finnish science fiction

Emmi Elina Itäranta (born 1976 in Tampere, Finland, where she also grew up) is a writer, whose first novel the CliFi “Teemestarin kirja” (literal translation: The Tea Master’s Book; english language version “Memory of Water”) was published in Finland by Teos in 2012. In 2011 her Finnish version of the novel, “Teemestarin kirja” won the Teos Publisher SF contest and received a publishing contract.  The 2014 Philip K. Dick Award nominees have been announced:  “Memory of Water” by Emmi Itäranta (Finland) “The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter” by Rod Duncan (UK) “Elysium” by Jennifer Marie Brissett (US) “The Book of the Unnamed Midwife” by Meg Elison (US) “Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches” by Cherie Priest (US) “Reach for Infinity” -  Jonathan Strahan, editor. The awards are presented annually to a distinguished work of […]

Emmi Elina Itäranta (born 1976 in Tampere, Finland, where she also grew up) is a writer, whose first novel the CliFi “Teemestarin kirja” (literal translation: The Tea Master’s Book; english language version “Memory of Water”) was published in Finland by Teos in 2012. In 2011 her Finnish version of the novel, “Teemestarin kirja” won the Teos Publisher SF contest and received a publishing contract. “Teemestarin kirja” (literal translation: The Tea Master’s Book) “Teemestarin kirja” was also awarded the Kalevi Jäntti Literary Prize for young authors in 2012, the Young Aleksis Kivi Prize in 2013 and was nominated for the Tähtivaeltaja Award in 2013, an annual prize for science fiction work released in Finland. “The book was rejected by a dozen or so agents in the UK and […]