in the amazingly sparsely populated area just outside of the uniform world mega cities.
I didn't like that its sci-fi credentials consisted entirely of a future city intro chapter (which played no further role in the story) and the occasional future food eaten around a campfire. I didn't connect with the story, and the author's heavy-handed, constant insistence that "the Finns believe" this or that made it difficult for me to maintain focus. It's like it infected a deep malaise in me while reading it. It's not that it was bad in any clearly obvious sense, it's just that I could summon no motivation to want to continue with it. 2) The Star Mill: I think there was something to do about spaceships before the generic saga hero's quest continued, this time visiting a witch.įor a week I carried this book around, dreading reading it-reading every phone/tablet, magazine, newspaper, and ingredient list I could see instead of opening the book. Both of my parents were Finnish."ġ) Saga of Lost Earths: A nobody from the future becomes a somebody (some-deity?) of the ancient past. I own six translations of the Kalevala, as well as the work in the original. My novels about the Finnish legendary epic Kalevala: The Land of Heroes spring from a lifelong interest in this fine poetic work.
In a statement published in Contemporary Authors (Gale Research, 1984), Petaja commented, "My writing endeavors have mainly been to entertain, except for the factual material concerning Hannes Bok and fantasy art in general, which serves to indicate my enthusiasm for these subjects. Petaja's series brought him readers from around the world, while his mythological approach to science fiction was discussed in scholarly publications. Of Finnish descent, Petaja's best known works are comprised of a series of science fiction novels based on the Kalevala, the Finnish verse epic. In 1995, he was named the first ever Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Though he wrote science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective fiction, and poetry, Petaja considered his work part of an older tradition of "weird fiction." Petaja was also a small press publisher. He was the author of 13 published novels, nearly 150 short stories, numerous poems, and a handful of books and articles on various subjects. Emil Petaja (1915 - 2000) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer whose career spanned seven decades.
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