Invisible Planets
Collected Fiction
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Publisher Description
Mindblowingly inventive and beautifully written short stories from the most exciting new name in SF
Hannu Rajaniemi exploded onto the SF scene in 2010 with the publication of his first novel The Quantum Thief. Acclaimed by fellow authors such as Charles Stross, Adam Roberts and Alastair Reynolds and brilliantly reviewed everywhere from Interzone to the Times and the Guardian he swiftly established a reputation as an author who could combine extraordinary cutting edge science with beautiful prose and deliver it all with wit, warmth and a delight in the fun of storytelling.
It is exactly these qualities that are showcased in this his first collection of short stories. Drawn from antholgies, magazines and online publications and brought together in book form for the first time in this collection here is a collection of seventeen short stories that range from the lyrical to the bizarre, from the elegaic to the impish. It is a collection that shows one of the great new imaginations in SF having immense fun.
Customer Reviews
Excellent sampler of Mr. Rajaniemi’s fiction!
“Invisible Planets: Collected Fiction” is as the name suggests, a collection of the shorter works by Hannu Rajaniemi. Most readers might be familiar with his Jean le Flambeur Series which chronicles the dizzying adventures of the post-human Quantum Thief.
Some of the stories in this volume are similar, with high tech futures populated by post-humans with godlike technology. Others are pure fantasy, populated by myths and beings from Finnish Folklore. Some are somewhere in between. There is even experimental fiction, from super short stories, to Neurofiction in the case of the story, “Snow White is Dead.”
I was aware that Mr. Rajaniemi was of a Finnish background, but this is something that also comes through in these stories. From the previously mentioned folklore, to the customs of the characters, and the saunas that are frequently featured. This is definitely a refreshing cultural addition to these tales.
These stories are diverse and cover a wide scope, but I found almost all of them to be really interesting. The others were certainly readable. I would recommend this collection as an excellent sampler of Mr. Rajaniemi’s writing.