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Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)

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Vanna Bonta (3 April 1958 – 8 July 2014) was an American novelist, poet and actress. She is the author of Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel and three collections of poems. Bonta makes a cameo appearance as the superhero's young mother, Zed's Queen, in the fantasy classic The Beastmaster. As a voice-actor, she played multiple roles in major films such as Disney's Beauty and the Beast. She is also the inventor of the 2suit, a garment for intimacy, work and thermal applications in the microgravity environments of space.

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Alternative Names: Vanna Marie Bonta

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The real plot in fiction parallels life in that it happens within the characters.

I certainly didn't write it to be popular.

When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part, it really gives pause to wonder what and who we are within a larger framework than linear adventures at the shopping mall and taxes.

I said, "...it is quantum fiction." The first line of the story is "Which came first, the observer or the particle?" - and it goes from there.

Various editors, senior editors at major houses who wanted the book said that they didn't quite know what genre it was.

I followed my inspiration to an ending I couldn't yet see, and incorporated techniques of allegory and exposition, expository essay.

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

It's closer to Platonic Idealism in the theory that substantive reality is only a reflection of some other non-quantified spirit, awareness, consciousness, whatever you want to call it.

Pythagoras' idea of the transmigration of the soul is central.

Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.

Through characters, non-linear plot lines, or the involvement of multiple dimensions, it ultimately witnesses the physical world as inextricable from consciousness or the observer of that world.

In life, the way we perceive life and reality is often instrumental in how things can unfold.

Through the process of elimination, the observer or some aspect of awareness is indirectly quantified.

How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle? … it can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination.

The genre is broad and includes life.