In 1962 Roberto Quaglia came into this world not being able to return to the other. So he decided to settle down here.
In the beginning he grew up not forgetting to gain the correct stature and then get rid of his surplus quantity of hair. Once taken possess of the space occupied by himself, he started to face the time which was streaming on him.
As a side product of his permanence in space-time we find comics, strange photos, theater, written paper, surreal videos and of course some organic waste.
But it was only when too many people started to read him that he suddenly noticed he was in reality a writer who finally had convinced himself to be actually a writer.
From then onwards he has coherently above all written, neglecting - in his most obsessive moments - to live, but managing to survive all the same.
Today, Roberto Quaglia is undoubtedly one of the most interesting of the Italian science fiction writers. Certainly he's the most irreverent and iconoclastic. He has written four novels, a collection of stories, two collections of essays, a television serial, various science fiction plays and in 2006 even a 500 pages controversial book about the September 11 myth, following a 2003 article on the same argument published in Italy as the opening piece of bestseller "All what you know is wrong" (65.000 copies sold). Roberto's latest work is an amazing book written together with British writer Ian Watson. Some stories of this book have been published in magazines and anthologies in Canada, USA and Italy. Other have appeared on online magaziners.
Critics often state that his texts are powerful in their disrupting, desecrating vein and their cynical modern black humour, both of which give a distinctive mark to a good part of his writings, with a frequent touch of surrealism. Surprisingly for the author, his writings have in time become a cult in more and more literary circles around the globe. There are known cases where he himself has occasionally been used as an object od cult. The mystery goes on...
For the feticists of the formal aspects of life, we could mention that from '95 to '97, as a consequence of a surrealistic political campaign he has found himself being a Counsellor in the city of Genova, Italy, an interesting experience, mostly for anthropological reasons.
From 2002 he's vice-chairman of ESFS (European Science Fiction Society)
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