Libro gratis : Estampas de la Historia Lógico Natural de Guipúzcoa

Está disponible para su descarga gratuita la ucronía Estampas de la Historia Lógico Natural de Guipúzcoa  de Juan Julián Merelo.

Aquí tenéis la sinopsis:

La era del wolframio

En un solo año y en un solo lugar, 1783 y el seminario de Vergara, y dentro del mismo grupo, el formado por los químicos Chavaneau, los hermanos Elhúyar y Proust, se produjo el descubrimiento del platino (entonces llamado platina) y el wolframio o tungsteno, denominado wolframio precisamente por los hermanos Elhúyar en su publicación en los “Extractos” de la Real Sociedad Bascongada de Amigos del Pais.
Pero a partir de ese inicio prometedor, en 1799, Proust, entre los residuos de la obtención del platino, obtuvo, aunque no identificó, osmio e iridio. Y, finalmente, Andrés Manuel del Río, en Nueva España y en 1801, bajo las órdenes de uno de los Elhúyar, Fausto, identificó el vanadio, al que llamó eritronio, pero su descubrimiento no fue reconocido.
España, en aquella época, no sólo tenía la ciencia y los científicos, sino que tenía las minas para extraerlos (aunque las de wolframio no se descubrieron hasta mucho más adelante). ¿Qué habría pasado si, como hubiera sido lógico y natural, la industria y la extracción se hubieran desarrollado como lo hicieron en otros países europeos?

La historia lógico natural

Esta ucronía, desarrollada en una serie de estampas a modo de artículo periodístico o cronicón de la época, desarrolla esa historia de lo que podría haber pasado si las circunstancias lo hubiesen permitido, o alguien hubiese tenido la vista suficiente como para mantener un compacto equipo de investigación que estaba a la vanguardia de la química y la metalurgia de finales del siglo XVIII. Centrado en Guipúzcoa, en el Seminario de Vergara y en la Sociedad Bascongada de Amigos del País, estas “estampas”, a partir de la primera, muestran qué podría haber sucedido y a dónde podría haber ido la sociedad, la tecnología y posiblemente la cultura de haber ido la historia por otros derroteros.

En cierto sentido, constituye una precuela de “Historia Lógico Natural”, con la que comparte “universo”. Todo lo que sucede en esta Historia Lógico Natural es coherente con lo narrado en la otra novela, que sucedería a continuacion de estas estampas.

Story Bundle relatos cortos

Echadle un vistazo a esta nueva oferta, con colecciones de relatos de autores como Pat Murphy o Walter Jon Williams.

Estas son las obras incluidas:

The Green Leopard Plague de Walter Jon Williams
Women Up to No Good de Pat Murphy
Strange Ladies: 7 Stories de Lisa Mason
Collected Stories de Lewis Shiner
Six Stories de Kathe Koja
What I Didn’t See: Stories de Karen Fowler
Errantry: Strange Stories de Elizabeth Hand
Wild Things de C.C. Finlay

Ebook en oferta : Hardwired

hardwiredEstá en oferta por menos de un euro la novela Hardwired, de Walter Jon Williams. Os pongo la sinopsis de esta novela cyberpunk:

Earth lies prostrate beneath the lash of the Orbital powers, and Earth’s Balkanized nations have no choice but to let the Orbitals plunder their remaining wealth. Below the zone of Orbital control, buttonheads, panzerjocks, dirtgirls, and hustlers scramble for their ticket out of the gravity well.

But now, if the criminal underworld and the guerilla underground can join forces, there is a chance to shift the balance of power— in a war fought on the ground by hardwired commandos, in the air by high-flying deltajocks, and by genius hackers in the neural interface.

As Roger Zelazny said, “Hardwired” is a tough, sleek juggernaut of a story, punctuated by strobe light movements, coursing to the wail of jets and the twang of steel guitars— glittering, nasty, and noble— and told in a style perfectly suiting its content. It has all of my favorite things— blood, love, fire, hate and a high ideal or two. I wish I’d written this one.”

Ebook en oferta : A head full of ghosts

Se encuentra en oferta al atractivo precio de 1,72 euros el flamante ganador de los premios Bram Stoker, A head full of ghosts.

Aquí tenéis la sinopsis:

A chilling thriller that brilliantly blends domestic drama, psychological suspense, and a touch of modern horror, reminiscent of Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In, and Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House.

The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia.

To her parents’ despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie’s descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts’ plight. With John, Marjorie’s father, out of work for more than a year and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to be filmed, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show and the shocking incidents it captures become the stuff of urban legend.

Fifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie’s younger sister, Merry. As she recalls those long ago events that took place when she was just eight years old, long-buried secrets and painful memories that clash with what was broadcast on television begin to surface—and a mind-bending tale of psychological horror is unleashed, raising vexing questions about memory and reality, science and religion, and the very nature of evil.

Galaxy’s Edge en oferta

Solo durante el día de hoy se podrá adquirir el omnibus 1 de Galaxy’s Edge, editado por Mike Resnick, por solo 0,99.

Aquí tenéis los contenidos por si queréis comprobar si os interesa la oferta.

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Issue 1 

THE EDITOR’S WORD by Mike Resnick 
THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS by Robert J. Sawyer 
SCHRÖDINGER’S CATHOUSE by Kij Johnson 
CREATOR OF THE COSMOS JOB INTERVIEW TODAY by Nick DiChario 
FROM THE HEART’S BASEMENT (column) by Barry Malzberg 
JUST A SECOND by Lou J. Berger 
ACT OF GOD by Jack McDevitt 
REQUIEM FOR A DRUID by Alex Shvartsman 
THE BRIGHT SEAS OF VENUS by Stephen Leigh 
THE SPINACH CAN’S SON by Robert T. Jeschonek 
THINK LIKE A DINOSAUR by James Patrick Kelly 
BOOK REVIEWS by Paul Cook 
DARK UNIVERSE (Serialization) by Daniel F. Galouye 
SOMETHING DIFFERENT (column) by Horace E. Cocroft 

Issue 2 

THE EDITOR’S WORD by Mike Resnick 
ALIENS ATE MY PICKUP by Mercedes Lackey 
EFFECT AND CAUSE by Ken Liu 
WHEN WE WENT TO SEE THE END OF THE WORLD by Robert Silverberg 
THE HEART’S BASEMENT (column) by Barry Malzberg 
TODAY I AM NOBODY by Tina Gower 
HAPPILY EVER AFTER by C. L. Moore 
THE FLAMINGO GIRL by Brad R. Torgersen 
REX by David Gerrold 
GHOST IN THE MACHINE by Ralph Roberts 
ECHEA by Kristine Kathryn Rusch 
SPARKLER by Gio Clairval 
CHILD OF THE GODS by Bruce McAllister 
THE FEYNMAN SALTATION by Charles Sheffi eld 
BOOK REVIEWS by Paul Cook 
THE REAL FUTURE OF SPACE by (column) Gregory Benford 
PHOENIX PICK PRESENTS 
SERIALIZATION: DARK UNIVERSE by Daniel F. Galouye 

Issue 3 

THE EDITOR’S WORD by Mike Resnick 
THE ISLANDS OF HOPE by Heidi Ruby Miller 
A SOLDIER’S COMPLAINT by Eric Flint 
THE HELD DAUGHTER by Laurie Tom 
A GALAXY CALLED ROME by Barry N. Malzberg 
A BRIEF HISTORY OF A WORLD IN THE TIME BEFORE THIS TIME by Muxing Zhao 
WITH FOLDED HANDS by Jack Williamson 
JUST ANOTHER NIGHT AT THE QUARTERLY MEETING OF TERRIFYING GIANT MONSTERS by Brennan Harvey 
TWO FANTASIES by C. L. Moore 
THE TEAMMATES by Ron Collins 
BURIED HOPES by Michael Flynn 
A FROZEN FUTURE (column) by Gregory Benford 
FROM THE HEART’S BASEMENT (column) by Barry N. Malzberg 
PHOENIX PICK PRESENTS 
BOOK REVIEWS by Paul Cook 
SERIALIZATION: DARK UNIVERSE by Daniel F. Galouye 

 

Ebook en oferta : The apex book of world sf 1

Durante todo el mes estará disponible por menos de 1 euro The Apex Book of World SF, con los siguientes contenidos:

S.P. Somtow(Thailand) — “The Bird Catcher”

Jetse de Vries(Netherlands) — “Transcendence Express”

Guy Hasson (Israel) — “The Levantine Experiments”

Han Song (China) — “The Wheel of Samsara”

Kaaron Warren (Australia/Fiji) — “Ghost Jail”

Yang Ping (China) — “Wizard World”

Dean Francis Alfar (Philippines) — “L’Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars)”

Nir Yaniv (Israel) — “Cinderers”

Jamil Nasir (Palestine) — “The Allah Stairs”

Tunku Halim (Malaysia) — “Biggest Baddest Bomoh”

Aliette de Bodard (France) — “The Lost Xuyan Bride”

Kristin Mandigma (Philippines) — “Excerpt from a Letter by a Social-realist Aswang”

Aleksandar Žiljak (Croatia) — “An Evening In The City Coffehouse, With Lydia on My Mind”

Anil Menon (India) — “Into the Night”

Mélanie Fazi (France, translated by Christopher Priest) — “Elegy”

Libro gratis : The Churchill Memorandum

Se puede descargar de forma gratuita el libro de historia alternativa The Churchill Memorandum. de Sean Gabb.

Aquí os traigo la sinopsis:

Imagine: Hitler dies in a car crash in March 1939. No World War II. No US-Soviet duopoly of the world. No slide into the gutter for England.

It’s now 1959. America’s a fascist horrorville, run by madmen with a fleet of black helicopters. Germany is prospering under corrupt and geriatric Fuhrer Goering. Soviet Russia is…well, Soviet Russia.

The big winner is Britain – free, rich, almost, though not quite, as great an imperial power as in the good old days of Queen Victoria.

Enter Anthony Markham – half-Indian, closet gay. He’s also a hyper-patriot who worships England. He has a biography to write of a dead and largely forgotten Winston Churchill, and is coming back from America, where the old drunk left his papers. Little does he realise, as he returns to his safe, orderly England, that he carries, somewhere in his luggage, an object that can be used to destroy England and the whole structure of bourgeois civilisation as it has been gradually restored since 1918.

Who is trying to kill Anthony Markham? For whom is Major Stanhope really working? Where did Dr Pakeshi get his bag of money? Is there a connection between Michael Foot, Leader of the British Communist Party, and Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan? Why is Ayn Rand in an American prison, and Nathaniel Branden living in a South London bedsit? Why is Alan Greenspan dragged off and shot in the first chapter? Where does Enoch Powell fit into the story?

Above all, what is The Churchill Memorandum? What terrible secrets does it contain?

All will be revealed—but not till after Markham has gone on the run through an England unbombed, uncentralised, still free, and still mysterious.

How might England and the world have turned out but for that catastrophic declaration of war in defence of Poland? Read on and wonder…

Libro gratis : The long tomorrow

LongtomorrowEn la modalidad de paga lo que quieras, incluso nada, este mes podemos conseguir The long tomorrow, de Leigh Brackett.

Esta es su sinopsis:

One of the original novels of post-nuclear-holocaust America, The Long Tomorrow is considered by many to be one of the finest science fiction novels ever written on the subject. The story has inspired generations of new writers and is still as mesmerizing today as when it was originally written.

Len and Esau are young cousins living decades after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization as we know it. The rulers of the post-war community have forbidden the existence of large towns and consider technology evil.

However, Len and Esau long for more than their simple agrarian existence. Rumors of mythical Bartorstown, perhaps the last city in existence, encourage the boys to embark on a journey of discovery and adventure that will call into question not only firmly held beliefs, but the boys’ own personal convictions.