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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Celebrating the release of the INFINIVOX anthology with its new cover inspired by @aliettedebodard.com 's Xuya Universe, here is my print available in various materials and formats (20% off for one week at INPRNT with the code UFAGGIUU) www.inprnt.com/gallery/maur...

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS! I am a two-time finalist at the 2026 Frank R. Paul Awards in the Best Book Cover and Best Magazine Cover categories! Congratulations to all the nominees!

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A new anthology edited by Allan Kaster "THE YEAR'S TOP SCIENCE FICTION" is coming on October 16! It includes stories by Kate Elliott, Nnedi Okorafor, Allen M. Steele, Brenda Cooper, and many others. (Publisher: INFINIVOX SF - Cover art by Maurizio Manzieri)

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Concept art for a spaceship in the Aliette de Bodard’s Xuya Universe

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

COVER REVEAL! An original illustration, inspired by @aliettedebodard.com's Xuya Universe, is the cover art for the brand-new anthology series "The Year's Top Science Fiction," edited by Allan Kaster (Art by Maurizio Manzieri - Publisher: @infinivoxsf.bsky.social - October, 2026).

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tomorrow a new cover will be revealed! This original piece, inspired by @aliettedebodard.com's Xuya Universe, will kick off the new anthology "The Year's Top Science Fiction," edited by Allan Kaster ( @infinivoxsf.bsky.social , October 16, 2026). Are you ready?

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The countdown to a new cover illustration is on. This original piece, inspired by Aliette de Bodard's Xuya Universe, will kick off the new anthology "The Year's Top Science Fiction," edited by Allan Kaster (Infinivox SF, October 16, 2026). Are you ready?

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

See you in Senigallia, Italy (18-20 September)! Palazzetto Baviera - my solo Art Exhibit Piazza Simoncelli - Artist Alley hs 3:00PM - 8:00PM Piazza Roma - Panel on Friday 18, h 5:00PM

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

See you in Senigallia, Italy (18-20 September). Brand-new Exhibit in the Palazzetto Baviera and Panel with the Art Historian Michele Loffredo presenting my new Art Book!

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

2026 Hugo Nominating Ballots Statistics have been released... WOW! Read that note at the end... Maurizio Manzieri needed just 1 vote to get in the ballot once again as Best Pro Artist! Anyway, heartfelt congrats to John Picacio for the well deserved achievement! 🚀💥❤

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Maurizio Manzieri, Maestro of the Sense of Wonder" is now available on Amazon -- a new monograph devoted to my art, written by art historian Michele Loffredo. Thirty years of artistic work, featuring a wide selection of illustrations and an essay, published in a bilingual Italian–English edition.

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Supernovella "Ellipses" by D.A. Xiaolin Spires has dropped! Happy Book Birthday! (Publisher: Infinivox SF, Cover Artist: Maurizio Manzieri)

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Here is the final cover design for 'The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 10' featuring my illustration inspired by the Bruce Sterling & Paul Di Filippo's story "Tenth Contact”.(Art by Maurizio Manzieri | Publisher: Infinivox SciFi) Coming out on June 19, 2026.

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

NEW COVER! Here is my illustration for TENTH CONTACT by Bruce Sterling & Paul Di Filippo, currently a finalist for a 2025 Asimov’s Readers’ Award and commissioned as the cover art for "The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 10", edited by Allan Kaster (Publisher: Infinivox, June 2026).

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

NEW COVER ART dropping tomorrow. Stay tuned! 🎨✨

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Congratulations, Suzanne! I'm so happy I got to illustrate your stories! 😊

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

BREAKING NEWS! I’m truly thrilled to share that @zanzjan.bsky.social and I are once again both finalists for the Asimov’s Readers’ Awards (third time!). My illustration was created for Suzanne’s wonderful story, THE CHRONOLITOGRAPHER'S ASSISTANT, featured in the July/August 2025 issue of Asimov’s SF

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Breaking news! Starting today, I am officially a grandfather! Welcome, Leonardo! 🩵 (Picture: Studio photo of my daughter Simona taken two months ago)

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

COVER REVEAL!!! Here is my latest cover for ASIMOV'S SF magazine, inspired by the wonderful story FAILED ATTEMPTS AT PREDATION by @alyxdellamonica.bsky.social and commissioned for the May-June 2026 issue. (Illustration: Maurizio Manzieri / Publisher: Must Read Magazines / 1 Paragraph Inc.).

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

HUGO AWARDS 2026... It's the last week to vote! In the comments the link to my eligible international body of work 🚀🚀🚀

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

BREAKING NEWS! WOW, I'm really happy to hear that Jonathan Brazee's YA novel "Gemini Rising", which I illustrated, is a finalist for the 2025 NEBULA AWARDS! Congratulations!!! (Publisher: Semper Fi Press | Cover Art by Maurizio Manzieri)

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The 13th edition of the "Infected by Art" yearbook includes my illustration "The Ghosts of Mars," commissioned by Infinivox for Dominica Phetteplace's short story of the same name. In 2025, the same illustration won the Frank R. Paul Award and the Best in the Show Award at the WorldCon in Seattle.

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

So thrilled to share that my illustration ELLIPSES has been judged into INFECTED BY ART (Vol. 14 )- The illustration will be published in 2026 as a cover art for an original novella by D.A. Xiaolin Spires (INFINIVOX SciFi).

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

My 2025 Artwork Eligible for Awards - Here is a selected portfolio about professional Art published in 2025! All these artwork are eligible for the 2026 Awards season… thanks for your consideration! 😊🚀

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

(ITA) “Maurizio Manzieri awarded in the USA”. The main Italian daily newspaper LA STAMPA (December 27, 2025) talks about my recent achievements: the 2025 Frank R. Paul Award and the 2025 Asimov’s Readers’ Award! Thanks to Stefano Priarone for the article!

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Happy Holidays, my friends! 🎅🏻🌲

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Wow, another wonderful piece of news to end 2025! I won the Asimov's SF Readers' Award for Best Cover of the Year for the fifth time (!),The award-winning illustration was inspired by Rory Harper's short story, 'Burning Grannies'. Thank you all for voting for me, and congrats to all the winners!

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

2025 FRANK R. PAUL AWARD - The DHL courier just knocked on my studio door to deliver the amazing trophy I just won! 🚀

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

(ITA) - CORRIERE DELLA SERA daily newspaper, December 8th, 2025)- Illustrator Maurizio Manzieri, winner of the Frank R. Paul Award, says: "AI is repetitive, I always look for unique ideas" (Thanks to journalist Luca Castelli for the interview!)

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

AetnaCon 2025, First panel with Aliette @aliettedebodard.com and Maurizio Manzieri: “the importance of ice cream in the life of us artists”

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I’ve reached my hotel in Catania, Sicily, and I’m ready for AetnaCon 2025! Aliette de Bodard is going to join me and all the organization team for an unforgettable dinner together!

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Aliette de Bodard and Maurizio Manzieri will be Guests at AetnaCon in Sicily, Italy, on December 6th… here is the full Program! Countdown activated… see you there! 👨🏻‍🎨

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

As a Winner of the 2025 FRANK R. PAUL AWARD (Best Book Cover Art), I'll be receiving a trophy with a 3D printed topper of the “Tiger-bot” smashing a car, based on Frank R. Paul’s September 1935 Wonder Stories cover!!! 😍

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I’m so happy and proud about this achievement! My illustration THE GHOSTS OF MARS, commissioned as a cover art for "The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories #8" edited by @infinivoxsf.bsky.social and inspired by a Dominica Phetteplace story, is the Winner of the 2025 Frank R. Paul Award!

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Allan Kaster @infinivoxsf.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Great art! Amazing artist! @manzieriart.bsky.social Great science fiction! Great stories! Get sci-fied: www.infinivoxsf.com/hard-sf-8

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Announcing the anthology "THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION ON EARTH 3" edited by Allan Kaster! It includes stories by Greg Egan, Cory Doctorow, Nancy Kress, Pat Murphy, and many others. (Art by Maurizio Manzieri / Publisher: Infinivox SciFi / publication date: November 21, 2025).

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

COVER REVEAL**** Here is "THE GOBLIN GENERAL", the first fantasy novel created by the Nebula and Dragon Award Finalist Jonathan P. Brazee! (Semper Fi Press, USA 2025, Art by Maurizio Manzieri).

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Hugo finalists as Best Professional Artists from Seattle Worldcon! From the left: Alyssa Winans (6th nomination and 2025 Hugo Award winner!), Maurizio Manzieri (3rd nomination), Micaela Alcaino (2nd nomination). Photography by Kelcey Bauer.

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

AETNACON 2025, December 6, 2025. You are all invited to the beautiful Sicilian setting of Villa Cosentino in Valverde (Catania, Italy) to meet the writer @aliettedebodard.com and the artist @manzieriart.bsky.social who has created many of her covers inspired by the Xuya Universe.

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

AETNACON 2025 -- Etna is calling you, ready to announce extraordinary guests for AetnaCon 2025, the Sicilian Science Fiction Convention scheduled for December 6th in Valverde (Catania, Italy). Illustration for the poster by Maurizio Manzieri.

Poster Italian convention AetnaCon 2025 featuring an illustration by artist Maurizio Manzieri

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

(ENG/ITA) Yesterday, I had a wonderful dinner with the writer Ted Chiang, multiple Hugo Award winner. He is the author of wonderful works, including "Story of Your Life," adapted in the sci-fi movie "Arrival" by Villenueve. We talked extensively about science fiction, art and the universe.

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY to the anthology "THE YEAR'S TOP ROBOT AND AI STORIES" (sixth annual collection) edited by Allan Kaster! It includes stories by Greg Egan, Ken Liu, Lavie Tidhar and many others. (Art by Maurizio Manzieri / Publisher: @infinivoxsf.bsky.social )

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Maurizio Manzieri @manzieriart.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Get ready to spot me in action during the last two weekends of September! Stay tuned for the excitement!

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