{"id":23944,"date":"2017-09-29T08:35:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T12:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=23944"},"modified":"2017-09-29T08:35:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T12:35:31","slug":"ruminate-over-reindeer-with-johanna-sinisalo-in-episode-48-of-eating-the-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/29\/ruminate-over-reindeer-with-johanna-sinisalo-in-episode-48-of-eating-the-fantastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruminate over reindeer with Johanna Sinisalo in Episode 48 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that Readercon<\/a> is over for Eating the Fantastic—you’ve already listened to the James Patrick Kelly<\/a> and John Kessel<\/a> episodes recorded there, haven’t you?—it’s time to head to Helsinki for the 75th World Science Fiction Convention.<\/p>\n

I managed to record five episodes while in Finland, with the first being lunch at Kaarna Baari & Keitti\u00f6<\/a>, which advertises itself as serving Finnish food with a Scandavian twist. I must admit, though, that I\u2019m not familiar enough with either of those cuisines to know exactly where they\u2019d converge on a culinary Venn diagram. I do know, however, that the food was excellent, and I was so impressed with what my guest and I ate there I later returned for dinner with my wife<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Joining me this episode was Johanna Sinisalo, who was one of this year’s Worldcon Guests of Honor. Her first novel, Ennen p\u00e4iv\u00e4nlaskua ei voi<\/em> (Not Before Sundown<\/em>) won the Finlandia Prize for Literature in 2000 and the James Tiptree Jr. Memorial award in 2004. Her novel Enkelten vert<\/em> (Blood of Angels<\/em>) won the English PEN Award. She was a Nebula Award nominee in 2009 for “Baby Doll.\u201d Her novel Auringon ydin<\/em> (The Core of the Sun<\/em>) recently won the 2017 Prometheus Award for Best Novel. She has won the Atorox award for the best Finnish-language SF short story seven times.<\/p>\n

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We discussed what she learned in advertising that helped her be a better writer,\u00a0how Moomins helped set her on the path to becoming a creator, why she held off attempting a novel until she had dozens of short stories published, the reason the Donald Duck comics of Carl Barks were some of her greatest inspirations, the circuitous way being an actor eventually led to her writing the science fiction film Iron Sky<\/em>, and more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can munch on mushrooms with us—<\/p>\n

1) Subscribe over at the iTunes store<\/a>, where all 47 previous episodes are still available.<\/p>\n

2) Use the show’s RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a> to download the episode to the device of your choice.<\/p>\n

3) Or simply listen via the embed below.<\/p>\n