Quaglia, Roberto
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1962- ) Italian author whose first works of genre interest were published in Romanian translation, beginning with Vagabondul interspatial (trans Cornel Nicolau from 1985 manuscript 1994; as Paradoxine: The Adventures of James Vagabond 2009); GOD Ltd (trans Peter de Ville from 1985 manuscript 1992 chap) is a Satire set in Western America about a deity who seems half Computer, half Ponzi scheme. Quaglia is best known in English for his gonzo collaborations with Ian Watson assembled as The Beloved of My Beloved (coll 2009). [JC]
see also: BSFA Award; Clarkesworld; Helix SF.
Roberto Quaglia
born Genoa, Italy: 7 October 1962
works (selected; in order of actual publication)
- Lassù Qualcuno Mi Concupisce: Un Commedia di fantascienza per Tre Attori Umani (Genoa, Italy: for the Author, 1990) [play: chap: pb/]
- Somebody Up There is Lusting for Me: A Science Fiction Play for Three Human Actors (Genoa, Italy: for the Author, 1993) [play: chap: trans by Peter de Ville of the above: pb/]
- Vagabondul interspatial ["The Vagabond of Ether"] (Bucharest, Romania: Editura Nemira, 1994) [trans by Cornel Nicolau from 1985 Italian manuscript: in the publisher's Nautilus series: pb/Florin Chiritescu]
- GOD Ltd (Genoa, Italy: for the Author, 1992) [novelette: chap: trans by Peter de Ville: 1985 publication in Italian not verified: pb/Marco Vimercati]
- Paine, unt si paradoxina ["Bread, Butter and Paradoxine"] (Bucharest, Romania: Editura Nemira, 1999) [trans (from Italian manuscript?) by Cornel Nicolau: in the publisher's Nautilus series: pb/]
- Paradoxine: The Adventures of James Vagabond (London: Immanion Press, 2009) [trans anon of the above: pb/]
- The Beloved of My Beloved (Alconbury Weston, Cambridgeshire: NewCon Press, 2009) with Ian Watson [coll: hb/Ian Whates and Roberto Quaglia]
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