Uomini pallidi wins the Mondofuturo prize with time travel and corporate satire
Trieste’s festival honours Giovanni Peparello’s debut novel, published by Zona 42, with its Italian science fiction award.
Giovanni Peparello has won the third Mondofuturo literary prize for Uomini pallidi (Zona 42). The verdict came on 8 November at the Ridotto of the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, in Italy’s Friuli Venezia Giulia region, on the final day of the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival. Organised by Area Science Park and La Cappella Underground, the prize recognises science fiction written in Italian and published in Italy.
In his debut novel, Peparello uses time travel to ask who controls resources and what happens when technology is put in the service of profit. A jury of researchers chose the novel from three finalists. At the same ceremony, the festival gave a special out-of-competition award to Nicoletta Vallorani’s Ogni cosa e nessuna.