Giampietro Stocco

Who is Giampietro Stocco?

Giampietro Stocco is an Italian science fiction and alternate history author.

Stocco was born in Rome. He got graduated from with a degree in Political Sciences at the Università di Roma "La Sapienza" with a thesis about the national and ethnic minorities in Europe, with a special focus on the cases of South Tyrol and Schleswig-Holstein. He studied for a masters in contemporary history in Denmark, Odense University, at Roskilde Universitetscenter and Institute of regional Studies in Aabenraa. He lives and works in Genoa, as a journalist in RAI, the Italian public TV-service.

Giampietro Stocco has published five novels: Nero Italiano, an uchronie in which he imagines that Italian Fascism never entered World War II; the second is Dea del Caos, the sequel of Nero Italiano. In March 2006 Dea del Caos was staged in Finalborgo by the Teatro Garage of Genoa, directed by Lorenzo Costa; Figlio della Schiera, 2007, Chinaski, a sf novel in which the author speaks of a subterranean civilization; Dalle mie Ceneri, Delos Books, an alternate history novel that takes place after the Falkland-Malvinas war; and Nuovo Mondo, Edizioni Bietti, an alternate history novel placed in the time of the Great Discoveries.