The author
Nicola Marinello
Nicola Marinello is an Italian architect, photographer and podcaster. Protocol LOCI is his first novel.
Who is Nicola Marinello?
He is an architect with a studio in Legnano, northern Italy, a photographer and a podcast voice. He has been working on memory for years: first the memory of places and buildings, then the memory of people. Protocol LOCI, his first novel, was born exactly at this crossroads.
Why did he write Protocol LOCI?
The question behind the book is simple and uncomfortable: if one day our memory were entrusted to a machine, who would protect it? That is where Loci came from — an artificial intelligence that safekeeps memories and speaks in the first person: she is the one telling the story, while she loses her words.
What is he writing now?
The Chronicles of LOCI continue. Protocol LOCI is the first book of the series: the story of Loci and the souls she safekeeps is not over.