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Set in a dystopian future, Bambini Bonsai tells the story of Pepe, a young man who grows up in a Genoa devastated by a natural disaster that altered the climate and destroyed the local flora and fauna. The city is now part of a megalopolis stretching along the Ligurian coast and dominated by enormous buildings […]

This dystopian novel narrates the descent of an ordinary man into the underworld. Locked up in Regina Coeli prison, he is forced to come to terms with his fate. He previously led a solitary life, frequenting the Forbidden City, a go-go bar in Rome. However, after a chance encounter with a mysterious Chinese man, his […]

Set in the near future, the novel depicts a once fertile and lively southern province that is now desolate. The landscape, stretching from sunburnt coastlines to the wild mountains of the Apennines, is unrecognisable, but fragments of language, names and places survive. Against this backdrop, the novel reflects on the legacy that humanity will leave […]

In the near future, humanity will face a global water crisis, triggering a clandestine auction to privatise Antarctica. Against the backdrop of a collapsing capitalist system, the stories of various characters intertwine in a world where social inequality is extreme, democracy has disappeared and slavery has been legalised once more. A psychic telecommunications system controls […]

The novel tells the story of three young reporters — Misha, Nicola and Ali — who attempt to rebuild their lives and careers by making documentaries about the future of Italy after being destroyed by a case of shaming. Against the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic landscape riven by violence and fanaticism, the protagonists embark on […]

In 2092, Venice — rebuilt by a Beijing-based multinational corporation after a devastating flood — has become the European equivalent of Las Vegas. It is already hot at seven in the morning on 25 December in the African climate, and a new bloody spectacle is about to begin. The city is an Orwellian playground where […]

Dystopian novel set in the second half of the twenty-first century, in a Europe devastated by the effects of climate change. The protagonist, Livio Delmastro, is a former neuroscientist fleeing north along with thousands of other climate migrants, in search of areas that are still livable. While the world around him collapses between famine, desertification […]

It is a book born from a collective writing experiment led by Wu Ming 1 in the southern part of the Ferrara area. Set in the lowlands of the Po Valley, between Ferrara, Rovigo, and the coast, the volume imagines a near future in which the Adriatic Sea, driven by climate change, has reclaimed lands […]

Rome is suffering from extreme drought: it hasn’t rained in three years and water is scarce, disrupting laws, social dynamics, and human relationships. In this urban dystopia, different lives – young, old, marginalized, crisis-stricken professionals – intertwine in a choral portrait of a city dying of thirst and isolation. Each person’s search for personal redemption […]

This is a dystopian novel set in the near future where humans are forced to take refuge underwater to escape lethal sunlight. In this underwater world, a new species of beautiful yet ferocious creatures is discovered: mermaids. They are imprisoned and exploited for both their delicious flesh and to satisfy sexual desires. Endowed with extraordinary […]