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Added 2015-10-14 14:39:31 +0000 UTCWith five and a half days left, we've reached our penultimate bonus material -- two pieces featuring Johanna Sinisalo.
First up, we have her Guest of Honor talk from Archipelacon back in June, talking about her development as a writer and feminist:
I had borrowed from the library an exhilarating book called Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson. I had never read such a book. A book for children about a cosmic cataclysm! A book for children about the end of the world! That was the coolest thing ever.
Before reading it, I had browsed some of my dad's popular astronomy books, mostly those with nice illustrations by guys like Chesley Bonestell. So I knew that the comets were a real thing and that the Earth was a planet in space and so on. But Comet in Moominland made me wonder a couple of things, and so, very early one Sunday morning I went and woke up my dad and asked: "Daddy, is it possible that a comet could one day collide with the Earth?"
Of course my dad knew that it was definitely possible and perhaps even that it has happened a couple of times in the history of Earth. But I think he was a little reluctant to tell that to a five-year-old girl, and instead of answering he asked: "What makes you think that kind of thing could happen?"
I went out of the bedroom and came back with Comet in Moominland. My father turned it in his hand and then he made a serious, serious mistake.
Second, at the same convention I had a chance to interview Sinisalo, about nature, gender, translation and more. Enjoy!
