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Spent weekend in Helsinki, attending to Finncon along with some other freaks:

Animecon events were even more crowded than in previous years, so I concentrated on sci-fi. One of the most interesting panels was the one about home-made scifi/fantasy movies, with such panelists as Petri Hiltunen (Kalliovuorten prinssi, Saturnuksen sotavaltias; regrettably I haven’t seen them yet) and Timo Vuorensola (Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning).

A new genre of scifi/fantasy called “new weird” (“uuskumma” in Finnish) was discussed, or at least mentioned, in several events. I got interested enough to buy a collection of “new weird” novels called Uuskummaa? – Modernin fantasian antologia. I’m halfway through and the novels actually are a bit on the weird side..