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Progress Report #3 progress report #3 1 contents progress report #3 hyvää uutta vuotta! .........................................................................3 editor: Vesa Sisättö words of wisdom from our guests of honour ...........................5 contributors: Lukas Ahrenberg, Clare toastmistress: karen lord ...............................................................9 Boothby, Pam Burr, Colette Fozard, Jukka Halme, Aleksi Kuutio, Charlotte Laihonen, wsfs: you’re a part of it ...................................................................11 Marianna Leikomaa, Merja Polvinen, Sari worldcon and the hugos ..............................................................12 Polvinen, Vesa Sisättö, Kevin Standlee, Nina Törnudd, Nicholas Whyte, YA Award the hugo base design competition ............................................... 13 Committee (Anna Blumstein, Chair Helen constitution of the world science fiction society .................. 15 Gbala, Katie Rask, Co-chairs). translations: Sarianna Silvonen, take a survey to help name a ya award .......................................23 Karl-Johan Norén proofreading: Curtis Jefferson, major ursa to ground control blog .......................................... 24 Charlotte Laihonen hotels: understanding the differences between countries .....24 graphic design: M. Pietikäinen illustrations: finnish foods and where to find them .......................................25 Maya Hahto: 11, 24 a brief history of finnish fandom ...............................................28 Minna Salminen: 23, 41 printed at: Aaltospaino worldcon 75 around the world in 2016 .....................................34 “World Science Fiction Society”, “WSFS”, news from the divisions ................................................................36 “World Science Fiction Convention”, the exhibits hall needs you! ......................................................... 40 “Worldcon”, “NASFiC”, “Hugo Award”, and the distinctive design of the Hugo membership statistics .................................................................... 42 Award Rocket are service marks of the memberships and prices ................................................................ 44 World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society. new members ....................................................................................45 PHOTO : JUKKA HALME Hyvää uutta vuotta! or happy new year, if you prefer english. When you’re reading this, it should be January 2017. The be worth a visit while up here? How about the rest of year we make Contact, I mean Worldcon 75, happen in Finland? Or the neighbouring countries of Sweden, Rus- Helsinki. We’re in the home stretch now and the finish sia, and Estonia? line is looming in the distance, teasing us with all kinds And what about the rich cultural heritage of ours? of promises of fun and games. The music of Sibelius and Shostakovich, Steve’n’Seagulls And fun it should be, since why else would we be and Stratovarius? Food like Surströmming, Karelian pies doing this? Not for the money, or the glory, but for the with eggbutter, Cеля́нка, and the ever present black rye sheer, unadulterated fun of it all. Surely. bread? Books by Johanna Sinisalo, Jaan Kross, the Stru- Granted, some of our members are pros, semi-pros gatskiy bros, Leena Krohn, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Pasi and otherwise making a buck or two out of this thing Ilmari Jääskeläinen, or Tove Jansson? Or a multitude of we call a hobby, but the one thing that I truly believe to other things we’ll try to make you acquainted with be- be the most common denominator for us all, is the fact fore the con. As well as hopefully after! that this is fun and we should be enjoying ourselves. Worldcon 75 is going to celebrate the fields of science Time flies when you’re having fun, but it runs fast as fiction, fantasy, horror, and all rest of the myriad ways well when you’re planning and organising an event the Speculative Fiction is categorized. We want to bring size of a Worldcon. It feels like that telephone call I re- forth a celebration of fan, fun and the fantastic. We’d ceived from Chicago-bound Eemeli happened only mo- love to see all the World present and accounted for. ments ago, when in reality it took place four years and some change ago. Where has all that time gone? Better Toivottavasti nautit! I hope you’ll enjoy! pick up the pace. During these last months, we hope to bring you all kinds of interesting and fun thoughts and ideas as what jukka halme to expect from Helsinki and Finland. 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