Lino Aldani
Lino Aldani (29 March 1926 – 31 January 2009) was an Italian science fiction writer.
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[citation needed], 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
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- Afterword to Eclissi 2000, De Vecchi Editore, 1979. (Italian)
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
