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NEXT INTERNATIONAL
Issue 01 - Spring 2009
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The first
international issue of
our magazine, edited by
Giovanni De Matteo
and Salvatore
Proietti, is now
available. 80 pages of
science fiction and
visions from the future:
short stories, articles,
and illustrations. Our
special guest is Takeshi
Kovacs, whose birth is
described by his author
Richard K. Morgan.
From the
editorial:
"Let us
throw a few dreaming
jewels in the teeth of
all the killers in high
places saying their
prayers aloud. Let us
snatch bodies off the
hands of the other
whisperers lurking on
the threshold of
darkness. Let us move
beyond the hour of the
Dragon, and step onto
the stage of the Big
Time. No surprise, this
side of the veil of Maya
is as contradictory as
the nature of the Real
and of the Reality
Studio."
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Articles in
this issue:
-
Is It OK to Be a
Quellist?,
where Giovanni De
Matteo analyzes the
political aspects of
Richard K. Morgan’s
Kovacs series.
- The
Origins of Takeshi
Kovacs,
where Richard K.
Morgan deals with
the human genesis of his
post-human antihero.
-
2001
– Forty Years Since,
where Giuseppe Lippi
tells us about Kubrick’s
masterpiece, in the
anniversary of its
release.
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A
New Paradigm for
Cosmology,
by Anisotropie,
leading readers
through an
interesting trip on
the edge of
scientific
speculation.
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The Web in the Time
of the Interstellar
Frontera,
by Giovanni De
Matteo, about the
coming possible
evolutions of the
Net making our
environments more
and more
interactive, outer
space included.
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Tomorrow’s Cities –
Boxes,
an alluring journey
hosted by Francesca Dattilo
through cities
already forerunning
our future: Berlin,
Tokyo, Shenzhen.
-
Science Fiction and
Futurism,
where Riccardo
Valla deals with
the SF intuitions in
the works by
Filippo Tommaso
Marinetti.
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Space Oddities:
Holograms of a
Fragmented SF,
a detailed portrait
of Italian science
fiction through the
protagonists of its
history, written by
Salvatore
Proietti with
contributions by Andrea “Jarok”
Vaccaro, Lukha Kremo
Baroncinij and
others.
In
the fiction
department:
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Contact with the
Enemy,
by Alan D.
Altieri
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The Mechatronics,
by
Marco Milani
(trans.
Giovanni Agnoloni)
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Florian in the Short
Circuit,
by
Sandro Battisti
(trans.
Cinzia Sgambaro)
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The Dolly Affair,
by Lukha Kremo
Baroncinij
(trans.
Simona Mancino)
-
Orphans of the
Connection,
by
Giovanni De Matteo
-
One Hundred Bytes of
Solitude,
by
Fernando Fazzari
English translations
supervised by
Salvatore Proietti.
Illustrations by
Daniele Cascone,
Christopher Chan,
Luca Crema,
Lucas Janin,
Leisol,
Marco Moschini,
Giorgio Raffaelli,
Matteo Ventura
and others.
Art Directors:
Annalisa Antonini &
Giorgio Raffaelli.
Cover by
Franco Brambilla.
You
can buy Next
International
# 01 for € 7,00 (in
Italy), for € 8,00
(if you are in
Europe) or € 10,00
(if you are anywhere
else), delivery
included, by writing
to the e-mail
address info [AT]
next-station [DOT]
org (remember to
replace the [AT] and
[DOT] sections with
the appropriate
characters, and
remove the
superfluous spaces).
Next
International,
80 pages of future
and science fiction.
€ 5,90.
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