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With most of FSFWA’s activities the language forms a barrier for non-Finnish speakers. This is also the case with Cosmos Pen. Just like all Finnish sf/f zines, it is published in Finnish. Over the years Kosmoskynä has published three English specials, the first in 1991 and the latest in 2006, downloadable as pdf from the main page.

Some of the material published in the English Eurocon -Baltcon special in (2/2003) is also available on the net in html format:

• Jarmo Karonen: Finlandia Winner Resists Classification
• Anne Leinonen: Recipe for a Bad Short Story
• Pasi Karppanen: A Look at Current Finnish Science Fiction
• A Short Look at Baltic Fandom
• Pasi Karppanen, Shimo Suntila: A Look at Finnish Fandom
• Cosmic Colosseum

In the latest Cosmos Pen's English special (2/2006) the article "A Look at Finish Fandom" was given a new life and has after that been kept up-to-date by the zine's former editor-in-chief Pasi Karppanen. The artice's idea to give one an overview of the history of Finnish fandom, as well as an idea what is happening here currently.

• Pasi Karppanen: The Finnish Fandom - All You Need to Know About It

Addition to that, there has been a series of articles in the zine which have concentrated on the history of fandom and sf/f literature in various European countries. If you are interested writing a similar article for Cosmos Pen, focusing on your country's fandom, we would be more than interested publishing one. However, bear in mind that like all Finnish zines, Cosmos Pen is based on volunteer work.

So far there has been three articles in the series:

• Alain le Bussy: French sf and fandom (Kosmoskynä 4/2004)
• Florian Breitsameter: Science fiction in Germany (Kosmoskynä 4/2003)
• Ahrvid Engholm: Swedisf skiffy writing scene (Kosmoskynä 2/2002)