In two days of walks around Cambridge and coffees in Harvard campuses we were able to come up with the final touches and finalize the story. The main skeleton of the story kept evolving until the end of 2019, when we decided to finally meet in Boston, where Giulio lives. Massively so! Keep in mind that our creative process can be described as a few Skype calls between Los Angeles, London and Boston, but more than anything else, a 14-months-long WhatsApp thread among the three of us, an explosive brain-storming where some ideas were rejected, some were put on hold, and some enthusiastically embraced with an immediate “green light”. GENU is a complex project and therefore was inspired by a hundred different things, but mainly by our deep fascination with the ultimate question: where do we, as human beings, come from? What is our place in the universe? GENU’s fifth volume will provide a scientifically plausible answer, one that we’ve never found in any science fiction book.ĭid the story evolve as part of the creative process? We had a totally original story in front of us. What happened instead is that, in a very spontaneous way, we started to chop that story in pieces, throwing away huge chunks of it, adding major plot points, and after about 3 months of this, not even one character or one concept from “Jesus of Mars” had survived. Initially we thought we would turn it into a graphic novel. It’s a brilliant novel, full of ideas and open-minded speculation. Farmer called “Jesus on Mars”, which is just as odd and quirky as the title suggests. In December 2018, we all read a book by Philip J. It’s a bit of a funny story, actually: the three of us often talk about books via WhatsApp. What was the main inspiration in creating Genu? Having recently got a look at the first volume of Genu I caught up with one of it’s creators, Tommaso Todesca (in the middle of the pic above), to get a bit of a background on the book itself.

Genu by Tommaso Todesca