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Recommended science fiction books (2)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into science fiction here are some science fiction books from Finland for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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Memory of Water : A Novel by Emmi Itäranta EN

Rating: 4 (5 votes)
Country: Europe / Finland flag Finland
Description:
An amazing, award-winning speculative fiction debut novel by a major new talent, in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin. Global warming has changed the world’s geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and China rules Europe, including the Scandinavian Union, which is occupied by the power state of New Qian. In this far north place, seventeen-year-old Noria Kaitio is learning to become a tea master like her father, a position that holds great responsibility and great secrets. Tea masters alone know the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring that Noria’s father te... continue

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The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Finland flag Finland
Description:
Broken free from a nightmarish distant-future prison by a mysterious woman who offers him his life back if he will complete the ultimate heist he left unfinished, con man Jean le Flambeur is pursued in worlds where people communicate through shared memories.