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Contenidos de The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Volume 12

Jonathan Strahan ha hecho pública la tabla de contenidos de su nueva antología The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Volume 12. Son los siguientes:

  • “The Mocking Tower”, Daniel Abraham (The Book of Swords)
  • “Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue”, Charlie Jane Anders (Boston Review)
  • “Probably Still the Chosen One”, Kelly Barnhill (Lightspeed)
  • “My English Name”, R. S. Benedict (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
  • “Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance”, Tobias Buckell (Cosmic Powers)
  • “Though She Be But Little”, C.S.E. Cooney (Uncanny)
  • “The Moon is Not a Battlefield”, Indrapramit Das (Infinity Wars)
  • “The Hermit of Houston”, Samuel R. Delany (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
  • “The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine”, Greg Egan (Asimov’s Science Fiction)
  • “Crispin’s Model”, Max Gladstone (Tor.com)
  • “Come See the Living Dryad”, Theodora Goss (Tor.com)
  • “Bring Your Own Spoon”, Saad Z. Hossain (The Djinn Falls in Love)
  • “Babylon”, Dave Hutchison, 2084
  • “The Faerie Tree”, Kathleen Kayembe (Lightspeed)
  • “Fairy Tale of Wood Street”, Caitlin R Kiernan (Sirenia Digest)
  • “The Worshipful Society of Glovers”, Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny)
  • “An Evening with Severyn Grimes”, Rich Larson (Asimov’s Science Fiction)
  • “The Chameleon’s Gloves”, Yoon Ha Lee (Cosmic Powers)
  • “The Smoke of Gold is Glory”, Scott Lynch (The Book of Swords)
  • “Sidewalks”, Maureen McHugh (Omni)
  • “Concessions”, Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali (Strange Horizons)
  • “The Martian Obelisk”, Linda Nagata (Tor.com)
  • “The Secret Life of Bots”, Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld)
  • “A Series of Steaks”, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Clarkesworld)
  • “Belladonna Nights”, Alastair Reynolds (The Weight of Words)
  • “Eminence”, Karl Schroeder (Chasing Shadows)
  • “The Lamentation of their Women”, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com)
  • “Confessions of a Con Girl”, Nick Wolven (Asimov’s Science Fiction)
  • “Carnival Nine”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)

También tenemos la portada “parcial”.

Desde luego parece una selección bastante variada, pero no he leído casi nada. ¿Qué os parece a vosotros?

 

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Anunciada la publicación por Gollancz de cuatro novelas de Emma Newman

Siempre nos alegra que se publiquen nuevos libros, pero en este caso es una noticia aún mejor ya que se está reconociendo la labor de Emma Newman. Gollancz ha anunciado la publicación de cuatro novelas de esta autora, todos situados en el mundo de su novela Planetfall.

Before Mars se publicará en abril de 2018 y la cuarta novela, todavía sin título anunciado, en 2019.

También se lanzarán nuevas ediciones de los títulos anteriores, Planetfall y After Atlas, el 28 de diciembre de este año.

Emma ha declarado:

“I am so delighted that Gollancz will be my UK publisher for my science-fiction novels. I’ve always admired them, as they published all the classics that I devoured as a teenager and to think that my books are now part of their list absolutely thrills me.”

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Portada de Revenant Gun

Ya podemos disfrutar de la portada de Revenant Gun, la esperadísima novela de Yoon Ha Lee, la finalización de la trilogía Machineries Of Empire que empezó con Ninefox Gambit y continuó con Raven Stratagem. Revenant Gun, está situada temporalmente nueve años después de Raven Stratagem. Nirai Kujen, está intentando reconquistar el hexarcato con Jedao como su general. Mientras tanto, Cheris tratará de acabar con ambos.

When Shuos Jedao wakes up for the first time, several things go wrong. His few memories tell him that he’s a seventeen-year-old cadet—but his body belongs to a man decades older. Hexarch Nirai Kujen orders Jedao to reconquer the fractured hexarchate on his behalf even though Jedao has no memory of ever being a soldier, let alone a general. Surely a knack for video games doesn’t qualify you to take charge of an army?

Soon Jedao learns the situation is even worse. The Kel soldiers under his command may be compelled to obey him, but they hate him thanks to a massacre he can’t remember committing. Kujen’s friendliness can’t hide the fact that he’s a tyrant. And what’s worse, Jedao and Kujen are being hunted by an enemy who knows more about Jedao and his crimes than he does himself…

Aquí tenéis la portada, obra de Chris Moore:

En la portada podemos ver la nave de Jedao, la Revenant, dirigiéndose a la Fortaleza de Pearled Hopes.

La novela saldrá a la venta en junio de 2018.

 

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Kickstarter : 2001: An Odyssey in Words

Para celebrar el centenario del nacimiento de Sir Arthur C. Clarke se ha lanzado un proyecto de antología en la que cada historia tendrá exactamente 2001 palabras.

El elenco de autores es espectacular, y aún quedan por anunciar más:

  • Chris Beckett
  • Becky Chambers
  • Colin Greenland
  • Mathew De Abaitua
  • Yoon Ha Lee
  • Dave Hutchinson
  • Emmi Itäranta
  • Gwyneth Jones
  • Ian R MacLeod
  • Phillip Mann
  • Ian McDonald
  • Emma Newman
  • Claire North
  • Jeff Noon
  • Rachel Pollack
  • Alastair Reynolds
  • Adam Roberts
  • Jane Rogers
  • Bruce Sterling
  • Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Ian Watson
  • Liz Williams

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Anunciada una nueva novela de Rachel Swirsky

En Tor.com ha aparecido la noticia de la publicación de una nueva novella de Rachel Swirsky, que tendrá por título The Woman at the Tower Window.

Al parecer se tratará de una nueva aproximación al cuento de Rapunzel, en el que la princesa se aislará en la torre por iniciativa propia.

El editor será Jonathan Strahan, que ha comentado:

I have adored Rachel Swirsky’s smart, savvy, and powerful stories since I stumbled across her novelette, “Eros, Philia, Agape”. It was a beautiful piece of fiction, and she only seemed to grow as storyteller over the following years. Probably my very favourite story of hers is the magnificent novella The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window, which won the Nebula Award and was nominated for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. When I first started acquiring new novellas for Tor.com Publishing, Rachel’s name was at the very top of the list of people I wanted to work with, so I’m beyond delighted that we’ll be publishing The Woman at the Tower Window. I think it’s going to be incredible and from what I’ve already seen, I think Tor.com’s readers will too.

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Gollancz anuncia la nueva novela de Brandon Sanderson

Gollancz ha anunciado que en otoño de 2018 publicará Skyward, una nueva novela de Brandon Sanderson.

Según el propio autor, la novela versará sobre:

‘Defeated, crushed, and driven almost to extinction, the remnants of the human race are trapped on a planet that is constantly attacked by mysterious alien starfighters. Spensa, a teenage girl living amongst these last humans, longs to be a pilot and join the fight. When she discovers the wreckage of an ancient ship, she realizes this dream might be possible …assuming she can repair the ship, navigate flight school, and (perhaps most importantly) persuade the strange machine to help her. Because this ship, it appears, has a soul.’

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Subterranean publicará The Tea Master and the Detective

Da gusto despertarse con buenas noticias como esta. Subterranean Press publicará The Tea Master and the Detective,  una nueva novella situada en el Universo de Xuya, que se publicará en marzo de 2018.

La propia autora la define como:

It’s, Xuya meets Sherlock Holmes, if Holmes were an eccentric scholar & Watson a grumpy decommissioned war mindship

Pero es que si leemos lo que se publica sobre la trama, los niveles de hype suben como la espuma.

Welcome to the Scattered Pearls Belt, a collection of ring habitats and orbitals ruled by exiled human scholars and powerful families, and held together by living mindships who carry people and freight between the stars. In this fluid society, human and mindship avatars mingle in corridors and in function rooms, and physical and virtual realities overlap, the appareance of environments easily modified and adapted to interlocutors or current mood.
 
A transport ship discharged from military service after a traumatic injury, The Shadow’s Child now ekes out a precarious living as a brewer of mind-altering drugs for the comfort of space-travellers. Meanwhile, abrasive and eccentric scholar Long Chau wants to find a corpse for a scientific study. When Long Chau walks into her office, The Shadow’s Child expects an unpleasant but easy assignment. When the corpse turns out to have been murdered, Long Chau feels compelled to investigate, dragging The Shadow’s Child with her. 
 
As they dig deep into the victim’s past, The Shadow’s Child realises that the investigation points to Long Chau’s own murky past–and, ultimately, to the dark and unbearable void that lies between the stars…
También os traigo la portada para los que no podemos aguantar hasta marzo.

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Ganadores de los premios Audible 2017

Se han dado a conocer los ganadores de los premios Audible 2017, estos son los premios relacionados con la ciencia ficción y la fantasía.

Mejor libro de ciencia ficción : Artemis de Andy Weir narrado por Rosario Dawson

Mejor libro de fantasía : The Bear and the Nightingale de Katherine Arden narrado por Kathleen Gati

Mejor relanzamiento : The Handmaid’s Tale: Special Edition de Margaret Atwood narrado por Claire Danes y compañía

Mejor original de Audible : Andrea Vernon and the Corporation for UltraHuman Protection de  Alexander C. Kane narrado por Bahni Turpin

Favorito de los usuarios : Oathbringer de Brandon Sanderson narrado por Kate Reading y Michael Kramer

¡Enhorabuena a los ganadores!