Finalistas premio de los lectores de la revista Asimov

Aquí os traigo el listado de los finalistas del premio Asimov’s Readers, con sus jugosos enlaces para poder leer lo nominado y juzgarlo por nosotros mismos.

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Finalistas premio de los lectores de Analog 2018

Hoy toca ración doble de lectura. Aquí os traigo los finalistas del premio de los lectores de la revista Analog, con sus correspondientes enlaces.

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Libro gratis: Ghosts of the Tristan Basin

Hoy es el cumpleaños de Brian McClellan y para celebrarlo, nos regala su novella Ghosts of Tristan Basin.

Es una historia aislada y transcurre un año antes de la primera entrega de su universo Powder Mage, la estupenda Promise of Blood. Si todavía no has empezado a leer a Brian, esta es una buena oportunidad para conocer la fantasía que es capaz de escribir.

Estoy segura de que si le dais una oportunidad no os arrepentiréis.

Libro gratis: Children of the Nameless

Ya sabíamos que Brandon Sanderson es un asiduo jugador de Magic y que tenía un proyecto secreto a lo largo del año. Lo que no sabíamos hasta ayer es que ambos indicios estaban unidos, con la publicación de Children of the Nameless, una novella en el universo de Magic: The Gathering.

Además, está disponible para su descarga gratuita en este enlace.

La sinopsis es:

Since the day she was born, Tacenda has been both blessed and cursed. When her protective spell fails in the night and her Kessig village is attacked, she seeks revenge against whom she believes responsible: the demon-consorting Lord of the Manor.

Mi traducción:

Desde el día que nació, Tacenda ha sido bendecida y maldita a la vez. Cuando su hechizo protecto falla en la noche y su pueblo Kessig es atacado, buscará venganza contra quien cree responsable, Lord of the Manor.

Mis experiencias anteriores con franquicias escritas por Sanderson no son muy halagüeñas,pero al menos esta vez el libro es gratis.

Libro gratis: New Under the Sun.

El Phoenix Book of the Month de octubre es New Under the Sun de Nancy Kress. Ya sabéis que se puede pegar el precio que se desee, incluso 0 euros.

Os pongo la sinopsis:

A brand-new book by master storyteller Nancy Kress. Set in the near future, Nancy Kress’ story gives us a world increasingly hostile to new ideas as religious fundamentalism dictates social agenda and where the primary use of science is to bolster these very same uncompromising attitudes. Annabel Lee is a child of this society, but unique. She has been infected by a long-dormant alien parasite. But this ìinfection may be the only hope for the world, if she can survive long enough.

Mi traducción:

Un nuevo libro de la gran relatista Nancy Kress. Situado en un futuro cercan, la historia de Nancy Kress nos da un mundo cada vez más hostil a nuevas ideas conforme los fundamentalistas religiosos dictan la agenda social y en el que el principal uso de la ciencia es respaldar estas mismas actitudes. Annabel Lee es una hija de esta sociedad, pero es únia. Ha sido infectada por un parásito alienígena. Pero esta infección puede ser la única esperanza de la humanidad, si puede sobrevivir lo suficiente.

La portada:

 

Libro gratis: Mother Grimm

El libro Phoenix Pick de este mes es Mother Grimm de Catherine Wells. La modalidad de pago para este libro es pagar lo que estimes oportuno. Os traigo la portada y la sinopsis:

Twila Grimm has lived her whole life inside the sterile limits of the Biodome, an isolated domed oasis in the middle of a ravaged Earth.

The outside is a world of mystery and disease: where those infected by the deadly CM virus are sent to die. This is a land of disease and death; of warring tribes and half-crazed factions that live on the edge of sanity.

But the outside is also where Twila Grimm’s destiny lies. For she is much more than what she appears and the secrets about her own origins may prove to be the world’s salvation or its ultimate destruction.

Mi traducción:

Twila Grimm ha vivido toda su vida dentro de los límites estériles del Biodomo, un domo asilado en mitad de una Tierra devastada.

El mundo del exterior está envuelto en el misterio y la enfermedad. Los infectados con el virus CM son exiliados para morir. Esta es una tierra de enfermedad y muerte, de tribus guerreras y locas facciones que viven en el borde de la locura.

Pero el destino de Twila Grimm también está en el exterior. Ella es más de lo que aparenta y los secretos sobre sus propios orígenes podría ser la salvación del mundo o su destrucción final.

Libro gratis: Rocket Fuel

Para celebrar su décimo aniversario, la gente de Tor.com ha creado un libro con los artículos más interesantes publicados en su blog y lo ha dejado disponible para su descarga gratuita. El título del libro es Rocket Fuel, con la portada que anexo y los contenidos que podéis ver a continuación:

Prefacio – Bridget McGovernUnder the Covers with a Flashlight: Our Lives as Readers – Emily Asher-Perrin
Sometimes, Horror is the Only Fiction That Understands You – Leah Schnelbach
The Bodies of the Girls Who Made Me: Fanfic and the Modern World – Seanan McGuire
Writing Women Characters as Human Beings – Kate Elliott
Meet My Alien Family: Writing Across Cultures in Science Fiction – Becky Chambers
So How Does a Centaur Eat, Anyway? – Judith Tarr
Fantasy, Reading, and Escapism – Jo Walton
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (and Why You Should Read It) – Leigh Butler
Robert Jordan: The American Tolkien – Michael Livingston
The Trial of Galadriel – Jeff LaSala
Good Idols: Terry Pratchett & the Appropriate Hug – Lish McBride
Orwell and the Librarian, a Love Story – Alex Brown
Beloved: The Best Horror Novel the Horror Genre Has Never Claimed – Grady Hendrix
The Peril of Being Disbelieved: Horror and the Intuition of Women – Emily Asher-Perrin
What Rape Apologists Need to Learn From Jessica Jones – Natalie Zutter
In Defense of Villainesses – Sarah Gailey
Queering SFF: Writing Queer—Languages of Power – Brit Mandelo
Sleeps With Monsters: There’s A Counter In My Head – Liz Bourke
Apologize to No One: V for Vendetta is More Important Today Than it Ever Was – Emily Asher-Perrin
Five Books about Loving Everybody – Nisi Shawl
Safe as Life: A Four-Part Essay on Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle – Brit Mandelo
The Complete American Gods Mix Tape – Bridget McGovern
Rewatching Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: “Far Beyond the Stars” – Keith R.A. DeCandido
The POC Guide to Writing Dialect In Fiction – Kai Ashante Wilson
Homecoming: How Afrofuturism Bridges the Past and the Present – Tochi Onyebuchi
Nobody Gets Mad About Hamlet Remakes: Why Superheroes Are the New Cultural Mythology – Ryan Britt
Sowing History: A Gardener’s Tale – Ursula Vernon
Not Saving the World? How Does That Even Work? – Jo Walton
Ursula Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” Defies Genre – Gabrielle Bellot
Soon I Won’t Know What the Future Looks Like – Chris Lough
Bouncy Prose and Distant Threats: An Appreciation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s (or Sorcerer’s) Stone – Mari Ness
Joy, Sorrow, Regret, and Reassurance: The Singular Beauty of The Last Unicorn – Bridget McGovern
One Day You Wake Up and You Are Grown: Fairyland and the Secrets of Growing Up – Molly Templeton
Preparing Myself for Death with Joe Versus the Volcano – Leah Schnelbach

Libro gratis : Tomorrow and Tomorrow

La oferta de este mes de Phoenix Book es Tomorrow and Tomorrow de Charles Sheffield que se puede descargar en la modalidad paga-lo-que-quieras.

Aquí la sinopsis:

A LOVE STORY TO THE EDGE OF TIME

“Ambitious, elegiac, and ultimately satisfying.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Truly a love story of the ages.”The Orlando Sentinel

“Will keep you on the edge of your seat.”David Brin

Ana is the love of Drake Merlin’s life. The woman he wants to grow old with, share every experience. But there is a hitch that is preventing them from obtaining their happily ever after….

Ana might be perfect for him, but she is dying.

Diagnosed with a rare disease, there is no cure for what ails her. At least, not in the 21st century. The only thing Drake can do—the one gamble that might, eventually, bring her back—is have Ana frozen and join her in cryogenic sleep until, one day, technology will have advanced enough be able to cure her.

Eons pass, and Drake is revived again and again, to see if humanity has evolved enough to be able to provide a solution. They try everything to help him bring her back or to encourage him to move on from his frozen soulmate—even creating a clone of his beloved. But it is not his Ana, his love. Nothing but her full revival will satisfy his obsession.

Millions of years pass before Drake learns that there is finally some hope for her restoration. At the Omega Point, the universe is collapsing, merging past and present; connecting the knowhow of now to the Ana of so long ago….

But first he must help the rest of humanity. Drake is revived one more time to fight an alien race who is hell bent on destroying the Solar System. For only a throwback from a past, where dissidence, material greed and violence were a part of human existence, will have enough fighting spirit to save a race that’s now too enlightened to understand war.

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