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Muse (1) The kiss of Nastassja

A face like his film fascinating and hard to find, nowadays.

If you look at it and then reveals its nature as a panther-woman, Nastassja Kinski can really enchant. But be careful as well if you fall in love with you activate an ancient curse that weighs heavily upon his race, causing it to eat.

Cat People (1982), a remake of a mediocre film of the '40s, it has a plot that is worth to be remembered. But it is a Concentrated pure eroticism.

The Kinski plays one of his most successful roles of all time, creating a predator involuntary naive upset my dreams as a teenager.

beautiful actress, though not understood in the canons of a certain type of film plastic, Nastassja has the charm magnetic devious father, Klaus Kinski. Its greatest merit is the ability to combine a sensual eroticism, not glossy magazine, and elegance that distinguishes every single blink.

Too bad it's over to play in minor almost unknown. Or maybe it's better that way: the beauty not wither, is hiding.

I like to remember it as if time had crystallized it Cat .


(Photo from the set and post-production de Cat - 1982)

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has long wanted to do it. Put a little 'pepper the blog. Without betraying the basic content (already too diverse).

What better way than to quote some of the women who most caught my imagination on film buff and / or player?

The list is long, so propose it at a better time, without much planning. So when I feel the need to give some 'of dark beauty to this blog full of monsters dangling. (Idea copied in part by his Germano).

Half Brazilian Half Filipino

The documentation phase is one that I prefer when I write.

These are some of the topics that I studied in these first few weeks of writing Selected Scenes of pandemic Yellow :

• structure, organization and operating modes of Doctors Without Borders .

• Armament individual light infantry People's Liberation Army of China.

• Therapy currently known for the real diseases caused by prions.

• radio stations that broadcast in San Diego and surrounding areas.

• Groups neo-Nazis, racists and separatists operating in the United States.

• percent of Chinese citizens residing in the province of Prato.

• composition and powers of the Romanian Military Police.

• Topography minimum of Bucharest.

• Topography minimum Polesine.

• Composition and responsibilities of the Argentine Armed Forces.

• Tanks supplied Argentine Army.

• minor Roman Pantheon.

• Cartography of the fortress of San Leo.

• Sort Ethiopian government of the State.

• Plans and drawings for building a wind farm in Ethiopia.

• Islands of Lake Victoria (both homes and nature reserves).

• Topography of the Isle of Dogs (London)

• Companies navigation of the Thames.

• military vehicles that came with the British Army.

• Route cruises in South America, Africa and Oceania.

• fleet of MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company).

• Topography of Gambia.

• Topography of the Cocos Islands.

• Operation of Talwar class frigates of Indian.

• Vessels supplied to the Australian Navy.

• world statistics on population density (first the Principality of Monaco last Greenland, Italy 39 ª ).

And they say that genre fiction does not teach anything and is written by the ignorant.

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To document the forerunners of all modern special forces: the Brandenburg

Back to the meeting on Saturday with military history. Do not become a regular feature of all the weekend (hard), but I will propose something every time I will feel that you have interesting articles on the subject. Maybe not necessarily on Saturday.
Today we take into account what may be considered the first true special forces of the modern era, the Brandenburg Germany.

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Since the beginning of World War II the German High Command was evident that there was a need for departments to implement the Special Forces of the Blitzkrieg tactic successfully. Railway sidings, bridges, crossings and tunnels were to be acquired in advance objectives advanced conventional army. The Abwher (L ' German Intelligence Service) and then conceived a division able to play this role. The Brandenburg commandos were to be a force of highly qualified, able to capture key strategic points by any means necessary. So they did, becoming the benchmark for all modern body forces Special from there to the future.

Of all the German divisions of World War II, probably the Brandenburg division is that which we know less. The history of this body actually begins at the end of the First World War. In 1919-1920, the German government created a special unit of men identified as "Industrieschutz Oberschlesien. This group was ordered to do everything possible to prevent the Polish insurgents were able to influence the plebiscite in Upper Silesia to Poland. Around 1938, the unit "Industrieschutz Oberschlesien "was renamed" Deutsche Kompanie ". Sudetentland during the crisis of 1938, Deutsche Kompanie "participated in numerous covert actions. One sister, the "Sudetendeutsche Freikorps" was added shortly after the special forces. But it was now clear to all that it needed a more organized structure to frame these divisions in the German army.

(Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, dell'Abwher operated from 1935 to 1944. He is remembered above all for his opposition to the secret Nazi regime, which caused him to run in the concentration camp of Flossenburg, April 9, 1945).

The Abwher, which had expanded rapidly in 1935 and that was the main rival of the SD (intelligence services of the SS), had developed the project "special forces" in 1935, under the Driving the former commander of U-boats of World War I, Admiral Canaris. As Admiral Dönitz, another U-boat commander of World War I, who had become head of the Kriegsmarine, Canaris was an intelligent man with a gift for languages that had matured during the war. Not only that the Admiral was beginning a secret opponent of National Socialism and Hitler, and some historians think that the Brandenburg conceived to overthrow Hitler, when the opportunity presented itself. Although few in number, they had a training even higher than that of Himmler's SS and Luftwaffe ground units.

With Canaris, Theodor von Hippel, who was both nationalist conservative, but not Nazi, was instrumental in the formation of Brandenburg. He had studied the writings of TE Lawrence (better known as Lawrence of Arabia) and commando tactics von Lettow Vorbeck, who had worked in the African colonies of Germany during the Great War. Von Hippel tried to recruit Germans living abroad or in countries on the borders of Germany. These people belonged to Volksdeutsche (German people) and came from Silesia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Sudetentland; could then go to locals, working in local operations. In reality there was not a part of Europe where the Brandenburg had at least some infiltration. To the east there were infiltrators who were operating on Russian soil, Ukrainian, Estonian, Latvian and Finnish. West Division could rely on men who had lived in the German colonies in Africa and then they spoke English, Portuguese and French. These individuals, who were all volunteers, had to be intelligent and ready to use unorthodox methods to accomplish their mission if necessary.

(A Brandenburg enrolled in Libya, Field Marshal Rommel in the Afrika Korps. The local unit had about 300 men, some of which are native to the area. They were all trained to fight in desert and tropical climate and were provided with vehicles and weapons stolen from the English).

The first real test in the field of Brandebug can be identified in business conducted in mid-1939. These are the men from Silesia and Sudetentland (an area of former Czechoslovakia), took part in the Polish campaign in September 1939 under the name identifier of "Bauhler Kompanie ZB V 800. These men, who knew perfectly colloquial terms and customs, and in possession of important documents such as passports, identity cards etc etc, were very useful to the "conquest" of the same Sudetentland.

The Brandenburg were useful and as effective as the most brutal Waffen-SS, which had no estimate, however, the impressive digital media and the limelight. Where the Templars blacks Himmler were trained in the fighting face to face and the perfect execution of strategies for attack, Brandenburg had specialized in guerrilla warfare and guerrilla-like in the fight.

After the outbreak of war had to specialize in other fields, such as parachuting, scuba diving and skiing at high altitude and in the manufacture and operation of explosives. In every possible situation, the Brandenburg was trained to have a great mental strength and to improvise in different situations, the end result was a highly qualified and experienced soldiers to survive in extreme situations.

It should be noted that these men were not spies. Yes it is true, sometimes wearing the uniform of the enemy to gather information or to obtain a tactical advantage, but that was not their primary task, in the broad sense of the word. Some senior commanders strongly disapproved of such methods by guerrillas and saw the men of Brandenburg as criminals and renegades.

This was partly due to the rigid education Prussian army, made of honor and strict supervision and ordered in the military.

As already mentioned, the first use of military power in the grand style of Brandenburg there was the beginning of the Polish campaign, with the command deployed on the field even before the invasion had begun. It was their job to ensure the safe capture of the factories in Silesia, which were then essential for the German war effort.

Their headquarters was in Brandenburg-Havel-am (hence the name that you care), in western Berlin. Later also participated in operations in Denmark and Norway, Holland and Belgium.

(A platoon of Brandenburg in Russian uniforms, in action behind the lines of the Eastern Front).

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Trailer and some disturbing coincidences

Just to complete the speech, this is the official trailer of Homefront. There is also a specific book trailer of the novel that I reviewed this morning (found here), but it is the small version of this longer referring to the game.

I must say that is a really nice trailer, the kind that I like: political fiction and realistic in its implementation "journalism." No coincidence that reminds me 'that of Survival Blog.

Among other things, but this is a coincidence, both Homefront that the misfortunes of the SB in the near future depart from North Korea. You see that is a country that inspires happy thoughts ...

PS: if I started writing these days Survival Blog, the pandemic would start in Libya? Possible, possible ...

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Homefront Homefront (John Milius and Raymond Benson)

Homefront - The voice of freedom

John Milius and Raymond Benson

Multiplayer Issues

327 pages, 19 €

Synopsis

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We are in 2025 and America comes from an economic depression that led to a social war after the oil crisis: the United States had never been in a situation so dramatic. Here, therefore, that the worst enemies of the nation are preparing for a major attack, Korea, under the rule of the son of Kim Jong-il, attacks the United States leaving no possibility of escape. The great world power falls below the inability to organize a response to the assault.

In a small attempt at resistance, Ben Walker, a reporter who makes himself known by his stage name Voice of Freedom, organized an expedition to spy on and hit from the Korean forces, the war is only at the beginning and will not fail to get Korean counterattack.

Comment

For some time the world of video games is making a ton of materials for novelists who want to set novelization, expansion or sequel / prequel scenario-based well known to the youngest and most passionate video player. This strange category of books is gaining more attention in libraries (Think about it), and now it is quite common to find novels inspired by the world of Doom of Resistance of Resident Evil etc etc.

I do not play in years, so I escape the parallels between gaming and the paper versions of the various titles on offer, unless it is old stuff like me (see under Doom).

Homefront for example, I was not known, although they have elements that appeal to me in choosing a book like this: strong political fiction and dystopian elements, war scenarios, doomsday calls.

And then there's that name on the cover: John Milius. A legend in his own way: director film of exceptional quality Conan the Barbarian, Red Dawn and The Wind and the Lion . As many as a cult writer The Enforcer and Apocalypse Now. Say a little?

experience it in the guise of a writer was a temptation so strong that I gave in without too many reservations. Among other things this Homefront recalls all too clearly just Red Dawn, one of my dystopian films / ucronici favorites.

Well, what is your opinion?

Let me make an introduction: Homefront is a novel above the average of the novelization taken from video games. Media which, incidentally, is rather low. That said, the book is enjoyable, written in a linear fashion, simple but smooth, with no peaks up, but no glaring drop style or rhythm.

Sure, the premise upon which the plot is flimsy: Korea unified under the flag of Communist wins the U.S. assault and weakened by the global economic crisis? Likely as the invasion of the Cuban-Nicaraguan Red Dawn , except that in the film were the Russians to do the odd man out, but here the Koreans do it all yourself.

The invasion was made possible by an attack estimate with electromagnetic weapons that KO American technology. And now here's credibility goes down the drain ... Then the Communists bad attack by sea, by air and activating dormant agents on U.S. soil for years. And, in the absence of anti-paladin, Silvio Berlusconi, Washington can not capitulate.

In short, the scenario is almost joke. Of course, if there were Chinese instead of Koreans, perhaps it would make more sense (assuming that China has some convenience to attack the country that has billions of dollars!).

If you can not make If these macroscopic fantabelliche inventions, you can enjoy a story that, once again, recalls the well-known movie Red Dawn Milius : invading troops on American soil, puppet governments, partisan, military units that remain faithful to flag, the rest of the world stands by and watches etc etc.

short, nothing new on the horizon, with many stereotypes and cliches galore. However, it is certainly a story that will satisfy the tastes of readers strongly "specialize" in a certain type of novels. But if you look for a narrative level a bit 'more complex, this novel will be satisfied only in (small?) part.

Side note: this first book, The Voice of Freedom , suggests the classic trilogy, and has no real purpose. Know this before you spend the 19 euro cover, which is not peanuts.

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See also: Dossier Red Dawn

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Battle: Los Angeles

Truzzi will be a film, maybe it will be full of cliches (if then this is a defect) will not offer anything original ritrito usual speech about alien invasions ... Yet to me this Battle: Los Angeles attracts like night lights attract moths.

compare him to a kind of Black Hawk Down that shakes the hand of Independence Day. I would be so glad, since they are both movies that, in their way, they have made appreciate unpretentious elevation of artistic or whatever.

Anyway this is a short excerpt (not the trailer) of Battle: Los Angeles .

will come in the film March 11.

I'll be there.

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Cause and Effect Gargoyle Books

As you may already know, the thorny "issue Gargoyle " yesterday was resolved with a resounding step back from the publishing house, who declined to propose a series for beginners willing to pay from his own pocket a paper publication.

is generally accepted that this setback was caused by the tide of indignation, "the Libyan" that within a few hours flooded the blogosphere, Facebook, and some well-known forum for writing. As outrage mounted, and with them the promise not to buy more books in the UK, The publisher has wisely decided to maintain the prestige gained in recent years, and take a step back.

But it's not about this event that I want to focus my attention.

The more general question is: what is the true power of the blogosphere Italian?

not talk about politics, morals etc.. For now I want to stay away from these issues. Let's focus instead on the sphere of entertainment. A "group" blog of well-attended, as my (pardon the immodesty) is able to move or opinions to influence the market?

At first glance the answer would be: NO. No

why they continue to say that blogs are nothing.

No, because Italy is an old country and hierarchical interests are focused on middle market more suited to people of a certain age (and TV and newspapers).

Yet few doubt it is lawful to keep it, rocking.

past year requests for reviews and recommendations about books, stories, websites and short films have quadrupled. That is certainly true for me but even more for even bigger blog. This means that publishers and authors believe that an article on my blog can somehow affect the visibility of a product.

Is it really so?

so it is with my fellow bloggers with whom converses daily? I ask in a papal've never had the impression that they could "move" the interest, positive or negative, but in a concrete way, in a book, a movie, a comic book?

is important to know, because I have the impression that their blogs are the only shred of self-criticism from the market "mafia" reviewers made prostitute, and hired scoundrels. Phenomenon as old as the world, but grew exponentially in the days of the Web

would be nice to be aware that other companies are able to influence editorial and market goes down, due to the quality and not just the interests of the stable.

Chioso with an example that probably comes from my imagination. Over the past 2-3 months I have smashed the balls of fury quote for various reasons, World War Z, a book which for months had disappeared in the biggest library in Milan. So much so that I had to retrieve it in Italian order it online (and also here was not easy to find). For about two weeks but I noticed that several copies of WWZ have reappeared in almost all the Feltrinelli shops and even a couple Mondadori.

Can someone went to call the book, "forcing" the various multimedia store to do it reappear on the shelves?

Yes, ok, I know, this sounds like megalomania ...

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pay? We

The news of the day, writers and readers, it seems to be this: Gargoyle Books publisher becomes a "dual track". That is, in addition to the normal editorial well managed for years, will assess the publication with contributions of money from the author.

The news bounced a bit 'everywhere, I will report a summary article, which also shows what appears to be the official declaration of Simone De Crescenzo, the "boss" of GB.

In the past I have repeatedly spoken highly of Gargoyle and I reviewed many of their books, almost always positively. Since I am very proud of the freedom of this corner of the blog, I feel duty-bound to continue talking about Gargoyle even when things concerning it are far less noble.

Each face due consideration. You know what I think about certain, things, needless repetition or arm a crusade. If anything, there would have to do more serious analysis (and much sadder) on the general state of Italian.

I remain available if this news proves to be a hoax. In this case, delete it with great pleasure.

Update 17:30: The Gargoyle published this denial. Apparently the tam-tam of news and negative feedback (often offensive) has made clear every project to launch a "necklace with contribution" by Paolo De Crescenzo, editorial director of GB. The
Libya with Facebook and blogs with knock down the dictator, in Italy we change strategies in a publishing house ...

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snob

In the comments to this post David Cassia is rightly puts this question: It's not that we sometimes do a bit 'too much snob? We have a little ', the snobbish?

The question is not without foundation.

strong players and even more writers (or aspiring) have a snobbish attitude towards the national-popular fiction?

Widening the parameters of the question may include in the category of too snobby film experts, critics, music etc etc..

The thesis question is this: experts in a particular sector tend to be snobbish?

Before leaving to you the answer, I anticipate my own: in part, yes.

That is: there are several occasions when I find my snobbish attitude towards some kind of narrative. The vampire of the booklets mentioned above are examples of post-limit, when it is really difficult to draw something good. However, there is a substantial "gray zone" which includes the bestselling authors such as Faletti, Dan Brown, Camilleri, Moccia (vabbé. ..) that make me turn up their nose every time someone mentions it.

Not because they are particularly incapable (Moccia aside), but because they fall into that category of consumer electronics that brings us the strong players are allergic to just mention it.

Ok, some reason it is from ours: the average level of these authors is one of the sufficient and poor, with several minor variations in between. Faletti feel that half the world celebrates as the thriller of the decade can not that devalue snobbery to our eyes. Just us, we read Danilo Arona, Gianfranco Nerozzi, Eraldo Baldini (to mention only the Italians), and we feel that because of the Carbonari, outside of our snobbish circulate are very few people know their skill.

Not to mention books in their original language ebooks are swept up in the blogosphere and other alternative readings that procured in the most unthinkable. All experiences that maybe, just maybe, justify the snobbish that we continue to hear when someone mentions Licia Troisi as a champion of fantasy and Stephenie Meyer as the heir of Bram Stoker.

Ditto for film, eh! Do not think you escape, you critics who rejected after Avatar to promote the Swedish sci-fi movie that no producer would ever dream of Italian to distribute in Italy.

So, how much you snobs?

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Newsletter

Short Evening Post to give some community service.

I have here all the votes of the jurors Ucronie Impure . I do the math, but I know by sight those who will place very high. But they are cruel, almost sadistic, so do not be posting up the rankings in March. No, wait, is not sadistic: I had already anticipated that the results would be released at that time, so needless change. We also fixed a date: March 7. From today to proclaim God's will (yes Okay ...) dell'Ucronia National Day.

Chapter Survival Blog. The editing has begun, but slowly. As it should be. Just do things in a hurry, just be guided by the enthusiasm, to the detriment of the good work. The deadlines are familiar, the work you have to do also, so there is little add. Just know that there has been much interest around the SB. I mean, interest of publishers. But, apparently, most of the survivalist prefer to keep the identity of the open-source project. And then, in order to consider myself a micro-publisher near future, maybe it's better that way.

However Survival Blog corollary to the initiatives are many, varied, very beautiful. First we mark this year ucronica / disasters of the free press "Out of Area", which recently interviewed me. The preparation the SB liked it so much that he decided to work on a number of themed paper, set in 2016. Click on the PDF link and download the beautiful, a little 'Grossiniere but graphically flawless.

Second, a well-known short portal Italian horror (I would say the portal known Italian horror) will launch a video-photo contest with a well-defined subject: the Survival Blog. This for me was a really nice surprise and a sign of esteem for his work. This is not official yet, why do you come back to soon, but will certainly. Missing just the announcement and the press itself initiative. We will come back up.

Third Selected Scenes of pandemic Yellow ( here you can download a sample) is being very well. I'm biased? Yes, as I write it. It was a long time since I felt so much enthusiasm in the writing. I would say the first draft of Prometheus and the war - 1935 . I already had many chapters, skipping from one scenario to another (from Italy to Argentina, from black Africa to the United States and then back again in Italy) and others will come. A real trip I'm having a lot to write. Indeed, even before that, I'm having fun in the process of documentation, between medical research, military, geographic, wildlife ... So, for me writing is: a 360-degree exploration and challenge to the logistical constraints of the desk from which I type. You will soon

way of reading this ebook.

Chapter writing: I'm not writing much, apart SsPG . I started tale of vampires, but I stalled right away. Will take it back when I have less to do, now I just can not handle it.

So on Monday the appointment is becoming more and more like publishing a newsletter. Not that it makes me sick ...

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Non-writing manuals

In a commentary article " How do I become a writer? "Angelo asked me sometimes you feel like talking about some serious and effective writing handbook that contains just something" objectively valid "?

To get me wrong, but I must admit I do not have a good relationship with guides to writing. Some are objectively valid, while others are positioned at the extremes: either they are too complacent and self-referential, or are banal, corny.

I have not read some of the dozen, but I've browsed the hundreds (in this sense the comfortable armchairs of Feltrinelli are a godsend). You mention in short who recommend to an aspiring writer of media preparation. I make this distinction because some manuals are very targeted to professionals. Citarvi prefer a couple of consumer titles, but not so as to be boring school.

Advice to a young writer , Vincenzo Cerami

Cerami, excellent writer, playwright and screenwriter, gives us a compendium on how to create emotions through the written word. The level of analysis of this book includes tips, tools and mechanisms to improve the story on paper.

The language is simple, explanatory. Through examples and episodes related to their experience Cerami helps to understand how to build a style, as you write realistic dialogue etc etc.

Also great for a player who wants to become "aware" and not just passive.

Stop feeling sorry for himself: write a bestseller , Renato Lorenzo

The title says a lot about how the author confronts the classic "aspiring writer". This manual is in fact a real encouragement to take writing as a gesture and rational thought in order to create a product not only cathartic, but enjoyable as many players as possible. It could be marketed. Why writing, although it is a passion, it requires planning and practice. Among other things

Di Lorenzo cites facts and figures very precise. Example: "Well, look in the mirror: how come you have not yet written a bestseller? Hurry, there is a successful future ahead of you. If you can sell at least 20 thousand copies, you will earn at least € 28,820 (and I highly recommend the 20 cents). "

short, not only writing, but planning it.

A delicious torture. Pages on the art of writing , Henry Miller

Here we throw ourselves on the classic. What that basically does not hurt. On the value of Miller guess there is not much to discuss. It's one of those authors who also love to those who have very specific tastes and sectoral theme of books. Quoting directly back cover of this useful booklet:

"A delicious torture collects the most beautiful pages of Henry Miller on writing, or taken from his unpublished works - from the Tropic of Cancer to Sexus - deliver to readers in three forms anthology, 's autobiography but also a valuable and timeless manual writing composed in more than half a century of work by one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. In the pages of Miller's life and writing come together in an almost unbreakable through a direct language, insistent, passionate and devoid of intellectualism. "

fantastic literature, of Cvetan Todorov

Ok, we're going a bit 'in particular. But this blog is specific, then no harm. The essay in question is a mine of useful and practical information. Warning: this is not a real manual, but those in power can derive valuable lessons.

Todorov's essay analyzes the fantasy story, according to his characteristic production 800, and then examine the transition to modern fantasy literature and current fiction.

The starting point is therefore the definition of a complex and generally very articulate.

From here the author traces the guidelines of what should be the basic conditions for writing a story (or novel) due out in that genre.

talking about in this essay is impossible, so I only recommend it. If you are a voracious reader, you will make good use to learn how to analyze and to appreciate even more all the narrative strands that some critics estimate (superficially) as mere entertainment. So, for (the) logical consequence, Series B.

If you want to try as writers of the fantastic, Todorov thank you understand and discover the mechanisms secrets. It is not the Bible, but is the most authoritative we can find on the subject.

Finally, another non-manual writing, but it is useful and valuable if you want to try the world of self and the ebook:

Digital text , Alessandra Anichini

This is also a title that is halfway between the novice and the public already streetwise. The author clearly examines the new forms of textuality, writing, reading and publishing. A good starting point for those who are already able to write in a professional manner, but does not know how and where to go to get visibility and readership.

If you want another title on this topic, Apogee publisher offers a free booklet Digital Publishing , Letizia Sechi, which paints a pretty interesting fresco on what the new forms of e-writing are changing not only the market but also the workflow on the content, or text.

legally download here.

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Fanta Africa

I am a film lover passions simple. Perhaps in the books I do some 'the snob, but when it comes to movies I can be fussy, like those who eat at the Chinese restaurant of begging and leaving happy.

Then it goes without saying that eating a lot of crap sooner or later the taste evolves. But it is ultimately the passion for the spring rolls and shrimp toast, which never replace the refinements of the trendy fusion cuisine, for one thing.

So, rather than refinement, my film taste is spaced between the particular variants of the same menu to the good.

This initial

hat (no doubt dictated by the Chinese dumpling with shrimp and mushrooms last night) is only present for one of my favorite versions of genre films: the fantahorror African sauce.

I state that I am in Africa, Tunisia aside, there have never been. Perhaps this is a continent that fascinated me so hypnotic. I am one of those - I guess there are others - that you have read the biographies of the post-colonial African leaders. Almost all psychotic megalomaniacs: Bokassa, Idi Amin Dada, Siad Barre, Mugabe ... Only mention their names is frightening.

So I think of Africa, I can not separate two groups of thought: the primordial nature and the violence inherent in it, and then in humans.

natural that many filmmakers have set their stories in the Black Continent

What I will mention in this issue are the World Movie. That for those who do not know, are semi-documentaries that focus on events and facts outrageous and violent. Morbid films that do nothing but take in sleazy strip local third world, scenes of animal abuse, shootings, torture, execution of death sentences second tribal rituals etc etc.

not want to talk about this stuff.

want to talk about some good, really good historical films on the above mentioned dictators. The Last King of Scotland , for example, a film that I find beautiful. Or Echoes from an unknown world, the valid documentary by Werner Herzog. Or the latest Blood Diamond more than appreciated. Or, Hotel Rwanda, beautiful.

taken into consideration is, as an introduction, the current fantahorror (and similar).

begin quoting what is one of the films that look most expectations. The Dead, the Ford brothers. A zombie movie set in Burkina Faso, which has the haunting landscapes of Africa to the most dramatic between the invasions of the living dead. How do you seriously: no nonsense pulp, a lot of pathos, combined with a certain atmosphere of old b-movies of the '80s. The trailer is valid, then perhaps my hopes will be able to find valid evidence.

then considers primal fear, the 2007 film drawn from a real inspiration cryptozoology (the hunt for the giant crocodile Gustave ) and then wander into violent wars Ethnic still upset that the lives of many African countries, including Burundi, where the film is set. Primordial fear is not bad, and deviates a bit 'from the usual cliches of the genre.

Ghost and the Darkness is a well known film and inspired by a true story, that of the lions of Tsavo, which in the past I have written . Ghost and the Darkness uses a cast of high-level: Val Kilmer, Michael Douglas, Tom Wilkinson. The fantasy element is only suggested, not real. However it is not complicated believe that the man eating lions are in fact the primordial forces of nature, the divinity of the bush.

How Not to mention Congo, based on what is perhaps the best novel by Michael Crichton? The film is good, especially thanks to the beautiful landscapes of the country from which it takes its title. And then the suggestions of the final set in the lost city of Zinji, refer to films and novels such as those glorious about Allan Quatermain.

Allan Quatermain, in fact. Literary character created by British writer H. Rider Haggard, the protagonist of several novels, including the famous King Solomon's Mines . But in this article we deal with cinema, and cinema is. Quatermain was raised several times on the screen. The first in '37 ( King Solomon's Mines), a film that I have ever seen. Then in '50, with the same title. Finally in 1985 ( Allan Quatermain and King Solomon's Mines ), where the adventurer was the familiar face of Richard Chamberlain. Film that was also a successor to Allan Quatermain and the Lost City . Forgettable.

Quatermain it also appears The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , but outside of the African context. Finally, if I remember correctly, there is even a television miniseries based on the character of the novels of Haggar, but I have not ever seen.

A great film, unfortunately, forgotten by almost all our television channels, is Mountains of the Moon, Bob Rafelson, with Patrick Bergin in top form. The story is based on the original diaries of Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke, explorer of the Royal Geographical Society, engaged in research of the sources of the Nile. We are halfway through the 800, and colonial Africa was still mysterious, the fantastic element of the film is all in the atmosphere and is more valid many others, believe me.

definitely on the other level (down) is alive Scorticateli , gory film about modern mercenaries in Africa. The Italian film, dated 1979, has a rough texture, a little more than an excuse to show scenes of violence, massacres, rapes and other amenities. Deleting the inevitable moralizing that arise before a crap like that is an unpleasant doubt that this is the film that best snapshot of the post-colonial Africa?

the list lacks many other securities (including, for one thing, the war film The Dogs of War ). Feel free to integrate it to your liking.

I leave you with the trailer for The Dead . Hoping to get it back soon ...

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Retrieved from "Selected Scenes of pandemic Yellow"

Ok, now double gift.

First you go back to the atmosphere of the Survival Blog, fixture of the weekend until two weeks ago.

Second, I give you a taste of Selected Scenes of pandemic Yellow , the ebook I'm working on. is an extract from an entire chapter (click to download) . It will give you an idea rather states that it will be structured as the entire job.

I repeat, in case you missed some step : SsPG is copied, I would say almost plagiarized from World War Z, Max Brooks's masterpiece. I'm not looking half-words or excuses, nor will I hide behind that crap "I want to honor" etc etc. I find the setting fantastic narrative of his book and I copy it. Period.

The ebook will be composed of fictitious interviews covering the period 2011-2015. Interviews conducted by Cristina Riccione , one of the protagonists in the Survival Blog, not by chance a former journalist of some repute, a true chronicler of the end of the world.

goes without saying that behind her I'm there, but I must admit that the character was too perfect not to exploit it in these clothes paranarrative.

SsPG So tell the backstory of the "dark years", major and minor episodes, from Italy to the rest of the world (such as this excerpt). I

ready several chapters. As I complete another three or four, then the ebook will be ready. Each chapter is structured like the one I propose today: a brief introduction author, which makes the update of the situation, then introduce the interview in question.

account to sell the ebook for the price of a newspaper, or a little more, or maybe to make a free version and a price, with a couple of extra chapters to justify the distinction. But these are details. We'll see.

Let me know if you will to design the taste (always remembering that they are a lousy plagiarist.)

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Retrieved from Selected Scenes of pandemic Yellow : download (PDF, approximately 140 kb)

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Once batteries were not so high ***

Today in Mondadori, industry horror, thriller and science fiction, I found piles on piles of this stuff here.

There were other titles than immortalized in the photo (taken from the site Newton Compton).

Then on a shelf aside, I found ques'altro Volume . There was a monstrous number of copies.

admit that the desire to get me a can of gasoline was almost irresistible.

God always protect Amazon International (yes, because the Italian version ...)

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Post inspired by the many articles on writing these days in bed. Take it with due irony. Probably in the past I have written something, but who cares. So you will not remember any more, so read this and tell me in what and how many of you recognize these profiles paranoid.

1. I'm the new Hemingway. Read and veneratemi.

2. I'm the new Hemingway, but misunderstood. The world is shit, publishing is a shit, you are the shit!

3. are sympathetic writer who everyone likes. If I do a compliment you fatemene two, so we're all happier.

4. I am the writer and conceited snob. I read and write poems in Lapland, I have a television at home and I consider it my own shit books. But you speak well of me, eh?

5. are always the tough loner who goes against the trend. I want to be hated and misunderstood. You make me happier if I say I am an asshole, so protect my character.

6. 'm Merdin opportunist. I speak good or bad about anything, provided there is personal gain. A publisher can go in five minutes from myth to excrement.

7. are the intellectual order that does not move even when I pound their asses a mouflon. Aplomb is my middle name, but perhaps, in private, I'm a serial killer ...

goes without saying that I stand on the balls in all seven categories (if anything, I feel sympathy for the personality No. 7). Since there is a bit of me in all the examples cited, except No. 6, I'm on the balls alone.

Adelante, Pedro, juicio.

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writers "How do you become a writer? "

Certainly my relationship with writing has changed tremendously over the years. Read the considerations of those who now approach the art of storytelling on paper (on ebook!) Remind me as I was when I only meant to write up stories, leaving aside all considerations of contour on publishing, promotion, revolution digital etc etc.

In a sense at the time the writing was more pure.

As well as a somewhat pointless exercise.

Without sharing the act of writing is perhaps cathartic, but has no chance of development. Thanks to the Web every

hack, hacks or good it is, has the possibility to propose that produces a result far more severe than that composed of the usual retinue of relatives, friends and close acquaintances who NEVER dare to criticize it, thereby creating the risk of ruining a personal relationship established.

I am a bit 'impression - I think is the right word - to receive mail such as " How do I become a writer? "

impresses me especially because I do not call, or I shall call never "a writer". Hack is the term I use. I like it because it makes the idea of craftsmanship. In doing so immediately resets the snobbery inherent in many people who come to this passion.

The environment is full of Hemingway allegedly misunderstood. Ok, I speak ill of the editors because they are objectively of scoundrels (generalized: I admire those who know that they must recognize in this definition). However, publishers often have to deal with immature alls who believe they have the book in the drawer that will change human history.

But back to the question.

" How do I become a writer? "

The magic bullet is not there. However I tried to compile a list minimal of what I consider essential. I reread it and I have halved. I reread it and I reduced it again. I removed all the specifics addressed in writing who is dealing with it for a while ': they were too technical advice. What remains of that list are a few points I would call common sense.

Tell me 'what do you think.

"If you ladies leave my island, and if you survive recruit training weapon, you will be a minister of death writers, beg for fight write! But until that day you are pukes, the lowest form of life that is across the globe! You're not even fucking human beings, you will only tell pieces of organic matter commonly known amphibian shit. "

How do I become a writer?

• Write. The world is full of people who have whole novels ... only in the head. I I know some of the same. Begin to put into words on paper (on file) is like placing the starting blocks. Do so at least you can say "I'm running."

• Write consistently. I know, life is hard. There are always thousands of useless things to do (like work). Of excuses for not writing it can find plenty of them: they are too tired, I have to go out with friends, my boss always asks me overtime, the computer is my girlfriend etc etc. In reality there is no worse thing for an aspiring writer who ... never find the time to write. Get used to the physical act of being at the computer, the fateful blank page in Word. Imponetevi a rhythm and keep it. Half-day small page. A tale of average length month. Whatever, as long as your fingers work constantly on the qwerty keyboard of your PC.

• Keep minimal tools at hand to write a passable Italian. Thanks to the Internet you can easily take advantage of dictionaries, translators and online handbooks for minimum write grammatically acceptable manner.

• you read what you write. I've already talked a little higher. Offer your stories, poems, novels etc to readers 'neutral'. They are not worth friends, uncles, cousins etc etc. You are looking for good sites and writing fiction. Check out the possibility of bringing new material and share it.

• accept the judgments of others. That does not mean being prone to insults. Try to weed out the destructive than constructive suggestions. Listen to the first, and then still treasure even the second: the place is full of people who will tell you to "throw your book out the window." Learning to live with the barbarism of the progressive sector will be useful.

• is trivial, but essential: never stop reading.

• Corollary: learn to read with a clinical eye. Enjoy the construction periods. Study why certain things work and others do not direct. Find the style that best suits your needs. There is nothing wrong in following the models of inspiration, at least initially.

• Research

  absolute originality is often counterproductive.

• Do not listen to the gurus who claim to know the "commandments of the perfect writing fantasy / horror / noir" etc etc. Sift their manuals, traetene but only what appears to be objectively valid, discarding everything that came into being by mere personal taste.

• Assess the idea of participating in any contest. Even if you come last, you'll get two useful features: advice (often professional) about your writing and visibility.

• Corollary: take part in competitions only serious, not to extort money from organized Filth naive.

This is the minimum list. Everything else, for example, create ebook, open a blog, interact with other writers, etc etc, is not of relevance the question that I have taken into account in the post.

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Slavers reloaded

I recently spent a lunch hour of the weirdest of my life, forced to sit at the table with a guy who would call a mediocre storyteller "manager rampant."

timed for 56 minutes on my iPod I had to put up with the basic theories of social Darwinism. Overt idiocy that the value of a person is calculated by counting the number of people who are at your service.

" Caio has 15 employees ... Harry is smarter because he commands even 28! And you have to see how it makes them jump! "

who are now used to assess the alleged success in life by counting the money in the bank account. I missed the other hand, slave-to-date version of the 3rd millennium. Just

I have heard some things that I am increasingly convinced that good results are achieved in micro, not macro in . Just I am afraid that the dehumanization of hierarchical structures, reducing people to numbers, demeritocrazia retaliation from Dante that characterizes modern society.

What could I say in a discussion that, when you see me what a middle-aged subculture but occupy a prominent place in a major company to which my answer in a direct way?

I could not say anything, and in fact I did not say anything.

remains, however, the deep-rooted doubt that my future will be away from such ugliness.

Or at least hopefully.

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Shadow

Shadow

Federico Zampaglione

Italy 2010

Shadow The protagonist is David, a young American veteran from Iraq who try to leave behind the horrors of war, riding his mountain bike, the thick forests of Europe, in a remote location and difficult to follow, except by experts. However, in a secluded inn is forced to defend the beautiful Angeline by the attentions of two shady thugs, who hunted in the wrong way from the room, suggest that the issue is not closed. The same night, due to a blizzard, David finds himself with the tent blown away by the wind and is greeted by Angeline, who offers him refuge in his Canadian. Lying to share the love of nature and adventurous mountain biking, born between the two special something that will suddenly interrupted by a new meeting with Fred and Buck, the two hunters who had annoyed the girl at the inn and left something that moves with confidence in the dense vegetation. (Source: http://www.movieplayer.it/ )

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of this film if they have talked so much, more to the alleged value symbolic than for artistic merit. The same Zampaglione - yes, that of Tiromancino - proclaimed him more or less the point of restart of Italian horror cinema.

On the Net have read all of the colors: yes, he's right, no, it's an inflated balloon, one swallow does not make a summer etc etc.

In the end I decided to see it, of course, streaming, since Shadow had a distribution shameful to say the least, not at all in accordance with the tam-tam of the Web A demerit that goes far beyond the value intrinsic film. If the films do not make them see, we can hardly judge them. Once again San Streaming I came to the rescue, though I remain certain that the cinema films have an undeniable value.

Well, as this Shadow?

Honest, not exceptional, but well shot.

Zampaglione have done your homework and know the kind. Not a small feat, believe me, with so many upstart you improvise writers / singers / actors etc, I have the greatest respect for who has the respect of "study" the first craft to seek the glory.

That said, the film will undoubtedly immortal horror myths, probably even those of Italian cinema. Too much standard in the diagrams, without flashes of originality or genius. A little 'torture-movie a bit' not Texas Chainsaw Massacre , with a finale that veers sharply toward the paranormal (so to speak), or so suggests.

However the film is enjoyable, more in the first half hour, in which the suggestions of spectral and semi-desert mountains reign supreme. Wind, woods, night landscapes, old legends, all very beautiful and well chosen, so that seems to be a novel by Eraldo Baldini or Danilo Arona.

From there on, the film becomes a sort of Hostel darker and without the slightest breath of dark humor (this is good). The bad is cruel to the right place and has a physical appearance that puts some excitement for real. Not to mention the place where he lives, a sort of ancient house where traces of the worst crimes of humanity filmed (with an eye on Uncle Adolf).

In all honesty, I must admit that this genre of horror cinema is certainly not among my favorites, so my enthusiasm was not particularly stimulated the idea to tackle a story like that. Without the accounts I'm not disappointed, however, evidence that the story in its own way, it works. In spite of the many "ifs" and many "but" understood that ending that continues to convince in half.

place everything we can speak of the rebirth of Italian genre cinema?

really.

No, because elsewhere, in France, Spain, Scandinavia, the horror and the fantastic produce good films repeatedly, for years now. There are ideas, there is no audience, there are bigger budgets and, wonder of wonders, there is also the desire to break the mold and offer something new. Or at least variations of plot and narrative innovations older. And, most importantly, you are creating a tradition, which is dead here in the first 80, or a millennium ago.

long as we are still only in Italy Shadow , well, we can only speak of an anomaly.

Seeing the little (non-existent?) Has reserved space that the distribution of the film Zampaglione, I'd say more than we are seeing a resurgence nth swan song.

I hope I'm wrong. Heart.

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Interview for "Out of Area"

Here is the interview which I gave (that is so cool) to the magazine " Out of Area", released in Lazio. Interview Survival theme Blog

:-) Luckily the free press is also available in PDF. Click on the cover to download. Thanking John Lembo

immensely for your interest in the project, for your kindness and for the space you have given me, I ask you to stay tuned because ... reach other tasty surprises ;-)

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Reporter fantastic

Since this morning I mentioned in my writing 2011-2015: Selected Scenes from the yellow pandemic (an investigation of Cristina Riccione) , or World War Z the Survival Blog, I want to ask if you know other works written in the same style.

That is in the form of fake journalism (or documentary), applied to a horror or science fiction story. So the question does not apply to the many valuable and real reportage from the theaters of war. Titles which also devour often.

At the moment I can think of almost nothing, although I am sure that there will be other writers in the genre before cimentatisi superb Max Brooks.

Obviously there All in Zanzibar by John Brunner, a book that I have a love / hate, but has much more of a merit on the rump.

A very Italian and very good example would be the story of Glaucus Silvestri The interview, one of my favorites, for what concerns the long-time blogger friend (download is free).

In the field of cinema, I can not cite The Road to the great mockumentary in which a troupe of journalists follows the trail of an imaginary journey into HP Lovecraft Polesine.

Something very similar promises to be Troll hunter , I signaled that long ago, and I have recovered in recent days. As soon as I the time to browse it will let you know.

Meanwhile, you have other titles? Provided that the plant is the one mentioned: journalistic or documentary, applied to the fantastic stories.

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I know many of you are working on editing the Survival Blog.

Excellent! Keep doing. And, if you have already done, re-read everything again and see if the result satisfies you.

From February 15 you can start send your contributions. Here and here we are some minimal information about the project. Others will be later.

remember that the co-editor of Germano Book and Negative . We both of us to manage the selection of pieces included in the eBook Summary of Survival Blog. Without the math very sloppily to fear that, for reasons of space, a selection will be rather hard. But we'll see, time and right now there's almost nothing we have not decided.

A note on the question of its timing: I received a few comments like "you have to move ", " then when it arrives? " etc etc.

sure I am not referring to those who have said it in jest and irony, making me smile too, but all the others, those who make claims so rude.

If I get more invitations of the kind concluded by now I will hold my commitment to get something good from the Survival Blog.

In principle we are all working for the glory. We are doing this in my spare time, with effort. I would say that we do and perform tasks that many publishers do not even dream any more to consider. Add

also work quickly leads to disastrous results. Enthusiasm is a good fuel, it burns quickly and sometimes pollute.

So either you do it right or leave everything as is. For me they are both acceptable solutions, so do you. It may seem unpleasant statement (in fact it is), but I think it's still better to dot the "i" that does not leave too much room for misunderstanding.

A side project

Coordinate and not just for me is an acceptable solution.

writing already and I missed, like many of you have said and repeated the scenario of the Survival Blog has many ideas that would be a shame not to exploit.

I had pointed to the possible spin off of the SB, and a couple of weeks I'm working on the first of them. The working title is 2011-2015: Selected Scenes from the yellow pandemic (an investigation of Cristina Riccione) . Henceforth, for simplicity I will refer to it only as "SsPG.

The state will be shamelessly copied from World War Z . The I admit without reservation, as it would be useless to deny it or hide behind sterile byzantine to redefine reality.

SsPG So will the WWZ Project Survival Blog.

style of Max Brooks talk about a doomsday scenario in the world is so apt and innovative venture to call it almost a narrative genre in its own right. New and unexplored.

After the experience of "catastrophism in the form of blogs," a spin off of the SB could not but follow the opposite path: complete detachment from my alter-ego and emotional storytelling. The setting is perfect for journalistic WWZ this I have in mind.

material and ideas abound. I'm drawing diagrams, reading several SB, sifting through the photos on Facebook . Everything suggests a pleasant and satisfactory end result. It will not be original? Well, at least I know now.

I wrote the first three contributions. Read back and correct, still I find them quite match what I had in mind. SsPG then goes on, and quite quickly. Venture a prediction, I think I could propose it in ebook long before the final work of the Survival Blog.

Stay tuned.

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Lombroso was right?



What

Cesare Lombroso was right?

to see some movies some doubt arises in the mind of even the most enlightened and progressive reasoning.

"The idea that crime is linked to distinctive physical characteristics of a person is very old: it is already, for example, in Homer's Iliad, Book II in which the deviance of Thersites is directly related to its physical ugliness, the same laws stipulate that if two of the Middle Ages people were suspected of a crime, the two should have been considered the most culpable deformed. Mindful of this tradition, Lombroso is convinced that the physical constitution is the most powerful causes of crime: and, in his analysis, he attaches particular importance to the skull. "( Source: http://www.filosofico . net / )

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Iraes Chronicles

finally moves even a little something in the Italian short films and genre films.

Baggiarini Luca is an obscure figure (actually very nice) which I have already spoken several times in the past. It is he who has worked Indiana Jones and the Secret of Phantom Legion and the horror-fantasy peplum Predatus . So, as far as I'm concerned, has already become a little security.

Irae's Chronicles is perhaps his most ambitious project. Supported by a small production company Full Metal Nerd, Baggiarini is about to launch what, to my memory, will be the first web-series-ucronica Italian horror.

Second World War.

Italy.

For some mysterious reason the dead are left hungry from their graves and roam the world. A diverse group of zombie hunters goes into the countryside of central Italy to do his dirty work. Of them belong, among others, some former soldiers of the fascist Black Shirts, a priest and two women.

from point to point will be to know the secret on the underlying cause of the apocalypse of the undead. It could be a Nazi mystic ritual gone wrong, or ...

Well, this is as far as we know so far.

The web series will be 6-8 points, each of fifteen minutes, shot in HD.

From what little I was able to see, there is every reason to do something enjoyable.

on that later.

Meanwhile, here's the trailer.

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have taken over the Earth

Revised last night for the umpteenth time, They live continues to be a film of great potential, but only succeeded in half.

I know I'm going to touch a sacred cow, so I expect someone to proclaim Shari'a against me.

For me the best part of this film is that I show the video at the bottom of the post. Honestly I did not remember the references to God made man of the movie; references that leave me a bit 'confused. I do not know why but I never thought about Carpenter as a director who could cite religion as an alternative to the mental bondage imposed by alien-consumerist society.

But perhaps this part of the televangelist's sermon by no means the thought of Carpenter, who on other occasions has proved caustic to the Church (I think The Lord of Evil and Vampires, for example).

In fact the rebels who are against the aliens teschiformi are portrayed as the willing fools who do not know exactly where to turn. This is quite realistic, no doubt about it. Probably much of the resistance John Connor.

Apart from that detail the extent to which the film is disappointing in the second part, when John Nada finds himself face to face with alien tyrants exposed (at least in his eyes). Many scenes lack credibility, as well as the final, not bad, but not credible. I think that the relative roughness as the film slips towards the end, however, is mainly due to budget constraints.

Right now a movie like this will accomplish a lot of scenes in bullet-time and who knows what other scenography.

... On second thought I do not know if it would actually be a step or two back!

However among all the films like "They are hiding among us in disguise" is certainly one that I appreciate most.

not reach, or even touched, that masterpiece of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (excellent also remake of 1978). But

They live has perhaps more potential. The Body Snatchers

siegeliani could even be seen, as appropriate, such as improvements of the human being. Optimization of a species defective. Without emotions there would be wars and murders, only a peaceful existence and uniform understanding the perspective of the common good.

For many it is the inhumanity imposed by the Body Snatchers to transform them into monsters ("There hardens the heart day by day ... Only when we have to fight to defend our humanity, we realize what it's worth, as there are dear. "). Now I wonder, however, why so many science fiction fans appreciate the Vulcans, for one thing. Both races, bacelloni and Vulcan, the cancellation of the emotions are their guiding principle.

Aliens Carpenter are the big and slimy pests. The worst of the worst imaginable form teschiforme leeches, which exploit the flaws and human misery for personal use. On the other hand do not give some the idea of being cohesive as the pods of Siegel. They live in extraterrestrials are rather a kind of "multinational" Galaxy with all the typical defects allocated land to the capitalists, but taken to extremes. The only thing they are really agree is the enslavement of mankind through subliminal messages (one day we shall return).

are no aliens, but sentient machines, but it is impossible not to mention the Matrix saga , which certainly drew inspiration from the movie-cult part of Carpenter.

Yet, after a first chapter dark, minimalist and truly memorable, the Wachowski brothers, they get to mess action-philosophical new age, revised in hindsight, has something nice.

no coincidence that I like John a lot more rugged than the messianic Neo Nada.

points of view.

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ucroniche Biographies: Benito Mussolini

Ve had the offer months ago, now maybe it has less sense, but it's a shame to have written and not published. So here's the biography of Benito Mussolini ucronica, for use and consumption of my saga dieselpunk Prometheus and the war.

The data refer to 1935 and 1936, while there are only hints of the character development in 1937.

I hope that is still a tasty ucronico exercise even for those who have not read the above-mentioned series.

A premise

Unlike previous articles, namely those dedicated to Otto of Habsburg-Lorraine and Kronprinz Wilhelm of Prussia , I find it unnecessary write here a summary of the true biography of Benito Mussolini. Del Duce has written more than anywhere else, from many points of view, labeling it in a thousand different ways. I believe that each of you has a precise idea last the penultimate Italian dictator, so it is useless to stay here to reiterate facts known and well-known.

Similarly this article, as well as the whole saga of Prometheus and the war not meant in any way giving judgments on fascism, nor does it in a different light or to honor Benito Mussolini. I know that other countries would be laughable ucronia a writer of such details, but this is Italy, and everyone is ready to give the fascist or communist when it comes to history. Well, gentlemen: I write fiction. Novels. Fiction. Sure, they also show through evaluations of more general, but those who have read 1935 and 1936 knows, I do not think I can acknowledge your nothing. If anyone still wants to do, know that I do not care much then.

Mussolini and non-revolutionary British secret agent

- there is some spoilers -

After the Great War with the victory of the Central Powers, the Government of Vienna decided to riannettere also Lombardo-Veneto domains in the possession of the Dual Monarchy. In 1919 Italy, defeated and impoverished by the conflict, was dismembered in various regions, some under the jurisdiction of the Austro-Hungarian others, like the German Savoy, subject to the Kaiser, and only one, down from Tuscany, including Sicily and Sardinia, still in the hands of the House of Savoy and the Italian Government.

In Milan, a pugnacious veteran, famous journalist People of Italy, tried to fight the annulment of the political, social and economic elite of the Milanese faithful to the flag. This man is Benito Mussolini. Mussolini created the Fasci Combat, formed by veterans of other ex-interventionists, the moral people are not entirely destroyed by the unfortunate ending of the war. Their struggle, but at the same time anti-Marxist socialist, however, only lasted a few months. The occupation authorities were able to suppress the violent activists beams, thanks to the policy of good governance adopted by the new emperor, Charles I.

Mussolini himself was forced to flee to England, where he did not lack admirers and disciples. Unfortunately, the plane that was taking him Caproni in London broke down a few miles from the middle and fell into the sea, where the leaders of the Fasci Combat drowned.

Or rather, this was the official for many years, from 1919 to 1935.

Actually Mussolini was rescued and assisted by the SIS, the British Secret Service, where for some time had a significant direct contact, then-Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Hoare. The British, the time has not yet ruled by the British Union of Fascist future (BUF) knew that sooner or later he would return Benito useful in fighting anti-Austrian and anti-German. I hid and changed identity, and has entrusted the team to Hoare. Under his tutelage she learned to behave as a perfect political agent. They taught many foreign languages, but also dialectical, economy, geopolitics, and even the basics of Eastern mysticism, which would later served to obtain the maximum concentration at times of distress.

In the following years he met the young Baron Oswald Mosley, who would shortly thereafter founded the BUF, which would become the undisputed leader. Mosley had an obvious admiration for Mussolini, and has become the favorite pupil. As the baron earned fame and political consensus at home, he promised his master that in the future would help him return to Milan to make the fascist revolution.

Mussolini's revolutionary success

The SIS and Mosley refer Benito Mussolini in Milan in 1934, in disguise. Its mission was to lay the groundwork for a future coup in Lombardy-Veneto. Posing as a printer with a lot of shop in the heart of Gorla, former teacher of Predappio he studied closely the barracks of Prometheus and the organization of Austrian security forces in the city. Not only that cautiously rejoined old friends and former comrades, as well as make contact with the Futurists led by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who still stuck up their nose in front of the Austro-Hungarian occupation government.

In 1935 the opportunity finally arrived that Mussolini had been waiting for: the SIS put in place a plan of destabilization, with the aim of fomenting the Patriotic Front against the government's pro-German monarchy sustained progress by His Imperial Majesty. The plan came to fruition and could cause a spark which would then broke the Pan-German coup in all domains central European empire. A Mussolini had the task of putting on between the two contenders, right there in the Lombardo-Veneto, taking power. He succeeded with a handful of revolutionaries, renamed Arditi, and with the support of pro-bourgeois, which was inspired by the Futurist Marinetti's speeches. Surprisingly, but in full line with the plans of London, Mussolini sided with the legitimate government, or with progressive-monarchists loyal to Otto von Habsburg. Not an easy choice for the former soldier who had fought the Austrians during the First World War, but justified by the fact that at present the biggest threat was to expand the Deutsches Kaiserreich throughout continental Europe. However

Mussolini cash in on his descent into the field to the rescue of the legitimate government of Lombardy-Veneto requested and received permission to become viceroy, replacing the current inept and corrupt. So he could realize his dream and at the end of March 1935 re-entered the political scene in Milan by the protagonist.

Mussolini: Viceroy of the Kingdom of Italy, and aspirant Prime Minister reunited

In fact, the fidelity of the Dual Monarchy Mussolini appeared immediately doubtful. At the outbreak of war between the former allies of the Central Powers lined up so the side of the Habsburgs, but it was clear from the outset that his ambitions dealt largely with the "fascism" of the other domains of central and northern in order to then be able to provide real help (and a fundamental bridgehead) Mosley's friend, who wanted to liberate occupied France to create a "Western bloc" anti-German.

beams Combat becomes the Party of Arditi, of which Mussolini is now - 1937 - the only leader, called by the nickname of "Chief" from the faithful. The party picked up many of the Arditi success also in the adjoining Italian dominions, the Republic of Genoa to the Cispadana. The local governors, appointed by the first time in Vienna, saw Benito in support to claim progressive independence and the future disconnected from the subjection of Austria. So is the viceroy of Genoa, in charge with the title of Duke, who adhered to the cispadano Arditi, thus creating an informal but strong north-central confederation contrary to the pan-German coup government took office in Vienna and at the same time in adjoining duchies.

Mussolini pulled his side the military, hunting or trapping all those who instead sided with the Austro-Germanic Patriotic Front. Very quickly formed a volunteer corps, the Legion D'Annunzio, organized in about one hundred and ten battalions, of which sixty Lombardo-Venetians and Genoese other respectively, and even Cispadana partisan and Piedmontese Tyrolean against pro-German governments that still governs those areas.

At present it can be argued that Mussolini's goals are twofold: to provide, as mentioned above, secure a bridgehead to the armies engaged in the British liberation of France and west-central Italy reunify hunting Vittorio Emanuele III from Rome.

The achievement or otherwise of the first objective will be decided by the outcome of the war, which are involved troops loyal to the assault troops on several fronts: the inside (against the armies of the Austrian and German Savoy faithful to the pro-German usurpers) and Western , where Mussolini sent several divisions, also agrees with the Doge of Genoa, with the viceroy cispadano to support the British armed.

The second objective is pursued instead of trying to foment a fascist revolution "permanent" in the Kingdom of Italy. This uprising, however, is hampered by many supporters of the monarchy which, while not liking Vittorio Emanuele III, do not want to turn Italy into a republic or a military dictatorship. In this regard Mussolini is willing to offer the throne to the younger branch of the House of Savoy, the Savoy-Aosta, which would be very happy to be an active and Permanent reunited and free.