Usva in English

Four issues translated Finnish short stories here: Usva International 2006 First issue of Finnish sf/f: stories from Juha-Pekka Koskinen, Sari Peltoniemi, Natalia Laurila, Jenny Kangasvuo, J. K. Miettinen, Irma Hirsjärvi, Hannu Rajaniemi, Petri Salin. The translations are by kind courtesy of Liisa Rantalaiho and Petri Salin. http://www.usvazine.net/usvainternational2006.pdf Usva International 2007 This issue includes short stories from award-winning Finnish authors: Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, Juha-Pekka Koskinen, Anne…

Fair Winds for Finnish Weird

Anne Leinonen: Fair Winds for Finnish Weird (Translation Liisa Rantalaiho, published previously in Cosmos pen 3/2011) Today the Finnish Weird fares better than ever. The atmosphere of mainstream publishing houses has become favourable to domestic speculative fiction. Where we used to find a strict division of genres, mixing of genres and bold experiments have…