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Janos Honkonen

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Jyväskylä, Finland

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Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Stanislaw Lem, Franz Kafka, Gene Wolfe

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I’m Janos Honkonen, an author in my early 40’s from the Commie Reindeerland of Finland. I’ve been making my living in various jobs, including research in computational linguistics, wrestling rainbow trout out of hooks, producing a gaming program for Finnish TV, working in a psychogeriatric ward, sniffing acetone and grading the smell on a scale, being an IT peon and a translator, scientific diving in marine biology, and doing over a decade of freelance journalism in the areas of technology, gaming, general interest topics, science and adult entertainment. I was also the publicist, costume props trainee and the behind the scenes material producer for Iron Sky, a sci-fi film about Nazis from the Dark Side of the Moon, and Mr. Fukov from Star ...more

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	Kaiken yllä etana 3.97 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ruumiittomat – suomalaisia aavenovelleja by Heikki Nevala (Author, Editor), Shimo Suntila (Goodreads Author) (Author, Editor) , Minna Roininen (Goodreads Author) 3.46 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Käärmeenliekit – suomalaisia lohikäärmetarinoita by Erkka Leppänen (editor), Hanna Matilainen (editor) , Mixu Lauronen 3.48 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kummalinnun munia 1 by Christine Thorel (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Author), Mixu Lauronen (Editor, Author) , Anni Nupponen (Goodreads Author) 3.33 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tämä jalka ei ole minun – Kauhuja omasta kehosta by Artemis Kelosaari (Editor), Shimo Suntila (Goodreads Author) (Editor) , Katri Alatalo (Goodreads Author) 3.24 avg rating — 17 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Varjoisilta kujilta by Shimo Suntila (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Christine Thorel (Goodreads Author) (Editor) , Maija Haavisto (Goodreads Author) 3.27 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pimeää pimeämpi - Kummalinnun munia 2 by Christine Thorel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kari Välimäki (Editor) , Maria Carole (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Self-Inflicted Relative: 33 Fantastic Stories in 100 Words by Maija Haavisto (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Author), Mikko Rauhala (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Author) , Maria Carole (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meliwas ja muita kaupunkeja by Mia Myllymäki (Goodreads Author) (Author, Editor), Camilla Kantola (Goodreads Author) (Editor) , O.E. Lönnberg (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Never Stop — Finnish Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories by Anni Nupponen (Goodreads Author) (Author, Editor), Saara Henriksson (Goodreads Author) (Author, Editor) , M.A. Tyrskyluoto (Goodreads Author) (Author, Editor) 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
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“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.”
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