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Franco Maria Boschetto

In Italian, the only steampunk novel I have written, set in a universe in which Italy has remained tripartite between the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Papal State and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies; the Confederate States of America won the... more
In Italian, the only steampunk novel I have written, set in a universe in which Italy has remained tripartite between the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Papal State and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies; the Confederate States of America won the Civil War and became a great power; the Ottoman Empire was divided among the colonial powers; and the protagonists (including the secret agent you don't expect) are sent by Pope Leo XIII on the trail of a three-millennia-old secret weapon, which all powers would like to get their hands on...
In Italian, a different version than usual of the story of the universal flood, in which the Giants of ancient times are the hominids you don't expect, and Noah's ark was not initially thought for what we all imagine...
In Italian, the letter written by the patriarch Enoch to the ancient hero Prometheus to warn him about the future beginning of the universal flood. In this story, at the request of my friend Paolo Maltagliati, I transformed the plot of... more
In Italian, the letter written by the patriarch Enoch to the ancient hero Prometheus to warn him about the future beginning of the universal flood. In this story, at the request of my friend Paolo Maltagliati, I transformed the plot of the Mahābhārata into an apocrypha of the Old Testament! Enjoy it!
A poetic composition in Italian written by me in my youth and based on a fairy tale that my grandmother told me when I was a child
In Italian, a short thriller novel set in a parallel universe in which the Roman Empire survived until 2661 BC (1908 AD): a power struggle at the top of the Empire, with completely unexpected protagonists!
In Italian, with this story I explain the reason for the enigmatic assault of God against Moses narrated in Exodus 4,24-26
In Italian, a short story that tries to explain why the Trojan Ripheus was saved, despite being a pagan, as Dante recounts in the XX Canto of his "Paradiso"
In Italian language, a short story that hypothesizes an unimaginable historical reality for the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
In Italian language, a short story illustrating my sci-fi version of the famous myth of the "Angels of Mons"
In Italian language, the sequel of "L'uomo della Luna": a spaceship arrives on a dying planet reduced to an immense sunny desert, in which only what appears to be an immense fortress-like temple has survived. What kind of treasure will it... more
In Italian language, the sequel of "L'uomo della Luna": a spaceship arrives on a dying planet reduced to an immense sunny desert, in which only what appears to be an immense fortress-like temple has survived. What kind of treasure will it hold? Will it really be a treasure?
In Italian language, a short story illustrating my sci-fi version of the well-known story of the "Iron Mask" made famous by Voltaire and Dumas
In Italian language, a possible alternative ending to Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece "The Seventh Seal", in which the knight Antonius Bloch will finally get all his questions answered
In Italian language, a short story that tries to answer (in the world of uchronia) the question: who really was the grandfather of Pharaoh Akhenaten?
In Italian language, another "impossible encounter" between two characters on the border between history and legend, who became (because of my love for uchronia) one emperor of Rome, the other king of Britain
In Italian language, another story in which we see the "impossible encounter" between two legendary leaders of antiquity
In Italian language, a short uchronic story in which the greatest Italian poet arrives, after two years of travel, in the most powerful city in the world and meets the "Veltro" who will sing in the first canto of his "Inferno"
In Italian language, a short novel in which one of the bloodiest episodes in recent Native American history, also sung by Fabrizio de Andrè, unexpectedly has a happy ending
In Italian language, a short tale about the first human couple from which all actual Mankind descend: a way to rationalize the Creation of the Man and the Woman accordin to the Book of Genesis
In Italian language, a short novel in which the famous and controversial scientist Nikola Tesla has a truly incredible encounter in Piazza San Marco in Venice on July 14, 1902!
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In Italian language, a short tale about an "impossible" meeting, in Buenos Aires in 1945, of two men who have gone down in history for opposite reasons...
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In Italian language, a short novel about an uchrony in which the italian writer Francesco Petrarca and the Moroccan traveller Abdallah Ibn Battuta discover America 150 years before Christopher Columbus
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In italian language, a short tale about the first Sign of Jesus in Cana of Galilee and a crossover from this episode of the Gospel of John and the choice of the Twelve Apostles. Enjoy it!
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