There is not one salient reason for such darkness. Although Italy imported (and translated) almost everything that was produced in the core nations and in the semiperiphery of Milner’s world sf system, it did not export much and thus resembles a black hole more than dark matter. Wells to Czechoslovakia and exported the robot. Admittedly Italy does not have a Karel Čapek-who imported H.G. In Milner’s system there is practically no mention of Italy, mostly because, as he explained in an exchange of email messages, there has been little impact of Italian sf on the rest of the world.
Consider, for example, the eighth chapter of Andrew Milner’s recent Locating Science Fiction (2012), which outlines a world system of sf (based on Franco Moretti’s theory of distant reading) that hypothesizes France and Britain as the core nations of the system it envisions the United States and Japan as its semiperiphery, and also strives to highlight the role played by Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Russia in the genre’s development.
The gravitational pull of Italian sf on the Anglophone world, however, has been, so far, quite small and hard to detect. Dark matter’s mass explains a series of astronomical phenomena that are visible to telescopes and radio-telescopes. A Selection of Italian SF Novels and Short Stories Translated and Published in EnglishĪrielle Saiber and Umberto Rossi Introduction: Italian SF: Dark Matter or Black Hole? The sf produced in Italy is dark matter, arguably even darker than its astrophysical equivalent.
Arielle Saiber and Salvatore Proietti.The Weight of History: Immunity and the Nation in Italian SF Cinema Revisiting Italian Post-Neorealist SF Cinema (1963-74) Fantafascist Epic: “Contemporary” Alternative Italian Colonial Histories My Name Is Pantera: On Valerio Evangelisti’s “Slipstream” Western Fiction Worlds of “Un-knowledge”: Dystopian Patterns in Primo Levi’s Short Stories Fantascienza Outside the Ghetto: The Science-Fictional Writings of Italian Mainstream Authors Science Fiction: A Narrative in Line With the Times Introduction: Italian SF: Dark Matter or Black Hole? Edited by Umberto Rossi, Arielle Saiber, and Salvatore Proietti ARTICLE ABSTRACTS
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