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Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:11:36 +0000

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By: Joona

Joona — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:26:18 +0000

Well, I haven’t read it (and doubt I will), but the cover sure is funny. Knowing something of graphic designers, the guy must have done that drunk, stoned, and hung over all the same time while giggling maniacally to himself.

As for the title in English, I would prefer “Inherent Evil”, as it retains the ambiguity of the Finnish “pahan perimä”.

By: Rigi

Rigi — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:46:11 +0000

Oops, good catch the movie things, thank falconer and laurentius! I fudged this entry up pretty good with gazillion typos and then I managed to get Ilkka Remes and Reijo Mäki mixed up regarding the movies. Sorry Mr. Mäki.

And yeah, we’re just happy to see scifist stuff come out in Finland. Soon all markets and bookshops will have shelfs full of books with nazi astronaut planting a swastika flag on the moon. That’s almost like a stealth marketing campaign for Iron Sky… ;)

And it’s not very likely that Remes would actually have space nazis in thebook. That would seem a bit far-fetched for him… But we’ll see.

By: Jani Salomaa

Jani Salomaa — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:52:24 +0000

That’s some cheap photoshopping on the cover! If the book is as cheap, it’ll stand pretty well in comparison with other Remes novels.. Somehow it’s harder to suspend misbelief when the hero that saves the world is an ordinary Finnish guy rather than a top CIA/MI-5 operative..

Anyway, maybe CMX and Remes help the Iron Sky team by popularizing sci-fi and laying out a red carpet for and Iron Sky movie that breaks the bank!

By: Laurentius

Laurentius — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:44:45 +0000

Actually, Remes has only written the script to a TV series “Pahan tytär” (“The Daughter of Evil”), but it was not based on any of his books.

The difficulty in making any of his books into (Finnish) movies is that he likes to write big, Bruckheimer-scale action set pieces into them, and realizing those in even downscaled form would cost a lot. Also, instead of a lone American, a lone Finn ends up saving the world (with a little help from Nokia cellphone and rye bread), so foreign interest and hence funding would be hard to get. Although, Star Wreck proved that big effects do not necessarily mean big costs, but tell that to “commercial” movie industry.

As for this new book, couldn’t the title be also translated as “Legacy of Evil” or even “Inherited by Evil”? At least to me, the name is ambiguous as to what it really means.

By: falconer

falconer — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:45:06 +0000

I don’t want to nitpick, but none of Ilkka Remes’s books have been made into movies. His books are very popular in Finland and because the plots of the books are very movie-like, it is propable that a movie adaptation of some of his books will be made some day.