Roberto Quaglia's
literary works

In thirteen years of subliminal literary activity, Roberto Quaglia (which coincidentally happens to be me, myself) has amassed a substantial body of fiction. Most of this includes: science fiction, surrealistic fiction, plays, screenplays, humour and some essays. They amount to over one million words, almost all Italian ones, even if many have managed to transmute into Romanian, Russian, English and other languages. However, you will not get here any of them, with that ridiculous exception consisting of these few diligent web pages that are apparently currently invading your monitor, usurping your attention and influencing your psyche...

The Myth of September 11
The Satanic Verses of Western Democracy

Just released !

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600 PAGES OF MIND-BOGGLING INSIGHTS

My first books on Kindle are now available

"Avatar: the new fantastic horizons of oneiric justice", probably one of my best short essay ever - which has been published in 2011 on Vector, the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association, is now finally available for everybody as an ebook on Amazon - at the minimum price allowed by Amazon!

New book: The Jonathan Livingston Pigeon

My first book on Kindle is now available

And this is the paperback edition

Incredible !

Roberto Quaglia
is the first Italian ever
to have won the prestigious
British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Award
for best short story of 2009

The awarded story is "The Beloved Time of Their Lives" by Roberto Quaglia & Ian Watson

which you are free to read online by clicking here.

If you want to google this news on the web in your favourite language, you may click below

Following the victory at the BSFA Awards, "The Beloved Time of Their Lives" has been translated in several languages. In Japan it was listed as a finalist of the Seiun Awards.

New Roberto Quaglia book on English

"Paradoxine - The adventures of James Vagabond" has been PUBLISHED in UK by Immanion Press.

The Beloved of My Beloved

"The Beloved of my Beloved" a book by Ian Watson & Roberto Quaglia,
has finally been PUBLISHED.

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The Beloved of my Beloved

Eurocon 2009, Fiuggi, Italy, March 28th, 2009

book launch and speech by Ian Watson and Roberto Quaglia

Higly Recommended
(don't worry if some sentences (1,5%) are spoken in Italian
98% of the talk is in English, and only 0,5% in other languages)

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New Ian Watson & Roberto Quaglia
SHORT-STORIES THAT YOU MAY TRY TO READ ONLINE FOR FREE !

"The Moby Clitoris of my Beloved"

a short story by Ian Watson & Roberto Quaglia, published on the online magazine Clarkesworld.

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"The Mass Extinction of my Beloved"

a short story by Ian Watson & Roberto Quaglia, published on the online magazine Helix.

"Beloved Vampire of the Blood Comet"

a short story by Ian Watson & Roberto Quaglia, published on the online magazine FLURB, by Rudy Rucker.

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Antologie straniere

"The Penis of my Beloved" a story by Ian Watson & Roberto Quaglia, gets republished inside this anthology of the best erotic fiction of the year.

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The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 7

"The Beloved of the Gigolem" a story by Ian Watson & Roberto Quaglia, gets republished inside this anthology of the best erotic fiction of the year.

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The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 9

"The Penis of my Beloved" a story by Ian Watson & Roberto Quaglia, gets republished in 2012 inside The Best of Best New Erotica which is "a selection of 30 outstanding stories from the leading writers of the past 20 years"

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The Mammoth Book of The Best of Best New Erotica

Summer 2006: Italian bookstores start to sell "Il Mito dell'11 Settembre e l'opzione Dottor Stranamore"

September 2007: The second revised edition of the book is published

The second edition (2007)

The first edition (2006)

It's notoriously cool to say that fact is stranger than fiction, but hardly anybody really believes this. This itself is bad because that is the way things definitely are! And so, how can someone go on limiting themselves to writing science fiction or fantasy when suddenly reality reveals itself as being weirder than any SF extrapolation or interpretation? Therefore, begging your pardon, I have now written a book that focuses on one such aspect of this vulgar world of reality. However I promise I won't do it again... for in the long term the weirdest reality ends up becoming boring.
Nonetheless, if such insights intrigue you, I can guarantee that this book's 500 pages may well eventually irritate you, disturb you, and even shock you. What it will not do is bore you. Not one bit...

Read the review of Valerio Evangelisti:
(in case of emergence you may try a google translation into English)

IL MITO DELL'11 SETTEMBRE di Roberto Quaglia:
un libro importante e bello

NOT ENOUGH ?

...then please read also the review of Serena Ricci

(in case of emergence you may try a google translation into English)

Il Mito dell'11 Settembre e l'opzione Dottor Stranamore

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April 2009: The book "Il Mito dell'11 Settembre" gets a Romanian translation and is published in Romania with the title:

11 Septembrie. Mitul.

The cover of the Romanian edition (2009)

Visit the homepage of the Romanian edition:

11 Septembrie. Mitul.

An ESKMO antology as a tribute to Robert Sheckley

March 2007. Leading publisher ESKMO releases "Sheckley Academy " («Академия Шекли»), a SF antology in the memory of Robert Sheckley. The 640 big book contains exclusively Russian authors with two exceptions only: Ian Watson and Roberto Quaglia, who have both a story included. «Вечно что-то не так» by Roberto Quaglia and «Гиперзоо» by Ian Watson. On Russian only.

Sheckley Academy (Marzo 2007)

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"The grave of my beloved", a story by Ian Watson & Roberto Quaglia, gets translated into Italian with the title "Una tomba per la mia amata", and is published on the science fiction magazine Robot.

Incredible, but true: I have been translated into Italian! It may look like a joke, since supposedly I AM Italian. But that's no joke. "The grave of my beloved" a story written on English in collaboration with British writer Ian Watson, has been translated into Italian by Francesco Lato for the Italian SF magazine Robot. Probably, I am one of the few Italian writers (if not the first at all) to have been translated into Italian....

Una tomba per la mia amata (inside Robot, September 2006)

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January-April-October 2006
The Ukranian magazine Science Fition Reality (Реальность фантастики) publishes 2 short-stories by Roberto Quaglia, one of them TWICE. It's Roberto's first time in Russian language.

January 2006:

The Ukranian magazine Science Fiction Reality publishes the Russian translation of "God L.t.d." (КОМПАНИЯ GOD LTD)

Click to see the index of the magazine
Click here to get the beginning of the story

CLICK HERE TO READ THE FIRST PAGE OF GOD LTD ON CYRILLIC

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April 2006:

The Ukranian magazine Science Fiction Reality publishes the Russian translation of "Indeterministic Inflation, or when I saved the world" (КАК Я СПАС МИР)
Click to see the index of the magazine
with the beginning of the story

CLICK HERE TO READ THE FIRST PAGE OF INDETERMINISTIC INFLATION ON CYRILLIC

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October 2006:

The Ukranian magazine Science Fiction Reality publishesagain "Indeterministic Inflation, or when I saved the world" (КАК Я СПАС МИР)

Being published on cyrillic gives an original feeling, at least because you have to re-learn to read your own name: Роберто Квалья (even though a more correct spelling would be Роберто Куалья, but for Russians the first spelling is easier, so that's likely the way I'm getting known in Russia) - then you typically try a search on Google of your own name on cyrillics and with amazement you find out that there are more than 10,000 results...

"The grave of my beloved", a story of Ian Watson & Roberto Quaglia, is the closing story of the April 2003 issue of the prestigious American magazine Weird Tales, one of the first SF magazines ever

On the cover the name of Ian Watson appears, but not the one of Roberto Quaglia, although the story is of both authors. A choice which is commercially comprehensible but all the same not exactly elegant from the point of view of style.

The grave of my beloved (inside Weird Tales, April 2006)

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"The penis of my beloved", a story by Ian Watson & Roberto Quaglia, is the closing story of the anthology Lust For Life, by Véhicule Press.

The penis of my beloved (inside The Lust for Life, Véhicule Press, 2005)

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Click here for a review of the book

My essay collection "Pensiero Stocastico" (Stochastic Thinking) in a Romanian edition by Nemira.

Pensiero Stocastico - Romanian version ("Gandirea Stocastica", Nemira, 2004)

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The Italian edition of bestseller "All what you know is wrong"
has been one of the major commercial hits in 2003 in Italia, selling more than 65.000 copies. I'm the author of the first (and most controversial) article of the book.

Tutto quello che sai è falso (Nuovimondimedia, 2003)

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My essay collection "Pensiero Stocastico", published by Solid

Pensiero Stocastico - Italian version (Solid, 2002)

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"Bread, Butter and Paradoxine" is a book in two parts, the firts one written in 1985 and the second in 1999. The whole work amounts 470 pages, and it has an introduction by the great American science fiction writer Robert Sheckley, which you may read online.

Bread, Butter and Paradoxine - (2002)

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"Bread, Butter and Paradoxine" in the Romanian edition by Nemira. Also this edition contains an introduction by Robert Sheckley, which you may read online.

Paine, unt si paradoxina - Romanian version (Nemira, 1999)

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Timisoara, Romania, August 1999.

The launching of the Romanian editon of "Paine, unt, si paradoxina". With the red T-shirs you see Roberto Quaglia and Robert Sheckley. Click here for all the pictures of the event.

"Dio S.r.l" is a collection of my early SF short-stories. This is the Romanian edition of the book.

Dio S.r.l. - Romanian version (Nemira, 1998)

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You still can't read Romanian? Hm, that's a pitty. "The Vagabond of Ether" it's a surreal and humouristic SF novel that I wrote in 1990. 130.000 words. This is the Romanian edition, of 1994, which at the time happened to be also quite a good bestseller.

Il Vagabondo dell'etere - Romanian version ("Vagabundul Interspatial", Nemira, 1994)

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Two little booklets on English. You would like to read them? Hm, quite unlikely you will, unless you are able to seduce me with your charm, or with your money :-)


`God is incredibly different from what anyone would normally think. And it's not a nice surprise. How's God, then. And which are his bad sides?`	What happens if an alien intrudes himself (herself? itself?) into your house, pretending to have sex with you? (an SF play for a modern theatre)

And now here you get even an entire online book for free! More than 100.000 words with justa a few clicks. The only downside... it's all on Italian.

"Caro Maurizio Costanzo Show...".

("Dear Maurizio Costanzo TalkShow...")

Letters to the Italian Television Totem.
The first Italian shareware book
entirely online on the Internet since 1997

THE DESSERT:

What follows is a list of coherent lists of words put down by me. In a less tortuous way we could say the following stuff are articles of mine. In fact it's just written space, even if it's not clear how it can be a space. (Is there really "space" in Internet ? And if there is, where is it ?)

"Pensiero Stocastico" (Stochastic Thinking) is a continuosly growing collection of short articles of mine, which I write monthly for the Italian Cyberzine Delos. The theme? Reality and its surprizing surroundings. In fact, we could argue that only the surroundings of reality in reality exist... All pieces are on Italian. Not all Italians are in pieces. Yet.