This is paradoxical for a genre as pioneering and avant-garde as science fiction whose very source of inspiration should be the continual expansion and exploration of new horizons. Many of these stories belong to authors who are important and appreciated in their own countries, but because they do not write in English, they remain invisible on a global scale, with the obvious consequence of relegating their prose and ideas to the most marginal territories of the global conversation.

The aim of this research is to collect at least some of the stories that-over the last thirty or forty years-have been literally rendered inaudible by the background noise generated by the powerful voices of English-language authors capable of reaching every corner of the planet. After seven years of intense scouting I have published in Italian (but also in English, Russian, and Chinese) more than 170 short stories, six novels, and about twenty thematic anthologies and collections of single authors, driven by my curiosity and the desire to explore what is hidden behind the billboards and marketing campaigns of fiction proposed by large national and international publishing groups. In 2014, when I started scouting for science fiction from non-English speaking countries and written in languages other than English I never thought I would find so many wonderful stories in such a short time.

E-Doll by Francesco Verso