Vittorio Curtoni (28 July 1949 – 4 October 2011) was an Italian science fiction writer and translator.

Biography

Curtoni was born at San Pietro in Cerro, in the

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, and entered the Italian science fiction world at a very young age. In 1970 he was co-editor of '' Galassia'', a series publishing science fiction novels and anthologies, together with Gianni Montanari. Later he edited the magazine ''

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'', published by

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, from April 1976 to October 1978, as well as its short-lived successor for the same publisher, ''Aliens''. Curtoni frequently translated English language novels for ''

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'' and other Italian science fiction series. He also wrote numerous short stories, some of which collected in ''Ciao Futuro'', published in ''Urania'' in 2001. Before his death, caused by a sudden heart attack, Curtoni was editing a new incarnation of ''Robot'', published by Delos Books, and collaborating with the online and magazine ''Delos'' and with the

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newspaper ''Libertà''.

Bibliography

* ''Dove stiamo volando'' (1972) *''Le frontiere dell'ignoto. Vent'anni di fantascienza italiana'' (essay, 1977) *''La sindrome lunare e altre storie'' (short story collection, 1978) *'' Retrofuturo'' (1999) *''Ciao futuro'' (short story collection, 2001) *''Trappole in libertà'' (2004) *''Bianco su nero'' (2011)

References

Sources

* Iannuzzi, Giulia, ''Fantascienza italiana. Riviste, autori, dibattiti dagli anni Cinquanta agli anni Settanta'', Milan-Udine, Mimesis, 2014, pp. 185–195, 281–324, . * Ead., ''Distopie, viaggi spaziali, allucinazioni. Fantascienza italiana contemporanea'', Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2015, chapter 4, . * Iannuzzi, Giulia, Pagetti, Carlo
Italy
in SFE. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, edited by John Clute, David Langford, Peter Nicholls, 11 January 2015.

External links

Italian bibliography of Vittorio Curtoni
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