User:Davide Mana

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[edit] Davide Mana (Torino, 1967)

Having spent too much time as a kid on books about dinosaurs, Davide Mana got his degree with honours in Earth Sciences with a dissertation on the Paleoecology of the Messinian Plankton Foraminifera of Sicily.

He has worked as a translator and languages teacher, as call-center drone, web designer, computer programmer, car salesman and scarecrow. Still active as a freelance researcher in Micropaleontology and Paleostatistics, he occasionally collaborates with the Università di Torino. He is also the scientific contents manager of the palaeontological web portal, epalaeontology.com.

A committed anglophile with an unhealthy passion for the Elizabethan era, Davide is an active member of the global roleplayer community, and has been keeping a regular team since 1992; he has published game-related articles in The Whisperer, The Black Seal, D20 Weekly, and has contributed material to Delta Green: Countdown (Pagan Publishing, 1999). In Italy, he has published some scientific articles and, outside of his professional field, he contributes a regular column to independent literary magazine LN LibriNuovi, reviewing fantasy fiction. In 2003 he was co-editor of the fantasy fiction collection Alia (CoopStudi).

He has written a number of stories, which have been published through a variety of media.

He collects old books, digs jazz and canto-pop, enjoys anime and Wikipedia, and is an efficient cook.