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O generations yet to come! I write to you from a time when the Worldcon was yet young and Helsinki was but a city on the edge of the world,...

I was quite sanguine about Finncon 2019 . I praised the "more thriving, more diverse, more accepting community" I had found in Fin...

Last night I returned from Fantasticon 2019. I want to be careful to underscore I'm referring here to the Fantasticon in Copenhagen, Den...

How good was Avengers: Endgame? I have never seen an audience cheer a movie this much -- not even for The Phantom Menace. Until tonight ...

I'm on the way back from Fantasticon 2018 in Copenhagen, Denmark--this was my 2nd time visiting the city and even though getting there...

I am freshly back from Västerås, Sweden where Swedish fandom held Replicon 2019 , the Swedish national science fiction convention. (N. B.: a...

Under the Pendulum Sun  by Jeannette Ng When the author told me this book was 400 pages long I was halfway in and didn't believe her. ...

Finncon 2019's Guests of Honor. Photo CC-BY-SA Henry Söderlund  I had no idea when I moved to Finland three years ago that it was fa...

If you know me well you know I've had story ideas floating around in my head for years ("The Last Joke" dates back to, I think...

"Last Night" by Gabriel Santin illustration for "There are an Infinite Number of Stories in the Naked City" I've...