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Acknowledgements
I’d like to thank all those who contributed to the creation of this book:
- Richard J. Galloway, who carefully revised and improved the English translation;
- Martina Munzittu, for her suggestions during the English translation;
- Julia Gibbs for the accurate proofreading of this book;
- Fabio Delfino, who created the book trailer;
- Dr Philip Metzger, physicist and planetary scientist at NASA Kennedy Space Center and Florida Space Institute, for his precious suggestions on NASA’s terminology;
- Stephen M. Bassett and Gary Stephenson, co-founders of Mars Initiative, for supporting my work;
- Polydream, who gave me permission to use their song “Catch Me If You Can” for the promotion of the series;
- my whole publishing team in Italy, who worked with me on the original version of the “Red Desert” series: Veronica De Lorenzo, my aunt Gabriella Serrenti, Alessandra Fadda, ChiaraOB1, Stefania Mattana, Diego Luci, Luca “Adso da Melk” Cassia, Emanuele Piccolini, Marco Mark, Giovanni Venturi, Germano Dalcielo, and all those who encouraged my work with their comments and support;
- Omar Serafini and the whole FantaScientificast.it crew, who supported me in Italy;
- my parents, who on this occasion turned into science fiction fans;
- and above all Federico Fadda, my first reader, for his constant and loving support.
Bibliography
“Red Desert” is a science fiction work, so part of the scientific aspects are the result of my imagination, but the remainder is mostly based on what is reported in the following sources, which sometimes served just as a hint and which I suggest you take a look at for a thorough examination.
More sources are listed in the bibliography of “Point of No Return”.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (www.jpl.nasa.gov). Information on Mars and in particular on NASA’s Curiosity rover, currently working on the surface of the planet.
NASA Johnson Space Center (website). Information on the centre, where part of the story is set.
Google Mars (www.google.com/mars). Areographical information (Mars geography).
“Red Mars” by Kim Stanley Robinson (novel), 1993. Edition: Bantam, ISBN 9780553560732. Also available for Kindle. – Mars colonisation imagined with the scientific knowledge from twenty years ago. Still very interesting and partly suitable to the present-day.
More books by Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli
“Red Desert – Point of No Return”, Smashwords, 30 June 2014, ISBN 9781311628312.
If you read Italian, you can already find the remaining books of the “Red Desert” series and other novels by this author.
“La morte è soltanto il principio”, Smashwords, 2 March 2012, ISBN 9781465722867.
“Deserto rosso – Nemico invisibile”, Smashwords, 28 April 2013, ISBN 9781301337606.
“Deserto rosso – Ritorno a casa”, Smashwords, 28 September 2013, ISBN 9781301541867.
“Deserto rosso” (La serie completa), Smashwords, 12 December 2013, ISBN 9781310691997; also available as paperback, CreateSpace, 6 December 2013, ISBN 9781494358693.
“Il mentore”, Smashwords, 21 May 2014, ISBN 9781310354854.
About the author
Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli is an Italian independent author.
She lives in Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy), where she works as a writer, technical, scientific and literary translator, and web copywriter. She is also a biologist and worked as researcher, tutor, and professor’s assistant in the field of ecology at “Dipartimento di Biologia Animale ed Ecologia” of the University of Cagliari until 2004, when she founded Anakina Web. As part of her firm remit, she manages her creative writing and translation activities, as well as web design and music management.
As a cinema addict, she started by writing screenplays and fan fictions inspired by the movies. She is author of poems in English, published in the United States in anthologies and audiobooks, and has written some song lyrics.
She writes fiction since 2009. In 2011 she completed her first original science fiction novel, which will be published in November 2014 in Italy, and in March 2012 she published “La morte è soltanto il principio”, fantasy novel about ancient Egypt, inspired by the movie “The Mummy”.
Between 2012-2013 she wrote a science fiction series titled “Deserto rosso”, including four books, which are having success in Italy. The whole “Deserto rosso” series was also published as omnibus in December 2013 (ebook and paperback). Thanks to this series, Monticelli was selected in February 2014 as one of the best ten Italian self-published authors by the Italian version of Wired Magazine and was invited to be a speaker at an event during the Salone Internazionale del Libro in Turin, the most important Italian book fair.
“Deserto rosso” is now being published in English with the title “Red Desert”, and this is the second book of the series. The first one is “Red Desert – Point of No Return”.
She also published a crime thriller in Italian, titled “Il mentore”, in May 2014.
Since October 2012 she is part of the cast of FantaScientificast, an Italian podcast about science fiction. Since April 2013 she is an Italian Representative of Mars Initiative.
As a science fiction and Star Wars fan, she is known in the Italian online community by her nickname, Anakina.
You can find Anakina (or just Carla, as her friends call her) on:
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This book is a work of fiction. All characters and events in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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