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Risto Isomäki (born 8 June 1961 in
Turku Turku ( ; ; , ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Southwest Finland. It is located on the southwestern coast of the country at the mouth of the Aura River (Finland), River Aura. The population of Turku is approximately , while t ...
) is a Finnish author of
science fiction Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space ...
books. His 2005 novel ''The Sands of Sarasvati'' (''Sarasvatin hiekkaa'') was nominated for the Finlandia Prize in 2005 and won the Tähtivaeltaja Award in 2006. Two of his novels, ''The Sands of Sarasvati'' (Into, 2013) and ''Lithium-6'' (AmazonCrossing, 2015) have been published in English, along with a graphic novel adaptation of ''The Sands of Sarasvati'' (Tammi, 2008).


Bibliography

* ''Kuluta harkiten - tietoisen kuluttajan opas'' (1985) * ''Kristalliruusu'' (1991, short story collection) * ''Gilgamešin tappio'' (1994, novel) * ''Luvassa lämpenevää: ilmastonmuutos ja sen seuraukset'' (1996, Suomen Luonnonsuojeluliitto and Ympäristö ja kehitys ry) * ''Pimeän pilven ritarit'' (1997, novel) * ''Puukirja: puut osaratkaisuna maailman nälän ja ilmastonmuutoksen ongelmiin'' (1997, Ympäristö ja kehitys) * ''Paljasjalkavallankumous - kymmenen vuotta myöhemmin: kehitysmaiden kansalaisyhteiskunnat ja ulkomainen rahoitus Ympäristö ja kehitys ry:n projektiyhteistyön valossa'' (1999, Ympäristö ja kehitys) * ''Herääminen'' (2000, novel) * ''Kohti vuotta 1929?: Vapaakauppa, työttömyys ja ääriliikkeiden nousu'' (2000, LIKE) * ''Kohti kestävää maailmaa. Ympäristö ja kehitys ja Maan ystävät'' ( 2002, together with Jaana Airaksinen and Anastasia Laitila). * ''The Book of Trees'' (2004, Other India Press) (together with Maneka Gandhi). Hindi translation: ''Ped Panchayat'' (2004) * ''Sarasvatin hiekkaa'' (2005, novel), ''The Sands of Sarasvati'' (Into, 2013) * ''Litium 6'' (2007, novel), ''Lithium-6'' (AmazonCrossing, 2015) * ''34 tapaa estää maapallon ylikuumeneminen: järkevistä vaihtoehdoista hullun tiedemiehen ratkaisuihin'' (2008, Tammi) * ''Jumalan pikkusormi'' (2009, novel) * ''64 Ways to Absorb Carbon and Improve Earth's Reflectivity - From Reasonable Options to Mad Scientist Solutions'' (2009, Into) * ''Con rit'' (2011, novel) * ''Kurganin varjot'' (2014, novel) * ''Haudattu uhka'' (2016, novel) * ''Viiden meren kansa'' (2018, novel)


References

1961 births Living people Writers from Turku Finnish male novelists Finnish science fiction writers Writers from Southwest Finland Finnish environmentalists Climate activists 20th-century Finnish novelists 21st-century Finnish novelists 20th-century Finnish male writers 21st-century male writers {{Finland-writer-stub