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Janos Honkonen

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Jyväskylä, Finland

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Science Fiction, Horror, Comics

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I’m Janos Honkonen, an author 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 Wreck: In the Pir ...more

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	Tämä jalka ei ole minun – Kauhuja omasta kehosta by Artemis Kelosaari (Editor), Shimo Suntila (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Katri Alatalo (Goodreads Author) 3.47 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2017	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) 3.37 avg rating — 60 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 3.37 avg rating — 54 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
	Kaiken yllä etana 3.81 avg rating — 42 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
	Aurinkosydän by Camilla Kantola (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Teemu Korpijärvi (Editor), Reetta Vuokko-Syrjänen (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.43 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Pinnan alla : Olentoja syvyyksistä by Frida Burns (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Author), Hanna Matilainen (editor), Edith Arkko 3.72 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2025	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) 3.74 avg rating — 31 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
	Varjoisilta kujilta by Shimo Suntila (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Christine Thorel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Maija Haavisto (Goodreads Author) 3.32 avg rating — 34 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
	Murtumia maisemassa – urbaanin löytöretkeilyn antologia by J.S. Meresmaa (Goodreads Author) (Author, Editor), Christine Thorel (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Author), M.A. Tyrskyluoto (Goodreads Author) 3.33 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2017	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
	Sadan vuoden huuto 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 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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“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
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“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

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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.”
― David W. Orr, Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World

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