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Science Fantasy at Its Best

The Moonday Letters by Emmi Itaranta

October 1, 2022 by sabian30 Leave a Comment

I was in a weeklong writing class recently where they interviewed various authors. One of the more interesting  was Emmi Itaranta, a Finnish author, and I ordered her latest book, The Moonday Letters, after hearing her discuss her process. She writes in Finnish and English simultaneously as she had beta readers in both languages. I can’t imagine writing in two languages at the same time. Writing in one is difficult enough. The Letters are an interesting format: epistolary. The protagonist writes unsent letters to her […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Science Fiction Tagged With: bioengineering, Emmi Itäranta, letters, mars, space cities, spirit guides

sabian30's CBR14 Review No:33 · Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction · Tags: bioengineering, Emmi Itäranta, letters, mars, space cities, spirit guides ·
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Interesting premise, unsatisfying ending

Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta

August 1, 2019 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

My library has added a new category and it is all too terrifying: cli-fi. Climate fiction. It’s like sci-fi, but the “what if” hits a little closer to home – earth, but under more severe impacts of climate change. An earth in which we are all climate refugees. It’s not pretty. It’s also a genre I don’t usually read, because it’s new. In the world of Memory of Water, fresh water no longer runs free. After continents are devastated by ocean rises, the new government that develops […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr11bingo, Emmi Itäranta

lowercasesee's CBR11 Review No:64 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: cbr11bingo, Emmi Itäranta ·
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