Fabio Aloisio’s short story Mercy is the winner of the Premo Urania Short.

His was one of three stories released by Italian publisher Urania last November, in the appendix of the Premia Urania winning novel by Francesca Cavallero. The other two stories were Elia Gonella’s Sei mesi in una notte and Axa Lydia Vallotto’s Reboot. The winner was decided by a vote of the readers.

Aloisio, from Trieste, engineer, was also a finalist in the Premio Robot.