Jukka Halme

An opened envelope containing Vanamonde fanzines, on a brown tabletop.

I got mail!

David Gemmell
Lawrence Watt-Evans
John Maddox Roberts
Liz Williams
Lois McMaster Bujold
Ben Aaronovitch
Juha-Pekka Koskinen
K. J. Parker
Aliette de Bodard
Guy Gavriel Kay

Hopp Finn!

Happy birthday, Ben! Or Hyvää syntymäpäivää, as we in Finland, the happiest country in the world!

Post a banger that isn’t in English.

I have some other kind of a schtick, undefined as of now though.

Never read Connelly, but watched the whole of Bosch and the first session of Legacy. Thou I felt that mr Welliver was phoning it in during the last/later episodes and seasons.

Sari says that she likes to watch ”competent main character” series, even when they are formulaic and/or repetitive.

I quite liked Lincoln Lawyer, but after the first season, I thought that this was enough. There's just too much to see and not enough time.

I did watch the second season though. But that was it. For real.

Damnation! I am not going to get another service, these current ones are plenty enough.

I was very sensible and divided the 3rd season of Ghosts for two evenings. Only 10 episodes! That's less than five hours.

Now I need to see the 4th season. Or the Australian version. Pretty pllllease?

Great lists of some great reading and then some. Happy to have taken part of the making of the brand new Best Translated Novel category.

When we first organised Åcon in 2007, I had hopes that it would A) be a good con, B) would be something we'd do again some time, C) bring Nordic fandom closer together, D) start something new in Finndom, and what ever else I have already forgotten.

It has been all that, and then some. ❤️

This is GLORIOUS!!! Thank you!

The 3rd is Parnassus (1497) by Andrea Mantegna.

Annum novum faustum felicem vobis!

Enjoy your trip to all things John Clarke!

Currently reading, very good so far, intriguing opening, solid characters. Stands well next to previously read Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway.

Movie you've watched more than six times with a Gif. Hard mode-no Star Wars, Marvel

Black and white picture, with black borders, of a gaunt, older man with glasses, reading from a book to a microphone.

Hannu Blommila (1957-2025) was one of the most knowledgeable readers, critics and man of words I've known in the field of SF&F. This is terrible news. Words fail me.

Fuck.

Ginger barleymalt drink in a Bottle with a pint glass half full of the liquid.

Inkiväärin makuinen ohramallasjuoma. Ei pärjää julmustille.

Subscription recommendation! Being a Bedrock even more!

Do we know whether there was an actual homage with Philo's home planet of Zarquon to the prophet in Hitch-Hiker's Guide?

There have been moments when I've felt a pang of disappointment for those meek applause and the gnashing of teeth. But then I have smelled the sweetness of victory, tasted the bitter taste of loser tears and heard the stentorian disappointment in the air.

Tough.

Ensimmäinen yhteys (First Contact) cover is by famed Finnish comic artist (i.a. The Phantom, Achilles Wiggen) Kari T. Leppänen.

The first one is indeed a part of a painting by the Dutch master of winter landscapes, Gijsbrecht Leytens.

The first cover is a photograph by Anne Brigman.

☝️This! Verily was a great team effort today and some truly inspired guesses, among the plethora of Knowledge.

Things I did today: cabbage stew. Pretty spicy, pretty good.

Things I'm not doing next week: @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social in Brighton. Pretty sad, pretty bad.

I hope I can change my attending membership to a virtual one, though I'm not particularly keen online attender.