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Ville Vuorela

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After a wild youth of teaching, translating, being a technical writer for various industries and keeping the Finnish RPG writing scene alive in the late nineties, Ville finally settled down as a game designer for the videogames industry in 2004. In these days he is a freelancer in the booming Finnish videogame industry.

Writing in Finnish and English, Ville has produced a fantasy novels, a fact books and two semi-autobiographical works on working in and with the games industry and the educational sector. In some circles he is still best known for his five tabletop roleplaying games, two of which became best-sellers in Finland. The English version of Stalker RPG has a steadily growing fanbase abroad as well.

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Ville Vuorela Anybody can travel abroad if they have the budget, but only a creative artist can transcend the boundaries of reality and self. Very few people are ab…moreAnybody can travel abroad if they have the budget, but only a creative artist can transcend the boundaries of reality and self. Very few people are able to sustain themselves on their writing but even if you don't, the sensation of having created something out of nothing; bringing about things that are now real and yet were never there, is thrilling. Not to mention that I am also a sucker for compliments and good reviews. :)(less)
Ville Vuorela Hmm. Where to start? The biggest difference is probably the setting. I've made a conscious choice to stick as close to Roadside Picnic as possible whi…moreHmm. Where to start? The biggest difference is probably the setting. I've made a conscious choice to stick as close to Roadside Picnic as possible while not adopting the compulsory (and it really was compulsory at the time) "World Socialism" -setting of Roadside Picnic. Instead, I have taken the elements, the setup and all the names and events I possibly could and transplanted them into our post-Soviet world and age.

Next, I have extrapolated how our world would react to it and in some cases, such as the Institute, what would these core elements of the original novel have to be like if they were to exist in our reality. All other changes, such as the nature of the protagonist, the extra-sociatal nature of stalkers themselves, the status of Zone Refugees, the violent underworld of artefact smuggling and power struggles around and within the Institute stem from this shift away from the Socialist Utopianism (which the original novel was, in my opinion, subtly mocking).
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This summer saw not one but two new books come out, both in Finnish (sorry) and both part of the Praedor world, originally conceived by comic book artist Petri Hiltunen.

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“Minä puolustin oikeuttani olla minä. Minä puolustin kotiani ja perhettäni. Minä puolustin kaikkia niitä, jotka ehkä joutuisivat saman opettajan määräysvallan alle tulevaisuudessa. Vuosia myöhemmin kuulin luokanopettajani kuolleen syöpään ja kuolinvuoteellaan murehtineen, että hän haluaisi uskoa pääsevänsä taivaaseen mutta minä olin kieltänyt pääsyn häneltä. jos näin todella tapahtui, olen tapahtuneesta ylpeä.”
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