Year's Best SF 13

Chapter One

Baby Doll

Johanna Sinisalo

Translated from the Finnish by David Hackston

Johanna Sinisalo lives in the city of Tampere, in southern Finland, and is a contemporary Finnish SF and Fantasy writer. She is also a reviewer, columnist, comics writer, and screenwriter. She worked in advertising for fifteen years before turning to writing full time. Her first novel, published in the U.S. as Troll: A Love Story, was awarded Finland's most important literary prize. Her first collection came out in Finnish in 2005, Kädettömät kuninkaat ja muita häiritseviä tarinoita ["Handless Kings and Other Disturbing Stories"]. She has edited The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy.

"Baby Doll," which appeared for the first time in English in 2007, in The SFWA European Hall of Fame, edited by James Morrow and Kathryn Morrow, was previously collected in the 2002 Finnish anthology Intohimosta rikokseen; it has also appeared in French, and in several other languages. It is a dark story which e ... read full excerpt from Year's Best SF 13 ebook