A country where planets revolve around the ladybug: selections from contemporary Italian speculative fiction.

Where do the mountains go at night when we do not see them? Maybe they go to help a defective part of the sky that is about to fall. "Literature is a defense of the self against the attacks of life." [Cesare Pavese] There are two types of literature. One helps you understand who you are, and the other helps you forget who you are. [Fabrizio Caramagna] Poetry is the art of putting the sea in a cup. [Italo Calvino] Number of pages: 100