Se han anunciado los componentes del jurado de los premios World Fantasy. Son los siguientes:
Elizabeth Engstrom
Daryl Gregory
Nalo Hopkinson
Juliet Marillier
Betsy Mitchell
Les deseo mucha suerte porque tienen por delante un gran trabajo.
Anunciada la publicación de la nueva novela de Neal Stephenson
El otro día me tropecé por casualidad con este anuncio: en Junio de 2017 verá la luz la nueva novela de Neal Stephenson, en colaboración con Nicole Galland. Su título será The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Novel. Aquí os traigo la portada y la más que curiosa sinopsis:
From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world
When Melisande Stokes, an expert in linguistics and languages, accidently meets military intelligence operator Tristan Lyons in a hallway at Harvard University, it is the beginning of a chain of events that will alter their lives and human history itself. The young man from a shadowy government entity approaches Mel, a low-level faculty member, with an incredible offer. The only condition: she must sign a non-disclosure agreement in return for the rather large sum of money.
Tristan needs Mel to translate some very old documents, which, if authentic, are earth-shattering. They prove that magic actually existed and was practiced for centuries. But the arrival of the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment weakened its power and endangered its practitioners. Magic stopped working altogether in 1851, at the time of the Great Exhibition at London’s Crystal Palace—the world’s fair celebrating the rise of industrial technology and commerce. Something about the modern world “jams” the “frequencies” used by magic, and it’s up to Tristan to find out why.
And so the Department of Diachronic Operations—D.O.D.O.—gets cracking on its real mission: to develop a device that can bring magic back, and send Diachronic Operatives back in time to keep it alive . . . and meddle with a little history at the same time. But while Tristan and his expanding operation master the science and build the technology, they overlook the mercurial—and treacherous—nature of the human heart.
Written with the genius, complexity, and innovation that characterize all of Neal Stephenson’s work and steeped with the down-to-earth warmth and humor of Nicole Galland’s storytelling style, this exciting and vividly realized work of science fiction will make you believe in the impossible, and take you to places—and times—beyond imagining.
Libro gratis : Supersonic Especial Eurocon
Está disponible para su descarga en la modalidad pago social el número especial de la revista Supersonic editado para la Eurocon 2016, en el que tuve el honor de participar.
Estos son los contenidos, en inglés.
Cover
Juan Miguel Aguilera
Non-Fiction
Editorial
Science fiction, fantasy and horror speaks Spanish – Cristina Jurado
A sociological look at the geek subculture in Spain – Cristina Martínez García
Javier Negrete: a classic futurist – Maria Leticia Lara Palomino
“I will never cease to learn new things about my own mother tongue”: interviewing Manuel de los Reyes – Cristina Jurado
Interviewing Rachel Cordasco from the blog Speculative Fiction in Translation – Cristina Jurado
“National authors were to be judged the same way as the foreign ones”: Interviewing Felicidad Martínez – Cristina Jurado
“I only wish other countries were translating Spanish writers more often into their languages”: Questions for Cristina Macía – Cristina Jurado
“Spain’s fantasy literature resists”: Interviewing Guillem López – Cristina Jurado
Nevsky: the adventure of publishing genre literature in Spain – Cristina Jurado
Sportula: Spanish science fiction beyond Spanish borders – Cristina Jurado
Conversation with Spanish science fiction and fantasy editor Mariano Villareal – Cristina Jurado
Javier Olivares, creator, showrunner and writer of El Ministerio del Tiempo– Cristina Jurado
Fiction
Excerpt from The Map of Chaos – Felix J. Palma
“Ship´s Shepherd”- Felicidad Martínez
“Killing Time” – Guillem López
“Little Sisters” – Rocío Rincón
“To Sweep, Perhaps to Dream” – Emilio Bueso
Excerpt from Monteverde: Memoirs of an Interstellar Linguist – Lola Robles
“Black eagles” – Eduardo Vaquerizo
“Alphaland” – Cristina Jurado
“Embryo“ – Rodolfo Martínez
“You cannot kill Frownyflute!” – Sofía Rhei
“The Fast Blue” – Juan González Mesa
“Pink Footed” – Marian Womack
“Dressed in Blue” – Santiago Eximeno
“The Hunger of the Yamamba” – María Angulo Ardoy
“The history of Fäntasystical Literature in Central-Europe. Today: Mittelpfrünia” – Francisco Fernández
“Leyends of the black kiss” — Armando Saldaña
“Drydock City” – Javier Trescuadras
Anunciada la publicación de Upside Down : Inverted Tropes in Storytelling
Tras una exitosa campaña en Kickstarter Apex Publications ha publicado Upside Down : Inverted Tropes in Storytelling una antología en la que se dará la vuelta a los tópicos más gastados de la fantasía, tales como:
- La cota de mallas minimalista femenina
- El negro mágico
- El súpersoldado
- El elegido
- Amor a primera vista
- Dama en apuros
- La heroina que ama al malo
- El peligro amarillo
- El hombre de color muer el primero
- El villano tuvo una infancia traumática
- El planeta ciudad
- La prostituta con el corazón de oro
- La singularidad causará el apocalipsis
- Y alguno que otro más
La lista de autores que participarán también es interesante: Maurice Broaddus, Adam Troy-Castro, Delilah S. Dawson, Shanna Germain, Sara M. Harvey, John Hornor Jacobs, Rahul Kanakia, Alethea Kontis, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Haralambi Markov, Kat Richardson, Nisi Shawl, Ferrett Steinmetz, Anton Strout, Michael Underwood, y Alyssa Wong.
Portadas de With Blood Upon the Sand
Brad Beaulieu ha publicado las que serán portadas de su nuevo libro With Blood Upon the Sand donde continuaremos conociendo la vida de Çeda. Hay dos versiones, la de DAW y la de Gollancz. Os la pongo en ese mismo orden:
¿Cuál os gusta más?
Calendario de adviento de Rebellion Publishing
Se acerca la navidad y desde Rebellíon Publishing han decidido endulzarnos la espera poniendo cada día en oferta uno de sus libros por 0,99 euros. La oferta es limitada, así que los títulos que siguen con precio rebajado ahora son:
Subterranean publicará una edición impresa de The Dispatcher
Hace unos días anunciábamos que estaba disponible en audible The Dispatcher, una nueva novella de John Scalzi.
Pues ahora Subterranean anuncia la publicación impresa de esta misma novella en mayo de 2017. Las ilustraciones interiores y portada correrán a cargo de Vincent Chong
Os pongo la sinopsis:
One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone—999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don’t know. But it changes everything: war, crime, daily life.
Tony Valdez is a Dispatcher—a licensed, bonded professional whose job is to humanely dispatch those whose circumstances put them in death’s crosshairs, so they can have a second chance to avoid the reaper. But when a fellow Dispatcher and former friend is apparently kidnapped, Tony learns that there are some things that are worse than death, and that some people are ready to do almost anything to avenge what they see as a wrong.
It’s a race against time for Valdez to find his friend before it’s too late…before not even a Dispatcher can save him.
Portada de A Unkindness of Magicians
En Tor.com han anunciado la que será portada de la nueva novela de fantasía de Kat Howard, A Unkindness of Magicians.
Y aquí la sinopsis:
The Unseen World prides itself on remaining invisible as magicians walk the streets of New York City, rich and literally powerful.
Every twenty years, vying for power and standing during the Turning, the heads of magical houses would elect a champion, a family member or a magician-for-hire, and begin a series of duels.
But the Turning has come early, after thirteen years, and Ian Merlin, the heir to the most powerful house in the Unseen World has elected to become the champion of his father’s chief rival, House Prospero.
Enter Sydney: An unknown magician from a candidate house, an outsider easily dismissed amongst the established wealth and power of the Unseen World.
Acclaimed author Kat Howard has written a magical revenge thriller amidst the private world of New York City’s most influential citizens, who feed off each other in a hidden game of magical dominance.
What the Unseen World will soon learn is that Sydney is a formidable duelist with power that hasn’t been seen in decades, and she has a score to settle.
Humble Bundle : Neil Gaiman
Atentos, seguidores de Neil Gaiman a el super Humble Bundle de estos días está dedicado en exclusiva al autor.
Por un dolar o más:
Por ocho dólares o más:
Por 15 dólares o más:
Desde luego, si te gusta Gaiman no puedes dejar pasar esta oportunidad.
Portada de Slow Bullets
El año pasado tuve el placer de leer Slow Bullets así que me parece una buena noticia traeros la que será portada de la edición de Gollancz, que saldrá a la venta el año que viene.
