Looking forward to today’s TALES event (Tampere Literary Evenings), where I join author/energy activist Risto Isomäki to talk about literature and energy.

Risto Isomäki does not really need an introduction to a Finnish audience, but for an international public it might be interesting to know that he is the author of one of the first novels to explicitly consider man-made future climate catastrophe in his novel The Sands of Sarasvati (Sarasvatin hiekkaa; 2005), also made into a fascinating graphic novel by Jussi Kaakinen & Petri Tolppanen. He has also published fiction that directly touches on questions of energy.

The event takes place in the OASIS, surely one of the most welcoming places in academia anywhere to be found!

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