Premio Italia 2023

The winners of the 2023 Premio Italia were revealed on October 14 during Stranimondi 2023 in Milan.

ILLUSTRAZIONE O COPERTINA / ILLUSTRATION OR COVER ART

  • Franco Bambrilla, Trinacria Station, Delos Digital

CURATORE / EDITOR

  • Andrea Vaccaro

TRADUTTORE / TRANSLATOR

  • Elena Furlan

COLLANA / COLLECTION

  • Oscar Draghi, Mondadori

RIVISTA PROFESSIONALE / PROFESSIONAL MAGAZINE

  • Robot, Delos Books

RIVISTA O SITO WEB NON PROFESSIONALE / NON-PROFESSIONAL MAGAZINE OR WEBSITE

SAGGIO / ESSAY

  • Valerio Evangelisti, a cura di Alberto Sebastiani, Le strade di Alphaville. Conflitto, immaginario e stili nella paraletteratura, Odoya

ROMANZO DI AUTORE ITALIANO – FANTASCIENZA / SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

  • Franci Conforti, Spine, Mondadori

ROMANZO DI AUTORE ITALIANO – FANTASY / FANTASY NOVEL

  • Claudio Chillemi, L’isola di cristallo, Delos Digital

ANTOLOGIA / ANTHOLOGY

  • Gian Filippo Pizzo, Emanuele Manco, Trinacria Station. Antologia della fantascienza siciliana, Delos Digital

RACCONTO DI AUTORE ITALIANO SU PUBBLICAZIONE PROFESSIONALE / STORY BY AN ITALIAN AUTHOR IN A PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATION

  • Claudio Chillemi, Il Bloop, Millemondi Urania, Mondadori

RACCONTO DI AUTORE ITALIANO SU PUBBLICAZIONE AMATORIALE / STORY BY AN ITALIAN AUTHOR IN AN AMATEUR PUBLICATION

  • Lukha B. Kremo, !#A9sRi@1%L€sO0, Fondazione SF 30

ARTICOLO SU PUBBLICAZIONE PROFESSIONALE / ARTICLE IN A PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATION

  • Giulia Abbate, Le donne della Sf italiana, Urania Millemondi. Primo Contatto, Mondadori

ARTICOLO SU PUBBLICAZIONE AMATORIALE / ARTICLE IN AN AMATEUR PUBLICATION

  • Roberto Del Piano, Umani, quasi umani, umanoidi, mutanti e androidi, Un’ambigua utopia 12

ROMANZO INTERNAZIONALE / INTERNATIONAL SF NOVEL

  • Ian MacLeod, La canzone del tempo, Mondadori

FUMETTO DI AUTORE ITALIANO / COMIC BY AN ITALIAN AUTHOR

  • Carlo Recagno, Fabio Grimaldi, Martin Mystere 390: Cronache Marziane, Bonelli

FILM FANTASTICO (PREMIO NON UFFICIALE) / FANTASTIC FILM (UNOFFICIAL PRIZE)

  • Doctor Strange nel Multiverso della Follia

SERIE TELEVISIVA (PREMIO NON UFFICIALE) / TV SERIES (UNOFFICIAL PRIZE)

  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Stagione 1 – Paramount+

Premio Italia 2023 Shortlist

The finalists for the 2023 Premio Italia have been revealed.

The winners will be announced on October 14 during Stranimondi 2023 in Milan.

2023 FINALISTS

ILLUSTRAZIONE O COPERTINA / ILLUSTRATION OR COVER ART

  • Franco Bambrilla, Trinacria Station, Delos Digital
  • Giuseppe Festino, Cover, Fondazione SF 30
  • Ksenja Laginja, Non è che un sogno, Kipple
  • Luca Oleastri, Universi paralleli, Long Stories, Edizioni Scudo
  • Maurizio Manzieri, La torre di cristallo di Robert Silverberg, Fanucci

CURATORE / EDITOR

  • Andrea Vaccaro
  • Carmine Treanni
  • Luca Ortino
  • Lukha B. Kremo
  • Marco Passarello

TRADUTTORE / TRANSLATOR

  • Beppe Roncari
  • Elena Furlan
  • Marco Passarello
  • Roberto Del Piano
  • Salvatore Deodato

COLLANA / COLLECTION

  • 42 nodi, Zona 42
  • Dystopica, Delos Digital
  • Odissea Fantasy, Delos Digital
  • Oscar Draghi, Mondadori
  • Strane Visioni Digital, Hypnos

RIVISTA PROFESSIONALE / PROFESSIONAL MAGAZINE

  • Dimensione Cosmica, Tabula Fati
  • Hypnos, Edizioni Hypnos
  • Providence Tales, Providence Press
  • Robot, Delos Books
  • Zothique, Dagon Press

RIVISTA O SITO WEB NON PROFESSIONALE / NON-PROFESSIONAL MAGAZINE OR WEBSITE

SAGGIO / ESSAY

  • Davide Arecco, Roberto Chiavini, Luca Ortino, Franco Piccinini, Gli scrittori di Urania, Profondo Rosso
  • Gianfranco De Turris, Sotto il segno di Urania, Oaks
  • Giovanni Mongini, Mario Luca Moretti, Fantascienza Movie Story (7 volumi), Edizioni Scudo
  • Michele Tetro, Roberto Azzara, Astronavi, Odoya
  • Valerio Evangelisti, a cura di Alberto Sebastiani, Le strade di Alphaville. Conflitto, immaginario e stili nella paraletteratura, Odoya

ROMANZO DI AUTORE ITALIANO – FANTASCIENZA / SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

  • Clelia Farris, I vegumani, Future fiction
  • Dario Tonani, Mya di Mondo9, Mondadori
  • Francesca Cavallero, Il sangue delle madri, Mondadori
  • Franci Conforti, Spine, Mondadori
  • Giovanna Repetto, L’arte di non muoversi, Delos Digital
  • Nicoletta Vallorani, Noi siamo campo di battaglia, Zona 42

ROMANZO DI AUTORE ITALIANO – FANTASY / FANTASY NOVEL

  • Claudio Chillemi, L’isola di cristallo, Delos Digital
  • Cristiano Demicheli, L’anno delle volpi, Hypnos
  • Luca Mazza, Jack Sensolini, Apocalemme, Lethal Books
  • M. Caterina Mortillaro, Il sangue e la folgore, Delos Digital
  • Maurizio Cometto, Il grande sogno, Delos Digital

ANTOLOGIA / ANTHOLOGY

  • Carmine Treanni, Universi smarriti, Delos Digital
  • Gian Filippo Pizzo, Emanuele Manco, Trinacria Station. Antologia della fantascienza siciliana, Delos Digital
  • Luigi Musolino, Un buio diverso, Edizioni Hypnos
  • Marco Passarello, Fanta-Scienza 2, Delos Digital
  • Pier Luigi Manieri, Operazione Europa 2, Elara
  • Valeria Barbera, Andrea Tortoreto, Distopia vs Utopia, Delos Digital

RACCONTO DI AUTORE ITALIANO SU PUBBLICAZIONE PROFESSIONALE / STORY BY AN ITALIAN AUTHOR IN A PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATION

  • Claudio Chillemi, Il Bloop, Millemondi Urania, Mondadori
  • Clelia Farris, Conservare e tramandare, Fanta-Scienza 2, Delos Digital
  • Elisa Franco, Travelers in pink, Urania Millemondi, Mondadori
  • Emanuele Manco, Terraforming, Trinacria Station, Antologia della fantascienza siciliana, Delos Digital
  • Marco Passarello, Ouija, Fanta-Scienza 2, Delos Digital

RACCONTO DI AUTORE ITALIANO SU PUBBLICAZIONE AMATORIALE / STORY BY AN ITALIAN AUTHOR IN AN AMATEUR PUBLICATION

  • Davide Del Popolo Riolo, Io e Peter, Un’ambigua utopia
  • Elena Giorgiana Mirabelli, Nella sua bocca, Specularia
  • Franci Conforti, Yanez, lo squassaclassifiche, Fondazione SF 30
  • Lucio Besana, Delta, Specularia
  • Lukha B. Kremo, !#A9sRi@1%L€sO0, Fondazione SF 30

ARTICOLO SU PUBBLICAZIONE PROFESSIONALE / ARTICLE IN A PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATION

  • Carmine Treanni, Fandom, fantascienza e narrazioni transmediali, Delos Science Fiction 233, Delos Books
  • Claudio Chillemi, Il World Building, Writers Magazine Italia 63, Delos Books
  • Davide Del Popolo Riolo, Che cos’è (per me) scrivere fantascienza, Delos Sf, Delos Digital
  • Emanuele Manco, Fantascienza russa, Fantasy Voice, Simone Bonaccorso
  • Giulia Abbate, Le donne della Sf italiana, Urania Millemondi. Primo Contatto, Mondadori
  • Laura Coci, Oltre il tempo (postfazione a Daniela Piegai, Il mondo non è nostro), Odissea Fantascienza, Delos Digital

ARTICOLO SU PUBBLICAZIONE AMATORIALE / ARTICLE IN AN AMATEUR PUBLICATION

  • Enrico Di Stefano, La Macchina nella Fantascienza, Fondazione SF 30
  • Francesco Spadaro, Messina Caput Mundi, Fondazione SF 30
  • Nino Martino, Solarpunk tra rivoluzione e conservazione, Fondazione SF 30
  • Roberto Del Piano, Umani, quasi umani, umanoidi, mutanti e androidi, Un’ambigua utopia 12
  • Salvatore Deodato, L’Anello del Male: da Tolkien ad Asimov ai giorni nostri, Fondazione SF 30

ROMANZO INTERNAZIONALE / INTERNATIONAL SF NOVEL

  • Adrian Tchaikovsky, Frammenti della Terra, Fanucci
  • Ian MacLeod, La canzone del tempo, Mondadori
  • Lavanya Lakshminarayan, Analogico/virtuale, Future Fiction
  • N.K. Jemisin, La città che siamo diventati, Mondadori
  • Peter Hamilton, Gareth Powell, La cacciatrice di luce, Fanucci

FUMETTO DI AUTORE ITALIANO / COMIC BY AN ITALIAN AUTHOR

  • Carlo Recagno, Fabio Grimaldi, Martin Mystere 390: Cronache Marziane, Bonelli
  • Michela Cacciatore, Hades, Tora Edizioni
  • Vigna, Bastianoni, Giardo, Nathan Never 370 Indagine su un Fantasma, Bonelli
  • Vigna, Bonazzi, Nathan Never 368 L’Eredità di Skotos, Bonelli
  • Vigna, Fara, Regazzoni, Nathan Never 371 – Rigenerazione, Bonelli

FILM FANTASTICO (PREMIO NON UFFICIALE) / FANTASTIC FILM (UNOFFICIAL PRIZE)

  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
  • Crimes of the Future
  • Doctor Strange nel Multiverso della Follia
  • Nope
  • Siccità

SERIE TELEVISIVA (PREMIO NON UFFICIALE) / TV SERIES (UNOFFICIAL PRIZE)

  • Andor – Stagione 1 – Disney+
  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Stagione 1 – Paramount+
  • The Boys – Stagione 3 – Prime Video
  • The Orville – Stagione 3 – Disney+
  • The Sandman – Stagione 1 – Netflix

Premio Italia 2022 Winners

The winners of the 2022 Premio Italia were revealed on December 10 at Aetnacon 2022 (Italcon) in Catania, Italy.

ILLUSTRAZIONE O COPERTINA / ILLUSTRATION OR COVER ART

  • Franco Brambilla, Copertina, Fondazione Sf magazine 29

CURATORE / EDITOR

  • Giulia Abbate e Elena Di Fazio

TRADUTTORE / TRANSLATOR

  • Chiara Beltrami

COLLANA / COLLECTION

  • Odissea Fantascienza, Delos Digital

RIVISTA PROFESSIONALE / PROFESSIONAL MAGAZINE

  • Delos Science Fiction, Delos Books

RIVISTA O SITO WEB NON PROFESSIONALE / NON-PROFESSIONAL MAGAZINE OR WEBSITE

SAGGIO / ESSAY

  • Giovanni Mongini, Science Fiction Theatre: la serie tv, Edizioni Scudo

ROMANZO DI AUTORE ITALIANO – FANTASCIENZA / SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

  • Franci Conforti, Eden, Delos Digital

ROMANZO DI AUTORE ITALIANO – FANTASY / FANTASY NOVEL

  • Claudio Chillemi, L’aquila nera, Delos Digital

ANTOLOGIA / ANTHOLOGY

  • Franco Forte, Temponauti, Mondadori

RACCONTO DI AUTORE ITALIANO SU PUBBLICAZIONE PROFESSIONALE / STORY BY AN ITALIAN AUTHOR IN A PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATION

  • Davide Del Popolo Riolo, Il giorno in cui vinsi la guerra del passato, Urania Millemondi, Mondadori

RACCONTO DI AUTORE ITALIANO SU PUBBLICAZIONE AMATORIALE / STORY BY AN ITALIAN AUTHOR IN AN AMATEUR PUBLICATION

  • Giulia Abbate, Il perfetto qualsiasi cosa, Fondazione Sf Magazine 29

ARTICOLO SU PUBBLICAZIONE PROFESSIONALE / ARTICLE IN A PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATION

  • Giulia Abbate, L’Inferno in Terra: la Distopia Climatica, Fantasy Voice, Simone Bonaccorso

ARTICOLO SU PUBBLICAZIONE AMATORIALE / ARTICLE IN AN AMATEUR PUBLICATION

  • Laura Coci, Fantascienza, un genere (femminile): Daniela Piegai, Vitamine Vaganti

ROMANZO INTERNAZIONALE / INTERNATIONAL SF NOVEL

  • Susanna Clarke, Piranesi, Fazi

FUMETTO DI AUTORE ITALIANO / COMIC BY AN ITALIAN AUTHOR

  • Alfredo Castelli – Lucio Filippucci, Martin Mystère – Ottant’anni fa, Bonelli

FILM FANTASTICO (PREMIO NON UFFICIALE) / FANTASTIC FILM (UNOFFICIAL PRIZE)

  • Dune

SERIE TELEVISIVA (PREMIO NON UFFICIALE) / TV SERIES (UNOFFICIAL PRIZE)

  • The Expanse

Premio Italia 2022 Shortlist

The finalists for the 2022 Premio Italia have been revealed

The winners will be announced on December 10 during Aetnacon 2022 Italcon in Catania.

2022 FINALISTS

ILLUSTRAZIONE O COPERTINA / ILLUSTRATION OR COVER ART

  • Franco Brambilla, Copertina, Fondazione Sf magazine 29
  • Gabriele Operti, Hortus Mirabilis. Storie di piante immaginarie, Moscabianca
  • Ksenja Laginja, La volontà trasgressiva, Kipple
  • Le Nevralgie Costanti, Human/ Corpi ibridi, mutanti e fluidi nell’universo del possibile, Moscabianca
  • Luca Oleastri, Quando i mondi si scontrano, Quando i mondi si scontrano – Parte terza: Gli Altri di Giovanni Mongini, Edizioni Scudo
  • Maurizio Manzieri, Poster Ufficiale, EuroCon 2021, Fiuggi

CURATORE / EDITOR

  • Andrea Vaccaro
  • Carmine Treanni
  • Franco Ricciardiello
  • Gian Filippo Pizzo
  • Giulia Abbate e Elena Di Fazio

TRADUTTORE / TRANSLATOR

  • Chiara Beltrami
  • Chiara Puntil
  • Davide De Boni
  • Laura Sestri
  • Roberto Del Piano

COLLANA / COLLECTION

  • 42 Nodi, Zona 42
  • Odissea Fantascienza, Delos Digital
  • Oscar Draghi, Mondadori
  • Strane Visioni, Hypnos
  • Urania Collezione, Mondadori

RIVISTA PROFESSIONALE / PROFESSIONAL MAGAZINE

  • Delos Science Fiction, Delos Books
  • Dimensione Cosmica, Tabula Fati
  • Fantasy & Science Fiction, Elara
  • Hypnos, Edizioni Hypnos
  • Providence Tales, Providence Press

RIVISTA O SITO WEB NON PROFESSIONALE / NON-PROFESSIONAL MAGAZINE OR WEBSITE

SAGGIO / ESSAY

  • Elvezio Sciallis, Scritti. Volume Uno, Zona 42
  • Filippo Rossi, Dune. Tra le sabbie del mito, NPE
  • Giovanni Mongini, Science Fiction Theatre: la serie tv, Edizioni Scudo
  • Marco Maculotti, Carcosa svelata. Appunti per una lettura esoterica di True Detective, Mimesis
  • Michele Tetro, Spazio, il vuoto davanti, Odoya
  • Stefano Carducci, Alessandro Fambrini, Philip K. Dick. Tossine metaboliche e complessi illusori prevalenti, Mimesis

ROMANZO DI AUTORE ITALIANO – FANTASCIENZA / SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

  • Andrea Viscusi, Sinfonia per theremin e merli, Zona 42
  • Claudio Chillemi, I tre stati dell’acqua, Delos Digital
  • Elena Di Fazio, Resurrezione, Mondadori
  • Franci Conforti, Eden, Delos Digital
  • Piero Schiavo Campo, La follia di Eos, Delos Digital

ROMANZO DI AUTORE ITALIANO – FANTASY / FANTASY NOVEL

  • Andrea Carlo Cappi, Diabolik. Il romanzo del film, Mondadori
  • Besana Lucio, Storie della serie cremisi, Hypnos
  • Claudio Chillemi, L’aquila nera, Delos Digital
  • Maurizio Cometto, La città delle anime, Delos Digital
  • Sara Simoni, Dolomites – Cuore di rovi, Acheron Books

ANTOLOGIA / ANTHOLOGY

  • Aa Vv, Hortus Mirabilis: Storie di piante immaginarie, Moscabianca
  • Carmine Treanni, Oltre il reale, Delos Digital
  • Franco Forte, Temponauti, Mondadori
  • Franco Ricciardiello Delos Veronesi, Quando il sole bruciava, Delos Digital
  • Gian Filippo Pizzo, Metamorfosi della mente, Tabula Fati

RACCONTO DI AUTORE ITALIANO SU PUBBLICAZIONE PROFESSIONALE / STORY BY AN ITALIAN AUTHOR IN A PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATION

  • Claudio Chillemi, Dissolvenza in Corpo 15, Innsmouth, Delos Digital
  • Davide Del Popolo Riolo, Il giorno in cui vinsi la guerra del passato, Urania Millemondi, Mondadori
  • Giovanna Repetto, Corpi paralleli, Urania Millemondi, Mondadori
  • Linda De Santi, Venere di nylon, Human/ Corpi ibridi, mutanti e fluidi nell’universo del possibile, Moscabianca
  • Luigi Musolino, Pupille, 42 Nodi, Zona 42

RACCONTO DI AUTORE ITALIANO SU PUBBLICAZIONE AMATORIALE / STORY BY AN ITALIAN AUTHOR IN AN AMATEUR PUBLICATION

  • Axa Lydia Vallotto, Pareidolia, Specularia
  • Giulia Abbate, Il perfetto qualsiasi cosa, Fondazione Sf Magazine 29
  • Lukha B. Kremo, Inalerete il senso, La Nuova Carne
  • Nino Martino, Golgo, Fondazione Sf Magazine 29
  • Tea C. Blanc, Il muro, Nuove Vie

ARTICOLO SU PUBBLICAZIONE PROFESSIONALE / ARTICLE IN A PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATION

  • Carmine Treanni, Dune può essere considerato un precursore della Climate fiction?, Wired.it, Condé Nast Italia
  • Giulia Abbate, L’Inferno in Terra: la Distopia Climatica, Fantasy Voice, Simone Bonaccorso
  • Giuliana Misserville, Il Dono dei mostri, Fantasy Voice, Simone Bonaccorso
  • Maico Morellini, Cyber-ludens: tra volontà, Linguaggio ed evoluzione, Homo Cyber Ludens, Idra Editing
  • Valeria Barbera, Spin, Fantascienza.com, Delos Books

ARTICOLO SU PUBBLICAZIONE AMATORIALE / ARTICLE IN AN AMATEUR PUBLICATION

  • Bruno Caporlingua, Magnus Robot Fighter 4000 A.D., Fondazione Sf Magazine 29
  • Enrico Di Stefano, Parapsicologia e Aldilà nella Fantascienza, Fondazione Sf Magazine 29
  • Giovanni De Matteo, Futuri senza via di fuga: The Peripheral di William Gibson, Holonomikon
  • Laura Coci, Fantascienza, un genere (femminile): Daniela Piegai, Vitamine Vaganti
  • Salvatore Deodato, Quel culto dell’ignoranza denunciato da Isaac Asimov, Fondazione Sf Magazine 29

ROMANZO INTERNAZIONALE / INTERNATIONAL SF NOVEL

  • Alastair Reynolds, I fuochi di Elysium, Mondadori
  • Charles Stross, La stirpe di Nettuno, Urania
  • Claude Seignolle, La malvenue, Hypnos
  • N. K. Jemisin, Il cielo di pietra, Mondadori
  • Susanna Clarke, Piranesi, Fazi

FUMETTO DI AUTORE ITALIANO / COMIC BY AN ITALIAN AUTHOR

  • Alfredo Castelli – Lucio Filippucci, Martin Mystère – Ottant’anni fa, Bonelli
  • Bepi Vigna – Germano Bonazzi – Ivan Fiorelli, Nathan Never – Oltre l’Immaginazione, Bonelli
  • Carlo Recagno – Fabio Grimaldi, Martin Mystère – Come ai vecchi tempi, Bonelli
  • Lorenzo Ghetti, In alto abbastanza, Coconino Press
  • Michela Cacciatore, Hades, Pubblicazione Indipendente

FILM FANTASTICO (PREMIO NON UFFICIALE) / FANTASTIC FILM (UNOFFICIAL PRIZE)

  • Dune
  • Eternals
  • Freaks Out
  • Ghostbusters: Legacy
  • Spider-Man: No Way Home

SERIE TELEVISIVA (PREMIO NON UFFICIALE) / TV SERIES (UNOFFICIAL PRIZE)

  • Love, Death & Robots
  • Raised by Wolves
  • Star Trek: Lower Decks
  • The Expanse
  • WandaVision

Premio Italia 2021

The winners of the 2021 Premio Italia were announced on July 17 during Deepcon 22 / Eurocon 2021 in Fiuggi, Italy.

Interestingly, Roger Zelazny’s 1993 novel A Night in the Lonesome October (in Italian translation) won the international sf novel category over books by finalists N.K. Jemisin, China Miéville, Charles Stross, and Jack Vance.

Illustrazione o copertina / Illustration or Cover Art

  • Franco Brambilla, Assalto Al Sole, Delos Digital

Curatore / Editor

  • Emanuele Manco

Traduttore / Translator

  • Annarita Guarnieri

Collana / Collection

  • Biblioteca di un sole lontano, Delos Digital

Rivista professionale / Professional magazine

  • FantasyMagazine, Delos Books

Rivista o sito web non professionale / Non-professional magazine or website

Saggio / Essay

  • Emanuele Manco, Matematica Nerd, CentoAutori

Romanzo di autore italiano – Fantascienza / Science fiction novel

  • Nicoletta Vallorani, Avrai i miei occhi, Zona 42

Romanzo di autore italiano – Fantasy / Fantasy novel

  • Maico Morellini, Il ragno del tempo, Providence Press

Antologia / Anthology

  • Carmine Treanni, Mondi paralleli. Il meglio della fantascienza italiana indipendente 2019, Delos Digital

Racconto di autore italiano su pubblicazione professionale / Story by an Italian Author in a Professional Publication

  • Dario Tonani, Un fiore per Gregorius Moffa, Cronache dell’Armageddon, Kipple

Racconto di autore italiano su pubblicazione amatoriale / Story by an Italian Author in an Amateur Publication

  • Francesca Cavallero, Nel silenzio dei cuori, Fondazione SF

Articolo su pubblicazione professionale / Article in a Professional Publication

  • Emanuele Manco, Isaac Asimov: dalla Fondazione verso l’infinito e oltre, Tom’s Hardware – Cultura Pop, 3Labs

Articolo su pubblicazione amatoriale / Article in an Amateur Publication

  • Giulia Abbate, Donne e fantastico di Giuliana Misserville, La Bottega del Barbieri

Romanzo internazionale / International sf novel

  • Roger Zelazny, Notte d’ottobre, Hypnos

Fumetto di autore italiano / Comic by an Italian Author

  • Carlo Recagno e Antonio Sforza, Storie da Altrove 23: La donna che vide l’uomo invisibile, Bonelli

Fumetto di autore internazionale / Comic by an International Author

  • Jeff Lemire, Sentient, Panini Comics

Film fantastico (premio non ufficiale) / Fantastic Film (unofficial prize)

  • Tenet

Serie televisiva (premio non ufficiale) / TV Series (unofficial prize)

  • The Mandalorian

Premio Italia 2021 Shortlist

The finalists for the 2021 Premio Italia have been revealed — congratulations to N.K. Jemisin, China Miéville, and Charles Stross whose works in Italian translation are finalists in the International sf novel category along with novels by Jack Vance and Roger Zelazny.

The winners will be announced on June 17 during Deepcon 22 Eurocon 2021 in Fiuggi.

2021 Finalists

Illustrazione o copertina / Illustration or Cover Art

  • Franco Brambilla, Assalto Al Sole, Delos Digital
  • Ivo Torello, Locandina Stranimondi 2020, Stranimondi
  • Ksenja Laginja, Fantatrieste, Kipple
  • Maurizio Manzieri, Five Thrillers, Fondazione SF
  • Sabrina Gabrielli, W.o.W. Women of Weird, Moscabianca

Curatore / Editor

  • Carmine Treanni
  • Emanuele Manco
  • Gian Filippo Pizzo
  • Gianfranco De Turris
  • Lukha B. Kremo e Domenico Gallo
  • Sandro Pergameno

Traduttore / Translator

  • Annarita Guarnieri
  • Claudia Durastanti
  • Davide De Boni
  • Elena Furlan
  • Lia Tomasich

Collana / Collection

  • 42Nodi, Zona 42
  • Biblioteca di un sole lontano, Delos Digital
  • Oscar Draghi, Mondadori
  • Oscar Fantastica, Mondadori
  • Urania Collezione, Mondadori

Rivista professionale / Professional magazine

  • Dimensione Cosmica, Tabula Fati
  • FantasyMagazine, Delos Books
  • Providence Tales, Providence Press
  • Quaderni d’Altri Tempi, Quaderni d’Altri Tempi
  • Zothique, Dagon Press

Rivista o sito web non professionale / Non-professional magazine or website

Saggio / Essay

  • Anna Pasolini e Nicoletta Vallorani, Corpi Magici, Mimesis
  • Emanuele Manco, Matematica Nerd, CentoAutori
  • Francesco Corigliano, La letteratura weird, Mimesis
  • Giuliana Misserville, Donne e fantastico – Narrativa oltre i generi, Mimesis
  • Michele Tetro, Roberto Azzara, I due volti del terrore. La narrativa horror sul grande schermo, Odoya
  • Roberto Paura, La fisica del tempo perduto, Cento autori

Romanzo di autore italiano – Fantascienza / Science fiction novel

  • Alessandro Forlani, Memorie di un colonnello di soldatini, Amazon (self publishing)
  • Davide Del Popolo Riolo, Il pugno dell’uomo, Mondadori
  • Lanfranco Fabriani, Il Lastrico del Tempo, Delos Digital
  • Lorenzo Davia, Capitalpunk, Kipple
  • Nicoletta Vallorani, Avrai i miei occhi, Zona 42

Romanzo di autore italiano – Fantasy / Fantasy novel

  • Ivo Torello, Il maledetto paese che puzzava di pesce, Hypnos
  • Livio Gambarini, Eternal War. Inferno, Acheron Books
  • Luca Tarenzi, L’ora dei dannati, Giunti
  • M. Caterina Mortillaro, La compagnia del pisello, Delos Digital
  • Maico Morellini, Il ragno del tempo, Providence Press

Antologia / Anthology

  • Aa. Vv., W.o.W. Women of Weird, Moscabianca
  • Carmine Treanni, Mondi paralleli. Il meglio della fantascienza italiana indipendente 2019, Delos Digital
  • Franco Forte, Distòpia, Mondadori
  • Franco Ricciardiello, Assalto al sole, Delos digital
  • Paolo Aresi, Bicentenario, Delos Digital

Racconto di autore italiano su pubblicazione professionale / Story by an Italian Author in a Professional Publication

  • Claudio Chillemi, Il quarto livello, Delos Science Fiction, Delos Books
  • Dario Tonani, Un fiore per Gregorius Moffa, Cronache dell’Armageddon, Kipple
  • Davide Del Popolo Riolo, Il rogo delle vedove, Robotica.it, Delos Digital
  • Francesca Cavallero, Ninfe sbranate, Distòpia, Mondadori
  • Maico Morellini, Lo storico, Bicentenario, Delos Digital

Racconto di autore italiano su pubblicazione amatoriale / Story by an Italian Author in an Amateur Publication

  • Alessandro Forlani, Io mi fermo qui, Specularia
  • Francesca Cavallero, Nel silenzio dei cuori, Fondazione SF
  • Francesco Spadaro, Ester, https://navarca.blogspot.com/2020/08/ester.html
  • Lukha B. Kremo, Non avrai la mia mente, next-station.org
  • Valeria Barbera, Alle spalle di Venere, Recenso.com https://www.recenso.com/2020/09/spetteguless-nel-sistema-solare-lo.html

Articolo su pubblicazione professionale / Article in a Professional Publication

  • Alessandro Cosentino, Star Trek Discovery: Aftermath, cosa è successo a Spock e Pike?, Delos Science Fiction, Delos Books
  • Carmine Treanni, Mappe della Distopia: il fascino del peggiore dei mondi possibili, Distòpia, Mondadori
  • Emanuele Manco, Isaac Asimov: dalla Fondazione verso l’infinito e oltre, Tom’s Hardware – Cultura Pop, 3Labs
  • Maico Morellini, Inception e Shutter Island: i film di DiCaprio che mettono in dubbio la realtà, Nospoiler.it, Nospoiler
  • Sandro Pergameno, La space opera americana moderna: Scalzi & Company, Robot, Delos Books

Articolo su pubblicazione amatoriale / Article in an Amateur Publication

  • Fabio Massimo Viglianisi, Progresso, Covid e la Fantascienza Pastorale di Simak, Fondazione SF
  • Giovanni De Matteo, Per una teoria universale della distopia e delle sue contraddizioni, Holonomikon
  • Giulia Abbate, Donne e fantastico di Giuliana Misserville, La Bottega del Barbieri
  • Mariasilvia Iovine, Dark: viaggiare nel tempo, tra filosofia e fantascienza, I gatti di Ulthar
  • Nick Parisi, Professione illustratori: rendere in immagini il fantastico in Italia, Nocturnia

Romanzo internazionale / International sf novel

  • Charles Stross, I Figli di Saturno, Mondadori
  • China Mieville, Gli ultimi giorni della nuova Parigi, Fanucci
  • Jack Vance, Nopalgarth, Delos Digital
  • N.K. Jemisin, Il portale degli obelischi, Mondadori
  • Roger Zelazny, Notte d’ottobre, Hypnos

Fumetto di autore italiano / Comic by an Italian Author

  • Bepi Vigna / Romeo Toffanetti, Nathan Never 355 Check point 23, Sergio Bonelli Editore
  • C. Fallani, A. Zanieri, S. Ciantelli, M. Toccafondi, Lovecraft From Beyond, Kipple
  • Carlo Recagno e Antonio Sforza, Storie da Altrove 23: La donna che vide l’uomo invisibile, Bonelli
  • Lucrezia Galliero – Alessio Del Debbio, Berserkr, Dz Edizioni
  • Marco B. Bucci, Arcadia vol. 1: Mad World, Panini Comics

Fumetto di autore internazionale / Comic by an International Author

  • Dan Abnett, A. Pollina, Fallen world, Star Comics
  • Jeff Lemire, Sentient, Panini Comics

Film fantastico (premio non ufficiale) / Fantastic Film (unofficial prize)

  • Antebellum
  • Greenland
  • Onward
  • Soul
  • Tenet

Serie televisiva (premio non ufficiale) / TV Series (unofficial prize)

  • Star Trek: Discovery
  • Star Trek: Picard
  • The Boys
  • The Expanse
  • The Mandalorian

Premio Italia 2020 Winners

The 2020 winners of the Premio Italia were announced June 20

Congratulations to China Miéville whose work The Census-Taker in Italian translation won the International sf novel category.

Illustrazione o copertina / Illustration or Cover

  • Franco Brambilla, Locandina Stranimondi 2019, Stranimondi

Curatore / Editor

  • Silvio Sosio

Traduttore / Translator

  • Silvia Castoldi

Collana / Collection

  • Futuro presente, Delos Digital

Rivista professionale / Professional magazine

  • Robot, Delos Books

Rivista o sito web non professionale / Fanzine or fan web site

Saggio / Essay

  • Carmine Treanni, Sulla Luna. A 50 anni dallo sbarco, un viaggio tra scienza e fantascienza, Cento Autori

Romanzo di autore italiano – Fantascienza / Science fiction novel

  • Davide Del Popolo Riolo, Übermensch, Delos Digital

Romanzo di autore italiano – Fantasy / Fantasy novel

  • Milena Debenedetti, Il popolo spezzato, Delos Digital

Antologia / Anthology

  • Franco Forte, Strani mondi, Urania Millemondi – Mondadori

Racconto di autore italiano su pubblicazione professionale / Story by an Italian Author in a Professional Publication

  • Alessandro Vietti, Essere ovale, Strani Mondi, Urania Millemondi – Mondadori

Racconto di autore italiano su pubblicazione amatoriale / Story by an Italian Author in an Amateur Publication

  • Giovanni De Matteo, Red Dust, Club Ghost https://www.clubghost.it/portale/2019/05/16/red-dust-di-giovanni-de-matteo/

Articolo su pubblicazione professionale / Article in a Professional Publication

  • Silvio Sosio, L’età dell’oro della fantascienza italiana, Strani Mondi, Urania Millemondi – Mondadori

Articolo su pubblicazione amatoriale / Article in an Amateur Publication

  • Giulia Abbate e Elena Di Fazio, La tesi dell’apostolo cattivo: il nuovo adattamento di Evangelion e il traduttore camaleonte, Lezioni sul domani https://lezionisuldomani.wordpress.com/2019/06/25/la-tesi-dellapostolo-cattivo-il-nuovo-adattamento-di-evangelion-e-il-traduttore-camaleonte/

Romanzo internazionale / International sf novel

  • China Miéville, L’uomo del censimento, [The Census-Taker] Zona 42

Fumetto di autore italiano / Comic by an Italian Author

  • Carlo Recagno, Antonio Sforza, L’Uomo che scoprì il segreto di Leonardo, Storie da Altrove – Sergio Bonelli Editore

Fumetto di autore internazionale / Comic by an International Author

  • Cullen Bunn, Peter Milligan, Adan Gorham, Robert Gill, Punk Mambo, Star Comics

Film fantastico (premio non ufficiale) / Fantastic Film (unofficial prize)

  • Joker

Serie televisiva (premio non ufficiale) / TV Series (unofficial prize)

  • Stranger Things

Pixel Scroll 5/19/20 Rated Restricted By The Motion Pixel Association For Gratuitous Treks And Filings

(1) ITALCON: FATE UNKNOWN. The winners of Italy’s Premio Italia are known – what’s unknown Is when they can be revealed. There were 438 voters, compared to last year, when 500 was reached.

The award ceremony was due to take place at Italcon in San Marino on 13 June. The health situation naturally makes it implausible that Italcon could actually take place on that date. At the moment, a date of convenience is indicated on the website of the Prize, September 1st (for technical reasons, a date must necessarily be indicated); however, decisions on the progress of Italcon are awaited. Decisions that evidently depend only in part on the organization of Italcon, but primarily on the decisions of the government of San Marino and on the progress of the epidemic. Probably no decision will be made before September.

(2) SOUL SURVIVOR. Filmmaker Fabrice Mathieu has released another ingenious fantasy short film, Memorium.

After the death, what happens? Where do we go? “Memorium” invites you to a journey of a man into the afterlife.

Inspired from the world created by the french artist Marc Giai-Miniet.

(3) THE EMPEROR’S NEW POP CULTURE. Io9’s James Whitbrook is on target with “Star Trek Ages Terribly When It Tries to Be Contemporary”.

…One of the weirder things always danced around on Star Trek is how its myriad bridge crews, despite being from the 23rd and 24th centuries, are fascinated with a popular culture that is not their own, but more reflective of our own recent past as peoples of the 20th and 21st century. Sisko loves baseball, a sport that, hilariously, apparently just stops being played professionally in 2042 according to Deep Space Nine. Picard loves the pulpy noir fiction of Dixon Hill, an original character for Trek but specifically rooted in the detective fiction boom of the 1940s. Janeway, when she’s not palling around with Leonardo DaVinci, is writing 19th-century Irish village self-insert fic or participating in a dull as hell Austen-esque choose your own adventure type stories.

(4) BIG TALK. They’ve optioned works by Tade Thompson and S.A. Chakraborty: “Edgar Wright, Nira Park, Joe Cornish, Rachael Prior launch production company Complete Fiction”Screen Daily has the story.

Former Big Talk Productions duo Edgar Wright and Nira Park have teamed up with writer-director Joe Cornish and producer Rachael Prior to launch a London and Los Angeles-based film and TV outfit called Complete Fiction.

The company’s debut development slate includes three new series for Netflix. Cornish is directing Lockwood & Co,  a supernatural detective series based on Jonathan Stroud’s novel series of the same name, while the company has also optioned Tade Thompson’s literary sci-fi horror trilogy The Murders Of Molly Southbourne and S.A. Chakraborty’s historical fantasy series inspired by Islamic folklore The City Of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy).

Complete Fiction is presently in post on Wright’s Last Night In Soho, produced with Working Title Films for Focus Features and Film4, as well as Wright’s untitled feature documentary about the band Sparks which it produced with MRC. 

(5) GRAPHIC ARTS. In “Entering The Sci-Fi Noir World of Lemire, Kindt, and Rubin’s Cosmic Detective” on CrimeReads, Alex Segura interviews writers Jeff Lemire and Matt Kindt and artist David Rubin on their new sf/mystery graphic novel: “Graphic Content: Entering The Sci-Fi Noir World Of Lemire, Kindt, And Rubin’s Cosmic Detective’.

….“We wanted to just do something as wild as we could imagine,” Kindt said. “Getting David to do the art really just made it a slam dunk proposition, because he can just draw absolutely anything. He’s the Catalonian Moebius. And he’s going to hate that I said that, but he’s got a visual intelligence and creativity that really only shows up once every generation or so. He’s it. It’s not just design and art for art’s sake, because he’s a writer too. Everything has meaning. Every color and costume and gadget. It all feeds into the story. So I think David was truly one of our greatest inspirations for this book.”

(6) OFF THE BEATEN PATH. The 2020 World Fantasy Con blog tells about the experience of “Discovering Steampunk at the Museum of Idaho”.

…In the process of becoming the first museum to host the exhibit, which was created by Bruce Rosenbaum and is part of Imagine Exhibitions’ traveling exhibits, the Museum of Idaho tackled one of the dilemmas of steampunk: how to make the unfamiliar concept accessible to general audiences. Months before the exhibit opened in May 2018, the Museum of Idaho displayed steampunk statues, advertised on billboards, and created events in tandem with the exhibit, such as a steampunk street party and a steampunk ball. They started with steampunk’s dynamic visual presentation and then lured the general public into asking what it was they were looking at.

(7) PITCH MEETING. Jessica Camerato, in “Doolittle Finds Balance, Focus In Love of Books” on MLB.com, notes that Washington Nationals closer Sean Doolittle isn’t just an avid cosplayer, but reads quite a lot.  His signed first edition of Octavia Butler’s Parable Of The Sower is on his top shelf right next to a baseball signed by Nationals players after his 2019 World Series win. Doolittle is also a fan of Juliette Wade.  In January, the American Booksellers Association named him the Indie Bookstore Day Ambassador because Doolittle patronizes independent bookstores whenever he’s on the road.

“I will totally judge a book by its cover,” Doolittle said. “If I think it looks cool, I’ll buy it. I have one waiting for me at home that I bought just because the cover was so sick. It was a fantasy book — it’s called ‘Mazes of Power’ by Juliette Wade. It came out right before Spring Training.”

(8) NONVERBAL MEMORY. James P. Blaylock’s 2019 piece “My Life in Books: A Meditation on the Writer’s Library” for Poets & Writers sounds like my original plan – to own and keep the books I read, and if I needed to refresh my memory, the volume would be on my shelves.

…Not long ago I was reading a collection of essays by Hilaire Belloc titled One Thing and Another, and, as is sometimes the case when I read other people’s essays, I got the idea of writing this one. The “idea,” such as it was, had nothing to do with the subject matter of any of the forty essays contained in Belloc’s book; what struck me was that the pages smelled as if they had been soaked in gasoline. I remembered abruptly that it had smelled that way when I’d bought it, and although it has sat on the shelf in my study for twenty years, waiting to be read, the odor hasn’t diminished. It could be fatal to light a match anywhere near it.

This olfactory discovery sent me off in a nostalgic search for my copy of Philip K. Dick’s Dr. Bloodmoney, which Phil gave to me in 1975…. 

(9) IN OTHER WORDS. Writing these books fulfilled a dream: “The Big Idea: Jennifer Brody” at Whatever.

…Upon graduating, I knew that I was moving to LA one-way without much money or even a job lined up. It was like that back then. You packed up your car and hit the road. You had to have blind faith. You chased after your dream. You lived on ramen. You had a roommate. You got paid $500 bucks a week. You ran errands and answered phones and started at the bottom. My first job was at Michael Bay’s new company Platinum Dunes. The first film we made was a remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. We were the first to do the remake thing. Everyone thought we were crazy. My parents wondered if my tuition money had gone to waste.

The film was a hit, earning over $80 million at the domestic box office. Within a year of moving West, I landed my dream job working for the executive producer of The Lord of the Rings. Did I mention that I’m a giant nerd? I’d read Tolkien’s classics cover to cover numerous times. A run of book-to-film properties followed on our slate, including The Golden Compass, Love in the Time of Cholera, and Inkheart. Working in Hollywood was a dream come true, albeit a complicated one with its share of workplace toxicity (which has now become quite public).

Despite loving my job, I had an itch that started to grow stronger. It needed scratching. After working on so many wonderful authors’ books and helping bring their worlds to life on the big screen, I found myself wanting to write my own big sci-fi trilogy…. 

(10) GLENN OBIT. Annie Glenn has died at the age of 100. CNN pays tribute: “Annie Glenn, speech disorder advocate and wife of John Glenn, dies of coronavirus complications at 100”.

…Though she’s perhaps best known for her proximation to her husband, Annie Glenn was an American hero in her own right, veteran reporter Bob Greene wrote in a 2012 CNN Opinion piece.

“Glenn has had a hero of his own,” Green wrote, “Someone who he has seen display endless courage of a different kind: Annie Glenn.”

And she was at the center of this legendary moment in The Right Stuff.

Although USA Today’s obituary says things happened a bit differently —

As John’s prowess as a pilot culminated in his historic orbital flight on Feb. 20, 1962, the spotlight shone ever more intensely on the Glenn family, which by then included a son, David, and a daughter, Lyn. After becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, John and his wife were cheered in a ticker-tape parade in New York City. Celebrity pursued them relentlessly and each brush with the media and famous people painfully revealed Annie’s stuttering.

With reporters in tow after the flight, then-Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was intent on visiting the Glenns at their home in Arlington, Virginia, but John angered Johnson by refusing to receive him, proffering the excuse that Annie was in bed with a migraine to spare her from the attention. Even so, the Glenns became good friends with Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird.

(11) TODAY IN HISTORY.

  • May 19, 1956 Science Fiction Theatre’s “The Flicker” first aired. Each episode was supposedly based on scientific fact though the host weaseled his way out of that in his narration. This story has a sociology graduate student committing murder after watching a badly flickering movie. Subliminal images I presume. It starred Victor Jory, Michael Fox and Judith Ames.   You can watch it here.

(12) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS.

[Compiled by Cat Eldridge and John Hertz.]

  • Born May 19, 1901 – George Pendray.  Early rocketeer; co-founded the American Interplanetary Society (its successor Am. Inst. Aeronautics & Astronautics gives the Pendray Award); invented the time capsule, for the 1939 World’s Fair; coined the word “laundromat”; helped establish Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Center at Cal. Tech., Guggenheim Labs at Princeton U., U.S. Nat’l Aeronautics & Space Adm’n.  Wrote SF as science editor of Literary Digest, e.g. “A Rescue from Jupiter”.  Co-edited The Papers of Robert H. Goddard.  (Died 1987) [JH]
  • Born May 19, 1920 – Walter Popp.  Prolific pulp illustrator for e.g. AmazingFantasticStartlingThrilling; see here. Also Gothic-romance fantasy, see here, some becoming limited-edition prints for fine-art galleries, see here.  Outside our field, true-crime and men’s-adventure magazines, paperbacks including Popular Library; toy and sporting-goods manufacturers; greeting cards.  (Died 2002) [JH]
  • Born May 19, 1921 – Pauline Clarke.  Children’s fantasy The Twelve and the Genii won the Carnegie Medal and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.  The Pekinese Princess has talking animals and trees.  Thirty novels for various readers; Warscape, for adults, “lurches into the future”, says a remarkable 4,300-word Wikipedia entry.  (Died 2013) [JH] 
  • Born May 19, 1936 – Emanuel Schongut.  Fifty covers and interiors for us, see hereherehere.  Also children’s books, pictures based on shellsMasterpiece Theater.  Here are pages from a fashion magazine, a cover for a Maxim Gorky novel, a New York Times illustration, a poster for Beauty and the Beast, pig, some disco shoes, a 2016 New Year card. [JH]
  • Born May 19, 1937 Pat Roach. He was cast in the first three Indy Jones films as a decided Bad Person though he never had a name. His first genre appearance was in A Clockwork Orange as a Milkbar bouncer. His first name role was Hephaestus in Clash of Titans. He was of an unusually stocky nature, so he got cast as a Man Ape in Conan the Destroyer, and as Bretagne the Barbarian in Red Sonja. And, of course, he had such a role as Zulcki in Kull the Desttoyer. Oh, and he played an very large and mostly naked Executioner in the George MacDonald Fraser scripted The Return of The Musketeers. (Died 2004.)  (CE)
  • Born May 19, 1944 Peter Mayhew. Chewbacca from the beginning to The Force Awakens before his retirement from the role. The same year he first did Chewy, he had an uncredited role as the Minotaur in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger. He also shows in the Dark Towers series as The Tall Knight. (Died 2019.) (CE)
  • Born May 19, 1946 Andre the Giant. Fezzik in The Princess Bride, one of my all-time favorite films. Also, an uncredited role as Dagoth In Conan the Destroyer. He’s actually did a number of genre roles such as The Greatest American Hero with his American acting debut playing a Bigfoot in a two-part episode aired in 1976 on The Six Million Dollar Man titled “The Secret of Bigfoot”. (Died 1993)  (CE)
  • Born May 19, 1946 – Ken Kelly.  240 covers; interiors; The Art of Ken KellyKen Kelly Fantasy Art Trading Cards (2 sets), Escape (collection); album covers for KISS, Manowar, Ace Frehley.   See here (Amazing), here (The Stars My Destination), here (The Lincoln Hunters), here (Ace Frehley).  [JH]
  • Born May 19, 1948 – Paul Williams.  Created Crawdaddy!  Literary executor of Philip K. Dick, co-founder of PKD Society, biography of PKD Only Apparently Real; worked with David Hartwell on Age of Wonders – also The Int’l Bill of Human Rights; edited vols. 1-12, Complete Works of Theodore Sturgeon; also The 20th Century’s Greatest Hits (including Winnie-the-PoohThe Little PrinceGod Bless You, Mr. Rosewater), four on Bob Dylan, twenty more.  (Died 2013) [JH]
  • Born May 19, 1948 Grace Jones, 72. First genre appearance was as Stryx in Rumstryx, an Italian TV series. Her next was Zulu in Conan the Destroyer followed by being May Day in A View to Kill and Katrina in Vamp. She was Masako Yokohama in Cyber Bandits which also starred Adam Ant. Her last several genre  role to date was Christoph/Christine in Wolf Girl, and Death aka The Devil in Gutterdammerung, a film that also featured Henry Rollins, Slash and Iggy Pop!  (CE)
  • Born May 19, 1955 – Elise Primavera.  Author and illustrator of children’s books, some fantasy: The Secret Order of the Gumm Street GirlsFred & Anthony Meet the Heinie Goblins from the Black Lagoon (as Esile Arevamirp), Marigold Star. Here’s a book cover.  [JH]
  • Born May 19, 1966 Jodi Picoult, 54. Her Wonder Women work is exemplary (collected in Wonder Women, Volume 3 and Wonder Woman: Love and Murder).  She also has a most excellent two-volume YA series called the Between the Lines Universe which she wrote with Samantha van Leer. ISFDB lists her Second Glance novel as genre but I’d say it’s genre adjacent at best. (CE)
  • Born May 19, 1996 Sarah Grey, 24. Before DC Universe cast the present Stargirl in Brec Bassinger for that series, Legends of Tomorrow cast their Stargirl as this actress for a run of three episodes.  The episodes (“Out of Time”, “Justice Society of America” and “Camelot 3000”) are superb. I’ve not seen her as Alyssa Drake in The Order but I’ve heard Good Things about that series. (CE)

(13) COMICS SECTION.

  • Bizarro jokes about a bed that shares a name with a law.

(14) MOVING PICTURES. Not Pulp Covers hosts four GIFs made from clip of  The Best from 20,000 Fathoms. They really pop out of the page, despite being black-and-white. The film’s stop-motion animation special effects are by Ray Harryhausen. Its screenplay is based on Ray Bradbury’s short story The Fog Horn, specifically the scene where a lighthouse is destroyed by the title character. (I’m not going to put a sample here because people tell me GIFs in the Scroll drive them crazy.)

(15) THAT’S PUTTING IT MILDLY. In John Scalzi’s post “A Reminder, Re: Famous People I Know” he reasonably says he’d rather keep his friends. (So he won’t be starting a news blog.)

So, it turns out I know, and am friends (or at least I have been friendly) with, people who are notable or famous to some degree or another. Yes, I am as amazed about that as anyone else. Sometimes, those notable/famous people:

* Are disliked by a large group of people, for whatever reason(s);

* Have a life event, often not a happy one, that gains attention in the public sphere;

* Will have a public conflict with some other person who is also generally notable;

* Says or does something that causes the Internet to fall on their head;

* Some combination of two or more of the above;

* Otherwise attracts attention to themselves in some manner or another that elicits general comment.

(16) TYPE CASTING. The project to transcribe the Hevelin fanzine collection made Atlas Obscura’s article about a helpful way to pass the time: “Even More Ways to Help Librarians and Archivists From Home”.

Escape the Earth with science-fiction fanzines

What better time to zip into a happily unfamiliar realm? The DIY History project at the University of Iowa Library, which invites people to help transcribe digitized objects from the library’s special collections and other holdings, could use your help with its massive trove of science-fiction zines. Some date back to the 1930s; all were collected by the late James L. “Rusty” Hevelin. More than 10,780 pages of the Hevelin Fanzines collection have been transcribed so far, but there are still around 500 left to go. If you need a mental break from this planet and its familiar troubles, pop into this project and spend a little time somewhere else.

The project was first announced in 2014.

(17) CELEBRITY BURIAL. Atlas Obscura also introduces readers to “Nicolas Cage’s Pyramid Tomb” in a New Orleans cemetery. (He won’t be in residence for some time to come, though.)

…The empty grave is a stark, nine-foot-tall stone pyramid that stands in obvious contrast to the blockier, above-ground burial sites that have been crumbling away in the cemetery for over two centuries. There is no name on the pyramid yet, but it is emblazoned with the Latin maxim, “Omnia Ab Uno,” which translates to “Everything From One.”

The actor himself has chosen to remain silent about his reasoning for the flamboyant tomb. Some speculate it’s an homage to the “National Treasure” movie franchise, though given that many cemeteries host pyramid grave markers, it may have simply been a stylistic choice.

(18) THE VISIBLE BOOSTER. Popular Mechanics sets the frame for a video showing “Here’s What the Guts of Four Famous Rockets Look Like During Launch”. You see side-by-side the Saturn V, Space Shuttle, Falcon Heavy and the Space Launch System (SLS) rockets launching from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39.

A new video reveals what the launches of four famous spacecraft would look like if the rockets were transparent. Seeing how the sausage is made, so to speak, is mesmerizing.

Youtuber Hazegrayart posted the video, which also includes audio from the four launches, to YouTube earlier this week. Hazegrayart has a number of other animated videos on their page. (This 52-year time lapse of Launch Complex 39 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida from the artist’s page is super cool, too.)

[Thanks to Ita, John King Tarpinian, Andrew Porter, Chip Hitchcock, JJ, Mike Kennedy, Martin Morse Wooster, Michael Toman, and Cat Eldridge for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Jayn.]

Premio Italia 2020 Shortlist

Congratulations to China Miéville, Ian McEwan, N.K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor, and Sam J. Miller whose works in Italian translation are finalists in the International sf novel category of the  2020 Premio Italia.

The winners will be announced on June 13 during Fantàsia 2020 a San Marino.

Illustrazione o copertina / Illustration or Cover

  • Annalisa Antonini, La città dell’orca, Zona 42
  • Franco Brambilla, Locandina Stranimondi 2019, Stranimondi
  • Ivo Torello, Hypnos 10, Edizioni Hypnos
  • Ksenja Laginja, Cacciatore di Sirene, Kipple Officina Libraria
  • Luca Oleastri, Simbiosi, Simbiosi, Edizioni Scudo, 2019
  • Maurizio Manzieri, Locandina Cartoons on the Bay 2019, Rai Com

Curatore / Editor

  • Andrea Vaccaro
  • Giorgio Raffaelli
  • Giulia Abbate e Elena di Fazio
  • Luigi Petruzzelli
  • Silvio Sosio

Traduttore / Translator

  • Elena Furlan
  • Lia Tomasich
  • Martina Testa
  • Paola Cartoceti
  • Silvia Castoldi

Collana / Collection

  • Avatar, Kipple Officina Libraria
  • Future Fiction, Future Fiction
  • Futuro presente, Delos Digital
  • Heroic Fantasy Italia, Delos Digital
  • Sci-Fi Collection, Tabula fati

Rivista professionale / Professional magazine

  • Andromeda (Lost Tales), Letterelettriche
  • Dimensione Cosmica, Tabula Fati
  • Hypnos, Edizioni Hypnos
  • Il buio, Watson
  • Robot, Delos Books
  • Studi Lovecraftiani, Dagon Press

Rivista o sito web non professionale / Fanzine or fan web site

Saggio / Essay

  • Carmine Treanni, Sulla Luna. A 50 anni dallo sbarco, un viaggio tra scienza e fantascienza, Cento Autori
  • Giovanni Agnoloni, Tolkien: la Luce e l’Ombra, Kipple Officina Libraria
  • Giulia Abbate, Franco Ricciardiello, Manuale di scrittura di fantascienza, Odoya
  • Giulia Iannuzzi, Un laboratorio di fantastici libri, Solfanelli
  • Luca Ortino, Guida alla percezione del tempo, Odoya

Romanzo di autore italiano – Fantascienza / Science fiction novel

  • Davide Del Popolo Riolo, Übermensch, Delos Digital
  • Elisa Emiliani, Cenere, Zona 42
  • Francesca Cavallero, Le ombre di Morjegrad, Mondadori
  • Francesco Verso, I Camminatori: Vol. 2 – No/Mad/Land, Future Fiction
  • Paolo Aresi, Korolev. La luce di Eris, Delos Digital

Romanzo di autore italiano – Fantasy / Fantasy novel

  • Giulia Massini, La terra sul filo di seta, Tabula fati
  • Livio Gambarini, Eternal War 3: Sangue sul Giglio, Acheron Books
  • Luca Mazza, Black Hills, Moscabianca Edizioni
  • Marco Cardone, Italian Way of Cooking 2: Pizza mostri e mandolino, Acheron Books
  • Milena Debenedetti, Il popolo spezzato, Delos Digital

Antologia / Anthology

  • Carmine Treanni, Altri futuri, Delos Digital
  • Franco Forte, Strani mondi, Urania Millemondi – Mondadori
  • Giulia Abbate, Elena Di Fazio, Italia futura presente, Delos Digital
  • Marco Passarello, Fanta-scienza, Delos Digital
  • Silvia Treves, M. Caterina Mortillaro, DiverGender, Delos Digital

Racconto di autore italiano su pubblicazione professionale / Story by an Italian Author in a Professional Publication

  • Alessandro Vietti, Essere ovale, Strani Mondi, Urania Millemondi – Mondadori
  • Claudio Chillemi, L’universo muto, Robotica.it, Delos Digital
  • Dario Tonani, Picadura, Strani Mondi, Urania Millemondi – Mondadori
  • Lukha B. Kremo, Ipersfera, Strani Mondi, Urania Millemondi – Mondadori
  • Maico Morellini, Fatum, Strani Mondi, Urania Millemondi – Mondadori

Racconto di autore italiano su pubblicazione amatoriale / Story by an Italian Author in an Amateur Publication

  • Giorgio Sangiorgi, Luna spot, Altrimondi https://www.altrimondi.org/luna-spot/
  • Giovanni De Matteo, Red Dust, Club Ghost https://www.clubghost.it/portale/2019/05/16/red-dust-di-giovanni-de-matteo/
  • Lorenzo Davia, Az-Zindis, Hyperborea https://hyperborea.live/2019/12/03/i-racconti-di-satrampa-zeiros-az-zinds-di-lorenzo-davia/
  • Nicola Catellani, Il posto più felice sulla Luna, N.A.S.F. 15: Spazio/Luna
  • Tea C. Blanc, Centuria, Cose da Altrimondi https://www.altrimondi.org/centuria-di-tea-c-blanc/

Articolo su pubblicazione professionale / Article in a Professional Publication

  • Carmine Treanni, Distopia, il mondo che non vorremmo, Delos Science Fiction, Delos Books
  • Giulia Abbate, Elena Di Fazio, Antologie al femminile: è discriminazione?, Robot, Delos Books
  • Maico Morellini, I nove rapimenti alieni più famosi della storia, Mondofox.it, Fox
  • Michele Tetro, Tra le pagine della Luna-Viaggi spaziali e allunaggi nella letteratura, La Luna nell’immaginario, Odoya
  • Silvio Sosio, L’età dell’oro della fantascienza italiana, Strani Mondi, Urania Millemondi – Mondadori

Articolo su pubblicazione amatoriale / Article in an Amateur Publication

  • Giovanni De Matteo, Di cosa parlate quando parlate di fantascienza?, Holonomikon https://holonomikon.wordpress.com/2019/04/28/di-cosa-parlate-quando-parlate-di-fantascienza/
  • Giulia Abbate e Elena Di Fazio, La tesi dell’apostolo cattivo: il nuovo adattamento di Evangelion e il traduttore camaleonte, Lezioni sul domani https://lezionisuldomani.wordpress.com/2019/06/25/la-tesi-dellapostolo-cattivo-il-nuovo-adattamento-di-evangelion-e-il-traduttore-camaleonte/
  • Linda De Santi, Totalitarismi, ruoli di genere e maternità: uno sguardo alla narrativa distopica delle donne, Next Station http://www.next-station.org/fe-art-d.php?_i=259
  • Nick Parisi, Professione traduttore: Tradurre fantascienza in Italia nel 2019, Nocturnia https://wwwwelcometonocturnia.blogspot.com/2019/11/professione-traduttore-tradurre.html
  • Tea C. Blanc, Crepax, le copertine fantascientifiche gi Galaxy, Giornale Pop https://www.giornalepop.it/galaxy-di-crepax/

Romanzo internazionale / International sf novel

  • China Miéville, L’uomo del censimento, [The Census-Taker] Zona 42
  • Ian McEwan, Macchine come me, [Machines Like Me] Einaudi
  • N.K. Jemisin, La quinta stagione, [The Fifth Season] Mondadori
  • Nnedi Okorafor, Binti, [Binti] Mondadori
  • Sam J. Miller, La città dell’orca, [Blackfish City] Zona 42

Fumetto di autore italiano / Comic by an Italian Author

  • Andrea Frittella, Borgata Gordiani, Edizioni Bd
  • Bepi Vigna, Giez, Il passato è una terra straniera, Nathan Never – Bonelli
  • Bepi Vigna, Sergio Giardo, Romina Denti, Nathan Never Stazione Spaziale Internazionale, Bonelli
  • Carlo Recagno, Antonio Sforza, L’Uomo che scoprì il segreto di Leonardo, Storie da Altrove – Sergio Bonelli Editore
  • Carlo Recagno, Stefano Santoro, Giovanni Romanini, L’Uomo dal Rinascimento, Speciale Martin Mystere – Sergio Bonelli Editore

Fumetto di autore internazionale / Comic by an International Author

  • Cullen Bunn, Peter Milligan, Adan Gorham, Robert Gill, Punk Mambo, Star Comics

Film fantastico (premio non ufficiale) / Fantastic Film (unofficial prize)

  • Alita: Angelo della battaglia
  • Avengers: Endgame
  • I Am Mother
  • Joker
  • Star Wars: L’ascesa di Skywalker

Serie televisiva (premio non ufficiale) / TV Series (unofficial prize)

  • Good Omens
  • Love, Death & Robots
  • Stranger Things
  • The Boys
  • The Expanse

[Via Locus Online.]

2019 Premio Italia Winners

The 2019 Premio Italia were presented on May 11 at Starcon 2019.

Congratulations to Ian McDonald, whose Ares Express won the International SF Novel category.

Illustrazione o copertina / Illustration or Cover

  • Franco Brambilla, Naila di Mondo9, Oscar Fantastica – Mondadori

Curatore / Editor

  • Giuseppe Lippi

Traduttore / Translator

  • Chiara Reali

Collana / Collection

  • Odissea Digital Fantascienza, Delos Digital

Rivista professionale / Professional magazine

  • Delos Science Fiction, Delos Books

Rivista o sito web non professionale / Fanzine or fan web site

Saggio / Essay

  • Walter Catalano, Gian Filippo Pizzo, Andrea Vaccaro, Guida ai narratori italiani del fantastico. Scrittori di fantascienza, fantasy e horror made in Italy, Odoya

Romanzo di autore italiano – Fantascienza / Science fiction novel

  • Dario Tonani, Naila di mondo9, Mondadori

Romanzo di autore italiano – Fantasy / Fantasy novel

  • Maico Morellini, Il diario dell’estinzione, Watson Edizioni

Antologia / Anthology

  • Giulia Abbate e Lukha Kremo, Next-Stream: Visioni di realtà contigue, Kipple Officina Libraria

Racconto di autore italiano su pubblicazione professionale / Story by an Italian Author in a Professional Publication

  • Dario Tonani, Sabbia nera, Robot, Delos Books
  • Donato Altomare, La seconda morte, Quasar, Edizioni Della Vigna
  • Giulia Massini, La colonia, Hypnos, Edizioni Hypnos
  • Lukha B. Kremo, Invertito, Robot, Delos Books
  • Maddalena Antonini, Il determinatore, Dimensione Cosmica, Tabula Fati

Racconto di autore italiano su pubblicazione amatoriale / Story by an Italian Author in an Amateur Publication

  • Claudio Chillemi, Il Grande Errore, Fondazione Sf

Articolo su pubblicazione professionale / Article in a Professional Publication

  • Giuseppe Lippi, I curatori di Urania, Robot, Delos Books

Articolo su pubblicazione amatoriale / Article in an Amateur Publication

  • Francesco Spadaro, Si può fare, Fondazione Sf

Romanzo internazionale / International sf novel

  • Ian McDonald, Ares Express, Zona 42

Fumetto di autore italiano / Comic by an Italian Author

  • Carlo Recagno, Giovanni Freghieri, Dylan Dog & Martin Mystere: L’Abisso Del Male, Bonelli

Fumetto di autore internazionale / Comic by an International Author

  • Tipton, Tipton, Lee, Purcell e Woodward, Star Trek The Next Generation / Doctor Who Assimilazione 2, Ultimo Avamposto

Film fantastico (premio non ufficiale) / Fantastic Film (unofficial prize)

  • Avengers: Infinity War

Serie televisiva (premio non ufficiale) / TV Series (unofficial prize)

  • The Man in the High Castle