# Emil Petaja *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 30 Apr 2001* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### David Lebling *30 Apr 2001, 08:58* > From: "Alice Turner" > What is Emil Petaja's series? The shamaness witch in Xena was a very bad > hat, a worthy opponent, and the eps (3, I think) were quite thrilling, > with a lot of wire work a la Crouching Tiger. I don't suppose Finnish > and Lap mythology differs much, but "Finnish witches" doesn't have the > uncanny sound of "Lapland witches." According to http://www.pandorasbox.com/petaja.html (isn't Google wonderful?) the Kalevala-related books are: _Saga of Lost Earths_, _The Star Mill_, _The Stolen Sun_, _Tramontane_ which make up the "Otava Series", and peripherally, _The Time Twister_. These were all published by Ace in the mid-60s (remember Ace Doubles?). I'm sure they are all long out-of-print. > I'm 135 pages into Book 3 and already I feel that the writer is > flagging. Those critters that Dr. Malone finds with the wheels and > trunks seem plain silly to me, ditto the giant birds with the malevolent > poops. Agree completely. There are some excellent segments further on, though. Dave Lebling aka vizcacha ---