Lecturas de ciencia ficción y fantasía
Se ha anunciado el ganador del premio Crawford, al mejor primer trabajo de ficción fantástica. El afortunado ha sido Kai Ashante Wilson por The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps.
Los finalistas del premio fueron:
Natasha Pulley, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (Bloomsbury)
Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings (Saga Press)
Indra Das, The Devourers (Penguin India;
Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Tor);
Adrienne Celt, The Daughters (Liveright)
¡Enhorabuena al ganador!
Zachary Jernigan ha confirmado la publicación como omnibus de sus dos novelas hasta ahora, No return y Shower of stones.
El libro se llamará Jeroun : The complete omnibus, y el autor lo considera como una segunda oportunidad para sus novelas, que quizá pasaron desapercibidas en un primer lanzamiento.
Aquí tenéis la portada y la sinopsis:
Collected in a single omnibus edition, both novels set in Zachary Jernigan’s critically-acclaimed, genre-bending world of fierce sensuality, dangerous alchemy, and awakening gods.
The Needle extends over the heads of all who live upon Jeroun. Composed of iron spheres massive enough to affect the tides, it is the god Adrash’s ultimatum to the people on the planet below:
Prove yourselves worthy, or be destroyed.
Vedas is a member of the Black Suits, an order of men and women who show their opposition to Adrash by staging battles in the streets. After witnessing the death of a child in his care, knowing himself to be responsible, he sets off on a journey to the decennial fighting tournament in Danoor.
Traveling with him across the continent are Churls, a mercenary haunted by the ghost of her daughter, and Berun, a constructed man possessed by the soul of his creator. Both come to understand that Vedas’s victory would start an all-out religious war.
Unbeknownst to these three travelers, the aristocratic outbound mage Ebn and her protégé Pol use powerful alchemy to travel into space. Their plan: engage Adrash in ways that threaten to bring the god’s wrath down upon the world.
Meanwhile, one of the world’s deepest secrets is gradually revealed. A madman, insisting he is the link to an ancient world, a pantheon of forgotten gods, offers the most tempting lie of all…
Hope.
Jeroun collects the two novels No Return and Shower of Stones in a single new omnibus edition. Together these works combine the mythic inventiveness of early Roger Zelazny and Samuel R. Delany, the dark weirdness of China Miéville, and the dramatic scope of George R. R. Martin, creating a literary science fiction epic that defies easy categorization, resulting in one of the most critically acclaimed narratives of recent years.
El kindleFlash de hoy es El héroe de las Eras, al atractivo precio de 1,70 euros.
Se han dado a conocer los nominados a los premios BSFA, son los siguientes:
Mejor novela
Dave Hutchinson, Europe at Midnight
Chris Beckett, Mother of Eden
Aliette de Bodard, The House of Shattered Wings
Ian McDonald, Luna: New Moon
Justina Robson, Glorious Angels
Mejor relato
Aliette de Bodard, “Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight”
Paul Cornell, “The Witches of Lychford”
Jeff Noon, “No Rez”
Nnedi Okorafor, “Binti”
Gareth L. Powell, “Ride the Blue Horse”
Mejor no-ficción
Nina Allan, “Time Pieces: Doctor Change or Doctor Die”
Alisa Krasnostein y Alexandra Pierce, Letters to Tiptree
Jonathan McCalmont, “What Price Your Critical Agency”
Adam Roberts, Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014
Jeff VanderMeer, “From Annihilation to Acceptance: A Writer’s Surreal Journey”
Mejor arte
Jim Burns, Portada de Pelquin’s Comet, Newcon Press
Vincent Sammy, “Songbird”, Interzone 257
Wayne Haag, “Bus Stop”, Interzone 253
Sarah Anne Langton, Portada de Jews Versus Zombies, Jurassic London
¡Enhorabuena a los nominados!
Syfy sigue confiando en la que ha sido su serie estrella esta temporada, The Expanse. Según hemos podido saber, el canal de ciencia ficción ha renovado la serie para otra temporada, encargando 13 episodios que se emitirán a principios del año que viene.
Según el presidente del canal:
“The Expanse is firing on all cylinders creatively, building a passionate fan base among viewers and critics alike, and delivering on Syfy’s promise of smart, provocative science fiction entertainment,”
Mike Allen ha publicado los que serán los contenidos de Clockwork Phoenix 5. Serán los siguientes:
“The Wind at His Back” de Jason Kimble
“The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me” de Rachael K. Jones
“The Perfect Happy Family” de Patricia Russo
“The Mirror-City” de Marie Brennan
“The Finch’s Wedding and the Hive That Sings” de Benjanun Sriduangkaew
“Squeeze” de Rob Cameron
“A Guide to Birds de Song (After Death)” de A.C. Wise
“The Sorcerer of Etah” de Gray Rinehart
“The Prime Importance of a Happy Number” de Sam Fleming
“Social Visiting” de Sunil Patel
“The Book of May” de C.S.E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez
“The Tiger’s Silent Roar” de Holly Heisey
“Sabbath Wine” de Barbara Krasnoff
“The Trinitite Golem” de Sonya Taaffe
“Two Bright Venuses” de Alex Dally MacFarlane
“de Thread of Night and Starlight Needle” de Shveta Thakrar
“The Games We Play” de Cassandra Khaw
“The Road, and the Valley, and the Beasts” de Keffy R.M. Kehrli
“Innumerable Glimmering Lights” de Rich Larson
“The Souls of Horses” de Beth Cato
Aquí tenéis la portada también:
Fiel a su cita de febrero, aquí tenéis la lista Locus de lecturas recomendadas del año pasado.
En io9 se hacen eco de una noticia muy interesante. Netflix adaptará la novela Altered Carbon de Richard Morgan.
La cadena norteamericana ha comprado los derechos para crear una serie de 10 capítulos basada en esta novela cyberpunk, publicada en España como Carbono Alterado.
La escritora y productora Laeta Kalodrigis afirmó:
“Altered Carbon is one of the most seminal pieces of post-cyberpunk hard science fiction out there. A dark, complex noir story that challenges our ideas of what it means to be human when all information becomes encodable, including the human mind.”
De la existosa serie Powers ya conocíamos su adaptación a la televisión, pero ahora su guionista Brian Michael Bendis, en colaboración con Neil Kleid ha escrito un libro sobre los orígenes de Deena, la protagonista femenina.
Aquí os dejo la nota de prensa:
Ever since she could walk, Homicide Detective Deena Pilgrim followed in her father’s footsteps. A man with a badge, Waldo Pilgrim surrounded himself with what Deena believed to be the cream of the crop when it came to serving and protecting. These days, Deena won’t discuss her father or the life she left behind in Atlanta years ago, a life before she partnered with Christian Walker to investigate homicide cases in a city where perps and victims boast incredible, dangerous powers. Now, nearly a decade of bringing Powers to justice has broken down Deena’s resolve, along with the walls she erected long ago to protect herself from prying eyes. Walls that kept her from a past best left alone, and from those determined to get close and bring horrible, heartbreaking memories to the surface once more.
But when a cold case reopens a series of unsolved murders that point back to Deena’s family tree, she is unavoidably reacquainted with a former boyfriend with ties to both sets of killings, along with her sordid past. Forced to question the choices, decisions, and steps she’s taken in life, love, and career—including her long-standing partnership with Walker, a former Power whose secret history intersects with Deena’s own—Detective Deena Pilgrim must bring a killer to justice and, in doing so, hopefully come to terms with the kind of cop she wants to be . . . assuming that she wants to continue being a cop at all.
Written by Powers cocreator Brian Michael Bendis and novelist Neil Kleid, The Secret History of Deena Pilgrim is the first-ever prose story set in the world of the award-winning, critically acclaimed comic book series by Bendis and artist Michael Avon Oeming. Powers tells the stories of human police officers attempting to solve crimes in a world inhabited by superheroes and supervillains. In January 2015, the Playstation Network debuted it as its first-ever hour-long scripted programming, featuring characters and plots from the comic book series.
Aunque parece que la gente de Syfy se está volcando mayoritariamente en The Expanse no hay que olvidar que también tienen otro proyecto en vuelo muy relacionado con la fantasía.
Aunque haya que hacer algo de trampa, en este enlace está disponible el primer episodio de la serie The magicians.
