NanoDust

[Essay] Gutenberg’s Stains

(Olimpia 2003) About 50k words

From the invention of movable type to the transistor and the microprocessor - a fresh look at the recent history of technology. A story that goes above and beyond official piecemeal accounts, to tell the first complete history and offer up predictions for the future.

Featuring the fictional story “The gardens of Villandry”. What would the world be like today if major technologies had brought economic advancement to the areas where they were first developed?

The author is personally available to discuss translations in languages other than Italian

 

[Novel] Cast Lead (after Bruno Fabbiani’s discoveries)

(unpublished) About 50k words

The author’s interest in Gutenberg takes the form of a historical novel: “Cast Lead”, about the life of the German inventor according to the latest theories of Prof. Fabbiani. From the middle ages to the promise of America and back to Dracula’s Transylvania, the novel paints a picture of the historical periods in which Gutenberg “vanishes”.

Unpublished in Italian (it doesn’t seem to meet the tastes of Italian publishers)

 

 

[Essay] Robotic Prehistory

Olimpia 2009 -About 45k words

Take a journey with the author to discover how metallurgy allowed pre-Christian Greeks to develop unimaginable machines that were never known in Rome. Discover how these machines remained only in the memory of the Arab Middle East, and little by little vanished from manual professions. Marvel at how these technologies reappeared 1000 years later and with great difficulty in a Europe of carpenters and craftsmen, and how the discovery of materials began with bells and cannons, progressed to clocks and later into fantastical anatomical machines. Observe the genius that took physical form up until the industrial revolution, the forerunner and inspiration of the anomaly of the PC.

Explore the civilization of the personal computer, the cell phone and the iPod and learn about their limits in the development of the three-dimensional description of objects and their parts.

Discover how in the future there will be attempts to develop machines that are capable of reproducing themselves in their most complex and useful functions, how nanotechnology will replace metallurgy and reject anthropomorphism as a violation of its very nature.

The publisher holds the copyright for foreign sales

 

[Novel] Project Čapek (written With Marco Minicangeli)

Unpublished -58k words

In a land populated only inside overcrowded and dome-closed metropolis, elsewhere uninhabited, subversive past-driven actions are trying to affect the power of spacemen, grandchildren of the settlers that spread to the galaxies in a forgotten era.
In the space, an alien race plots against the Federation of Planets, apparently to destroy the dominant planet and then
conquer the entire Federation.
In a local and interplanetary frame into fibrillation, mysteries and crimes occur, paving a path of blood inside a
technologically well-defined world. What can a woman do against the powerful alien invaders?
A thrilling story unfolds inside and trhough the time-space continuum defined by Asimov’s robotic tetralogy,
simultaneously with its own events. The robotic invader’s thought is a paraphrase from modern Chinese’s; over and over, the woman in getting momentum in her social importance.

The authors hold all copyrights

 

[Essay] From Dust to the NanoAge

Lulu 2009 -Vol I: about 80k words

You might think that the history of the thinking chip is a clearly defined techie subject that only nerds (and their sons, the geeks) would be interested in. But you would be wrong. Almost everything about the microprocessor is still unknown, nothing was planned in advance and its history is both readable and enjoyable. It is a great tale of advancing knowledge in technology, law and society.

This is the story of a boy who in growing up shaped many others in his sphere of influence. It is the secret, human story of that long list of geniuses who brought us the only device that truly differentiates us from Neanderthals.

The author holds all copyrights

 

[Novel] Myrmecomputing

Unpublished- 50,000 words

Ants have taken over the Internet and don’t want us to know! An alternative, perfectly natural technology restores these irate insects’ control of planet, just like millions of years ago. Thanks to the power of the microprocessor, Internet surrounds us like a shell woven of wires from which there is no escape. A novelization with a Matrix-like scenario explores the landscape of our electronic and telecommunication technologies.

In a hospital, the entomologist Patricia awakes from an inexplicable 10-year induced coma. The world has changed and with the new technologies she has trouble finding her friends and colleagues from the university. Under the hospital, a strange character gets by selling bezoars. And then someone from the past contacts the entomologist.

 The author holds all copyrights