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a first manned mission to Mars
set in 2010.
    C.O.S.M.I.C.
project ( CRS4 ).
– Technologies for human survival on Mars patented by the
University of Cagliari, Italy.
    NASA Official
Website ( www.nasa.gov ). – United States
space agency website, including all information on present and past
Mars missions.
     

    More books by Rita Carla Francesca
Monticelli
     
    If you read Italian,
you can already find the remaining books of the “Red Desert” series
and other novels by this author.
     
    “ La morte è soltanto
il principio ”, Smashwords, 2 March 2012, ISBN
9781465722867.
    “ Deserto rosso –
Abitanti di Marte ”, Smashwords, 27 November 2012, ISBN
9781301420551.
    “ Deserto rosso –
Nemico invisibile ”, Smashwords, 28 April 2013, ISBN
9781301337606.
    “ Deserto rosso –
Ritorno a casa ”, Smashwords, 28 September 2013, ISBN
9781301541867.
    “ Deserto
rosso ” (La serie completa), Smashwords, 12 December
2013, ISBN 9781310691997; also available as paperback, CreateSpace,
6 December 2013, ISBN 9781494358693.
    “ Il
mentore ”, Smashwords, 21 May 2014, ISBN
9781310354854.
     

About the author
     
    Rita Carla Francesca
Monticelli is an Italian independent author.
    She lives in Cagliari
(Sardinia, Italy), where she works as a writer, technical,
scientific and literary translator, and web copywriter. She is also
a biologist and worked as researcher, tutor, and professor’s
assistant in the field of ecology at “Dipartimento di Biologia
Animale ed Ecologia” of the University of Cagliari until 2004, when
she founded Anakina Web. As part of her firm remit, she manages her
creative writing and translation activities, as well as web design
and music management.
    As a cinema addict,
she started by writing screenplays and fan fictions inspired by the
movies. She is author of poems in English, published in the United
States in anthologies and audiobooks, and has written some song
lyrics.
    She writes fiction
since 2009. In 2011 she completed her first original science
fiction novel, which will be published in November 2014 in Italy,
and in March 2012 she published “La morte è soltanto il principio”,
fantasy novel about ancient Egypt, inspired by the movie “The
Mummy”.
    Between 2012-2013 she
wrote a science fiction series titled “Deserto rosso”, including
four books, which are having success in Italy. The whole “Deserto
rosso” series was also published as omnibus in December 2013 (ebook
and paperback). Thanks to this series, Monticelli was selected in
February 2014 as one of the best ten Italian self-published authors
by the Italian version of Wired Magazine and was invited to be a
speaker at an event during the Salone Internazionale del Libro in
Turin, the most important Italian book fair.
    “Deserto rosso” is now
being published in English with the title “Red Desert”, and this is
the first book of the series.
    She also published a
crime thriller in Italian, titled “Il mentore”, in May 2014.
    Since October 2012 she
is part of the cast of FantaScientificast ,
an Italian podcast about science fiction. Since April 2013 she is
an Italian Representative of Mars
Initiative .
    As a science fiction
and Star Wars fan, she is known in the Italian online community by
her nickname, Anakina.
     
    You can find Anakina
(or just Carla, as her friends call her) on:
     
    Anakina.blog: ladyanakina.blogspot.com
    Facebook: www.facebook.com/RitaCarlaFMonticelli
    Twitter: twitter.com/ladyanakina
    MySpace: www.myspace.com/anakina
    aNobii: www.anobii.com/anakina/books
    Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/anakina
    YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/ladyanakina
    Google+: plus.google.com/+RitaCarlaFrancescaMonticelli
    Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/ladyanakina
    Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/profile/view/anakina
    LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/anakina
     
    Check out the
interview with Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli on Smashwords:
    www.smashwords.com/interview/anakina
     
    The official
international website of Rita Carla