Clockwork

It took me a while to read it because it's written in a style I'm not used to, and it felt very rambling and messy. Despite that, I liked his rants against Heinlein, Lovecraft and Star Wars, and it conveyed quite a great point on what science fiction should be about.

Personally I'm going to use this chart to sketch factions in my solarpunk stories. It's not a perfect diagram, but far better than the old political compass.

Update: I added EPUB formats for both Meteorina and all other short stories; I have been postponing that QoL fix for a LONG time but you finally gave me a reason to go and do it 😁

Great tip, I'll definitely check it out!

That's so flattering, thank you! 🥹

Your prejudice was half-right actually: tech and systems are what I really want to explore, but I use shorter stories as "experiment" to practice other aspect of storytelling too. After all, characters are the most powerful illusion spell on the reader!

What's going to be next:

• More Meteorina adventures (surely one on Elba, maybe one on Albanian shores considering the shitshow going on with the Italian govt nowadays? Some good old satire, why not)
• Kanteletar, the stories of a public digital library founded in 2067 across four centuries of climate, geopolitical and cultural upheavals

Thank you! Let me know what you think 😋

I have other formats for the novels, but now that the Meteorina project is becoming bigger I should provide epub files too. I'll work on adding more buttons and get back to you in a couple days!

Di fianco a ogni storia ci sono le bandierine che indicano in che lingua sono! La maggior parte sono bilingui; alcune sono solo in italiano. Simulacra Navigans, l'unica storia che avevo in inglese, è quasi a fine traduzione.

EDIT: Ho finito di tradurre Simulacra; mi ero dimenticato che anche Snowstorm e Lady Firefly erano English-only, prossimamente tradurrò anche quelle!