The Cosmic Kalevala Series by Emil Petaja (Books 1-4)
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Overview: Emil Petaja (1915 – 2000) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer whose career spanned seven decades. He was the author of 13 published novels, nearly 150 short stories, numerous poems, and a handful of books and articles on various subjects. Though he wrote science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective fiction, and poetry, Petaja considered his work part of an older tradition of "weird fiction." Petaja was also a small press publisher. In 1995, he was named the first ever Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction Writers of America.
Genre: Fiction l Sci-Fi/Fantasy
1. Saga of Lost Earths: Carl Lempi had the nerve to talk back to his machine. That marked him for investigation in the sterile computer-run future of World-Fed. Carl’s defiance turned out to be just one of innumerable breakdowns that were rapidly undermining the world’s highest civilization.
But Fate – and the plans of a hidden race of star-descended men – had a special place for Carl Lempi. For his rebellion was the start of a quest, a journey back through the dimensions to the source of the world’s yrouble – an outer-space antagonist hinted at in the oldest legends of mankind – and Carl, alone, was to hold the earth’s last hope in his hands.
This is a novel that combines science-fiction with the great sweep of fantasy-adventure that marked the work of Kuttner and Burroughs …and whic is based upon the ancient – yet strangely modern – prophecies of the Kalevala.
2. The Star Mill: In ages past, the wondersmith Ilmarinen had used his awesome psychic powers to fashion a Sampo, a device powered by the energy of stars and capable of creating anything asked of it. But, the Star-Witch, Louhi, one of the Pahaliset, had gained the Star Mill and turned its atom-transforming power from creation to a terrible destruction that would not end until all matter, animate and inanimate, has been shattered. Then a castaway is found on an interstellar asteroid not far from a dangerous storm of cosmic disintegration that has been growing in the region of Ursa Major for millinea. His survival is impossible, and he can not explain it, for he has no memory of who he is or how he reached the asteroid. But as he attempts to solve the riddle, he comes to realize that he may be the living embodiment of an ancient legend. A man who has a date with destiny that will pit him against an ancient evil force in a battle beyond the frontiers of known science.
3. The Stolen Sun: Third Book in Nebula Nominee’s Cosmic Kalevala! Based on the myths and legends of the Finns, Emile Petaja spins an enthralling tale chronicling the fate of the last of the three genetic reincarnations of their great hero-Gods of ancient times. In the distant future, Wayne Panu, captain of a battleship, undergoes terrible psychic trauma when he is forced to kill innocent alien children and then sacrifice his best friend, all in the name of duty. When Wayne looks out a viewport and sees an ancient copper canoe floating in space, bearing a bearded elder of great psychic and physical strength, Wayne knows he has suffered a mental breakdown. But the copper boat is real, and its passenger is the greatest sorcerer of the past, the present and the future, Wainomoinen. For behind the Terran-alien war is the near-immortal hag-witch, Louhi, the vessel through which the Pahaliset, cruel forces from another dimension scheme to conquer our own. To stop them, Wayne will have to accompany Wainomoinen across time and space, learn the secrets of the Vanhat (the ancient Finns), beguile Louhi, craftiest of all the Star-Witches, trick her greatest trick from her, and then allow himself to be totally consumed by the Pahaliset! Author-editor-publisher Donald A. Wollheim wrote that "from the Kalevala’s mind-stunning material, Petaja has created a cycle of novels–science fiction fantasy adventure of the highest order–retelling in the eyes of modern scientific conjecture the great worlds-shaking events that may be concealed by the folklore of an ancient and mysterious people."
4. Tramontane, Outcast of the Stars: Their Only Hope was the Villain! Here is the stunning conclusion to Nebula Award nominee Emil Petaja’s science fictional retelling of the Finnish epic, The Kalevala. Millennia ago the Vanhat fled their dying world, Otava, and settled on Earth, in an icy, unwanted peninsula in the far north, where they became known as the Finns. Once the Vanhat had been a mighty people, possessors of an ancient knowledge, whose cosmic heroes and heroines gave battle to dark forces from beyond our universe. In the distant future, humankind has scattered to the stars, and only a remnant still dwell on and abandoned, ransacked Earth, among them, the Vanhat. For a prophecy has long predicted that in this age Otava would bloom again and the time of the Great Return would be at hand when the exiled Vanhat could reclaim the world that gave them birth. But their most ancient and bitter enemy, the sinister being known as Louhi, the starwitch, has waited eons for this moment and laid careful plans to destroy to the Vanhat on the very eve of the Great Return. Her carefully chosen and honed tool: the most despised being in the universe, Kullervo, the tramontane, the cosmic outcast. Touched in his mother’s womb by an evil entity from another dimension, all other living beings, animal, human and Vanhat alike, are instinctively repulsed by him. Kullervo has been on a rampage of destruction since birth. He is a creature who thirsts for revenge on the grand scale, and Louhi has instilled within him the power to destroy an entire race, the Vanhat, forever! Kullervo gloats at the thought. He is the last one anybody would pick for the hero of the piece. Unexpected and deeply moving, Tramontane is a fitting conclusionto Emile Petaja’s quartet of cosmic fantasies.
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