Tim Powers - Declare

This tale is mystic version of events that happened during the Cold War.
( Muddling through mystical Cold War with stuttering Philby )

( Discussion of a disgrace in a tavern )

Jim Butcher - Fool Moon

First, these comments are based of a single book in a long series that may not represent the other stories. That's probably the claim Butcher's fans are likely to make, anyway. If that's not the case, well…
( Wizard is arrested, knocked down, wounded and all of the above )

Last weekend there was the FinnCon/AnimeCon 2008. The organizers did manage to get the Tampere Hall conference center.
( ”Friday” )

Johanna Sinisalo (ed.) - The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy

This is decidedly literary collection of stories from Classic Finnish writers. The only parts modern fandom are Sinisalo herself and Pasi Jääskeläinen (the guy who wrote that "enforcers" of the Finnish Science Fiction Writers attacked him).

Stories include Waltari's Conan-style ( Read more... )

Last Saturday there was another annual meeting of the Finnish science fiction and fantasy associations. Spektre, the non-association of SF and fantasy fans in Tampere, organized the meeting as usual ( Read more... )

Neil Gaiman - American GodsShadow, a very small-scale criminal, is released from prison couple of days early when his wife dies in a car crash. On his way home he meets a strange man who calls himself Wednesday who recruits him as his aide. Wednesday is gathering support for a confrontation between the old gods - most of them from the Old Continent ( Read more... )

Simon Ings - City of the Iron Fish
( Is there only the city and nothing else? )

Variant of a meme from a number of various people, mixing couple of lists together.

(I marked with F those that have been translated to Finnish)
( Bit more than hundred books )

FinnCon is the Finnish science fiction and fantasy convention. finncon_2006 was the 12th one but the event also celebrated its 20th anniversary (it was not annual at first). Guests of honor included Jeff VanderMeer of USA, Justina Robson of UK, Risto Isomäki of Finland and Rickard Berghorn of Sweden. (And then there was the Swedish regular Arvid Engholm ( Read more... )