Interesting facts for foreign conrunners: at the moment there is only one guy amongs the Finnish Finncon runners. All other committee members are women.

Atorox-palkinto for the best short story has 11 male, 9 female, and 1 male-female pair in the winner list. But we can't forget that Johanna Sinisalo won the prize 7 times (and Pasi Jääskeläinen ( Read more... )

Looks like Lois enjoyed her stay in Finland ( Read more... )

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Lois McMaster Bujold, Liz Williams and Ipa from the Finnish SF fandom will be the GOHs for Finncon 2012 (site only in Finnish at the moment)! I'm already looking forward to next year even though this year's Finncon isn't yet over :D ( Read more... )

I left for my mother's on Tuesday afternoon and got back into town this morning. The time there was very relaxing, especially since we could sit outside where the air was even slightly moving in the middle of this heatwave. Finland has been record hot this summer with temperatures around 30˚C or above. Which is pretty hot (I say TOO HOT). It doesn' ( Read more... )

Anybody on the f-list (or outside of it - apart from the usual suspects) coming to Finncon in Jyväskylä next weekend? Wanna meet up? Give me a comment :).

I've been ridiculously productive the past few days, considering it's disgustingly hot here. The day before yesterday I gathered together all the old electronic appliances (computer, printer, microwave oven, etc) that were gathering dust in my corners and yesterday a friend and I took them to the recycling centre nearby. It's really great that you ( Read more... )

Finncon is now over for this year and what a great con it was. Estimated 15.000 people attended the con during it's three days. The venue was great and the weather stayed mostly clear, so the cosplayers could gather outside ( Read more... )

Yikes, I've never been on this many program items before at Finncon, and I've already been going there for at least 20 years O_o. Two fanfic panels (in Finnish), a vampire panel in English with one of the GOHs, and a the Johnny's fanmeet. And I thought I had mainly retired (or moved on, or whatever is the PC term nowadays) from the SF fandom :P ( Read more... )

Just saw a fancam of Tsubasa's tsubaushi miniskirt cow theme performance, and now I'm wondering whether I'll be able to locate some cow-patterned cloth in local shops before next weekend's con... Because being dressed as a cow would be hilarious, since only a select few people would get the reference XD!!!