Where the Trains Turn

A Tor.Com Original

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy
Cover of the book Where the Trains Turn by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, Tom Doherty Associates
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Author: Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen ISBN: 9781466883864
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates Publication: November 19, 2014
Imprint: Tor Books Language: English
Author: Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
ISBN: 9781466883864
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Publication: November 19, 2014
Imprint: Tor Books
Language: English

Published here for the first time in English, "Where the Trains Turn" won first prize in the Finnish science-fiction magazine Portti's annual short story competition and then went on to win the Atorox Award for best Finnish science fiction or fantasy short story.

I don't like to think about the past. But I cannot stop remembering my son.

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?

"In this long novella, the details are presented meticulously, building characters and atmosphere layer on layer."--Locus

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Published here for the first time in English, "Where the Trains Turn" won first prize in the Finnish science-fiction magazine Portti's annual short story competition and then went on to win the Atorox Award for best Finnish science fiction or fantasy short story.

I don't like to think about the past. But I cannot stop remembering my son.

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?

"In this long novella, the details are presented meticulously, building characters and atmosphere layer on layer."--Locus

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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