Bookshelf #

Collection of books, movies and short stories I’ve come across, in no particular order.

To read #

• “Blindsight”, by Peter Watts
• “Permutation City”, by Greg Egan
• “Diaspora”, by Greg Egan
• “Podkayne of Mars”, by Robert A. Heinlein
• “The Machine Stops”, by Edward Morgan Foster
• “A Meeting with Medusa”, by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Followed by “The Medusa Chronicles”, by Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds
• “The Master Key”, by Lyman Frank Baum
• “The invisible life of Addie LaRue”, by Victoria E. Schwab
• “Lanark: a life in four books”, by Alasdair Gray
• “The dream with no dreamer”, by Evan Forman
• “The Lotus Caves” by John Christopher (Sam Youd)
• “Walkaway”, by Cory Doctorow
• “The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect”, by Roger Williams
• “We Are Legion (We Are Bob)”, by Dennis E. Taylor
• “Autonomous”, by Annalee Newitz
• “Klara and the Sun”, by Kazuo Ishiguro
• “Player Piano”, by Kurt Vonnegut
• “The space between worlds”, by Micaiah Johnson
• “Radiance”, by Catherynne M. Valente
• “On Fragile Waves”, by E. Lily Yu
• “The Poppy War”, by Rebecca F. Kuang
  • Followed by “The Dragon Republic”, “The Burning God”
• “Blindsight”, by Peter Watts
• “The Windup Girl”, by Paolo Bacigalupi
• “Leviathan Wakes”, by James S.A Corey
• “Ancillary Justice”, by Ann Leckie
• “The long way to a small, angry planet”, by Becky Chambers
• “Station eleven”, by Emily St. John Mandel
• “Lagoon”, by Nnedi Okorafor
• “Seveneves”, by Neal Stephenson
• “Aurora”, by Kim Stanley Robinson
• “The Martians” by Kim S. Robinson
• “Moving to Mars: Design for the Red Planet”
• “The Lesson”, by Cadwell Turnbull
• “Consciousness Explained”, by Daniel C. Dennet
• “The Wandering Earth”, by Cixin Liu
• “The Wind’s Twelve Quarters: Short Stories”, by Ursula K. Le Guin
• “Lightspeed, Year One”, by various authors
• “The Good Soldier Švejk”, by Jaroslav Hašek
• “The First Men in the Moon”, by H. G. Wells
• “The Songs of Distant Earth”, by Arthur C. Clarke
• “Spin”, by Robert C. Wilson
• “Tau Zero”, by Poul Anderson
• “Inversions”, by Iain M. Banks
• “Lost in the funhouse”, by J. Barth
• “Martian Time-Slip”, by P. K. Dick
• “The Book of the New Sun”, by Gene Wolfe
• “Last and First Men”, by Olaf Stapledon
• “The Eternal Champion”, by M. Moorcock
• “The Way of Kings: Book One of the Stormlight Archive”, by Brandon Sanderson
• “Auf zwei Planeten”, by Kurd Laßwitz

To watch (or re-watch) #

• “Memento”, by C. Nolan
• “Dark Star”, by John Carpenter (context)
• “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, by M. Gondry, 2004
• “The Wizard of Oz”, by V. Fleming, 1939
• “The Terminator”, by J. Cameron, 1984
• “V for Vendetta”, by J. McTeigue, 2005
• “The Iron Giant”, by B. Bird, 1999
• “Silent Running”, by D. Trumbull, 1972
• “Будет ласковый дождь / There Will Come Soft Rains” (1984). Soviet multifilm adaptation directed by N. Tulyahodzhaev, “Uzbekfilm” studio, USSR

Books #

• The “Children of Time” series, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • “Children of Time”
  • “Children of Ruin”
  • “Children of Memory”
• “Renaissance”, by Alfred E. van Vogt (IT: “Le lenti del potere”)
• “Le petit prince”, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (IT: “Il piccolo principe”)
• “Island”, by Aldous Huxley (IT: “L’isola”)
• “Brave New World”, by Aldous Huxley (IT: “Brave New World”)
• “Project Hail Mary”, by Andy Weir
• “The Egg”, by Andy Weir (IT: “L’uomo di Marte’”)
• “The Martian”, by Andy Weir (IT: “L’uomo di Marte’”)
• “Душа общества” by Аркадий Аверченко
• “Пикник на обочине”, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (EN: “Roadside Picnic”)
• “2001: A Space Odyssey”, by Arthur C. Clarke (IT: “2001: Odissea nello Spazio”)
• “Venus”, by Ben Bova
• “Perils of Perception”, by Bobby Duffy (IT: “I rischi della percezione”)
• “Out of the Silent Planet”, by C.S. Lewis
• “Perelandra”, by C.S. Lewis
• “That hideous strength”, by C.S. Lewis
• “The Chronicles of Narnia”, by C.S. Lewis (IT: “Le cronache di Narnia”)
  • “The Magician’s Nephew”
  • “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”
  • “The Horse and His Boy”
  • “Prince Caspian”
  • “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”
  • “The Silver Chair”
  • “The Last Battle”
• “Eragon”, by Christopher Paolini (IT: “Eragon”)
• “Eldest”, by Christopher Paolini (IT: “Eldest”)
• “Brisingr”, by Christopher Paolini (IT: “Brisingr”)
• “Inheritance”, by Christopher Paolini (IT: “Inheritance”)
• “The three-body problem”, by Cixin Liu (IT: “Il problema dei tre corpi”)
• “The Dark Forest”, by Cixin Liu (IT: “La materia del cosmo”)
• “Death’s End”, by Cixin Liu (IT: “Nella quarta dimensione”)
• “Orbit Twenty”, by Damon Knight: - Contains:
  • “Moongate”, by Kate Wilhelm
  • “The Novella Race”, by Pamela Sargent
  • “Bright Coins in Never-Ending Stream”, by R. A. Lafferty
  • “The Synergy Sculpture”, by Terrence L. Brown
  • “The Birds are Free”, by Ronald Anthony Cross
  • “A Right-Handed Wrist”, by Stepan Chapman
  • “They Made us Not To Be And They Are Not”, by Phillipa C. Maddern
  • “Seven American Nights”, by Gene Wolfe
• “Flowers for Algernon”, (novel), by Daniel Keyes (IT: “Fiori per Algernon”)
• “Daemon”, by Daniel Suarez
• “Freedom”, by Daniel Suarez
• “The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, by Douglas Adams (IT: “Guida Galattica Per Autostoppisti”)
• “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, by Douglas Adams (IT: “Il ristorante al termine dell’universo”)
• “Life, the Universe and Everything”, by Douglas Adams (IT: “La vita, l’universo e tutto quanto”)
• “So long, and thanks for all the fish”, by Douglas Adams (IT: “Addio e grazie per tutto il pesce”)
• “Mostly Harmless”, by Douglas Adams (IT: “Praticamente innocuo”)
• “The Meaning of Human Existence”, by Edward Osborne Wilson (IT: “Il significato dell’esistenza umana”)
• “Flatland”, by Edwin Abbott Abbott (IT: “Flatlandia”)
• “Bit”, by Ermanno Gallo
• “Ready Player One”, by Ernest Cline
• “The Old Man and the Sea”, by Ernest Hemingway, (IT: “Il vecchio e il mare”)
• “L’impero di Cindia”, by Federico Rampini
• “Игрокъ”, by Fedor Dostoievskij (IT: “Il giocatore”)
• “Dune”, by Frank Herbert (IT: “Dune”)
• “Dune Messiah”, by Frank Herbert (IT: “Il messia di Dune”)
• “Children of Dune”, by Frank Herbert (IT: “I figli di Dune”)
• “God Emperor of Dune”, by Frank Herbert (IT: “L’imperatore-dio di Dune”)
• “Heretics of Dune”, by Frank Herbert (IT: “Gli eretici di Dune”)
• “Chapterhouse, Dune”, by Frank Herbert (IT: “La rifondazione di Dune”)
• “The Trial”, by Franz Kafka (IT: “Il processo”)
• “Romulus der Große”, by Friedrich Dürenmatt (IT: “Romolo il Grande”)
• “Animal Farm”, by George Orwell (IT: “La fattoria degli animali”)
• “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, by George Orwell (IT: “1984”)
• “Nightflyers”, by George R. R. Martin (FR: “Les volcryn”)
• “The Hedge Knight”, by George R. R. Martin (IT: “Il cavaliere errante”)
• “Sandkings”, by George R. R. Martin (IT: “I re di sabbia)
• “Windhaven”, by George R. R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle (IT: “Il pianeta dei venti”)
• “The Ice Dragon”, by George R. R. Martin and Luis Royo (IT: “Il drago di ghiaccio”)
• “The Time Machine”, by H. G. Wells (IT: “La macchina del tempo”)
• “The War of the Worlds”, by H. G. Wells
• “She”, by H. Rider Haggard (IT: “La donna eterna”)
• “A wild sheep chase”, by Haruki Murakami (IT: “Nel segno della pecora”)
• “Siddhartha”, by Hermann Hesse (IT: “Siddhartha”)
• “Consider Phlebas”, by Iain M. Banks (IT: “Considera Fleba”)
• “The player of games”, by Iain M. Banks (IT: “L’impero di Azad”)
• “Use of Weapons”, by Iain M. Banks (IT: “La guerra di Zakalwe”)
• “The State of the Art”, by Iain M. Banks (IT: “Lo stato dell’arte”)
• “Look to windward”, by Iain M. Banks (IT: “Volgi lo sguardo al vento”)
• “Excession”, by Iain M. Banks (IT: “L’altro universo”)
• “Great Science Fiction Stories By The World’s Greatest Scientists”, by Isaac Asimov (IT: “Fantascienza. I migliori racconti di famosi scienziati”)
  • “White Creatures”, by Gregory Benford
  • “The Singing Diamond”, by Robert L. Forward
  • “Publish and Perish”, by Paul J. Nahin
  • “Skystalk”, by Charles Sheffield
  • “The Universal Library”, by Kurd Lasswitz
  • “Long Shot”, by Vernor Vinge
  • “Blackmail”, by Fred Hoyle
  • “Jeannette’s Hands”, by R. S. Richardson
  • “The Warm Space”, by David Brin
  • “The Wind from the Sun”, by Arthur C. Clarke
  • “Industrial Accident”, by G. Harry Stine
  • “Choice”, by John R. Pierce
  • “The Winnowing”, by Isaac Asimov
  • “Dr. Snow Maiden”, by Larry Eisenberg
  • “On the Fourth Planet”, by J. F. Bone
  • “Learning Theory”, by James McConnell
  • “Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death”, by James Tiptree, Jr.
  • “Transfusion”, by Chad Oliver
  • “In the Beginning”, by Morton Klass
  • “Modulation in All Things”, by Suzette Haden Elgin
  • “The Bones of Charlemagne”, by Mario Pei
• The “Foundation” series, by Isaac Asimov
  • “Foundation” (IT: “Fondazione”)
  • “Foundation and Empire” (IT: “Fondazione e Impero”)
  • “Second Foundation” (IT: “Seconda Fondazione”)
  • “Foundation’s Edge” (IT: “L’orlo della Fondazione”)
  • “Foundation and Earth” (IT: “Fondazione e Terra”)
• “I, Robot”, by Isaac Asimov
• “The End of Eternity”, by Isaac Asimov (IT: “La fine dell’eternità”)
• “El reino del dragón de oro”, by Isabel Allende (IT: “Il regno del drago d’oro”)
• “The Drowned World”, by James G. Ballard
• The “Harry Potter” series, by Johanne K. Rowling
  • “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” (IT: “Harry Potter e la pietra filosofale”)
  • “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” (IT: “Harry Potter e la camera dei segreti”)
  • “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” (IT: “Harry Potter e il prigioniero di Azkaban”)
  • “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” (IT: “Harry Potter e il calice di fuoco”)
  • “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” (IT: “Harry Potter e l’ordine della fenice”)
  • “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” (IT: “Harry Potter e il principe mezzosangue”)
  • “Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows”(IT: “Harry Potter e i doni della morte”)
  • “The Lord of the Rings” series, by John R. R. Tolkien (IT: “Il signore degli anelli”)
  • “The Fellowship of the Ring”
  • “The Two Towers”
  • “The Return of the King”
• “Trouble with Lichen”, by John Wyndham
• “The Day of the Triffids”, by John Wyndham (IT: “Il giorno dei trifidi”)
• “Libro de los seres imaginarios”, by Jorge Luis Borges (IT: “Il libro degli esseri immaginari”)
• “El Aleph”, by Jorge Luis Borges (IT: “L’Aleph”)
• “Ficciones”, by Jorge Luis Borges (IT: “Finzioni”)
• “La rebelión de las masas”, by José Ortega y Gasset (IT: “La ribellione delle masse”)
• “Typhoon”, by Joseph Conrad (IT: “Tifone”)
• “Catch-22”, by Joseph Heller
• “The Kite Runner”, by Khaled Hosseini (IT: “Il cacciatore di aquiloni”)
• “Under the streets of Nice”, by Ken Follett (IT: “La grande rapina di Nizza”)
• “Code to zero”, by Ken Follett (IT: “Codice a zero”)
• “On Wings of Eagles”, by Ken Follett (IT: “Sulle ali delle aquile”)
• “Broken Stars”, by Ken Liu
  • “Goodnight, Melancholy” by Xia Jia
  • “The Snow of Jinyang” by Zhang Ran
  • “Broken Stars” by Tang Fei
  • “Submarines” by Han Song
  • “Salinger and the Koreans” by Han Song
  • “Under a Dangling Sky” by Cheng Jingbo
  • “What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear” by Baoshu
  • “The New Year Train” by Hao Jingfang
  • “The Robot Who Liked to Tell Tall Tales” by Fei Dao
  • “Moonlight” by Liu Cixin
  • “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: Laba Porridge” by Anna Wu
  • “The First Emperor’s Games” by Ma Boyong
  • “Reflection” by Gu Shi
  • “The Brain Box” by Regina Kanyu Wang
  • “Coming of the Light” by Chen Qiufan
  • “A History of Future Illnesses” by Chen Qiufan
  • “A Brief Introduction to Chinese Science Fiction and Fandom” by Regina Kanyu Wang,
  • “A New Continent for China Scholars: Chinese Science Fiction Studies” by Mingwei Song
  • “Science Fiction: Embarrassing No More” by Fei Dao
• “The paper menagerie”, by Ken Liu
• “The Mars Trilogy” by Kim S. Robinson
  • “Red Mars”
  • “Green Mars”
  • “Blue Mars”
• “Tales of the Otori”, by Lian Hearn (IT: “La Leggenda di Otori”)
• “Romance of the three kingdoms”, by Luo Guanzhong (IT: “Il romanzo dei tre regni”)
• “The Handmaid’s Tale”, by Margaret Atwood
• “Manna: Two Views of Humanity’s Future”, by Marshall Brain
• “The Murderbot Diaries”, by Martha Wells
  • “All systems red”
  • “Artificial Condition”
  • “Rogue Protocol”
  • “Exit Strategy”
  • “Network Effect”
  • “Fugitive Telemetry”
  • “System Collapse”
• “Cani, camosci, cuculi (e un corvo)”, by Mauro Corona
• “This Is How You Lose The Time War”, by Max Gladstone
• “The End We Start From”, by Megan Hunter (IT: “La fine da cui partiamo”)
• “The Andromeda Strain”, by Michael Crichton (IT: “Andromeda”)
• “Jurassic Park”, by Michael Crichton (IT: “Jurassic Park”)
• “Sphere”, by Michael Crichton (IT: “Sfera”)
• “Prey”, by Michael Crichton (IT: “Preda”)
• “Timeline”, by Michael Crichton (IT: “Ai confini del tempo”)
• “Momo”, by Michael Ende (IT: “Momo”)
• “The Never-Ending Story”, by Michael Ende (IT: “La storia infinita”)
• “Mirror in the mirror”, by Michael Ende (IT: “Lo specchio nello specchio”)
• “Master and Margarita”, by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (IT: “Il Maestro e Margherita”)
• “Sanshirō”, by Natsume Sōseki (IT: “Sanshirō”)
• “Snow Crash”, by Neal Stephenson
• “Coraline”, by Neil Gaiman (IT: “Coraline”)
• “American Gods”, by Neil Gaiman (IT: “American Gods”)
• “Quatermass”, by Nigel Kneale (IT: “Quatermass”)
• “Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки”, by Nikolai Gogol (IT: “Le veglie ad una fattoria presso Dikan’ka”)
• “Миргород”, by Nikolai Gogol (IT: “Mirgorod”)
• “Вий”, by Nikolai Gogol (IT: “Il Vij”)
• “Тарас Бульба”, by Nikolai Gogol (IT: “Taras Bul’ba”)
• “Арабески”, by Nikolai Gogol (IT: “I racconti degli arabeschi”)
• “Нос”, by Nikolai Gogol (IT: “Il naso”)
• “Шине́ль”, by Nikolai Gogol (IT: “Il cappotto”)
• “Коляска”, by Nikolai Gogol (IT: “Il calesse”)
• “Мёртвые души”, by Nikolai Gogol (IT: “Anime morte”)
• “The Broken Earth” series, by Nora K. Jemisin
  • “The Fifth Season”
  • “The Obelisk Gate”
  • “The Stone Sky”
• “Ender’s Game”, by Orson Scott Card (IT: “Il gioco di Ender”, FR: “La Stratégie Ender”)
• “Ender’s Shadow”, by Orson Scott Card
• “Speaker for the Dead”, by Orson Scott Card
• “Xenocide”, by Orson Scott Card
• “Breakfast at Twilight”, by Philip K. Dick (IT: “Colazione al crepuscolo”)
• “The Turning Wheel”, by Philip K. Dick (IT: “La ruota cosmica”)
• “Shell Game”, by Philip K. Dick (IT: “Rivolta contro la Terra”)
• “The defenders”, by Philip K. Dick (IT: “I difensori della Terra”)
• “Minority Report”, by Philip K. Dick
  • “Minority Report”
  • “Imposter”
  • “Second Variety”
  • “War Game”
  • “What the Dead Man Say”
  • “Oh, to be a Blobel!”
  • “The electric ant”
  • “Faith of our Fathers”
  • “We can remember it for you wholesale” (“Total Recall”)
• “Eye in the sky”, by Philip K. Dick (IT: “L’occhio nel cielo”)
• “Ubik”, by Philip K. Dick
• “The Man in the High Castle”, by Philip K. Dick (IT: “La svastica sul sole”)
• “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, by Philip K. Dick (IT: “Il cacciatore di androidi”)
• “Now and Forever”, by Ray Bradbury (IT: “Ora e per sempre”)
• “Long After Midnight”, by Ray Bradbury (IT: “Molto dopo mezzanotte”)
  • “The Blue Bottle”
  • “One Timeless Spring”
  • “The Parrot Who Met Papa”
  • “The Burning Man”
  • “A Piece of Wood”
  • “The Messiah”
  • “G.B.S.-Mark V”
  • “The Utterly Perfect Murder”
  • “Punishment Without Crime”
  • “Getting Through Sunday Somehow”
  • “Drink Entire: Against the Madness of Crowds”
  • “Interval in Sunlight”
  • “A Story of Love”
  • “The Wish”
  • “Forever and the Earth”
  • “The Better Part of Wisdom”
  • “Darling Adolf”
  • “The Miracles of Jamie”
  • “The October Game”
  • “The Pumpernickel”
  • “Long After Midnight”
  • “Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You!”
• “Dandelion Wine”, by Ray Bradbury
• “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, by Ray Bradbury (IT: “Something Wicked This Way Comes”) (?)
• “Fahrenheit 451”, by Ray Bradbury (IT: “Fahrenheit 451”)
• “The Martian Chronicles”, by Ray Bradbury (IT: “Le cronache marziane”)
  • “Rocket Summer” (IT: “Gennaio 1999: L’estate del razzo”)
  • “Ylla” (IT: “Febbraio 1999: Ylla”)
  • “The Summer Night” (IT: “Agosto 1999: La notte estiva”)
  • “The Earth Men” (IT: “Agosto 1999: I terrestri”)
  • “The Taxpayer” (IT: “Marzo 2000: Il contribuente”)
  • “Mars Is Heaven!” (IT: “Aprile 2000: La terza spedizione”)
  • “And the Moon Be Still As Bright” (IT: “Giugno 2001: “…And the Moon Be Still As Bright…””)
  • “The Settlers” (IT: “Agosto 2001: I coloni”)
  • “The Green Morning” (IT: “Dicembre 2001: Il verde mattino”)
  • “The Locusts” (IT: “Febbraio 2002: Le locuste”)
  • “The Wilderness” (IT: “Giugno 2002: L’immensità”)
  • “Night Meeting “ (IT: “Agosto 2002: Incontro di notte”)
  • “The Shore” (IT: “Ottobre 2002: La spiaggia”)
  • “The Fire Balloons” (IT: “Novembre 2002: Le sfere di fuoco”)
  • “Interim” (IT: “Febbraio 2003: Intermezzo”)
  • “The Musicians” (IT: “Aprile 2003: I musici”)
  • “Way in the Middle of the Air” (IT: “Giugno 2003: Su negli spazi azzurri”)
  • “The Naming of Names” (IT: “2004-2005: L’imposizione dei nomi”)
  • “Usher II” (IT: “Aprile 2005: Usher II”)
  • “The Old Ones” (IT: “Agosto 2005: I vecchi”)
  • “The Martian” (IT: “Settembre 2005: Il marziano”)
  • “The Luggage Store” (IT: “Novembre 2005: La valigeria”)
  • “The Off Season” (IT: “Novembre 2005: Stagione morta”)
  • “The Watchers” (IT: “Novembre 2005: Tutti a guardare”)
  • “The Silent Towns” (IT: “Dicembre 2005: Le città silenti”)
  • “The Long Years” (IT: “Aprile 2026: I lunghi anni”)
  • “There Will Come Soft Rains” (IT: “Agosto 2026: Cadrà dolce la pioggia”)
  • “The Million Year Picnic” (IT: “Ottobre 2026: La gita di un milione di anni”)
• “The God Delusion”, by Richard Dawkins (IT: “L’illusione di Dio”)
• “Altered Carbon”, by Richard K. Morgan
• “A stir of echoes”, by Richard Matheson (IT: “Io sono Helen Driscoll”)
• “I am Legend”, by Richard Matheson (IT: “Io sono Leggenda”)
• “Citizen of the Galaxy”, by Robert A. Heinlein (IT: “Cittadino della Galassia”)
• “Starship Troopers”, by Robert A. Heinlein (IT: “Fanteria dello spazio”)
• “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress”, by Robert A. Heinlein
• “The Last Book in the Universe”, by Rodman Philbrick (IT: “L’ultimo libro dell’universo”)
• “The UNIX-haters handbook”, by Simson Garfinkel (EN here and here)
• “Eden”, by Stanisław Lem (IT: “Eden”)
• “Cyberiada”, by Stanisław Lem (IT: “Le Ciberiadi”)
• “His Master’s Voice”, by Stanisław Lem
• “Kongres futurologiczny”, by Stanisław Lem (IT: “Il congresso di futurologia”)
• “Return from the stars”, by Stanisłav Lem
• “Solaris”, by Stanisław Lem (IT: “Solaris”)
• “Opowieści o pilocie Pirxie”, by Stanisław Lem (IT: “I racconti del pilota Pirx”)
  • “The Test”
  • “The Conditioned Reflex”
  • “On Patrol”
  • “The Albatross”
  • “Terminus”
• “Saltatempo”, by Stefano Benni
• “Hunger Games”, by Suzanne Collins (IT: “Hunger Games”)
• “Catching Fire”, by Suzanne Collins (IT: “La ragazza di fuoco”)
• “The Jasmine Throne”, by Tasha Suri
• “Story of Your Life”, by Ted Chiang
• “Stories of your life and others”, by Ted Chiang
• “The Lifecycle of Software Objects”, by Ted Chiang
• The “Earthsea” series, by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • “A Wizard of Earthsea”(IT: “Il mago di Earthsea”)
  • “The Tombs of Atuan” (IT: “Le tombe di Atuan”)
  • “The Farthest Shore” (IT: “La spiaggia più lontana”)
  • “The Other Wind” (IT: “I venti di Earthsea”)
  • “Tehanu” (IT: “Tehanu”)
• “The Dispossessed”, by Ursula K. Le Guin
• “The Left Hand of Darkness”, by Ursula K. Le Guin (IT: “La mano sinistra delle tenebre”)
• “The Unreal and the Real”, by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • “Brothers And Sisters”
  • “A Week In The Country”
  • “Unlocking The Air”
  • “Imaginary Countries”
  • “The Diary Of The Rose”
  • “Direction Of The Road”
  • “The White Donkey”
  • “Gwilan’s Harp”
  • “May’s Lion”
  • “Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight”
  • “Horse Camp”
  • “The Water Is Wide”
  • “The Lost Children”
  • “Texts”
  • “Sleepwalkers”
  • “Hand, Cup, Shell”
  • “Ether, Or”
  • _“Half Past Four
  • “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”
  • “Semley’s Necklace”
  • “Nine Lives”
  • “Mazes”
  • “The First Contact With The Gorgonids”
  • “The Shobies’ Story”
  • “Betrayals”
  • “The Matter Of Seggri”
  • “Solitude”
  • “The Wild Girls”
  • “The Fliers Of Gy”
  • “The Silence Of The Asonu”
  • “The Ascent Of The North Face”
  • “The Author Of The Acacia Seeds”
  • “The Wife’s Story”
  • “The Rule Of Names”
  • “Small Change”
  • “The Poacher”
  • “Sur”
  • “She Unnames Them”
  • “The Jar Of Water”
• “A Fire upon the Deep”, by Vernor Vinge
• “The Green Leopard Plague”, by Walter Jon Williams (IT: “L’era del flagello”)
• “Neuromancer”, by William Gibson (IT: “Neuromante”)
• “Count Zero”, by William Gibson (IT: “Giù nel ciberspazio”)
• “Mona Lisa Overdrive”, by William Gibson (IT: “Monna Lisa cyberpunk”)
• “The journey to the west”, by Wu Cheng’en (IT: “Il viaggio in Occidente”)
• “Cyber China”, by Xiaolong Qiu (IT: “Cyber China”)
• “We”, by Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (IT: “Noi”)

Movies #

• “Gravity”, by A. Cuarón, 2013
• “A Separation”, by A. Farhadi, 2011
• “The seven samurai”, by A. Kurasawa, 1954
• “Gattaca”, by A. Niccol, 1997
• “Dark City”, by A. Proyas, 1998
• “Wall-E”, by A. Stanton, 2008
• “Солярис” (director’s cut), by A. Tarkovsky, 1972
• “Vip, mio fratello superuomo”, by B. Bozzetto, 1968
• “Harry Potter” (all of them), by C. Columbus, 2001+
• “Gran Torino”, by C. Eastwood, 2008
• “Inception”, by C. Nolan, 2010
• “Tenet”, by C. Nolan, 2020
• “Dune”, by D. Lynch, 1984
• “Arrival”, by D. Villeneuve, 2016
• “Blade Runner 2049”, by D. Villeneuve, 2017
• “Dune”, by D. Villeneuve, 2021
• “Dune: Part 2”, by D. Villeneuve, 2024
• “The Naked Gun”, by D. Zucker, 1982
• “Click”, by F. Coraci, 2006
• “Metropolis” (silent film), by F. Lang, 1927
• “Barbie”, by G. Gerwig, 2023
• “Star Wars” (all of them), by G. Lucas, 1977+
• “Nuovo Cinema Paradiso”, by G. Tornatore, 1988
• “Howl’s Moving Castle” (“Il castello errante di Howl”), by H. Miyazaki, 2004
• “Spirited Away” (“La citta incantata”), by H. Miyazaki, 2001
• “Porco Rosso”, by H. Miyazaki, 1992
• “The Wind Rises” (“Si alza il vento”), by H. Miyazaki, 2013
• “The Seventh Seal”, by I. Bergman, 1957
• “Airplane!”, by J. Abrahamas, 1980
• “Il fantastico mondo di Amélie”, by J. Jeunet, 2001
• “Tron: Legacy”, by J. Kosinski, 2010
• “Die Hard”, by J. McTiernan, 1988
• “Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny”, by L. Lynch
• “The Matrix”, by L. Wachowski, 1999
• “Frankenstein Junior”, by M. Brooks, 1974
• “Spaceballs”, by M. Brooks, 1987
• “Back to the Future” (all three), by M. J. Fox
• “Interstellar”, by M. McConaughey, A. Hathaway, 2014
• “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory”, by M. Stuart, 1971
• “Event Horizon”, by P. Anderson, 1997
• “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom”, by P. Choyning Dorji, 2019
• “Up”, by P. Docter, 2009
• “The Lord of the Rings” (all three), by P. Jackson, 2001+
• “Yes Man”, by P. Reed, 2008
• “Starship Troopers”, by P. Verhoeven, 1997
• “Total Recall”, by P. Verhoeven, 1990
• “The Truman Show”, by P. Weir, 1998
• “Kill Bill”, by Q. Tarantino, 2003-2004
• “Pulp Fiction”, by Q. Tarantino, 1994
• “Alien” (all of them), by R. Scott, 1986+
• “Blade Runner”, by R. Scott, 1982
• “The Martian”, by R. Scott, 2015
• “Maleficent”, by R. Stromberg, 2014
• “Machete”, by R. Rodriguez, 2010
• “Planet Terror”, by R. Rodriguez, 2007
• “2001: A Space Odyssey”, by S. Kubrick, 1968
• “Александр Невский”, by S. Eisenstein, 1938
• “Indiana Jones” (most of them), by S. Spielberg
• “Alice in Wonderland”, by T. Burton, 2010
• “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, by T. Burton, 2005
• “Corpse Bride”, by T. Burton, 2005
• “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”, by T. Gilliam, 1975
• “Bruce Almighty” (“Una settimana da dio”), by T. Shadyac, 2003
• “The Room”, by T. Wisenau, 2003