Fantasy

The Stand by Stephen King (Italian edition)

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The novel “The Stand” by Stephen King was published for the first time in 1978 e republished in the so-called Complete and Uncut Edition in 1990.

Charles Campion is on duty when in a secret laboratory on the military base a chain of errors causes a virus created as a bacteriological weapon do get dispersed in the air. When Campion sees the alarm, he realizes that it’s something very serious and manages to escape before being locked up at the base. He leaves with his family trying to get away as far as possible, but has already been infected and just spreads the infection faster.

The army attempts to create quarantine areas, initially with roadblocks disguised as men at work and later with weapons, to try to stop the infection, but without success. In less than a month, almost all of the inhabitants of the USA died. The few survivors, scattered here and there in the territory, try to make do. Their conditions are diverse, but among the things in common are the strange dreams, which include Mother Abigail and Randall Flagg.

H.P. Lovecraft in June 1934 (Photo Lucius B. Truesdell)

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Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born on August 20, 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. H.P. Lovecraft’s work in the literary field started as a poet, manuscript reviewer, and journalist. In 1919, he published the short story “Dagon”, where he started developing the themes that would mark his career. For the occasion, he used a Mesopotamian deity, but in the following years, he started creating his own mythology.

Some works of H.P. Lovecraft were published posthumously, and over time rose to fame. The so-called Cthulhu Mythos, which include the works that include a pantheon of deities and various totally alien creatures, became the most important part of the author’s works. They include elements of science fiction, fantasy and horror, and ended up influencing generations of writers in those genres.

David Duchovny in 2013

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David William Duchovny was born on August 7, 1960 in New York, USA. In 1993, David Duchovny became a big hit when he started playing Special Agent Fox Mulder in the the TV show “The X-Files”. He’s also famous as the protagonist of the TV shows “Californication”, which aired between 2007 and 2014, and “Aquarius”, which aired between 2015 and 2016. Duchovny also worked as executive producer on both shows.

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin

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The novel “The Fifth Season” by N. K. Jemisin was published for the first time in 2015. It’s the first book in The Broken Earth trilogy. It won the Hugo Award as best novel of the year.

Essun is a mature woman with two young children who hides her orogene nature. One day she comes home and finds out that her husband killed their son after the boy shoe his orogene abilities and left the city with their daughter. Struck with her emotions, Essun manifests her abilities.

Damaya is a little girl when she first reveals her nature as an orogene. Her parents follow the laws and turn her over to a Guardian, who is part of an order of people who can control orogenes. Damaya is brought to the Fulcrum, where she will be trained so that she blindly obeys orders and her powers will be used to manipulate earth and stone only based on the instructions she receives.

Ray Harryhausen

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Ray Harryhausen was born on June 29, 1920, in Los Angeles, California, USA. The first professional jobs for Ray Harryhausen were for director George Pal in short films that included animations. The great success came for Ray Harryhausen with “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” (1958), a milestone of stop motion animations. In the following years, he created more extraordinary animations for “The 3 Worlds of Gulliver” (1960) and “Mysterious Island” (1961) up to what is considered his masterpiece, “Jason and the Argonauts” (1963).

In the following years, the animations produced by Ray Harryhausen ranged from the space creatures of “First Men in the Moon” (1964) to the dinosaurs of “One Million Years BC” (1966) and “The Valley of Gwangi” (1969), a project Harryhausen had been trying to develop personally for years.