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The 6th Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was released on 16th of July. On the previous evening we spotted the group of fans waiting in the front of a bookshop:

One day I wandered around Helsinki, looking for second hand bookshops with a good selection of sci-fi/fantasy books. There’s one which has a lot of Star Trek books:

I only bought one, since I had too many books already:

• Waldo & Magic, Inc, Revolt in 2100 and The Past through Tomorrow vol. 2 by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Earth Book of Stormgate-1 by Poul Anderson
• The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• Batman Chronicles volume one
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
• Star Trek: The Classic Episodes 2 adapted by James Blish

and some non-fiction (Chaos by James Gleick, Fantastic Voyages: Learning Science through Science Fiction Films, Star Trek: Action!).

I had to get the first Harry Potter book to check if I could find out what the fuss is all about.

(jos löydät jostain joutilaan Star Trek: The Classic Episodes ykkösosan, vihjaise)

Before I left Helsinki we visited the museum of technology. The printing press department had some nice keyboards, like this one: