Janos Honkonen's Blog

The Worldcon 75 in Helsinki, Finland is drawing near! To get into the mood the independent publishing house Osuuskumma has launched a series of blog posts, where writers around the world talk about their work, the fandom, cons and everything … Continue reading →

This year has been about getting functional, reclaiming the parts of my life that were salvageable, and jumping into the last of the three childhood dream jobs I still hadn’t done, video game script writing. The year 2016 started with … Continue reading

2015 was a year that saw me enjoy the best summer of my adult life and bid farewell to a bunch of people, the capital region, a relationship that came with two awesome cats, an awesome apartment and a very important corner of the net, and finished with my luck finally running out in the form of one broken neck. Continue reading

I went into 2014 not really knowing what to expect. 2013 had been the culmination of a lot of projects such as the novel, the dive school, some deeper personal stuff, and the year was filled with a new relationship and plenty of adventure to boot. It all wound down for the 2013 Christmas holiday, which felt like the final approach to the home base after a long drawn out air campaign. Beautiful, quiet and unpowered glide. When January came I hit the tarmac with tiresscreeching and brakes glowi...

“What’s that there in the sea”, she said, pointing at the large containerships moored off the harbour of Thessaloniki. The ships floated in bluish gray hazethat made the mountains in the opposite shore vanish and turned the horizon into a … Continue reading →

Last weekend I took part in my first game jam, and I was lucky enough to start with a bang. Quantum Game Jam brought together game developers and quantum physicists to try and solve some actual scientific problems through games.


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Another childhood dream crossed from the bucket list - I have a comic coming out later this year, a gripping criminal tale of immigration, class struggle and that old time racism set in the fluffy noir wold of Toyburg. Torsobear: Yarns from Toyburg is now up on Kickstarter.

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Science fiction can, and should, be about reimagining social possibilities, not just blowing shit up in space; however, if you can reimagine social possibilities while blowing shit up in space, I am all for that. – lol my thesis Early … Continue reading →

If I had to pick one word to describe this year, it would be "intensive", followed closely by such words as "interesting", "awesome" and "exhausting". Whereas the year 2012 was about change and the home run for a lot of projects, 2013 was about packing in those projects and kicking off a new phase of life. After this one the suckiness of 2011 and the years around it to a lesser degree are forgiven.

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The positive insanity of this October is over with the book publishing party and the final skills test of the scientific diver school are successfully over. Those were also the last milestones I've set for me a long time ago, and signal the end of an era in my life.

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