Lecturas de ciencia ficción y fantasía
Desde Gollancz nos dejan ver la que será portada del omnibús Wolfhound Empire, que incluirá la trilogía completa de Peter Higgins ( Wolfhound Century, Truth and Fear y Radiant State).
Me alegra muchísimo la publicación de este compendio, por la calidad de sus libros (aunque me falta por leer el último) y por la extrema amabilidad de Peter, que se comportó estupendamente con nosotros en Loncon. Y si ya de paso baja el precio del ebook de Radiant State, ni te cuento.
A principios de 2017 Subterranean Press publicará Miniatures: The very short fiction of John Scalzi, una recopilación de la mejor ficción corta (muy corta) de John Scalzi.
Aquí os dejo la nota de prensa:
The ex-planet Pluto has a few choice words about being thrown out of the solar system. A listing of alternate histories tells you all the various ways Hitler has died. A lawyer sues an interplanetary union for dangerous working conditions. And four artificial intelligences explain, in increasingly worrying detail, how they plan not to destroy humanity.
Welcome to Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi.
These four stories, along with fourteen other pieces, have one thing in common: They’re short, sharp, and to the point—science fiction in miniature, with none of the stories longer than 2,300 words. But in that short space exist entire universes, absurd situations, and the sort of futuristic humor that propelled Scalzi to a Hugo with his novel Redshirts. Not to mention yogurt taking over the world (as it would).
Spanning the years from 1991 to 2016, this collection is a quarter century of Scalzi at his briefest and best, and features four never-before-printed stories, exclusive to this collection: “Morning Announcements at the Lucas Interspecies School for Troubled Youth,” “Your Smart Appliances Talk About You Behind Your Back,” “Important Holidays on Gronghu” and “The AI Are Absolutely Positively Without a Doubt Not Here to End Humanity, Honest.”
Hace poco Armando se hacía eco del décimo aniversario de la publicación de una grandísima obra fantástica, Las mentiras de Locke Lamora. Pero es que este año hay varias obras más que alcanzan esta estupenda cifra, y los chicos de Gollancz han decidido celebrarlo con ediciones nuevas. Aquí tenéis las portadas de unos libros que han cambiado la faz de la fantasía en este siglo (menos The storm caller, que reconozco no haber leido).
Aquí os traigo la portada de la nueva novela adulta de Cory Doctorow, Walkaway.
La sinopsis:
Hubert, Seth, and their ultra-rich heiress friend Natalie are getting a little old to hang out at the “Communist parties,” techno-raveups in abandoned industrial spaces, full of insta-printed drugs and toys. And Natalie was finished, years ago, with her overcontrolling zillionaire dad.
And now that anyone can manufacture food, clothing, shelter with equipment comparable to a computer printer, there seems to be little reason to to stick with the world of rules and jobs. So, like hundreds of thousands of others in the mid-21st century, the three of them…walk away.
Mind you, it’s still dangerous out there. Much of the countryside is wrecked by climate change, and predators are with us always. Yet when the initial pioneer walkaways flourish, more people join them. Then the walkaways discover the one thing the ultra-rich have never been able to buy: how to beat death.
Now it’s war—a war that will turn the world upside down.
Fascinating, moving, and darkly humorous, Walkaway is a multi-generation SF thriller about the wrenching changes of the next hundred years…and the very human people who will live their consequences.
Ron Howard y Brian Grazer están trabajando en la adaptación de Seveneves, la colosal obra de Neal Stephenson.
Hasta ahora ninguna obra del autor se había conseguido adaptar, quizá debido a la longitud de sus novelas. Lo cual no parece ser un impedimento en este caso, ya que Seveneves no es precisamente una obra ligera o corta. ¿Aprovecharán el rebufo de El Marciano, Gravity o Interestellar?
En este enlace están disponibles, ordenadas cronológicamente, las películas de Tarkovsky, el director soviético famoso por films como Solaris y Stalker.
En la modalidad de paga lo que quieras, incluso nada, este mes podemos conseguir Beyond the door of death, de Robert Silverberg y Damien Broderick.
Esta es su sinopsis:
“Born With the Dead” (the novella) was nominated for every major science fiction award when it was originally published in 1974, winning the Nebula and Locus awards.
The story describes a future in which the dead can be “re-kindled” back to a new form of life. While they remember their pasts thought, their personalities are subtly shifted and the ordinary concerns and feelings of their original life no longer concern them.
The author now revisits the classic story with Australian author Damien Broderick. Broderick uses Robert Silverberg’s original novella as a starting point for a brilliant leap into the far future, widening the scope and tenor of the original story by revisiting some of its subtler implications.
Gollancz ha desvelado las que serán portadas de la edición inglesa de la trilogía de las espadas de Ellen Kushner, publicada en España por Bibliópolis. Son una lectura muy entretenida.
Me despierto hoy con la sorpresa de que Tor está ofreciendo gratis la versión electrónica de The Stormlight Archive Pocket Companion, con muchísima información sobre la última saga de Brandon Sanderson : detalles, perfiles de personajes, mapas, ilustraciones, respuestas a preguntas… Vamos, el paraíso para los estudiosos de Sanderson.
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Acabamos de saber que Jeff Noon ha firmado un acuerdo con Angry Robot para publicar dos libros, el primero de los cuales tiene prevista su salida en agosto de 2017 bajo el título A Man of Shadows.
Aquí tenéis la sinopsis:
Below the neon skies of Dayzone – a city where the lights never go out, and night has been banished – lowly private eye John Nyquist takes on a teenage runaway case. His quest to track down Eleanor Bale takes him from Dayzone, to the permanently blacked-out alleyways of Nocturna. As the vicious, seemingly invisible serial killer known only as Quicksilver haunts the streets, Nyquist starts to suspect that the runaway girl holds within her the key to the city’s fate. In the end, there’s only one place left to search: the strange, mysterious realm known as Dusk, a place of ghosts, mists and living shadows.