Actaeon: An amazing planet adventure, a really lonely planet, an astonishing voyage in the Beacon Universe

by Fabio F. Centamore, Tiziano Cremonini (Illustrator)

Actaeon is a small, remote planet. Quite insignificant for big cruise ships that pass through the cosmos. That is, until the only beacon of the entire galactic sector is not suddenly darkened, causing significant damages to interstellar routes. It's up to Nolan, an outstanding experience engineer of Bernard Limited, to slingshot on Actaeon's barren surface and reactivate the beacon. There, however, nothing is what it seems ...

31 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 6, 2015

About the author

Fabio F. Centamore was born in Italy, eastern Sicily, between Catania and Syracuse. He took a strong interest on comics, fantastic and science fiction world during his studies at Pisa University. Following this new interest, he started to contribute with a local fanzine dedicated to comics world. In the same period (1994-'96) he wrote novels and tales for several Sci-Fi literary prizes: "Urania" prize (1994 and '95), "Courmaieur" prize (1994, '95 and '96). In 2009 he sold his first tales anthology: Alle Sett'Albe. His first novel appeared in 2010: L'Origine. Between 2011 and 2012 some of his short tales contributed to several anthologies. His last tales collection book, Luna Park (2013), is a compilation of different genres, from horror to mystery and science fiction. From 2014 he works also as translator. He translated Robert Silverberg (The Emperor, the Maula and Liontime at Timbuctoo), Robert Reed (Savior, Camouflage). Currently he contributes also as reviewer with several Italian blogzine (Mangialibri, Cronache di un Sole Lontano and True Science Fantasy). His last Italian work is Lotto 117 (2014), he sold his first English work (The Latest One) to Mike Resnick's “Galaxy's Edge Magazine”.