Tag: italian science fiction

IT’S BIFF TANNEN’S TIMELINE, FOLKS!

Biff's Towers, Biff's Casinos, Biff's Huge Portraits! Do you remember "BACK TO THE FUTURE?" That very ‘charming’ character named BIFF TANNEN? An aggressive, thuggish imbecile? In "BACK TO THE FUTURE Part II" (1989), BIFF TANNEN reveals the full extent of his potential! Welcome to the BIFF TANNEN’S TIMELINE — a world of broken neon, puffed‑up swindlers, false prophets, and masses hypnotized by the fraudulent spectacle of power...

SPAIN: WHERE THE FANTASTIC BECOMES A NATIONAL PULSE

There are countries that host film festivals, and then there is Spain — a land where the fantastic is not a genre but a living, breathing cultural instinct. Here, imagination is not an escape from reality; it is a parallel bloodstream running through Catalonia’s cliffs, through the old stones of San Sebastian, through the sun‑drenched plazas of Málaga, through the restless nights of Molins de...
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“Altri futuri” (Other Futures) The Year’s Best Italian Science Fiction Short Stories

The best of the 2018 Italian independent science fiction, edited by the Carmine Treanni, director of Delos Science Fiction, the longest continuously online science...

World Science Fiction #1. Visions to Preserve the Biodiversity of the Future : the first Anthology of International Science Fiction published in English by...

World Science Fiction #1. Visions to Preserve the Biodiversity of the Future Editor : Francesco Verso On one volume the best short stories to come out...

2019 Premio Italia Winners

The Italian Conference of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Italcon) announced winners for the 2019 Premio Italia on May 4, 2019, during Vaporosamente 10 held in...

The 2018 Trieste Science+Fiction Festival (Italy)

Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, programmed from the 30th of October to the 4th of November 2018, for its 18th edition assigns the Silver Urania Award...

The 2018 SF&F Premio Italia (Italy Award)

  Italcon, the Italian Convention of Science Fiction &Fantasy announced the winners for the 44th edition of the Italian SF&F Premio Italia (Italy Award) at...

Italian Writer Niccolò Ammaniti’s SF Novel “Anna”

The extraordinary dystopian novel from the internationally-bestselling author of "I’m Not Scared" ("Io non ho paura", 2001, Premio Viareggio), Since it's original publication in...

2017 Premio Italia Shortlist (Italy)

The Italian Conference of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Italcon) announced the shortlist for the 2017 Premio Italia on April 7, 2017. Italian Science Fiction Novel Nelson,...

Rachel Cordasco’s Review of „Black Tea and Other Tales” by Samuel Marolla (Italy)

Rachel Cordasco : "I first read the title story in The Apex Book of World SF 4 (ed. Mahvesh Murad, 2015) a year ago,...

ITALCON 42 & PREMIO ITALIA 2016

Every year in the spring takes place Italcon (The SF & F Italian National Convention/Convegno Nazionale del Fantastico e della Fantascienza/Convention Italiana del Fantastico)....

Science Fiction Studies’ Special Issue Dedicated to the Italian SF

  The issue 126/2015 of the prestigious American academic quarterly Science Fiction Studies is dedicated to the Italian science fiction (fantascienza), a summary coordinated by Arielle...

A Video Conference in Paris with Valerio Evangelisti (Italy)

A video conference with the italian writer Valerio Evangelisti was held at Librairie Charybdis (Charybdis Bookstore), 129 rue de Charenton, Paris, on the 4th...

“Science Fiction Studies” Special Issue On Italian Science Fiction

  "Science Fiction Studies" (SFS) is one of world’s most prestigious academic journals dedicated to the study, research and exegesis of the speculative fiction. SFS was...