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Lino Aldani (29 March 1926 – 31 January 2009) was an Italian science fiction writer.

Biography

Aldani was born in San Cipriano Po in 1926. He lived until 1968 in Rome, where he worked as a mathematics teacher^{[citation needed]}, and then back in San Cipriano Po.

He published science fiction stories starting in the Sixties (his first published short story being "Dove sono i vostri Kumar?", in 1960) and his first novel, Quando le radici, in 1977. In 1962 he wrote the first Italian critical essay about science fiction,[1] La fantascienza. In 1963 Aldani founded the SF magazine Futuro with Massimo Lo Jacono; the magazine lasted eight issues^{[citation needed]}.

His works have been translated into several languages. He died in Pavia on 31 January 2009.

Bibliography

• La Fantascienza (1963), essay;
• Aleph 3 (1963), his first novel, first published in 2007;
• Quarta Dimensione (1964);
• Quando le radici (1977), a novel whose main character, Arno, looks for his past in a future, disturbing Italy;
• Eclissi 2000 (1979), a novel about the impossibility of creating a government without resorting to lies and deceit;
• Nel segno della luna bianca (1980; also known as Febbre di luna, with Daniela Piegai), a left-wing inspired fantasy novel;
• La croce di ghiaccio (1989), novel;
• Themoro Korik (2007), a novel about Romani people.

References

• Lippi, Giuseppe (2009-01-31). "Lino Aldani (1926-2009)" (in Italian). Urania blog. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
• Lippi, Giuseppe (2009-09-13). "Radici lontane" (in Italian). Urania blog. Retrieved 2009-09-13.
• Afterword to Eclissi 2000, De Vecchi Editore, 1979. (in Italian)
• Simone Brioni and Daniele Comberiati, Italian Science Fiction: The Other in Literature and Film. New York: Palgrave, 2019.

External links

• Bibliography of Aldani's works in Catalogo della fantascienza, fantasy e horror edited by E. Vegetti, P. Cottogni, E. Bertoni
• Obituary in Locus magazine website

На других языках

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- [en] Lino Aldani

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[ru] Альдани, Лино

Лино Альдани (итал. Lino Aldani; 29 марта 1926 (1926-03-29), Сан-Чиприано-По — 31 января 2009, Павия) — итальянский писатель-фантаст. Считается одним из основателей национальной фантастики.

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