Gustavo Bondoni
Spread of the Kobold's Wings, fiction, Issue 37, December 1, 2016
Our Song, fiction, Issue 46, March 15, 2019
Hell is the Morning Star, fiction, Issue 53, December 2020
Gustavo Bondoni is novelist and short story writer with over three hundred stories published in fifteen countries, in seven languages. His latest novel isTest Site Horror (2020). He has also published two other monster books: Ice Station: Death (2019) and Jungle Lab Terror (2020), three science fiction novels: Incursion (2017), Outside (2017) and Siege (2016) and an ebooknovella entitled Branch. His short fiction is collected in Pale Reflection(2020), Off the Beaten Path (2019) Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places(2010) and Virtuoso and Other Stories (2011).
In 2019, Gustavo was awarded second place in the Jim Baen Memorial Contest and in 2018 he received a Judges Commendation (and second place) in The James White Award. He was also a 2019 finalist in the Writers of the Future Contest.
His website is at www.gustavobondoni.com
Get to know Gustavo Bondoni:
Birthday? December 19th, 1975
When did you start writing? I started writing seriously in 2003.
When and what and where did you first get published? My first published story appeared in JupiterSF in 2005. It was a science fiction story.
What themes do you like to write about? I am a bit of a magpie in this sense. I like to write about anything that seems shiny at any particular moment, which means that my fiction is all over the place. One recurring theme seems to be the loss of individuality and individual freedoms in modern society... but it was never a planned thing.
What books and/or stories have most resonated with you as an author? Why? How do these stories and their characters find expression in your work? I guess Asimov and Douglas Adams are the men who taught me to love the genre. One because he laid the foundation in my pre-teen mind, and the other because he taught me that subverting things and not taking them overly seriously is a perfectly acceptable way of writing.