Oltrecosmo Anthology I and awards
On the occasion of the book "Tales
dall'Oltrecosmo 2005, the anthology Winners' - available
http://www.lulu.com/oltrecosmo for purchase at the cost of printing on paper with cover art by Michael Amadesi and freely downloadable in e-
book - is announced, thanks to the generous support provided by Yacme Srl, Made4Web Sas and the Italian Linguistic Project OpenOffice.org (Plio), the ceremony for the second edition of Oltrecosmo Prize for fiction short fiction, in the event Fantastically (Genova, 3 February to 4 March 2007), with the following program:
Sunday, February 25, 2007, at the wine library Nouvelle Vague, De Vico 'Grades 4, starting at 15:00:
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The Italian science fiction in the early twenty-first century ( intervenes Ernesto Vegetti)
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The role of the Internet in spreading the sci-fi ( involved the award organizers Oltrecosmo)
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Oltrecosmo and OpenOffice.org: science fiction for the protection of freedom of information (Dozza involved David - President and Andrew PLIO Pescetti - Maintainer OOo Italy)
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Awards Award Oltrecosmo 2 (Julius Caesar spoke Jacob, President of the Jury. Introduced by Giampietro Stocco. The start of the ceremony is scheduled at 16:00)
Tales finalists, including Winner will be chosen the second edition of the Prize and selected for the anthology, 2006, are:
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"The guys from Seattle, Cataldo Balducci
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" Autistic " of Machetera
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"Clarisse McClellan is not dead," Patrick Birtolo
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"L'acqua, lo spazio e i sapori della terra", di Marco Cartello
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"Sette giorni", di Emanuele Cassani
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"La consistenza delle idee", di Clelia Farris
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"Protesi", di Thomas Laguzzi
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"Diversi tra i diversi", di Michele Miglionico
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"Contratto con la SA", di Elisa Pessa
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"CyberMonopoly", di Emiliano Racca
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"I flagella screaming, by Silvano Scaruffi
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"Three robots for the inspector Prati, Fabrizio Vercelli
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terminal station, Francesco Zanolla
About :
Organising Committee Award Oltrecosmo , composed by Dario Borghini, Marco Guasti, Giampietro Stocco and Gianluca Turcotte, aims to support and promote freedom and transparency, and quality fiction, in the Italian science fiction. For more information on the Prize: http://www.oltrecosmo.org/
Yacme Srl ( www.yacme.com ) to holding of ICT services in the field of Open Source asserted that due to the large and diverse expertise and a young and dynamic team manages to satisfy equally the needs of Public Government, large companies and SMEs.
Yacme is a reference point for migration from proprietary systems to open systems, particularly in OpenOffice.org. With our experience in complex projects is able to anticipate difficulties managing change both in terms of technology both in human terms.
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