La nueva novela de Kazuo Ishiguro, aclamado autor de Never let me go, se titulará The buried giant.
Aquí tenéis la portada y en este enlace, el trailer del libro.
Portadas de los relanzamientos de Tobias S. Buckell
En un interesante post sobre los el relanzamiento de su tetralogía Xenowealth, aparte de hablar sobre el intrincado mundo de los derechos de autor en distintos países (destaco una frase de una editorial, “house policy is only to buy SF if we can get world rights to the struggling sales here. Other than that, it’s Fantasy only.”) podemos echar un vistazo a las portadas de las ediciones electrónicas de sus libros.
Aquí las tenéis:
¿Habéis leído estos libros? A mi me llaman mucho la atención.
Portada y sinopsis de Get in trouble
Aquí os traemos la portada y la sinopsis del nuevo libro de Kelly Link, una escritora surrealista que tiene fans y detractores acérrimos.
She has been hailed by Michael Chabon as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction”; by Neil Gaiman as “a national treasure”; and by Karen Russell as “Franz Kafka with a better understanding of ladies’ footwear and bad first dates.” Now Kelly Link’s eagerly awaited new collection—her first for adult readers in a decade—proves indelibly that this bewitchingly original writer is among the finest we have.
Link has won an ardent following for her ability, with each new short story, to take readers deeply into an unforgettable, brilliantly constructed fictional universe. The nine exquisite examples in this collection show her in full command of her formidable powers. In “The Summer People,” a young girl in rural North Carolina serves as uneasy caretaker to the mysterious, never-quite-glimpsed visitors who inhabit the cottage behind her house. In “I Can See Right Through You,” a middle-aged movie star takes a disturbing trip to the Florida swamp where his former on- and off-screen love interest is shooting a ghost-hunting reality show. In “The New Boyfriend,” a suburban slumber party takes an unusual turn, and a teenage friendship is tested, when the spoiled birthday girl opens her big present: a life-size animated doll.
Hurricanes, astronauts, evil twins, bootleggers, Ouija boards, iguanas, The Wizard of Oz, superheroes, the Pyramids . . . These are just some of the talismans of an imagination as capacious and as full of wonder as that of any writer today. But as fantastical as these stories can be, they are always grounded by sly humor and an innate generosity of feeling for the frailty—and the hidden strengths—of human beings. In Get in Trouble, this one-of-a-kind talent expands the boundaries of what short fiction can do.
Portada en desarrollo de The wolf in the attic
Gracias a The Wertzone podemos echar un vistazo al desarrollo de la portada del nuevo libro de Paul Kearney, The wolf in the attic.
Resulta interesante asistir al proceso de creación de una portada. De momento podemos ver la idea central de la imagen e incluso la tipología seleccionada.
También tenemos una sinopsis, que aunque no es la definitiva, os pongo aquí:
The novel is set in very early 1930′s Oxford, features Tolkien and Lewis as characters, and is told from the point of view of a lonely 11 year old girl. She’s Greek, a refugee from the sack of Smyrna, and one day discovers a Romany boy in her attic. The boy is a shape-shifter, and becomes her friend. The two begin to explore the world around Oxford, discovering things they never imagined existed. The girl, Anna, is obsessed by the Odyssey, and likens the Romany boy, Luca, to Odysseus.
Portada de Signal to noise
Ya conocemos la portada de Signal to noise la primera novela de Silvia Moreno-García, que se publicará en febrero del año que viene.
El aire ochentero no se lo quita nadie, eso es innegable.
Aquí tenéis la sinopsis:
Mexico City, 1988: Long before iTunes or MP3s, you said “I love you” with a mixtape.
Meche, awkward and fifteen, has two equally unhip friends – Sebastian and Daniela – and a whole lot of vinyl records to keep her company. When she discovers how to cast spells using music, the future looks brighter for the trio. The three friends will piece together their broken families, change their status as non-entities, and maybe even find love…
Mexico City, 2009: Two decades after abandoning the metropolis, Meche returns alone for her estranged father’s funeral.
It’s hard enough to cope with her family, but then she runs into Sebastian, reviving memories from a childhood she thought she buried a long time ago. What really happened back then? What precipitated the bitter falling out with her father? Is there any magic left?
Autores en la MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2014
Ya sabemos algo más de la MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2014 que ha sido seleccionada por Bruce Sterling, y que no podría tener mejor pinta.
Aquí os pongo la portada.
La nómina de autores es muy llamativa, con William Gibson, Cory Doctorow, Warren Ellis, Lauren Beukes, Joel Garreau, Chistopher Brown, Paul Graham Raven y Pat Cadigan.
También incluye una entrevista con Gene Wolfe que podéis leer aquí.
Ganadores premios Chesley 2014
Ya se conocen los ganadores a los premios Chesley, dedicados al arte de ciencia ficción y fantasía, otorgados por la ASFA. Son los siguientes:
Mejor portada tapa dura
Todd Lockwood – A Natural History of Dragons de Marie Brennan
Mejor portada rústica
Kerem Beyit – The Scroll of Years de Chris Willrich
Mejor portada magazine
Dan Dos Santos – Fables #136 Vertigo, Diciembre. 2013
Mejor ilustración interior
Brian Kesinger – “Walking Your Octopus”, Julio 2013
Mejor muestra en 3D
Devon Dorrity – Cecaelia, Queen of the Ocean, arcilla
Mejor trabajo de color no publicado
Donato Giancola – Huor and Hurin Approaching Gondolin, óleo sobre lienzo
Mejor trabajo monocromo no publicado
Ruth Sanderson – The Descent or Persephone, scratchboard
Mejor ilustración de producto
Julie Bell & Boris Vallejo – Jeannie’s Kitten, IlluXCon 6 arte promocional
Mejor ilustración relacionada con juego
Lucas Graciano – The Last Stand of Thorin Oakenshield para The Battle of Five Armies Board Game Ares Games
Mejor director artístico
Irene Gallo – Tor & Tor.com
Premio a la trayectoria vital
Jim Burns
¡Enhorabuena a los ganadores!
Portada y sinopsis de The Machine Awakes
Ya podemos ver la portada del nuevo lanzamiento de Adam Christopher, The machine awakes, continuación de su Burning Dark. También os traigo la sinopsis.
As humanity fights a destructive mechanical race, a government agent finds a conspiracy far closer to home in this far future space opera set in the Spider War universe of Burning Dark
In the decades since the human race first made contact with the Spiders—a machine race capable of tearing planets apart—the two groups have fought over interstellar territory. But the war has not been going well for humankind, and with the failure of the Fleet Admiral’s secret plan in the Shadow system, the commander is overthrown by a group of hardliners determined to get the war back on track.
When the deposed Fleet Admiral is assassinated, Special Agent Von Kodiak suspects the new guard is eliminating the old. But when the Admiral’s replacement is likewise murdered, all bets are off as Kodiak discovers the prime suspect is one of the Fleet’s own, a psi-marine and decorated hero—a hero killed in action, months ago, at the same time his twin sister vanished from the Fleet Academy, where she was training to join her brother on the front.
As Kodiak investigates, he uncovers a conspiracy that stretches from the slums of Salt City to the floating gas mines of Jupiter. There, deep in the roiling clouds of the planet, the Jovian Mining Corporation is hiding something, a secret that will tear the Fleet apart and that the Morning Star, a group of militarized pilgrims linked to terrorist atrocities across the whole of Fleetspace, is determined to uncover.
But there is something else hiding in Jovian system. Something insidious and intelligent, machine-like and hungry.
The Spiders are near.
Portada de Legion : Skin Deep
Si te gustó Legion tanto como a mí, te alegrará saber que ya está decidida la que será portada de Legion : Skin Deep la esperada continuación de la obra de Brandon Sanderson.
¿Qué os parece? Para mí es muy acertada, sigue la línea de la primera entrega y explica en un solo vistazo las extraordinarias caracterísitcas del protagonista. Ojala pudiéramos decirle algo a Brandon aprovechando que está por España.
Desvelada la portada de The abyss beyond dreams
Ya sabemos cómo será la portada de la edición inglesa de The abyss beyond dreams de Peter F. Hamilton.
Hay que reconocer que es un muy impactante, aunque a mí los brillos del título y del nombre del autor no me gusten mucho. ¿Qué os parece a vosotros?