Nostalgia
del Futuro

In a world that has crossed the trauma of the Pandemic, between disillusionment and the desire for rebirth, the protagonists of this choral story move.

Pierre, a disillusioned but still restless scientist; Isabel, his great love abruptly interrupted in adolescence; Rachelè, a brilliant young mind who searches physics for the laws of beauty and justice; Marcel, Alexandre, Giovanni and others, bound by a concrete utopia, around whom stories, memories and an unexpected project intertwine: building a new social network capable of connecting the desire to change with the courage to actually try.

Nostalgia del Futuro is not just a novel, but a narrative laboratory of formation that weaves science, politics, philosophy, love and poetry. An invisible map drawn between future and past, between what we have lost and what we can still inhabit and preserve.

The dates of presentations, meetings, and special events related to the novel will be published here close to the release of the book.

For several years I have been working on Nostalgia del Futuro (NDF), a novel built through a series of narrative and conceptual kernels. Through characters, places, and dialogues, the book traverses different themes — from science to politics, from memory to love, from technology to the search for meaning — without sacrificing an internal coherence of tone, vision, and questioning of the future.

In NDF, these kernels are born from the meeting of personal experience, readings, places, relationships, and questions left open. They do not interrupt the story with a theoretical reflection, but transform an intuition, a memory, or an anxiety into narrative material. The NDF-Offshoots will continue this logic with greater temporal and thematic freedom: they may arise from new readings, subsequent experiences, or reflections matured beyond the drafting of the novel, but they will remain recognizable as offshoots of Nostalgia del Futuro because they will preserve its pace, some characteristics of the characters, the tension between thought and story, and that forward-looking nostalgia from which the entire project takes its name.

After a long phase of writing and revision, the manuscript is currently under editorial review. If the process continues as expected, the novel could see the light of day by the end of the year.

During this work I realized that some questions contained in NDF continued to generate new stories. Some were only hinted at in the novel, others led towards futures too distant or towards scenarios that would have required an autonomous path. Still others arose from articles published in the meantime on the blog and ended up intertwining with the themes of the book.

Thus were born the NDF-Offshoots.

The English term offshoot indicates a branch that grows from a common trunk. These stories are not previews of the novel, nor simple appendices to the main plot. They are autonomous explorations that share the same horizon of questions with Nostalgia del Futuro and, when necessary, resume the path of its characters, observing them in other times, under other conditions, or along developments only hinted at in the book. Sometimes they deepen an already present kernel; other times they connect several of them; still other times they introduce new perspectives, capable of expanding the universe of NDF without betraying its identity.

In a sense, they also represent a way to accompany the novel towards publication. While the manuscript follows its own editorial path, the Offshoots allow us to share with readers some of the ideas that constitute its breeding ground, transforming them into short stories, thought experiments, and possible futures.