Sometimes you are like some insane, the kind that you can not explain. Who have a long history. When you're younger and you get into the habit of reading more and also the appendices of science fiction books, or newsletters of the editors (the glorious Cosmo informer Editrice Nord), and is generally aware of the outputs from overseas as recorded in the news.
And so I did. Asimov had written a new book? Did you know that would look at Mondadori. And if Dune Herbert wrote a new or a new book by Cherryh Chanur, you could rest assured that sooner or later they would be published in the North. So, well in advance you could know what you'd read in the years to follow.
Yes, well, you had your favorite authors, those who had decided that "from here to eternity" could collect you a cuddly if you had lost one of their books, which of course were sharing the field with those for which " Campassi hundred years "nothing and no one could force you to read it again. And then there were other ...
The others were and are the authors on which you are fixed, but so far I have not ever taken. I mean, I see that there is the ability to write well, to tell, but the stories you've read so far have not convinced you. But you give them the benificio of the doubt, and you know that sooner or later hit the mark.
And so when you read that Norman Spinrad wrote a successful book with the suggestive title of The V oid Captain's Tale, makes you want to read it. 'Cause you know the author is good, but complicated, so if you have had success, maybe it's the right time ... What might be The story of the captain of the Void ? What thoughts evokes such fantasies?
But time is rascal, you know. In 1983 I read the news of his exit to the Cosmo Informer. I just graduated, I have a life ahead, a large gap to fill, and the time to do so.
But that book will no longer know anything. No one seemed interested in publishing it. Meanwhile, time passes, sweeps away the digital and analog, you will evolve into a more complicated person, coming your way to where no man has gone before. In a day in 2002, appended to Urania 1433 is announced "Captain Abyss" by Spinrad. There is no risk of mistakes ... how the captain of the void is finally arrived.
The title at the end is different, but certainly more impressive-sounding Italian. The wait is over, Spaceships abyss is finally out.
And now? I will not be sure to tell the story, because the plot and there are World Urania Wikipedia . But if one day, wandering through flea markets, gets into the eye on this title, allow yourself a chance to captain the vacuum Genro Kane Gupta, his story and the curse that will bind to the fate of its pilot, Dominique Alia Wu .
I say this because I am aware that pass a long time before the book has a reprint. You see, a blog can help a lot, think about it: to say about your business, to launch claims or supply in the world (which of course he is thirsty) your vision of life, the universe and everything. It is also very easy to decide to talk about science fiction books and choose to talk about Hyperion by Simmons, or want to be really original talk about Dick's Ubik.
There are also the children of a lesser God in the Olympus of science fiction literature. And I do not speak of quality books. I refer to books that have a single edition.
Sin ... but there are, and this is important. It is important to remember. If one day someone will write the title on Google here, maybe you will not find the information he seeks, but know that there was someone who appreciated that book, and very . And maybe - no, definitely - not much, but it is not little.
That year, the Nebula Award , to which our book was deservedly candidate, there were some good opponents, and the battle was hopeless: one of Brin's Uplift books (which will win, and win also 'Hugo), Greg Benford, Gene Wolfe's latest book with the cycle of Severian the torturer, with Vance's Lyonesse, and the young MacAvoy with his first book. With the exception of the latter, the others soon had an Italian translation. Captain Abyss will have to wait a bit 'more. Mysteri editorial
But in the end, he had all the emptiness before him.
With Mondourania, from which I took the cover picture.
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