Paolo Aresi

Paolo Aresi was born in Bergamo, Italy, in 1958. He graduated in Arts and works as a journalist with L'Eco di Bergamo newspaper. He published his first science fiction novel Oberon, l'avamposto fra i ghiacci ("Oberon the Outpost in the Ice") in 1987. In 1992 he won the Courmayeur Award with the short story Stige. In 1995 he published Toshi si sveglia nel cuore della notte ("Toshi Wakes Up in the Middle of the Night"), a crime novel. In 2004 he won the Urania Award with Oltre il pianeta del vento ( Beyond The Planet of the Wind ) In the novel Ho pedalato fino alle stelle (2008) he told about his passion for bicycles. A new science fiction novel, the post-apocalyptic L'amore al tempo dei treni perduti ("Love in the Times of Lost Trains") was published in 2010, and in 2011 Mondadori published Korolev , a tribute to the Chief Designer of the Russian space program.