Francesco Verso
Born in 1973, Francesco Verso is one of the most interesting Science Fiction authors of recent years. Since 2008 he has devoted himself full time to publishing, both as a genre author and as editor of the Future Fiction project. He has written Antidoti umani, e-Doll (2008 Urania Mondadori Award) and Livido (Odissea Award and Italy 2012 Award), published by Apex Books in the United States and by Bofeng in China with the title of Nexhuman. In 2015 he won a second Urania award with Bloodbusters which was released in the UK by Luna Press and in China by Bofeng. His latest novel, of the solarpunk genre, is called The Walkers and is made of The Pulldogs and No/Mad/Land.
His stories have appeared in Italian and foreign magazines and anthologies such as Robot, Futuri, Mamut, Chicago Quarterly Review # 20, Future Affairs Administration, Words Without Borders, The Dying Planet, Sunspot Jungle and The Best of World SF # 1.
Since 2014 he's been working as the editor of Future Fiction on which he publishes the best World Science Fiction in translation from 13 languages and more than 35 countries. In 2019 he won the Golden Dragon for the promotion of international Science Fiction and the Best Science Fiction Editor Award by the European Science Fiction Society; he's also the Honorary Director of the Fishing Fortress Science Fiction Academy in Chongqing (China) where he runs an international creative writing course called the Future Fiction Workshop.
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The Publications of
Francesco Verso
Ecolution
Set in the same narrative universe as The Roamers, the solarpunk stories collected in Ecolution were written by Francesco Verso over the last four[...]
Freetaly
From the otherworldly voyage depicted in Dante’s Divina Commedia and the early modern utopias by Giordano Bruno and Tommaso Campanella, up through the proto-SF[...]
Two Worlds
Two Worlds represents an attempt to cross the boundaries separating Science Fiction from Fantasy through Arthur C. Clarke’s famous quote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology[...]
Panopticon #1
In a post-apocalyptic future, devastated by climate change, only a thousand inhabitants remained on Earth, all sterile and doomed to extinction. In a mushroom[...]
Figli del futuro (Italian language)
Nel nostro futuro non ci sono omini verdi, né raggi laser o viaggi nel tempo, non ci flotte spaziali o teletrasporti: noi, figli del[...]
Antidoti umani (Italian language)
Romanzo finalista al premio Urania Mondadori 2004 Felix Navataar è un DJ sospeso tra la fama dei fan e una vita da disadattato. Mona[...]
e-Doll (Italian language)
Romanzo vincitore del premio Urania Mondadori 2008 Da tempo le abitudini sessuali degli esseri umani hanno subito un'evoluzione epocale grazie alla creazione degli e-Doll:[...]
Nexhuman
Winner of the 2014 Italia Award as Best Italian Science Fiction Novel Winner of the 2013 Odissea Award by Delos Books Translated in English[...]
Bloodbusters (Italian language)
Premio Urania 2015, pubblicato nel volume “Il sangue e l’impero” Urania Mondadori Pubblicato nel Regno Unito da Luna Press e in Cina da Bofeng[...]
I camminatori – Vol.2 No/Mad/Land (Italian language)
I camminatori (Vol. 2 - No/Mad/Land) è il primo romanzo italiano di genere solarpunk. No/Mad/Land è la seconda parte del romanzo I camminatori di[...]
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I camminatori – Vol. I Pulldogs (Italian language)
I camminatori (Vol. 1 - I Pulldogs) è il primo romanzo italiano di genere solarpunk. Alan perde l’uso delle gambe in un incidente sul[...]
Futurespotting
Writing short stories – contrary to popular belief – is very hard. You can’t procrastinate, you can’t hide behind turns of phrase, you have[...]
iMate (dual language English-Italian)
Janna va a Napoli per un misterioso colloquio di lavoro e trovare un modo di pagare le cure mediche del suo compagno Eskin. Una[...]
The Unborn (dual language Italian-English)
DUAL LANGUAGE EDITION IN ITALIAN AND ENGLISH With the unstoppable growth of the world population, the demographic issue is often at the center of[...]