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Can technologies change the way we eat and free humankind from the imperative of producing and consuming food as we are currently doing? Can we save land and soils, water, restore biodiversity and reduce the impact on climate change through nanotechnology, gene editing, precision fermentation and cellular cultivation? Will these free humanity from food insecurity and the scourge of famine?聽

Francesco Verso, environmentalist and multiple-award fiction writer, will provide a transhumanistic perspective and will help us reflect on how science fiction can help in taking action towards a more sustainable and just food system and society.

Francesco Verso is an Italian science fiction writer and translator of science fiction from English into Italian.

He started writing in 1996, first poems and then the novel Antidoti umani, which was nominated for a 2004 Urania Award. In 2010, he finished his third novel, Livido, and the short stories "Flush", "Dodici centesimi", "Sogno di un futuro di mezza estate", "Due mondi", and "La morte in diretta di Fernando Morales". In 2011 he finished the novel Bloodbusters and began writing I camminatori. In 2012 his novel, Livido, won the Premio Odissea.

His novel Livido also won the Premio Cassiopea in 2014, and received the Premio Italia for best Italian science fiction novel.聽

From 2011 to 2013 he worked with Kipple Officina Libraria as co-editor of the literature series Avatar. In 2014 he created the Future Fiction label, which specializes in publishing books in the science fiction genre originating from different countries, languages and cultures than Italy.聽