Lino Aldani (29 March 1926 – 31 January 2009) was an Italian science fiction writer.
He lived in Rome, where he worked as a mathematics teacher until 1968, when he returned to his native San Cipriano Po and devoted his life to writing.
He published science fiction stories starting in the 1960s (his first published short story being "Dove sono i vostri Kumar?
In 1962 he wrote the first Italian critical essay about science fiction,[1] La fantascienza.
In 1963 Aldani founded the SF magazine Futuro with Massimo Lo Jacono; the magazine lasted eight issues[citation needed].