Gilda Musa

Gilda Musa (born 1926 in Forlimpopoli ; died February 26, 1999 in Milan ) was an Italian science fiction writer, poet , journalist, essayist and translator.

Life

Born as the daughter of the wood cutter Romeo Musa in a small town in Romagna in northern Italy , Musa studied German in Heidelberg . She did her doctorate in Milan, where she has lived since then and wrote numerous articles for the daily press and radio. She published several volumes of poetry, starting with Il porto quieto (1953). She was married to the writer and publisher Inìsero Cremaschi , with whom she wrote two SF novels and several short stories.

The novel Giungla domestica (1975) was also translated into German as The domestic jungle . It is about intelligent plants that are cultivated by the botanist Constanze, who lives in isolation in the Apennines . When she becomes the victim of an act of violence, she does not report the perpetrators, but turns her plants into tools of her revenge.

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Poetry

• Il porto quieto (1953)
• Morte di volo (1957)
• Poesia tedesca del dopoguerra (1958)
• Le armi (1959)
• Amici e nemici (1961)
• Gli onori della cronaca: 1961–1962 (1964)
• La notte artificiale (1965)
• Lettere senza francobollo (1972)

Novels

• Le grotte di Marte (with Inìsero Cremaschi, 1974)
• Giungla domestica (1975)
  • English: The domestic jungle. Translated by Hilde Linnert. Heyne SF&F # 4098, 1984, ISBN 3-453-31058-6 .
• Dossier extraterrestri (with Inìsero Cremaschi, 1978)
• Fondazione "Id" (1981)
• L'arma invisibile (1982)

Collections

• Strategy (1968)
• Esperimento donna (1979)
• La farfalla sul soffitto (1988)
• Festa sull'asteroide (1972)

Short stories and short stories

• L'unico abitabile (1963)
• Memoria totale (1963)
• Max (1964)
• Trenta colonne di zeri (1964)
• Esperimento donna (also as Su Libria: sesso senza amore, Terrestrizzazione , 1964)
• Racconto a sei mani (with Anna Rinonapoli and Inìsero Cremaschi, 1964)
• Amanti della scienza (1968)
• Più o meno una macchina (1968)
• I traditori (1968)
• Tempi diversi (1972)
• Abhorrens (1972)
• Festa sull'asteroide (1972)
• Alla ricerca dei Likiani (1973)
• Gli uomini del garage (with Inìsero Cremaschi, 1975)
• Mascherature parallele (also called Marinella super, Una in grigio, una in rosa , 1976)
• Girotondo con il cadavere (1976)
• Pirati spaziali (1977)
• Il museo dei figli della Terra (also as Gli ex-bambini , 1978)
• Visto dall'alto, da lontano (1978)
• Ultimo quarto di luna sul mare (1979)
• Davanti a una siepe di more (1979)
• Archeologia vivente (1979)
• L'invito (1979)
• Proprietà privata (1979)
• Memorie di una nave (1980)
• Il castello, la fattoria, le macerie (1980)
• Creature prodigio (1983)
• Non andare sull'isola (1986)
• La farfalla sul soffitto (1988)
• La pianista azzurra (1988)
• Oltre il promontorio (1988)
• Il colore della colpa (1988)
• Avventura nel verde (1988)
• Silvano e la luna (1988)
• Musica perduta (1988)
• Lui e l'altro (1988)
• Villaggio di montagna sotto la neve (1988)
• Velia nelle dodici zone (1988)
• L'uomo che c'era e non c'era (1992)

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 304 f.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 747.

Web links

• Gilda Musa in Catalogo Vegetti della letteratura fantastica on fantascienza.com (Italian, accessed June 8, 2018)
• Gilda Musa in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Literature by and about Gilda Musa in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Gilda Musa at Open Library
• Un piccolo ritratto di Gilda Musa ( Memento from September 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), short biography of Vittorio Curtoni
• Gilda Musa, tra Poesia e Fantascienza ( Memento from December 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), obituary by Giulia Borgese in the Corriere della Sera from February 27, 1999 (Italian)