Future Fiction
a project born to explore the biodiversity of the future

Future Fiction
a project born to explore the biodiversity of the future

SCIENCE FICTION TO UNDERSTAND AND IMAGINE TOMORROW

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Future Fiction is a cultural association of social promotion founded by Francesco Verso and Francesco Mantovani. Our project aims to disseminate and promote an interdisciplinary approach to the idea of ​​the future, using science fiction and speculation as bridges between today and tomorrow: a multicultural and transmedia laboratory of narratives that explore the ambiguous and symbiotic relationship between man and technology.

With the ambition of mapping the other “tomorrows” declined by every culture and tradition, Future Fiction organizes and participates in seminars, workshops, conferences, and congresses in Italy and around the world on highly topical issues related to innovation, anticipation, and speculation, thus contributing to the debate with articles, essays, novels, and anthologies, both printed and digital.

After more than 160 digital publications and 50 paper books, the project has become an excellent aggregator of content and a place of discovery for anyone who sees tomorrow, not only dismal dystopias and unlikely apocalypses but also an analysis and entertainment tool to find orientation. , among the incredible transformations that are increasingly impacting humanity at all levels, from the technological to the biopolitical, social, economic, and environmental.

THE BEST WRITERS OF SCIENCE FICTION FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD

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In addition to the main Future Fiction series, on which the best genre writers are published in translation from at least 13 languages (Chinese, Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Greek, Norwegian, Catalan, and Italian) and over 30 different countries, Future Fiction develops a series of volumes in dual language and fiction/non-fiction format that address the most pressing issues of tomorrow: from the use of artificial intelligence to environmental risks linked to climate change, from the future of human reproduction to new 3D printing makers, from Big Data applications, to gene editing made possible by CRISPR-Cas9 techniques, to post-cyberpunk urban scenarios in which all of us – from Beijing to Nairobi, from London to Sao Paulo, passing through Rome – we already live.

AUDIOBOOKS AND COMICS TO EXPAND THE BORDERS OF THE IMAGINATION

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Alongside the written stories, we have developed a series of Future Fiction audiobooks, produced and distributed by Audible Italia, and a comic book series called Futuresque, edited by Emanuele Vicendone. With these new media, we intend to expand the dissemination channels thanks to which our stories and visions of the future will become an integral part of your imagination.

WE HAVE WON AWARDS E COLLECTED INTERNATIONAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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  • 2018 | Future Fiction editor, Francesco Verso, wins the Italia Award as best editor;

  • 2019 | The Refesticon Convention of Montenegro awards Francesco Verso the Golden Dragon (Zlatni Zmaj) for the promotion of international Science Fiction;

  • 2019 | Future Fiction wins the Best Publisher Award from the European SF Society in Belfast;

  • 2019 | Francesco Verso is appointed Creative Director of the Fishing Fortress Science Fiction College in Chongqing (China).

FUTURE FICTION CONSTANTLY COLLABORATES WITH RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTERS, EDITORS AND INTERNATIONAL LITERARY AGENCIES, UNIVERSITIES IN ITALY AND ABROAD

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  • CoFutures: international research group working on global contemporary Futurism based at the University of Oslo;
  • Italian Institute for the Future: cultural association based in Naples;
  • Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa;
  • International School of Comics: Rome, Florence, and Turin;
  • Confucius Institutes of Italy: Milan, Turin, Pisa, Bologna, Venice, Naples, and Rome;
  • Audible Italia: producer and distributor of audiobooks;
  • Bofeng Culture: Chinese science fiction publisher from Beijing;
  • Flame Tree Press: English fiction publisher from London;
  • Luna Press: Edinburgh-based English fiction publisher;
  • Full Color Sound: publisher and producer of audiobooks from Rome;
  • Apex Magazine: American online magazine;
  • Future Wave: literary agency specializing in the import/export of copyright of science fiction works.

WE ARE ALWAYS PRESENT AT BOOK FAIRS AND NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS

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  • Turin Book Fair;
  • Book Pride of Milan and Genoa;
  • Più Libri Più Liberi of RomE;
  • Book City of Milan;
  • Pisa Book Festival;
  • Naples Book Fair;
  • EuroCon and WorldCon (circuit of European and world Science Fiction conventions);
  • Chengdu International Science Fiction Convention (China);
  • Science Fiction Creative Writing Workshop at Fishing Fortress College in Chongqing (China).