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Vanna Bonta is the author of FLIGHT: a Quantum Fiction novel, four collections of prize-winning poems, essays, screenplays, short fiction, song lyrics and music. Though best known as the creator of the FLight, Bonta's multitalented performances as an actor span nearly two decades of delivering reliable magic with roles as a voice artist for major feature films and television (Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Hocus Pocus, Demolition Man) and a cameo as the hero's young mother (Zed's queen) in the fantasy movie favorite The Beastmaster. Bonta's novel, Flight, received enthusiastic praise from Publishers Weekly, the American Library Association Booklist, and other trade reviews. The 1995 hardcover first edition was followed by a paperback release, after which the cross-genre novel came out in an ebook edition. An audio book edition followed in 2008. Bonta read her own work, bringing years of voiceover experience to the narrative, and the audio edition also received positive trade reviews. Flight, starring Aira Flight, the soulful and innocent heroine of uncertain origin with amnesia who mysteriously lacks a navel, continues to inspire fans in all camps an age groups. Vanna Bonta began writing poetry and short stories at age six. She saved her first rejection slip, received from a New York publisher when she was six years old. Her first collection of poetry, published at age ten, was prefaced by her grandfather, Luigi Ugolini, the celebrated Italian author. At age eleven, she wrote her first novel. Bonta's literary life is rooted in her earliest memories of her grandfather routinely reciting Dante and classics to family after lunch. Her poetry has been published in several anthologies and been prized with two literary medals in Italy. STAR TREK series creator Gene Roddenberry selected a Vanna Bonta story ("Somewhen") for Star Trek: TNG. The television show's Bible is a cherished treasure in Bonta's library, along with a treasury of writing instruments, from quill pens and era typewriters to computers, that she collects. Flight was called a fable for our times and sparked debate and controversy when noted for coining the term "quantum fiction", an emerging style of fiction cross-genres. Bonta admits she's not a fanatic of science fiction or any one genre, but favorites a broad range, from classics to any work that "can stand outside of its genre as literature." Her passionate interest in outer space, mechanics (she rebuilt a car engine), physics, and the human relationship to the cosmos appear as themes throughout her prose, which she explains as simply contemporary fiction. However categorized, the Bonta signature is a cosmic view in works that transcend political and religious divisions with authentic, original writing and unforgettable characters. Bonta grew up in Thailand, in the American South, and regularly sojourned in Tuscany, Italy, with her mother, a fine-arts painter. She is multilingual, reads and writes music, and her global influences include studies of Buddhism, Catholicism, and other ancient and modern religions. Whether writing about love, poverty, or human foibles, a recurring theme in her work is the core perspective of humanity's place in the cosmos. Bonta is a pianist and did her own piano playing as well as narration in the audiobook version of her novel FLIGHT (2008). She has flown in zero-gravity and is noted for inventing the 2suit, a garment designed for intimacy in micro gravity environments that was tested for the History Channel series, The Universe, on an episode about Sex in Space. Her personal passions besides all things books and family include language of all kinds, invention, literacy, food, Nature, cultures, biking, dance and exosolar planets. Bonta is a space advocate and editor-in-chief of The Cosmos Review, a literary celebration of poetry and space. What's new - 2009 History Channel invited Flight author Vanna Bonta to be interviewed for The Universe series, for which she tested her 2Suit invention in zero gravity. The program features a woman in the future reading a book in space, the book being Flight: a quantum fiction novel, paying Bonta and her novel a distinguished honor. [Video] [More info] Free download from Audible.com What is Quantum Fiction? Author interview. Vanna Bonta talks about quantum fiction Amazon (Critic reviews: Flight, by Vanna Bonta) Info: Flight: a Quantum Fiction novel, by Vanna Bonta now also an audiobook VANNA BONTA on Love & the Cosmos quotables from this author