Where the Trains Turn
( Finnish title - Missä junat kääntyvät 2000 )
novella by Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen
translated by Liisa Rantalaiho
Published: Tor - webzine - 2014
url: https://www.tor.com/2014/11/19/where-the-trains-turn/
Tor - e-book - 2014
eISBN: 1466883863 / 9781466883864
ASIN : B00N6LRIY6
in
'Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2014'
Tor - e-book - 2015
eISBN: 1466885874 / 9781466885875
ASIN : B00P5JNNBE
in
'The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2015'
Prime Books - trade paperback - 2015
ISBN: 1607014556 / 9781607014553
Prime Books - e-book - 2015
eISBN: 1607014645 / 9781607014645
BN ID: 2940152193558
ASIN : B0110U087I
synopsis
Emma Nightingale prefers to remain grounded in reality as much as possible. Yet she's willing to indulge her nine year-old son Rupert's fascination with trains, as it brings him closer to his father, Gunnar, from whom she is separated. Once a month, Gunnar and Rupert venture out to follow the rails and watch the trains pass. Their trips have been pleasant, if uneventful, until one afternoon Rupert returns in tears. "The train tried to kill us," he tells her.
Rupert's terror strikes Emma as merely the product of an overactive imagination. After all, his fears could not be based in reality, could they?
awards
first prize Portti magazine annual short story competition
first prize Atorox Award for best Finnish science fiction or fantasy short story
( Finnish title - Missä junat kääntyvät 2000 )
novella by Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen
translated by Liisa Rantalaiho
Published: Tor - webzine - 2014
url: https://www.tor.com/2014/11/19/where-the-trains-turn/
Tor - e-book - 2014
eISBN: 1466883863 / 9781466883864
ASIN : B00N6LRIY6
in
'Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2014'
Tor - e-book - 2015
eISBN: 1466885874 / 9781466885875
ASIN : B00P5JNNBE
in
'The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2015'
Prime Books - trade paperback - 2015
ISBN: 1607014556 / 9781607014553
Prime Books - e-book - 2015
eISBN: 1607014645 / 9781607014645
BN ID: 2940152193558
ASIN : B0110U087I
synopsis
Emma Nightingale prefers to remain grounded in reality as much as possible. Yet she's willing to indulge her nine year-old son Rupert's fascination with trains, as it brings him closer to his father, Gunnar, from whom she is separated. Once a month, Gunnar and Rupert venture out to follow the rails and watch the trains pass. Their trips have been pleasant, if uneventful, until one afternoon Rupert returns in tears. "The train tried to kill us," he tells her.
Rupert's terror strikes Emma as merely the product of an overactive imagination. After all, his fears could not be based in reality, could they?
awards
first prize Portti magazine annual short story competition
first prize Atorox Award for best Finnish science fiction or fantasy short story