1st Edition
Nordic Speculative Fiction Research, Theory, and Practise
Mars (a Poem)
Maria Dorothea Schrattenholz
Introduction
Jyrki Korpua, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, Hanna-Riikka Roine, and Marta Tveit
PART I: Strategies of Speculation
1 Speculative Strategies in Stories about the Future of Finnish Democracy
Hanna-Riikka Roine
2 At the Intersection of Experimental and Speculative: Three Novels by Jaakko Yli-Juonikas
Laura Piippo
3 The Modernity That Was Yet to Come: On Claes Lundin’s Science-Fiction Novel Oxygen och Aromasia: Bilder från år 2378
Michael Godhe
4 The Figure in the Magic Carpet: Structuralism of Literary Fantastic on the Map of Northern Philology
Pekka Kuusisto
PART II: Uncanny and Ecological Impulses
5 The Uncanny in Tove Jansson’s Short Stories: Motifs of the Sublime and the Horror
Jyrki Korpua
6 Welcome to the Uncanny Valley: Speculations on the Posthuman Condition in Contemporary Danish Fiction
Sophie Wennerscheid
7 The Strange Ecologies of the North: Finnish Weird as an Environmental Genre
Juha Raipola
8 References to the Primary World in Finnish Climate Fiction
Claudia Nierste
PART III: Border Crossings
9 Redreaming Europe: The Historical Past and the Speculative Present in Jani Saxell’s Europe Series
Kasimir Sandbacka
10 Immigrant Identity in Fantasy Fiction: Russian Youth Culture in Contemporary Finnish Fantasy
Jenniliisa Salminen
11 “What Is Left Behind”: Extractivism in Blå by M. Lunde and “The Satellite Charmer” by M.B. Diene
Marta Mboka Tveit
12 The Sea as a Site of Contact: A Hydrocolonial Reading of Beforeigners
Ruth S. Wenske
13 Living in Space(s) without a Future: Depictions of Mental Illness in Aniara
Josefine Wälivaara
PART IV: Art, Games, and Beyond
14 Examining Gender in the Gameplay and Reception of Housemarque’s Returnal
Maria Ruotsalainen
15 Once Again You Voted the Wrong Way!: Atorox Award, Short Fiction, and the Finnish SFF Fandom
Oskari Rantala
16 Tracing “Chthulucene Environmental Imaginations” in Contemporary Art: The Speculative in the Work of Larissa Sansour and Johannes Helden
Caroline Elgh
17 Coda: Speculative Conversation (a Poetic Inquiry)
Aino-Kaisa Koistinen and Line Henriksen
Biography
Jyrki Korpua, PhD, is a researcher of literature at the University of Oulu, Finland.
Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, PhD, is a poet, freelance writer, teacher of creative writing, and university researcher at the University of the Arts Helsinki Research Institute, Finland.
Hanna-Riikka Roine, PhD, docent, works as an associate professor of digital culture at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Marta Mboka Tveit is a PhD candidate with the CoFUTURES research group at the University of Oslo, Norway.
