska. Her mother named her after Éowyn, a character from The Lord of the Rings. She attended Palmer High School and studied at Western Washington University in Bellingham. Ivey was a newspaper reporter at the ''Frontiersman'' in Wasilla for a decade before quitting her job to work as bookseller in order to focus on writing novels. Her first novel, ''The Snow Child'', is set in 1920s Alaska. The book is centred around a couple called Jack and Mabel who begin seeing a girl running through the Alaskan wilderness after they sculpt a child out of snow. Her second book, ''To the Bright Edge of the World'' is set in 1885 and also in Alaska. The story is told through journal entries, military reports, letters and documents. The plot follows an expedition funded by the US government into the Alask ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shadow Of The Torturer
''The Shadow of the Torturer'' is a fantasy novel by American writer Gene Wolfe, published by Simon & Schuster in May 1980. It is the first of four volumes in '' The Book of the New Sun'' which Wolfe had completed in draft before ''The Shadow of the Torturer'' was published. It relates the story of Severian, an apprentice Seeker for Truth and Penitence (the guild of torturers), from his youth through his expulsion from the guild and subsequent journey out of his home city of Nessus. In 1987, '' Locus'' magazine ranked ''The Shadow of the Torturer'' number four among the 33 "All-Time Best Fantasy Novels", based on a poll of subscribers. • An older edition of the website links multiple pages providing the results of several polls and a little other information. • See als"1987 Locus Poll Award" ISFDB. Retrieved 2012-04-12. ''Locus'' subscribers voted only two Middle-earth novels by J. R. R. Tolkien and '' A Wizard of Earthsea'' by Ursula K. Le Guin ahead of Wolfe's ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Wolfe
Gene Rodman Wolfe (May 7, 1931 – April 14, 2019) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith. He was a prolific short story writer and novelist, and won many literary awards. Wolfe has been called "the Melville of science fiction", and was honored as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Wolfe is best known for his ''Book of the New Sun'' series (four volumes, 1980–1983), the first part of his "Solar Cycle". In 1998, ''Locus'' magazine ranked it the third-best fantasy novel published before 1990 based on a poll of subscribers that considered it and several other series as single entries. Personal life Wolfe was born in New York City, the son of Mary Olivia () and Emerson Leroy Wolfe. He had polio as a small child. He and his family moved to Houston when he was 6, and he went to high school and college in Texas, attending Lamar High School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snake Agent
Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads ( cranial kinesis). To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs about twenty-five times independently via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. These resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal (see Amphisbaenia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Going Postal
''Going Postal'' is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 33rd book in his ''Discworld'' series, released in the United Kingdom on 25 September 2004. Unlike most of Pratchett's Discworld novels, ''Going Postal'' is divided into chapters, a feature previously seen only in Pratchett's children's books and the Science of Discworld series. These chapters begin with a synopsis of philosophical themes, in a similar manner to some Victorian novels and, notably, to Jules Verne stories. The title refers to both the contents of the novel, as well as to the term 'going postal'. The book was on the shortlist for both the Nebula and Locus Awards for Best (Fantasy) Novel. It would also have been shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, except that Pratchett withdrew it, as he felt stress over the award would mar his enjoyment of the Worldcon. This was the first time Pratchett had been shortlisted for either award. Plot As with many of the Discworld novels, the story t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anders Fager
Anders Fager Johansson (born 1964) is a Swedish game designer and horror writer. Career Born in Stockholm, eighteen year old Fager joined '' Äventyrspel'' in 1982 to travel around the country demonstrating Sweden's first role-playing game, '' Drakar & Demoner'', a game that at the time was compared to "improvised radio theatre". Fager wrote ', the first role-playing game adventure published in Swedish. He also co-designed board games for the ''Äventyrsspel'' label, such as ' and '. After among other things an army career, Fager made his debut as a writer in 2009 with the short story collection ''Swedish Cults'' (''Svenska kulter'') that received a most favourable review in Swedish newspaper ''Dagens Nyheter'' and launched Fager's career as full-time writer. Fager writes modern urban horror in a style he has repeatedly described as ”what would happen if James Ellroy took on H.P. Lovecraft”. Set in present-day Sweden, his interconnected stories form a modern part of the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Modern World (novel)
''The Modern World'' (published as ''Dangerous Offspring'' in the US) is a 2007 fantasy/science fiction novel by the British author Steph Swainston Steph Swainston is a British literary fantasy/science fiction author, known for the ''Castle'' series. Her debut novel, '' The Year of Our War'' (2004), won the 2005 Crawford Award and a nomination for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Wr ... and is a sequel to '' The Year of Our War'' (2004) and '' No Present Like Time'' (2005). Plot introduction The novel is set in the Fourlands, a country in danger of being overrun by large hostile Insects, and follows the exploits of Jant, also called "the Messenger" or "Comet". As a half-breed of two humanoid species Jant is the only person who can fly, which makes him an indispensable part of the Emperor's Circle of about 50 immortals, an elite group of (mostly) warriors who do not age (but, despite the name, are capable of being killed). Plot summary At Slake Cross near the border w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steph Swainston
Steph Swainston is a British literary fantasy/ science fiction author, known for the ''Castle'' series. Her debut novel, ''The Year of Our War'' (2004), won the 2005 Crawford Award and a nomination for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Profile Stephanie "Steph" Jane Swainston was born in Bradford in 1974. She attended St. Joseph's College, Bradford, followed by Girton College, University of Cambridge, and the University of Wales. Outside writing, Swainston has had a broad range of occupations, which include bookseller, archaeologist, lock keeper, information scientist, and pyrotechnician. Swainston's novels to date take place in the Fourlands, which the author has described as a secret childhood paracosm,Interview at clarkesworldmagazine.com further influenced by aspects ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gummerus
Gummerus Oy is a Finnish media group that was founded in Jyväskylä in 1872 by Kaarle Jaakko Gummerus. In 1985, it moved its headquarters from Jyväskylä to Helsinki. In 2008, it had an annual turnover of EUR 26,9 million. Annually, it publishes approximately 200 new titles, which are sold in bookstores, department stores and book clubs. Gummerus Oy consists of four divisions: * Gummerus Kustannus Oy * Kielikone Oy * Kirjatori Oy * Gummerus Kiinteistöt Oy In December 2009 Gummerus and Sanoma agreed on an arrangement concerning the merger of WS Bookwell and Gummerus Printing. As a result of the arrangement, Gummerus Oy became a shareholder in the new Bookwell Oy with a 20% holding. In May 2001 Gummerus Publishers acquired an independent, smaller publishing firm by the name of Ajatus Kustannusosakeyhtiö, and ''Ajatus Kirjat'' remains an editorially independent non-fiction entity within the main publishing firm. Jaakko Syrjä served as an editor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making
''Fairyland'' is a series of fantasy novels by Catherynne M. Valente. The novels follow a 12-year-old girl named September as she is spirited away from her average life to Fairyland. In Valente's previous novel, ''Palimpsest'', the narrator briefly discusses a book that one of the characters read as a child, ''The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making''. Valente then began a book by that title as a crowd-funded project and published the story online. The book was later picked up by Feiwel & Friends (Macmillan Publishers) for traditional publication. It is published in the UK by Much-in-Little (Constable & Robinson). ''Fairyland'' is a five-book series. ''The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland — For a Little While'' On July 27, 2011, a short prequel was published as an e-book by Tor.com, and is available to read there. ''The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland—For a Little While'' features an opening illustration by Ana Juan, and tells the story of the young girl who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
