Siempre resulta interesante oir a los propios autores narrar sus historias. Para ello, aquí tenéis a Algernon Blackwood leyendo “Pistol Against a Ghost”.
Libro gratis : War stories from the future
Me entero a través de twitter de la existencia de este libro, War stories from the future con colaboradores tan interesantes como Ken Liu, Linda Nagata y Madeline Ashby.
Libro gratis : Shambleau de C.L. Moore
Un curioso hallazgo en SF Signal, una historia corta de C.L. Moore, narrada por ella misma. La historia es “Shambleau”. Éste es el enlace.
Ebook en oferta: El marciano
Durante el día de hoy, con el Black Friday, se podrá descargar El marciano de Andy Weir por menos de un euro.
Libro gratis : Soothsayer
El libro gratis del mes de noviembre es Soothsayer de Mike Resnick. Aquí tenéis la sinopsis:
Readers of Santiago and Mike Resnick’s other exciting and evocative novels know that the galaxy’s Inner Frontier is filled with some mighty dangerous characters, such as the Iceman, the Mouse, Merlin, the Yankee Clipper, the Mock Turtle, and more.
But we’ll bet you didn’t know that the most dangerous person on the Frontier, perhaps the most dangerous human or alien who ever lived, is a frightened little six-year-old girl who wishes she was anyone else.
Come meet her, and her one friend, and her multitude of enemies, in the pages of Soothsayer, the first book of the Oracle Trilogy – and experience an adventure similar in tone both to Santiago and to Josh Whedon’s TV series Firefly (and its follow-up movie Serenity).
Mike Resnick is the winner of 5 Hugos (from a record 37 nominations), as well as dozens of other major awards all across the world, and was the Worldcon Guest of Honor in 2012.
Libro gratis : Omenana
En este enlace podéis descargar el magazine Omenana, con contribuciones de escritores de origen africano en el campo de la ficción especulativa. Una iniciativa muy interesante para conocer autores distintos que puedan aportar algo nuevo a la ficción, del que espero poder comentar algo en poco tiempo.
Libro gratis : The thinkers de Liu Cixin
Gracias a Fata Libelli me entero de que está disponible de forma gratuita en inglés el relato “The thinkers” de Liu Cixin. Aquí tenéis el enlace.
Libro gratis : Expanded Universe Vol. 1
El libro gratis de este mes de Phoenix Pick es Expanded Universe Vol. 1 de Robert A. Heinlein.
La selección para esta recopilación la realizó el propio autor y está ordenada cronológicamente desde su primera venta, “Life-Line” de 1939.
Aunque ya lo habían anunciado en Sense of Wonder, no está de más recordarlo para los despistados.
Ebook en oferta : Galaxy Edge Magazine Omnibus 1
Durante el día de hoy estaré en oferta el omnibus que contiene los tres primeros números del magazine Galaxy Edge.
Son casi 250000 palabras de ficción y no ficción. Aquí os traigo los contenidos de los tres números:
Número 1
THE EDITOR’S WORD de Mike Resnick
THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS de Robert J. Sawyer
SCHRÖDINGER’S CATHOUSE de Kij Johnson
CREATOR OF THE COSMOS JOB INTERVIEW TODAY de Nick DiChario
FROM THE HEART’S BASEMENT (columna) de Barry Malzberg
JUST A SECOND de Lou J. Berger
ACT OF GOD de Jack McDevitt
REQUIEM FOR A DRUID de Alex Shvartsman
THE BRIGHT SEAS OF VENUS de Stephen Leigh
THE SPINACH CAN’S SON de Robert T. Jeschonek
THINK LIKE A DINOSAUR de James Patrick Kelly
BOOK REVIEWS de Paul Cook
SERIE: DARK UNIVERSE de Daniel F. Galouye
SOMETHING DIFFERENT (columna) de Horace E. Cocroft
Número 2
THE EDITOR’S WORD de Mike Resnick
ALIENS ATE MY PICKUP de Mercedes Lackey
EFFECT AND CAUSE de Ken Liu
WHEN WE WENT TO SEE THE END OF THE WORLD de Robert Silverberg
THE HEART’S BASEMENT (columna) de Barry Malzberg
TODAY I AM NOBODY de Tina Gower
HAPPILY EVER AFTER de C. L. Moore
THE FLAMINGO GIRL de Brad R. Torgersen
REX de David Gerrold
GHOST IN THE MACHINE de Ralph Roberts
ECHEA de Kristine Kathryn Rusch
SPARKLER de Gio Clairval
CHILD OF THE GODS de Bruce McAllister
THE FEYNMAN SALTATION de Charles Sheffield
BOOK REVIEWS de Paul Cook
THE REAL FUTURE OF SPACE de (columna) Gregory Benford
PHOENIX PICK PRESENTS
SERIE: DARK UNIVERSE de Daniel F. Galouye
Número 3
THE EDITOR’S WORD de Mike Resnick
THE ISLANDS OF HOPE de Heidi Rude Miller
A SOLDIER’S COMPLAINT de Eric Flint
THE HELD DAUGHTER de Laurie Tom
A GALAXY CALLED ROME de Barry N. Malzberg
A BRIEF HISTORY OF A WORLD IN THE TIME BEFORE THIS TIME de Muxing Zhao
WITH FOLDED HANDS de Jack Williamson
JUST ANOTHER NIGHT AT THE QUARTERLY MEETING OF TERRIFYING GIANT MONSTERS de Brennan Harvey
TWO FANTASIES de C. L. Moore
THE TEAMMATES de Ron Collins
BURIED HOPES de Michael Flynn
A FROZEN FUTURE (columna) de Gregory Benford
FROM THE HEART’S BASEMENT (columna) de Barry N. Malzberg
PHOENIX PICK PRESENTS
BOOK REVIEWS de Paul Cook
SERIE: DARK UNIVERSE de Daniel F. Galouye
Libro gratis : Extras de John Scalzi
Como parte de la campaña de marketing asociada al lanzamiento de The end of all things de John Scalzi, en la web de Tor se puede descargar un archivo con extras asociados a este libro. Aquí os pongo la descripción del propio Scalzi:
The End of All Things took me longer to write than most of my books do, in part because I had a number of false starts. These false starts weren’t bad—in my opinion—and they were useful in helping me figure out what was best for the book; for example, determining which point-of-view characters I wanted to have, whether the story should be in first or third person, and so on. But at the same time it’s annoying to write a bunch of stuff and then go Yeaaaaah, that’s not it. So it goes.
Through various false starts and diversions, I ended up writing nearly 40,000 words—almost an entire short novel!—of material that I didn’t directly use. Some of it was recast and repurposed in different directions, and a lot of it was simply left to the side. The thing is when I throw something out of a book, I don’t just delete it. I put it into an “excise file” and keep it just in case it’ll come in handy later.
Like now: I’ve taken various bits from the excise file and with them have crafted a first chapter of an alternate version of The Life of the Mind, the first novella of The End of All Things. This version (roughly) covers the same events, with (roughly) the same characters, but with a substantially different narrative direction.
In an alternate universe, an alternate version of me went ahead with this version, and The End of All Things ended up being a rather different book. Which would be cool. I’d like to meet up with that John Scalzi and trade books.
Please note: This version of the story is noncanonical and mildly spoilery for the version that is, in fact, canonical. While you don’t have to read the official version of The Life of the Mind to read this (or to enjoy it), I recommend that you do to fully appreciate the compare and contrast.
Also, this version ends on a bit of a cliff-hanger. Which will never be resolved. Sorry about that.
Enjoy!