Massimo Lo Jacono is an Italian

Italy

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 science fiction

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 and fantasy

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 writer.

In 1963 he was one of the editors of the science fiction magazine

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 Futuro. In the first issue of the magazine he published the story "L'ultima finzione di Basilide" under an pseudonym

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. The story was greatly appreciated by Argentine

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 writer Juan Rodolfo Wilcock

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, who determined to show it to Jorge Luis Borges

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Lo Jacono was an active force in the science fiction field mostly in the 1960s: apart from those published in Futuro, his stories appeared, often under the aliases Megàlos Diékonos and M. J. Mauritius, in the Italian edition of Galaxy , in Oltre il Cielo, in the anthologies Interplanet, and in various newspaper

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