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Francesco Verso

Writing short stories – contrary to popular belief – is very hard. You can’t procrastinate, you can’t hide behind turns of phrase, you have to know where you are going and which buttons to press to reach the point in as few words as possible. Paradoxically the short story is the narrative form most suitable […]

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Francesco Verso & Francesco Mantovani & Maurizio Balistreri

iMate

Also available in hardcopy. Janna travels to Naples for a mysterious job interview, searching for a way to pay for her partner Eskin’s medical bills. Once she arrives, she finds that the interview is but a pretense; this is the start of a process of awareness that will change her life forever. iMate is […]

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Avatar - indian science fiction

India, the near future: these nine stories, like threads reaching towards tomorrow, explore the variegated tapestry of Indian speculative fiction, touching on themes like the advent of bio-politics, the connections between new (social) media and language, the inexorable rise of Big Data and algorithms, the spread of 3D printers, and the increasing use of prosthetics […]

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James Patrick Kelly

Surprise party

DUAL LANGUAGE EDITION: ENGLISH / ITALIAN (printed edition in dual language also available) James Patrick Kelly represents the human side of cyberpunk and Surprise Party is the first collection of his short stories ever published in dual language, English and Italian. It features the following stories: Bernardo’s House, Surprise Party, The Promise of Space, Declaration, […]

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Xia Jia

Spring Festival

Translated for the first time in English by Ken Liu, “Spring Festival” is the first short story collection by Xia Jia and it represents an excellent opportunity to discover one of the best writers of contemporary Chinese Speculative Fiction. “Tongtong’s Summer” revolves around a highly topical issue: the use of androids as support for a […]

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Francesco Verso and Maurizio Balistreri

The Unboarn (dual language edition eng-ita)

With the unstoppable growth of the world population, the demographic issue is often at the center of the debate about the future of the human species: will there be enough resources for everyone or will the employment of birth control techniques become a legitimate solution? Future scenarios will also be connected to new reproductive technologies […]

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Claude Lalumière

Other persons

These three stories by Claude Lalumière range from climate fiction to dystopian and sociological scenarios, investigating the concepts of identity and belonging in an illuminating and evocative way. Dual language edition in English and Italian.

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Rich Larson

Ghost girl - La ragazza girl

Four wonderful stories by award-winning author Richard Larson are published together for the first time alongside their Italian translations: Meet the “Ghost Girl” and her artificial guardian in a Bujumbura junkyard. Party with the post-human hedonists of “Let’s Take This Viral.” See what happens when a basketball prodigy refuses to be “Meshed.” And watch a […]

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Vina Jie-Min Prasad

A series of steaks

Available at Clarkesworld in English.

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Vandana Singh

Entanglement

“The days of the lone ranger were gone; this was the age of the million heroes.” A journey around the world through the actions of ordinary people fighting climate change: from methane leaks in the Arctic Sea, to the Amazonia made arid by drought, to the floodplains of the Ganges and the phenomenon of fracking […]

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Carlos Hernandez

The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria

Buy at Rosarium Publishing – https://rosarium.bookstore.ipgbook.com/the-assimilated-cuban-s-guide-to-quantum-santeria-products-9781495607394.php A quirky collection of short sci-fi stories for fans of Kij Johnson and Kelly Link Assimilation is founded on surrender and being broken; this collection of short stories features people who have assimilated, but are actively trying to reclaim their lives. There is a concert pianist who defies death by uploading […] https://rosarium.bookstore.ipgbook.com/the-assimilated-cuban-s-guide-to-quantum-santeria-products-9781495607394.php

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Jean-Louis Trudel

The Snows of Yesteryear

From Greenland glaciers to water rationing in Italy’s Cinque Terre and nanotech-aided manufacturing, Jean-Louis Trudel deals masterfully and competently with issues arising from climate change and unchecked globalization. His stories explore future scenarios which should no longer prompt mere pondering but urgent action.

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curated by Francesco Verso

Nebula

Available in Chinese-Italian version only 从人口老龄化到气候变化, 触及大众教育和社交网络的影响, 四个故事 –由刘慈欣、夏笳、陈楸帆、吴岩想象而成的故事，展示了一个无论是习俗还是情感都远离西方的中国, 即便在经济和社会问题上它们非常相似。特别值得一提的是在科技上，如此先进的中国使得我们可以看见未来, 一个不仅是东方而是整个世界所期待的未来。 Aging, climate change, mass education, impact of social networks and much more! The stories by Liu Cixin, Xia Jia, Chen Qiufan, and Wu Yan illustrate a China that is far away from the Western world culture, but so similar in the economic-social challenge and so technologically advanced to give […]

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Swapna Kishore

What lies dormant

Young Meera has a gift, a gift that can save a lot of people but that at the same time – if found – can endanger her life and that of others “gatherers”, similar to her. In a future India, where biotechnological wars have devastated the economy and undermined the social fabric, some things, such […]

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Sarah K. Castle

Mutant Stag at Horn Creek

Before radioactivity caused the closure of the Grand Canyon, the young ranger Sue saw a strange animal to Horn Creek: a bizarre stag with twisted horns and – although she wasn’t sure – long fangs. Now, close to retirement, she’s about to make her last ride, together with her niece Katy in hopes she’ll take […]

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Nina Munteanu

The way of water

“…a stunning example of good storytelling with an excellent setting and cast of characters.” – Tangent Online The Way of Water is a near-future vision that explores the nuances of corporate and government corruption and deceit together with resource warfare. An ecologist and technologist, Nina Munteanu uses both fiction and non-fiction to examine our humanity in […]

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Ekaterina Sedia

Citizen Komarova finds love

The short stories collection “Citizen Komarova Finds Love” by Ekateria Sedia offers a unique opportunity to read one of the best Russian writers (now resident in the USA) – of science fiction and new weird. Ekaterina Sedia draws liberally from the so-called “russkaya dusha” (the Russian Soul), and although some stories contain many references to […]

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Ken MacLeod

Jesus Christ reanimator

What if Jesus Christ in flesh, bones and blue jeans came back to Earth? How would he be welcomed by the authorities and the world's population? Would be taken for an impostor, an alien or even the Antichrist?

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Ian McDonald

The Fifth Dragon

Two women loving each other in spite of a hostile environment. Adriana and Achi are moon workers, whose love is marked by a bone atrophy countdown that prevents anyone from returning to the Earth after a certain time. And that time will also be the moment in which they will have to decide what to […]

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Liz Williams

Vodyanoy - Loosestrife

Vodyanoy: What is behind the illness of Roman? Which kind of experiment have been made on the population of a Polish town that no one wants to talk about it, even though everyone seems to know it? And what is the relationship with the creatures of Eastern Europe’s folklore called “Vodyanoy” (Water Spirits)? In this […]

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Pepe Rojo

Grey Noise - Conversations with Yoni Rei

If you loved the seductive car crashes in “Crash” by James Ballard and the grotesque surgery of “The Skin I Live In” by Pedro Almodovar, then the stories of Pepe Rojo will remain in your memory for a very long time. “Grey Noise” is a striking short story – set in a near-future city that […]

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Vajra Chandrasekera

Dharmas / On being undone by a light breeze

When in the virtual spaces of the web you come across a name as Vajra Chandrasekera, you think immediately about Indian mythology, about the weapon of Indra, the lightning and symbolic object that represents him, the “vajra”, precisely. Yet, once you start reading the stories of Vajra Chandrasekera, you find yourself catapulted into a hyper-real […]

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Tom Crosshil

Fragmentation

“Or Ten Thousand Goodbyes”. Nominated for the 2013 Nebula Award in the short-story category Two big messages are intertwined in this short, dense and punchy story by Tom Crosshill. Two messages connected by a common denominator: the goodbye – the goodbye to our beloved as they get old and disappear, and the daily goodbye to […]

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Clelia Farris

Creative Surgery

English edition of this wonderful short story by Clelia Farris will be available soon in the Future Fiction anthology published by Rosarium Publishing: “FUTURE FICTION – New Dimensions in International Science Fiction”… stay tuned! n.a.
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Kenneth Schneyer

Whole Truth Witness

Imagine Lieutenant Columbo – or even better, a Perry Mason of the future – dealing with nanotechnology and you’ll have an idea about what can happen in the story “Whole Truth Witness” in which a woman is accused of wanting to create a defragmenter to reassemble media files with expired copyright. Our lawyer will have […]

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Francesco Verso

Fernando Morales this is your death

The market of death has no limits. But what can an old man with a normal life – not to say trivial – do to make his death an event worthy of being immortalized in front of millions of people? In this delightful, poignant story we discover the unusually ironic side of Francesco Verso: a […]

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Efe Tokumbo

Proposition 23

Efe Tobunko‘s novella – nominated for the 2013 BSFA Awards – is a mix of William Gibson’s Neuromancer and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World focusing on the relationship between what it means to be a citizen and a person. In a future Lagos, dark capital city of Nigeria, three-quarters of the population is considered expendable, […]

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Paul McAuley

Gene Wars & Rocket Boy

Two amazing stories by the British Master of Science Fiction Paul McAuley on biotechnology and artificial intelligence. Gene Wars tells the story of Evan, a boy who grows up in a future society where gene splicing and biotechnolgical techniques are widespread and commonplace. It shows the “progress” of Evan’s career, from his pet-splicing youth, through […]

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Ian McDonald

An Eligible Boy

Cyrano de Bergerac goes to future India to find a wife.An Eligible Boy is a funny and profound story focusing on a key aspect of McDonald‘s future India: selective abortions leading to a hugely imbalanced gender ratio. A four-to-one male to female proportion that forces many men to make desperate appeals to the few women […]

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Francesco Verso

Flush

There’s a new drug around, the mysterious Flush, whose effects are very controversial. Try it and everything will “sound” differently. Flush is a short fiction, a striking piece of “flash fiction”, to be read at full throttle, like you would do with a Trance sound track pushed up to 150 rpm. Flush is also a […]

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Cristian Mihail Teodorescu

Big Bang Larissa - Case 74

Cristian Mihail Teodorescu is one of the best contemporary Romanian science fiction writers, the only Romanian author of speculative fiction nominated for the Grand Prix de L’Imaginaire (France) and one of the few Romanian authors who writes Hard SF. “Big Bang Larissa” – in the text that gives the title of this volume, Cristian Mihail Teodorescu […]

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Francesco Verso

Two Worlds

Two Worlds represents an attempt to overcome the boundaries between science fiction and fantasy. The story is set in a remote future, on an Earth very different from today: the Chimeric development has taken human evolution on strage paths, paths that have led to the advent of other races; hybrid species that possess in their […]

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Michalis Manolios

Aethra - The Quantum Mommy

Winner of 2010 Aeon Award by Albedo One Magazine. Aethra: From the Winner of Aeon Award – Michalis Manolios – an intense and quite disturbing story that starts as an investigation into the murder of an Art Critic to touch issues of human cloning and individual responsibility. Aethra’s villa is not only the crime scene, […]

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James Patrick Kelly

Bernardo's House

A domotic story, a conscious living House, who speaks and shows, through the objects that fill her, the need to be inhabited, to be eternally possessed by a tenant. Get ready for an unusual visit to “Bernardo’s House”, where the topic of home automation is inseparably interwoven with Artificial Intelligence: what would happen if such […]

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