Livido has won the 2011 ODYSSEY AWARD by Delos Books Publishing House. Theme: An imaginary city is endangered by the growing of “kipple” (garbage & trash) that takes over the whole urban territory. Most of the people live out of “recycling” and “reusing” of dump materials, while a small part of the population is uploading themselves onto a new artificial body. [...]
Entering a prison leaves you numb. And if you go to Regina Coeli, a roman panopticon building, to talk about fiction to detainees, the experience is almost labyrinthine. And not because you feel lost, but because here you are “lost”. Lost in the sense of removed from the everyday context and dropped into a porposed-built one to “control and hold.” [...]
NeXT-Fest: The Connectivists Convention with Bruce Sterling in Rome. From Friday the 26th to Sunday the 28th of October, at the wonderful Elsa Morante Cultural Center in Rome, hosted by Pier Luigi Manieri, took place the NeXT-Fest, the first roman Convention of the “Connectivists” literary SF movement that, over the past eight years, has emerged to the attention of SF [...]
On Delos Magazine 148, dedicated to the 60 years anniversary of SF in Italy, by the director Carmine Treanni, has been published my short story “A Midsummer’s Future Dream” (you can read it and download for free) in a “linguistically normalized ” version. The story is the same that has been published last year by Kipple Officina Libraria, but in [...]
Three years have passed since e-Doll won the Urania Mondadori Award, radically changing my entire life. I owe this novel – written between 2004 and 2007 – everything good and bad that I’ve written and will be writing onwards. So it was with a sense of gratitude that I have approched editing the text of this new version published by [...]
Last year I’ve met Robert J. Sawyer. First, at the SF Con Delos Days in Milan, and then in Rome, where Robert and his wife spent some days. During a dinner, maybe due to the recklessness I was never ashamed of or more probably for too much Vermentino wine, I asked him if he had a short story to offer [...]
BloodBusters is finished! Theme: What if taxes were paid by citizens through blood withdrawals? What if tax evasion was a crime punishable with imprisonment and enforced by the BloodBusters? What if donating blood was an illegal procedure? And what if Ematogen, a delicious snack derived from blood, was everyone’s favourite food? Plot: In a grotesque Rome, Alan Costa, a BloodBuster [...]
