Lecturas de ciencia ficción y fantasía
Hace unos días os mostrábamos la portada de la edición especial de Ancillary Justice que se pondrá a la venta dentro de poco y hoy os traemos la portada la novela que será el final de la trilogía, titulada Ancillary Mercy.
“Si funciona, no lo toques”. Si las otras portadas han ayudado a las ventas, no cabe duda de que aquí se mantienen las mismas características de las anteriores.
El año pasado Haruki Murakami publicó un libro con seis relatos en Japón. Están disponibles online las traducciones al inglés de tres de estos relatos.
Una buena oportunidad para leer algo del famoso autor japonés.
Aquí os traigo la portada de la nueva novela de Neal Stephenson, Seveneves, que se publicará en mayo de este año.
También tenéis aquí la sinopsis:
When the moon blows up, the earth’s atmosphere is predicted to go through changes that will eventually lead to a Hard Rain, a meteorite storm that could last for thousands of years, rendering the earth’s surface uninhabitable. In preparation, the nations of the earth send an ark of humans to an International Space Station. But the Station isn’t immune to the galactic catastrophe and many of its people are lost, mostly men. When stability is reached, only seven humans remain, all of them women. Jump forward thirty thousand years. Two peoples exist: those who survived on Earth, living rustic, primitive lives; and those who derived from the Seven Eves of the space station, affluent, sophisticated, organized sects looking to colonize the surface of earth. Stephenson’s next novel is an epic potboiler, with political and military intrigue, and plenty to say about evolution, genetic engineering, and civilization as we know it.
¿Es ya mayo? ¿Y ahora?
Ya conocemos los nominados a los premios Nebula 2015. Son los siguientes (incluyo enlaces a las historias gratuitas online gracias a @odo, siempre atento y a @Malapata, que me dijo uno que me faltaba):
Novela
The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor)
Trial by Fire, Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu ( ), translated by Ken Liu (Tor)
Coming Home, Jack McDevitt (Ace)
Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals; Fourth Estate; HarperCollins Canada)
Novella
We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
Yesterday’s Kin, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
“The Regular”, Ken Liu (Upgraded)
“The Mothers of Voorhisville,” Mary Rickert (Tor.com 4/30/14)
Calendrical Regression, Lawrence Schoen (NobleFusion)
“Grand Jeté (The Great Leap),” Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer ’14)
Novelette
“Sleep Walking Now and Then,” Richard Bowes (Tor.com 7/9/14)
“The Magician and Laplace’s Demon,” Tom Crosshill (Clarkesworld 12/14)
“A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i,” Alaya Dawn Johnson (F&SF 7-8/14)
“The Husband Stitch,” Carmen Maria Machado (Granta #129)
“We Are the Cloud,” Sam J. Miller (Lightspeed 9/14)
“The Devil in America,” Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com 4/2/14)
Short Story
“The Breath of War,” Aliette de Bodard (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/6/14)
“When It Ends, He Catches Her,” Eugie Foster (Daily Science Fiction 9/26/14)
“The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye,” Matthew Kressel (Clarkesworld 5/14)
“The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family,” Usman T. Malik (Qualia Nous)
“A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide,” Sarah Pinsker (F&SF 3-4/14)
“Jackalope Wives,” Ursula Vernon (Apex 1/7/14)
“The Fisher Queen,” Alyssa Wong (F&SF 5/14)
Premio Ray Bradbury a la mejor presentación dramática
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), escrito por Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier, guión de Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Edge of Tomorrow, guión de Christopher McQuarrie y Jez Butterworth y John-Henry Butterworth (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Guardians of the Galaxy, escrito por James Gunn y Nicole Perlman (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Interstellar, escrito por Jonathan Nolan y Christopher Nolan (Paramount Pictures)
The Lego Movie, guión de Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Premio Andre Norton a novela juvenil
Unmade, Sarah Rees Brennan (Random House)
Salvage, Alexandra Duncan (Greenwillow)
Love Is the Drug, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Levine)
Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future, A.S. King (Little, Brown)
Dirty Wings, Sarah McCarry (St. Martin’s Griffin)
Greenglass House, Kate Milford (Clarion)
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender, Leslye Walton (Candlewick)
Ya tenemos aquí la lista de nominados de este año al Gand Prix de l’Imaginaire, los premios que desde hace más de cuarenta años se entregan en Francia a los mejores trabajos de ciencia ficción, fantasía y otros géneros.
Novela en francés
Bastards – Ayerdhal (Au diable vauvert)
Les résidents (The Residents)– Maurice G. Dantec (Inculte)
Drift – Thierry Di Rollo (Le Bélial’)
Trois oboles pour Charon (Three Obols For Charon) – Franck Ferric (Denoël)
Cosplay – Laurent Ladouari (Hervé Chopin)
Aucun homme n’est une île (No Man Is An Island) – Christophe Lambert (J’ai lu)
Hysteresis – Loïc Le Borgne (Le Bélial’)
Dernières nouvelles d’Œsthrénie (Latest News from Œsthrenia) – Anne-Sylvie Salzman (Dystopia)
Novela traducida
Anti-Ice (Anti-glace) – Stephen Baxter (Le Bélial’)
Great North Road (La grande route du Nord) – Peter F. Hamilton (Bragelonne)
Soft Apocalypse (Notre fin sera si douce) – Will McIntosh (Fleuve Éditions)
Nexus – Ramez Naam (Presses de la Cité)
Wolfhound Century (Vlast) – Peter Higgins (Bragelonne)
Needle in the Groove (Intrabasses) – Jeff Noon (La Volte)
The Man from Primrose Lane (L’obsession) – James Renner (Super 8 Éditions)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (L’océan au bout du chemin) – Neil Gaiman (Au diable vauvert)
Raising Stony Mayhal (L’éducation de Stony Mayhall) – Daryl Gregory (Le Bélial’)
Demon Cycle (Le Cycle des Démons) (vol. 1, 2, 3) – Peter V. Brett (Bragelonne)
Ficción corta en francés
“Le berceau des lucioles” (The Cradle of the Fireflies) – Jacques Barbéri (in “Faites demi-tour dès que possible”, La Volte)
“Noc-kerrigan” – Thomas Day (in Bifrost n°76)
“L’été dans la vallée” (Summer in the Valley) – Mélanie Fazi (in “Le jardin des silences”, Bragelonne)
“L’opéra de Shaya” (Shaya’s Opera) – Sylvie Lainé (ActuSF)
“Finir en beauté” (Finish Off) – Christophe Langlois (L’Arbre vengeur)
Ficción corta traducida
“Scattered Along the River of Heaven” (Éparpillés le long des rivières du ciel) de Aliette de Bodard (en Galaxies n°28)
“The Furies from Borås” (Les furies de Borås) de Anders Fager (Mirobole)
“The Fluted Girl” (La fille-flûte et autres fragments de futurs brisés) de Paolo Bacigalupi (Au diable vauvert)
“The Perseids” (Les Perséides) de Robert Charles Wilson (Denoël)
“The Algorithms for Love” de Ken Liu (en Galaxies n°28)
“Snodgrass” de Ian R. MacLeod (en Alternative rock, Gallimard)
“Dead Horse Point” de Daryl Gregory (en Bifrost n°74)
“Chants du cauchemar et de la nuit” (Selected Stories from the Nightmare Factory) de Thomas Ligotti (Dystopia)
“St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” (Foyer Sainte-Lucie pour jeunes filles élevées par les loups) de Karen Russell (Albin Michel)
Novela juvenil en francés
Le jour où… de Paul Beorn (Bragelonne)
Fuir Malco de Charlotte Bousquet (Gulf Stream)
Le livre de Perle de Timothée de Fombelle (Gallimard)
Virus 57 de Christophe Lambert et Sam VanSteen (Syros)
La seconde vie de d’Artagnan de Jean-Luc Marcastel (Le Matagot)
Bleu argent de Olivier Paquet (L’Atalante)
Grandclapier de Joann Sfar (Gallimard)
Les outrepasseurs (vol. 1, 2) de Cindy Van Wilder (Gulf Stream)
Novela juvenil traducida
Zombie Baseball Beatdown (Zombie Ball) de Paolo Bacigalupi (Au diable vauvert)
The Terrible Thing that happened to Barnaby Brocket (Barnabé ou la vie en l’air) de John Boyne (Gallimard)
The Humans (Humains) de Matt Haig (Hélium)
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine et les enfants particuliers, vol.1, 2) de Ransom Riggs (Bayard)
The Grimm Legacy (La malédiction Grimm) de Polly Shulman (Bayard)
Rise of the Corpses. The Undertakers #1 (L’eveil des macchabs) de Ty Drago (Bayard)
Premio a la traducción
Jean-Daniel Brèque por Nexus de Ramez Naam (Presses de la Cité)
Carine Bruy por Samlade Svenska Kulter (Les Furies de Borås) de Anders Fager (Mirobole)
Pierre-Paul Durastanti por Anti-Ice (Anti-glace) de Stephen Baxter (Le Bélial’)
Anne-Sylvie Homassel por Selected Stories (Chants du cauchemar et de la nuit) de Thomas Ligotti (Dystopia)
Patrick Marcel por The Ocean at the End of the Lane (L’océan au bout du chemin) de Neil Gaiman (Au diable vauvert)
Michel Pagel por Softapocalypse (Notre fin sera si douce) de Will McIntosh (Fleuve Editions)
Laurent Philibert-Caillat por Raising Stony Mayhall (L’éducation de Stony Mayhall) de Daryl Gregory (Le Bélial’) y Moxyland deLauren Beukes (Presses de la Cité)
Marie Surgers por Needle in the Groove (Intrabasses) de Jeff Noon (La Volte)
Premio Wojtek Siudmak a la mejor obra artística
Olivier Fontvieille por Shambling Towards Hiroshima (Hiroshima n’aura pas lieu) de James Morrow (Au diable vauvert)
Nicolas Fructus por Aucun souvenir assez solide de Alain Damasio (Gallimard)
Victor Manuel Leza Moreno por Le Roi Squelette – L’intégrale de Serge Brussolo (Bragelonne)
Manchu por The Perseids (Les Perséides) de Robert Charles Wilson (Denoël)
Aurélien Police por todas sus portadas de 2014
Diego Tripodi por Fées, weed et guillotines de Karim Berrouka (ActuSF)
Johannes Wiebel por Er is wieder da (Look Who’s Back) de Timur Vermes (Belfond)
Ensayo
“Les dieux cachés de la science-fiction française et francophone, 1950-2010″ (The Hidden Gods of the French and Francophone SF)(Revue Eidôlon n°111, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux)
“Post humains” (Post Humans), eds. Élaine Després & Hélène Machinal (Presses Universitaires de Rennes)
“La bible steampunk de S.J. Chambers et Jeff Vandermeer” (S.J. Chambers & Jeff Vandermeer’s Steampunk Bible) (Bragelonne)
“Super-héros, une histoire française” (Super Heroes, A French History) de Xavier Fournier (Huginn & Muninn)
“Utopie et raison dans le cycle de Fondation d’Isaac Asimov” (Utopia and Reason in Asimov’s Foundation) de Anthony Vallat (ActuSF)
“Des mines du roi Salomon à la quête du Graal by H.R. Haggard” (1856-1925) (From King Solomon’s Mines to the Graal’s Quest by H.R.Haggard) de Lauric Guillaud (Michel Houdiard)
“Philoséries : Buffy tueuse de vampires”, eds. Sylvie Allouche & Sandra Laugier (Bragelonne)
Premio especial
“Les 40 ans de la revue Solaris” (Forty Years of the Canadian SF Magazine Solaris)
Richard Comballot pour son travail de mémoire de l’Imaginaire, dont son recueil d’entretiens Clameurs (La Volte)
“L’intégrale Stark et les rois des étoiles, de Leigh Brackett, Ray Bradbury et Edmond Hamilton” (Le Bélial’)
“Le cabinet du docteur Black de E.B. Hudspeth” (Le Pré aux Clercs)
“Midi-Minuit Fantastique” – volume 1, eds. Michel Caen et Nicolas Stanzick (Rouge Profond)
“Eerie et Creepy présentent Richard Corben” (vol.1, 2) (Delirium)
Bradley P. Beaulieu ha dado a conocer los relatos que formarán parte de In the stars I’ll find you and other tales of futures fantastic, así como la portada. Aquí tenéis una breve sinopsis:
“In the Stars I’ll Find You” – Erin O’Shea finds herself at odds with her sister, Tara, and it’s only after a mission to a habitable planet, light years distant from Earth, that Erin truly understands her sister’s point of view, but by then it may be far too late to reconcile.
“Compartmentalized” – Mitch has been hiding something. The trouble is, he no longer has any idea what it is, not after he’d submitted himself to a new procedure known as compartmentalization. There’s a part of Mitch that wants to learn more, but another part is desperate to keep it from him.
“Upon the Point of a Knife” – Jonah is an orphan who runs the streets of 1800′s Providence, but everything changes when an old man approaches him and offers him a knife that doesn’t draw blood, but one’s very soul.
“Chasing Humanity” – The world has been waiting for the transcendence of artificial intelligence for decades. It finally arrives, but the AI is immediately plunged into mystery when it, and its creator, both disappear.
“Bloom” – A scientist struggles to contain a viral outbreak that threatens the world’s food supplies, “Bloom” is a story of heroism even in the face of unstoppable political forces.
“Born of a Trickster God” – Part two of The Rümayesh Triptych, a trio of tales set in the world of The Song of the Shattered Sands. In this installment, Çeda learns more of Rümayesh, the powerful creature that has been living hiding in the streets of Sharakhai for centuries.
“No Viveremos Como Presos” – Miguel only has his grandfather’s best interests at heart, but when his grandfather starts talking about an organization whose motto is “We will not live as prisoners,” Miguel becomes worried.
“And a Girl Named Rose” – A ship’s AI struggles with the loss of its human cargo. When one of the last, a girl named Rose, threatens to leave as well, it strikes emotions in the ship it didn’t realize it had. But does it happen to late to save Rose?
“Flashed Forward” – A story about a man who kickstarts his leap into the future. As is normal for Kickstarter’s, it’s only after the project funds that things get really interesting.
“Quinta Essentia” – Sean Brannon’s body was ruined by David Lock, a scientist driven by his quest to unlock the secrets of Quinta Essentia, the most elusive of the magical elements. However, it’s only after the Jovians land that Sean and David both discover the real secrets of the fifth element.
La portada me parece espectacular, ¿cómo la veis vosotros?
Gracias a el blog A Dribble of Ink podemos echar un vistazo a la que será portada de la edición especial de Ancillary Justice que prepara Subterranean Press.
¿Qué os parece? Mi primera impresión es que es un poco demasiado explícita, no sé si se adapta al juego de pronombres y géneros del que tanto se ha hablado y que tanta polémica ha generado.
Ya conocemos a los nominados a los premios DITMAR 2015. Son los siguientes:
Enhorabuena a los nominados.
El fin de semana pasado se dieron a conocer los ganadores de los premios Paul Harland, algo así como los Ignotus holandeses.
Estos son los premiados:
1) “Mevrouw Rosenbaum vecht tegen de duivel” (Mrs. Rosenbaum fights the devil) de Erik Heiser, galardonado con 1000 euros.
2) “Tuinelfjes” (Garden fairies) de Sarah de Waard, galardonado con 300 euros.
3) “Overal schaduwen, overal sterren” (Shadows everywhere, stars everywhere) de Marco Knauff galardonado con 300 euros.
Premio novel Paul Harland
“De sneeuw” (The snow) de Jacqueline Weers, galardonado con 150 euros.
Premio NCSF
“Overal schaduwen, overal sterren” (Shadows everywhere, stars everywhere) de Marco Knauff, galardonado con 150 euros.
Premio Phoenix (De Feniksprijs)
“Woestijnzand” (Desert sand) de Nieske Lindelauf – den Heijer, galardonado con 150 euros.
Premio al talento W.J. Maryson
Desierto.
Ya conocemos cuáles serán las portadas de los nuevos lanzamientos (aunque el primero ya fue autopublicado) de Linda Nagata en Saga Press. Se llamarán The red y The trials. También os traigo las sinopsis.
The RedReality TV and advanced technology make for high drama in this political thriller that combines the military action of Zero Dark Thirty with the classic science fiction of The Forever War.
Lieutenant James Shelley, who has an uncanny knack for premeditating danger, leads a squad of advanced US Army military tasked with enforcing the peace around a conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. The squad members are linked wirelessly 24/7 to themselves and a central intelligence that guides them via drone relay—and unbeknownst to Shelley and his team, they are being recorded for a reality TV show.
When an airstrike almost destroys their outpost, a plot begins to unravel that’s worthy of Crichton and Clancy’s best. The conflict soon involves rogue defense contractors, corrupt US politicians, and homegrown terrorists who possess nuclear bombs. Soon Shelley must accept that the helpful warnings in his head could be AI. But what is the cost of serving its agenda?
The TrialsIn the wake of nuclear terrorism, a squad of elite soldiers must combat artificial intelligence and seek justice in this military political thriller, a sequel to The Red.
Lieutenant James Shelley and his squad of US Army soldiers were on a quest for justice when they carried out the unauthorized mission known as First Light. They returned home to America to face a court-martial, determined to expose the corruption in the chain of command that compelled their actions. But in a country still reeling from the nuclear terrorism of Coma Day, the courtroom is just one battlefield of many.
A new cycle of violence ignites when rumors of the elusive, rogue AI known as the Red go public—and Shelley is, once again, pulled into the fray. Challenged by his enemies, driven by ideals, Shelley feels compelled to act. But are the harrowing choices he makes really his own, or are they made for him, by the Red? And with millions of lives at stake in a game of nuclear cat-and-mouse, does the answer even matter?