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Recommendations of good debut books

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These are the books that the panelists praised in the ”Good debut novels/collections” panel:

Carolina Gómez recommends:

· Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
· Gösta Berlings Saga By Selma Lagerlöf
· Poppy War by R. F. Kuang
· Watership Down by Richard Adams
· The Bear and the Nightingale Katherine Arden

Andreas Davour recommends:

· Vurt by Jeff Noon
· Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
· The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
· Appleseed by John Clute (not a debut novel but debut SF)
· Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling

Ian Sales recommends:

· Girl reading by Katie Ward
· Alanya to Alanya by L. Timmel Duchamp
· Halfway Human by Carolyn Ives Gilman
· Ceres Storm by David Herter
· An Exchange of Hostages by Susan R. Matthews

Jukka Halme recommends:

· Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
· Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford
· Legend by David Gemmell
· The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante
· The Honey Month by Amal El-Mohtar

Book launch at O’Neill’s on Friday

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The warm-up meetup on Friday evening will see a book launch event around nine pm. Edmund Schluessel and Mikko Rauhala launch their short-story collection Infinite Metropolis.

The Big Apple fell far from the tree. Now adrift in an alternate dimension, New Yorkers cling to sanity in an Escherian maze. Welcome to the Infinite Metropolis; you may never leave.

”Infinite Metropolis” is a science fiction collection featuring twelve original short stories by Finnish authors Edmund Schluessel and Mikko Rauhala. It will also be available as an audio drama is narrated by James Reynolds, Zelda Knight, Thomas Deckard Croix, and Bradley Pittman. Artwork by Brazilian illustrator Gabriel Santin accompanies the physical and ebook editions.

  • “There are an Infinite Number of Stories in the Naked City” by Edmund Schluessel
  • “The Peter Principle” by Edmund Schluessel
  • “The Happy Life” by Mikko Rauhala
  • “The Grand Hotel” by Mikko Rauhala
  • “Reasonable Doubt” by Mikko Rauhala
  • “Rapid Transit” by Edmund Schluessel
  • “Community Organizer” by Edmund Schluessel
  • “The Pit” by Mikko Rauhala
  • “The Hanging Gardener of Babylon” by Edmund Schluessel
  • “Farm to Table” by Edmund Schluessel
  • “Exogamy” by Edmund Schluessel
  • “Famous Original Ray’s” by Edmund Schluessel

Programmet klart

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Fredag
O’Neill’s Irish Pub, Dragarbrunnsgatan 53.
17.00 – 01.00 Inget program, bara umgänge.

Lördag
Bryggeriet Ångkvarn, Östra Ågatan 59.
10.00 Kongresslokalen öppnar
10.30 – 11.20 The best science fiction/fantasy debut novels (panel)
12.00 – 12.50 Lingustics in science fiction (talk)
13.30 – 14.20 Being an alien (panel)
15.00 – 15.50 Magnificent beasts and where I found them (talk)
16.30 – 17.20 Flawed masterpieces and failed novels (panel)
18.00 – 19.00 The fantastika quiz
19.00 – 00.00 Göstaprisutdelning följt av dead dog party

Se sidan ”Program” om du vill ha fylligare beskrivningar av programpunkterna.