Science Fiction Studies

Arielle Saiber and Salvatore Proietti

A Selection of Italian Science Fiction Novels and Short Stories Translated and Published in English

NOTE: This bibliography does not provide individual listings for stories published in collections. Where the information is available, translators are named, but in some cases the text does not indicate a translator. Except in a few cases, Italian short fiction that has been translated and published in fan magazines and on websites, such as Different Realities, Bewildering Stories, InterNova, and International Speculative Fiction, has not been included.

Aldani, Lino. “Good Night, Sophie.” 1963. Trans. L.K. Conrad. View from Another Shore: European Science Fiction. Ed. Franz Rottensteiner. New York: Seabury, 1974. 143-68 (rpt. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 1999. 175-97). Also in The Science Fiction Century. Ed.David G. Hartwell. New York: Tor, 1997. 352-68 (rpt. New York: Orb, 2006. Vol 1. 346-62).
─────. “Quo Vadis, Francisco?” 1982. The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction. Ed. Brian Aldiss and Sam J. Lundwall. London: Penguin, 1986. 198-209.
─────. “Red Rhombuses.” 1977. Trans. Joe F. Randolph. Terra SF: The Year’s Best European SF. Ed. Richard D. Nolane. New York: DAW, 1981. 143-68.
─────. “S is for Snake.” 1986. Tales from the Planet Earth. Ed. Frederik Pohl and Elizabeth Anne Hull. New York: St. Martin’s, 1986. 68-79.
Alvaro, Corrado. Man is Strong. 1938. Trans. Frances Frenaye. New York: Knopf, 1948.
Battisti, Sandro. “The Map is a Contraction.” 2011. Trans. Carlo Santulli. Perugia: Graphe, 2012. Ebook.
Bellomi, Antonio. “The Broken Sequence.” 2005. The Science-Fantasy Megapack. Ed. Philip Harbottle. Rockville, MD: Wildside, 2013. 26-39. Ebook.
─────. “The Mercenary.” 1982. SF International 2 (Mar.-Apr. 1987): 79-87.
─────. A Random Walk in Science Fiction. Arese: Della Vigna, 2012.
Benni, Stefano. Terra! 1983. Trans. Annapaola Cancogni. New York: Pantheon, 1985.
Buzzati, Dino. Catastrophe: The Strange Stories of Dino Buzzati. Trans. Judith Landry and Cynthia Jolly. London: Calder, 1965. As Catastrophe and Other Stories. New York: Riverrun, 1965.
─────. Larger Than Life. 1961. Trans. Henry Reed. London: Secker and Warburg, 1962.
─────. Restless Nights: Selected Stories of Dino Buzzati. Trans. and ed. Lawrence Venuti. San Francisco: North Point, 1983.
─────. The Siren: A Selection. Trans. and Ed. Lawrence Venuti. San Francisco: North Point, 1984.
─────. “The Time Machine.” 1954. Trans. Lawrence Venuti. The Science Fiction Century. Ed. David G. Hartwell. New York: Tor, 1977. 261-64. (rpt. New York: Orb, 2006. Vol 1. 255-58). Also in The Road to Science Fiction, Volume 6: Around the World. Ed. James Gunn. Clarkston, GA: White Wolf, 1998. 414-19.
Calvino, Italo. The Complete Cosmicomics. Trans. William Weaver, Martin McLaughlin, and Tim Parks. London: Penguin, 2009.
─────. Cosmicomics. 1965. Trans. William Weaver. New York: Harcourt, 1968.
─────. Invisible Cities. 1972. Trans. William Weaver. New York: Harcourt, 1974.
─────. t zero. 1967. Trans. William Weaver. New York: Harcourt, 1969.
Chillemi, Claudio. Amidst the Ripples of a Fleeting Moment and Other Stories. Trans. Vincent Simonetti. Arese, MI: Della Vigna, 2012.
─────, and Paul Di Filippo. “The Via Panisperna Boys in Operation Harmony.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 126.1-2 (Jan.-Feb. 2014): 156-78.
Cozzi, Luigi. “Rainy Day Revolution No. 39.” 1965. International Science Fiction 1 (Nov. 1967): 66-70. Also in The Best from the Rest of the World: European Science Fiction. Ed. Donald A.Wollheim. New York: Doubleday, 1976. 195-202. 
De Matteo, Giovanni, and Salvatore Proietti, eds. Next International 1 (2009): 44-79. Fiction section: stories by Sergio “Alan D.” Altieri, Sandro Battisti, Giovanni De Matteo, Fernando Fazzari, Lukha Kremo Baroncinij, and Marco Milani.
Evangelisti, Valerio. “Sepultura.” 1998. Trans. Sergio D. Altieri. The SFWA European Hall of Fame: Sixteen Masterpieces of Science Fiction from the Continent. Ed. James Morrow and Kathryn Morrow. New York: Tor, 2007. 60-85.
Feruglio Dal Dan, Anna. “And This Also Has Been One of the Dark Places of the Earth.” Strange Horizons. 1 Sep. 2009. Online. 3 Apr. 2015.
─────. “Passing the Test.” Farthing 5 (Jan. 2007): 18-25.
Gastaldi, Ernesto. “The End of Eternity.” Trans. Harry Harrison. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Mar. 1965): 60-64.
Landolfi, Tommaso. Cancerqueen.1949. Cancerqueen and Other Stories. Trans. Raymond Rosenthal. New York: Dial, 1971. 49-105. Untitled excerpt in Best SF: 1971. Ed. Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss. New York: Putnam, 1972. 198-99; and in New York: Berkley, 1972. 225-27. Also in The Road to Science Fiction, Volume 6: Around the World. Ed. James Gunn. Clarkston, GA: White Wolf, 1998. 422-66.
─────. “Gogol’s Wife.” 1954. Trans. Wayland Young. Encounter 53 (1958): 10-16. Also in Gogol’s Wife and Other Stories. New York: New Directions, 1963. 1-16. Also in SF 12. Ed. Judith Merril. New York: Delacorte, 1968. 42-53.
Levi, Primo. The Mirror Maker: Stories and Essays. Trans. Raymond Rosenthal. New York: Schocken, 1989.
─────. The Sixth Day and Other Tales. Trans. and ed. Raymond Rosenthal. New York: Penguin, 1990.
─────. A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories. Trans. and ed. Ann Goldstein and Alessandra Bastagli. New York: Norton, 2007.
Longo, Davide. The Last Man Standing. 2010. Trans. Silvester Mazzarella. New York: MacLehose, 2013.
Mantegazza, Paolo. The Year 3000: A Dream. 1897. Trans. David Jacobson. Ed. Nicoletta Pireddu. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2010.
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso. Mafarka the Futurist: An African Novel. 1909. Trans. Carol Diethe and Steve Cox. London: Middlesex UP, 1998.
─────. The Untameables. 1922. Trans. Jeremy Parzen. Los Angeles: Sun and Moon, 1994.
Montanari, Gianni. “Test Flesh.” 1978. Trans. Joe F. Randolph. Terra SF: The Year’s Best European SF. Ed. Richard D. Nolane. New York: DAW, 1981. 13-25.
Morselli, Guido. Past Conditional.1975. Trans. Hugh Shankland. London: Chatto and Windus, 1991.
Mussi, Alessandro. “Darkness.” International Science Fiction 2 (Jun. 1968): 63-65.
Patrignani, Leonardo. Multiversum. 2012. Trans. Antony Shugaar. Victoria: Scribe, 2014.
Pestriniero, Renato. “Espree.” 1983. Trans. Kim Stanley Robinson. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 77 (Aug. 1989): 58-66.
───── .“Night of the Id.” 1960. Trans. Joe F. Randolph. Different Realities 4 (Dec. 1998): 3-14.
─────. “The People in the Painting.” 1972. Trans. Kim Stanley Robinson. Starshore 1 (Sum. 1990): 35-36.
Puggioni, Pino. “Yutzy Brown.” New Worlds 135 (Oct. 1963): 62-71.
Quaglia, Roberto. Paradoxine: The Adventures of James Vagabond. Trans. Peter De Ville with Ian Watson. Stafford, UK: Immanion, 2009.
─────, and Ian Watson. The Beloved of My Beloved. London: Alconbury Weston, 2009.
─────. “The Invention of Beloved Money.” Flurb 13 (Spring 2012). Online. 10 Apr. 2015.
Sandrelli, Sandro. “The Scythe.” 1962. Trans. Gian Paolo Cossato. The Best from the Rest of the World: European Science Fiction. Ed. Donald A.Wollheim. New York: Doubleday, 1976. 41-53.
Soldati, Mario. The Emerald. 1974. Trans. William Weaver. New York: Harcourt, 1977.
Tonani, Dario. Cardanica. Trans. Caroline Smart. Milan: 40k, 2010. Ebook.
Verso, Francesco. “Celestial Formatting.” 2013. Trans. Giorgia Emma Gili. Chicago Quarterly Review 20 (2015): 74-82.
─────. “Fernando Morales, This is Your Death.” 2011. Trans. Sally McCorry. Rome: Future Fiction/Mincione, 2015. Ebook.
─────. “Flush.” 2010. Trans. Giorgia Emma Gili. Rome: Future Fiction/ Mincione, 2014. Ebook.
─────. Livid. 2013. Trans. Sally McCorry. Sydney: Xoum, 2014.
─────. “Two Worlds.” 2012. Trans. Sally McCorry. Rome: Future Fiction/ Mincione, 2014. Ebook.
Vitiello, Bruno. Black Venus. Arese, MI: Della Vigna, 2014.
Zuddas, Gianluigi. “In Search of Aurade.” 1981. Trans. Joe F. Randolph and Annarita Guarnieri. Terra SF II: The Year’s Best European SF. Ed. Richard D. Nolane. New York: DAW, 1983. 155-84.