Lecturas de ciencia ficción y fantasía
No sé durante cuánto tiempo, pero ahora mismo está disponible a 0,99 euros Sins of Empire, la primera entrega de la trilogía Gods of Blood and Powder de Brian McClellan.
Es una ocasión estupenda para adentrarse en la obra de este autor de flintlock fantasy, que recomiendo encarecidamente.
La oferta de este mes de Phoenix Book son las dos primeras entregas de la revista Galaxy’s Edge, que se pueden descargar en la modalidad paga-lo-que-quieras.
Estos son los contenidos:
Tabla de contenidos número 1
THE EDITOR’S WORD de Mike Resnick
THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS de Robert J. Sawyer
SCHRÖDINGER’S CATHOUSE de Kij Johnson
CREATOR OF THE COSMOS JOB INTERVIEW TODAY de Nick DiChario
FROM THE HEART’S BASEMENT de Barry Malzberg
JUST A SECOND de Lou J. Berger
ACT OF GOD de Jack McDevitt
REQUIEM FOR A DRUID de Alex Shvartsman
THE BRIGHT SEAS OF VENUS de Stephen Leigh
THE SPINACH CAN’S SON de Robert T. Jeschonek
THINK LIKE A DINOSAUR de James Patrick Kelly
BOOK REVIEWS de Paul Cook
DARK UNIVERSE (Serialización) de Daniel F. Galouye
SOMETHING DIFFERENT de Horace E. Cocroft
Tabla de contenidos número 2
THE EDITOR’S WORD de Mike Resnick
ALIENS ATE MY PICKUP de Mercedes Lackey
EFFECT AND CAUSE de Ken Liu
WHEN WE WENT TO SEE THE END OF THE WORLD de Robert Silverberg
FROM THE HEART’S BASEMENT de Barry Malzberg
TODAY I AM NOBODY de Tina Gower
HAPPILY EVER AFTER de C. L. Moore
THE FLAMINGO GIRL de Brad R. Torgersen
REX de David Gerrold
GHOST IN THE MACHINE de Ralph Roberts
ECHEA de Kristine Kathryn Rusch
SPARKLER de Gio Clairval
CHILD OF THE GODS de Bruce McAllister
THE FEYNMAN SALTATION de Charles Sheffield
BOOK REVIEWS de Paul Cook
THE REAL FUTURE OF SPACE de Gregory Benford
PHOENIX PICK PRESENTS
SERIALIZATION: DARK UNIVERSE de Daniel F. Galouye
Durante el día de hoy estará disponible para su descarga gratuita el libro Mocklore Omnibus de Tansy Rayner Roberts, multipremiada autora australiana.
Aquí os traigo la sinopsis de las dos novelas incluídas (Splashdance Silver y Liquid Gold):
SPLASHDANCE SILVER
Kassa Daggersharp has been avoiding her legacy as the daughter of infamous parents for far too long. But the death of her father, Vicious Bigbeard, leaves her the heir of a precious treasure trove, the Splashdance silver.
All she has to do is form a pirate crew from scratch, dodge the minions of the new Lady Emperor, learn how to control her long-neglected magic, and win the loyalty of the worst traitor in the history of the Mocklore Empire.
No problem, right?
LIQUID GOLD
The most seductively dangerous substance in the world is invented by Mocklore alchemists… and promptly stolen by a beautiful troll. This golden goo with the power of time travel causes havok throughout the Mocklore Empire, causing damage to reality and even the Underworld.
It’s a problem for everyone, but especially for Kassa, whose unexpected death by trinket leaves her in a prime position to investigate what’s going wrong in the land of the dead… while her crew, left behind, have to decide what their futures hold.
Comedy pirates, saucy witches, magical explosions, gratuitous historical trivia and flying sheep… it’s just another day in Mocklore.
El libro escogido este mes por Phoenix Book para ofertarlo en la modalidad paga-lo-que-quieras es Energized de Edward M. Lerner.
Aquí os traigo la portada y la sinopsis.
A geopolitical miscalculation tainted the world’s major oil fields with radioactivity and plunged the Middle East into chaos. Any oil that remains usable is more prized than ever. No one can build solar farms, wind farms, and electric cars quickly enough to cope. The few countries still able to export oil and natural gas—Russia chief among them—have a stranglehold on the world economy.
And then, from the darkness of space, came Phoebe. Rather than divert the onrushing asteroid, America captured it into Earth orbit.
Solar power satellites—cheaply mass-produced in orbit with resources mined from the new moon, to beam vast amounts of power to the ground—offer America its last, best hope of avoiding servitude and economic ruin.
As though building miles-across structures in space isn’t challenging enough, special interests, from technophobes to eco-extremists to radio astronomers, want to stop the project. And the remaining petro powers will do anything to protect their newfound dominance of world affairs.
NASA engineer Marcus Judson is determined to make the powersat demonstration project a success. And he will—even though nothing in his job description mentions combating an international cabal, or going into space to do it.
La oferta especial de este mes de Phoenix Book es una magnífica recopilación de un autor con poca producción pero con una larga estela. Se trata de The Best of Cordwainer Smith editado por J. J. Pierce. El precio es paga-lo-que-quieras, incluso si es cero.
Os pongo también la sinopsis:
Cordwainer Smith was one of the original visionaries to think of humanity in terms of thousands of years in the future, spread out across the universe. This brilliant collection, often cited as the first of its kind, explores fundamental questions about ourselves and our treatment of the universe (and other beings) around us and ultimately what it means to be human.
In “Scanners Live in Vain” we meet Martel, a human altered to be part machine—a scanner—to be able withstand the trauma space travel has on the body. Despite the stigma placed on him and his kind, he is able to regrasp his humanity to save another.
In “The Dead Lady of Clown Town” we get to know the underpeople—animals genetically altered to exist in human form, to better serve their human owners—and meet D’Joan, a dog-woman who will make readers question who is more human: the animals who simply want to be recognized as having the same right to life, or the people who created them to be inferior.
In “The Ballad of Lost C’mell” the notion of love being the most important equalizer there is—as first raised in “The Dead Lady of Clown Town”—is put into action when an underperson, C’mell, falls in love with Lord Jestocost. Who is to say her love for him is not as valid as any true-born human? She might be of cat descent, but she is all woman!
And in “A Planet Named Shayol” it is an underperson of bull descent, and beings so mutilated and deformed from their original human condition to be now considered demons of a hellish land, who retain and display the most humanity when Mankind commits the most inhumane action of all.
Gracias a Marcheto, me entero de que está disponible para su descarga gratuita la antología 10 Years of SF! con autores tan interesantes como Ken Liu y Alex Shvartsman.
Aquí os traigo la ya tradicional antología con relatos de los autores nominables al John W. Campbell (que no es un Hugo). Editado por Jake Kerr, aquí os pongo la tabla de contenidos.
“Devil’s Due” de Percival Constantine
“Forestborn” de Sylvia Heike
“A Question Of Faith” de Tonya Liburd
“Shaman’s Quest” de Kevin L. O’Brien
“Memories to Come” de Paul Alex Gray
“Aspiration Value” de Mike Reeves-McMillan
“Of Puddings and Prophecies” de Helen French
“Dearly Departed” de Kelly Stewart
“Cyborg Shark Battle (Season 4, O’ahu Frenzy)” de Benjamin C. Kinney
“The Legendary Legend of the Darkly’s Slayer” de J.R. Dawson
“The Invisible Box” de J.J. Litke
“Termination Pending” de Rachelle Harp
“Eyes That See Everything” de Karen Bovenmyer
“Twisted Knots” de D.A Xiaolin Spires
“The Heart is a Lonesome Hunter” de Eugenia Triantafyllou
“The Fox, the Wolf, and the Dove” de Ville Meriläinen
“Dragon’s Trail” de Joseph Malik
“Spooky Action” de David A. Kilman
“Granite Requires” de TJ Berry
“Forgive Us Our Trespasses” de Bennett North
“The Best Busker in the World” de R. K. Duncan
“Like You, I am a System” de Nathan Hillstrom
“Darner” de Jonathan Laidlow
“First date with the Hive” de Gretchen Tessmer
“The Librarian” de Andrew Kozma
“The Stars and the Rain” de Emily McCosh
“London Calling” de Philip A. Suggars
“Analog Signals” de Shawn Proctor
“Fandom for Robots” de Vina Jie-Min Prasad
“The Spark That Starts The Flame” de Daniel Rosen
“These Constellations Will Be Yours” de Elaine Cuyegkeng
“The Nine” de Tracy Townsend
“I Remember Your Face” de E. K. Wagner
“Old Teacups and Kitchen Witches” Kate Baker
“The In Between Place” de Kat Day
“”A Matter of Interpretation” de M. Elizabeth Ticknor
“Bade Teeth” de Lina Rather
“The Awakening of Insects” de Bobde Sun
“”The Man in the Crimson Coat” de Andrea Tang
“Outburst” de B. Morris Allen
“Rushford Recapitulation” de Christopher Mark Rose
“A Heart in the Hand” de Jeremy M. Gottwig
“Moths To The Flame” de Daniel Rosen
“A Glowing Heart” de Anton Rose
“Demeter’s Regard” de Deborah L. Davitt
“The Ghosts of Europa Will Keep You Trapped in a Prison You Make for Yourself” de Matt Dovey
“The Lives Beneath” de Katherine Inskip
“Adessal” de Lorraine Schein
“Starr Striker Should Remain Capitol City’s Resident Superhero, by Keisha
Cole, 10th Grade Student”” de Amanda Helms
“Baro Porrajmos, or Love in the Vardo” de Eileen Gunnell Lee
“Ora et Labora” de Theodore McCombs
“An Equal Share of the Bone” de Karen Osborne
“Phalium arium ssp anams” de Victoria Sandbrook
“The Broken Karwaneer” de Jeremy A TeGrotenhuis
“Seb Dreams of Reincarnation” de Aimee Ogden
“Snail Mail” de Steven Fischer
“The Arrow of Time” de Kate Dollarhyde
“Think of Winter” de Eleanna Castroianni
El libro de este mes de Phoenix Book, que se puede descargar en la modalidad paga-lo-que-quieras, es Captive Dreams de Michael Flynn.
Esta es la sinopsis:
Fine literary writing meets Science Fiction. A thematic tour-de-force exploring the concept of being human through the eyes of imperfect protagonists struggling with their demons. More than just great SF, these are great stories told with style, wit and sensitivity.
This collection consists of six stories set in the same neighborhood with the lives of the inhabitants of six residences tangentially interacting with each other across space and time.
Durante un tiempo limitado estarán disponibles para su descarga gratuita para los suscriptores de la newsletter de Tor.com los libros Witches of Lychford de Paul Cornell y Killing Gravity de Corey J. White.
Los libros estarán disponibles hasta el dos de febrero.
Estará disponible para su descarga gratuita durante un tiempo limitado el libro Luminescent Threads : Connections to Octavia E. Butler, editado por Alexandra Pierce y Mimi Mondal.
Se trata de un compendio de ensayos y cartas relacionadas con la autora, reunidos por primera vez en un solo volumen.
