BREAKING NEWS! I’m truly thrilled to share that
Suzanne Palmer and I are once again both finalists for the Asimov’s Readers’ Awards (third time!). My illustration was created for her wonderful story, THE CHRONOLITOGRAPHER'S ASSISTANT, featured in the July/August 2025 issue!
COVER REVEAL!!! Here is my latest cover for ASIMOV'S SF magazine, inspired by the wonderful story FAILED ATTEMPTS AT PREDATION by Alyx Dellamonica and commissioned for the May-June 2026 issue. (Illustration: Maurizio Manzieri / Publisher: Must Read Magazines / 1 Paragraph Inc.).
BREAKING NEWS! WOW, I'm really happy to hear that @jonathanbrazee 's YA novel "Gemini Rising", which I illustrated, is a finalist for the 2025 NEBULA AWARDS! Congratulations!!!
(Publisher: Semper Fi Press | Cover Art by Maurizio Manzieri)
Wow, another wonderful piece of news to end 2025! I won the Asimov's SF Readers' Award for Best Cover of the Year for the fifth time (!),The award-winning illustration was inspired by Rory Harper's short story, 'Burning Grannies'. Thank you all for voting for me!
Aliette de Bodard and Maurizio Manzieri will be Guests at AetnaCon in Sicily, Italy, on December 6th… here is the full Program! Countdown activated… see you there! 👨🏻🎨
As a Winner of the 2025 FRANK R. PAUL AWARD (Best Book Cover Art), I'll be receiving a trophy with a 3D printed topper of the “Tiger-bot” smashing a car, based on Frank R. Paul’s September 1935 Wonder Stories cover!!!
I’m so happy and proud about this achievement! My illustration THE GHOSTS OF MARS, commissioned as a cover art for The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories #8 edited by @AllanKaster and inspired by a Dominica Phetteplace story, is the Winner of the 2025 Frank R. Paul Award!
This illustration was originally commissioned by Asimov's Science Fiction magazine as a cover art for the story "HĀNAI" by Gregory Norman Bossert (2021)
Announcing the anthology "THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION ON EARTH 3" edited by Allan Kaster! It includes stories by Greg Egan, Cory Doctorow, Nancy Kress, Pat Murphy, and many others. (Art by Maurizio Manzieri / Publisher: Infinivox SciFi / publication date: Nov 21, 2025).
COVER REVEAL**** Here is "THE GOBLIN GENERAL", the first fantasy novel created by the Nebula and Dragon Award Finalist @jonathanbrazee! (Semper Fi Press, USA 2025, Art by Maurizio Manzieri).
Hugo finalists as Best Professional Artists from Seattle Worldcon! From the left: Alyssa Winans (6th nomination and 2025 Hugo Award winner!), Maurizio Manzieri (3rd nomination), Micaela Alcaino (2nd nomination). Photography by Kelcey Bauer.
1/2 - AETNACON 2025, December 6, 2025. You are all invited to the beautiful Sicilian setting of Villa Cosentino in Valverde (Catania, Italy) to meet the writer Aliette de Bodard and the artist Maurizio Manzieri, who has created many of her covers inspired by the Xuya Universe.
AETNACON 2025 -- Etna is calling you, ready to announce extraordinary guests for AetnaCon 2025, the Sicilian Science Fiction Convention scheduled for December 6th in Valverde (Catania, Italy). Illustration for the poster by Maurizio Manzieri.