Kimmo Lehtonen is a Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 science fiction

Science fiction

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 novelist. He was also a longtime chairman of the Helsinki Science Fiction Society, and still is an active member of the Helsinki

Helsinki

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 fandom

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 scene. He runs the most active science fiction oriented website in Finland, Babek Nabel.

His first novel Timbuktun hetket ("Timbuktu Moments", 1997) was an eerily prescient tale of a Muslim

Islam

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 fundamentalist

Islamic fundamentalism

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 who is bankrolled by a businessman with ulterior motives to create havoc in order to destabilize an Arab nation's government.

His second novel Yli uusien rantojen ("Over new shores", 2000), is a story about collective global trauma after a quick visit by an alien race.

His third novel, LUEMINUT ("README", 2006), published under a Creative Commons

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 license, is a European vision of future, an open network of people, ideas and events. The book is inspired by dynamics of Linux

Linux

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, Internet

Internet

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 and Open source

Open source

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communities.