![]() ![]() The season was brief and was already drawing to a close by the end of the decade. His success set in motion a kind of unhoped-for rebirth during the 1990s with a proliferation of novels and anthologies of Italian authors, some of which were even issued by renowned publishers. He is perhaps the only writer of science-fiction to attain the status of a professional and to obtain recognition, at least in terms of interest on the part of publishers. Valerio Evangelisti started off on the road to success with the publication of his novel Il mistero dell’inquisitore Eymerich – a work which has gone through ten editions – in installments in Il Venerdì, a weekly supplement of the newspaper La Repubblica. The works of the few respectable writers, scattered over the decades and published with many difficulties, attracted a limited attention and obtained a quasi-clandestine circulation. ![]() With few exceptions, dedicated readers found themselves traversing a desolate, barren land. ![]() If it is true that Italian science fiction was officially born in 1952 when the first issue of Scienza fantastica, avventure nello spazio, tempo e dimensione appeared in the newsstands, then one may deduce, over sixty years later, that the outcome was not a happy one. ![]()
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