Love is stronger than Time - An Antology of sci-fi short stories about Love through Time chosen by Maria Grazia Beltrami

Jen Minkman, Alethea Kontis, Elana Gomel, Ninot Aziz, Stefano Meglioraldi, Dimitra Nikolaidou, Franco Veronese, Nate Ragolia, Hephaestion Christopoulos, Can Yiğit Tunçman, Katja Roese, Romain Delplancq, Victor Pseftakis, John Raptis Dimitris

Summary

Fourteen visionary stories from every corner of the world, to examine in depth a subject underlying any literary work: the relationship between love and time.
Fourteen tales of the purest science fiction, original works from the pens of the genre's most influential indie authors, that speak of dreams and fears, ranging from the infinitely small to the infinitely large, that look to the heavens as to the depths of the Earth, but are, all of them, stories in which Time doesn't rule: its grip on humanity unhinged by Love, which is the true, only force that moves the world forward, as Dante Alighieri already suggested in the very last verse of his Divina Commedia.
The future in which these stories are set is almost always dystopian, and is rooted in the perversions of the present: climate change, ecological catastrophes, political upheavals and the rarefaction of human relationships, to name but a few examples. However, somehow Love does not abandon human beings, it becomes multifaceted to accommodate new ways of living, but it never gives up being a driving force and hope for renewal.

Available since: 12/03/2024.

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