- Renato Giovannoli, essayist and storyteller, philosophy teacher and librarian, has been dealing with semiotics of culture for years: professions linked by a single passion, that for books. And for the ideas that arise from it. He was born in Cervia in 1956. He was a pupil of Umberto Eco. He is best known for his non-fiction volumes.- IMDb Mini Biography By: FF
- Science Fiction comes from Philosophy and the best science fiction stories are philosophical stories and indeed philosophical "thought experiments"
- I'm passionate about extracting ideas from books
- Science fiction is a literature of ideas, an intrinsically philosophical literature
- Mystery or science fiction stories are not supported so much by classic narrative structures, with characters, events or functions, but by logical structures of another type, they are tales of ideas rather than characters
- There is a strong analogy between some of the ideas of science fiction and some ideas of the detective story. Because even the detective story, as a metaphor for scientific research, is a sort of science fiction and poses considerable epistemological problems
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