Keith Laumer - Retief At Large

Jaime Retief is a secondary level diplomat in the CDT - Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne - that represents the interest of Earth humans ("terries") in the galaxy. The main political opponent of humans are the Soviet analogue aliens named Groaci, who are just about as devious as you can think of.

( Only competent human diplomat in the galaxy )

Terry Jones / Douglas Adams - Starship Titanic
( Almost a computer game )

Pat Cadigan - Tea from an Empty Cup

I finally got a signature of lady Cadigan to this book last summer so I decided to reread it.
( Prescient? Maybe )

Last weekend there was the annual Viikinsaari meeting of the SF folk. I went there after more serious business (see the previous entry).

( Picnic on the Islandside )

I spent the last weekend in FinnCon 2010. The weather was unpleasantly hot, ranging 25-33 degrees Celsius (in fact, author Boris Hurtta joked that we should organize a FinnCon in January for a change to see if it would affect the weather...:-).


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Last weekend there was another annual meeting of the Finnish science fiction societies. First there was the smaller meeting of the Science Fiction Writers:


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James White
Ambulance Ship (1979)
Star Healer (1984)

The Sector General series is at least the best known creation of the late SF writer James White. Sector General is a huge interstellar, multienvironmental hospital hanging between the charted part of the Milky Way and the other Magellanic Cloud. The idea of the whole series is that people from ( Read more... )

I spent the last weekend in Helsinki in FinnCon/AnimeCon 2009.
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Meme via sir ffutures.

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