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Portada y sinopsis del nuevo libro de Gene Wolfe

Gene Wolfe es quizá uno de los escritores de género más reconocidos. Por tanto, siempre es buena noticia conocer una nueva publicación salida de su pluma.

El nuevo libro se llamará A borrowed man, y aquí os traigo la portada y la sinopsis.

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It is perhaps a hundred years in the future, our civilization is gone, and another is in place in North America, but it retains many familiar things and structures. Although the population is now small, there is advanced technology, there are robots, and there are clones.

E. A. Smithe is a borrowed person. He is a clone who lives on a third-tier shelf in a public library, and his personality is an uploaded recording of a deceased mystery writer. Smithe is a piece of property, not a legal human.

A wealthy patron, Colette Coldbrook, takes him from the library because he is the surviving personality of the author of Murder on Mars. A physical copy of that book was in the possession of her murdered father, and it contains an important secret, the key to immense family wealth. It is lost, and Colette is afraid of the police. She borrows Smithe to help her find the book and to find out what the secret is. And then the plot gets complicated.

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Finalistas premios Lambda

lambdaYa conocemos cuáles son los nominados a los premios Lambda, dedicados a los mejores libros LGBT. Hay muchas categorías, pero aquí os pongo los nominados en ciencia ficción, fantasía y terror. Aquí los tenéis:

Afterparty, Daryl Gregory, Tor Books
Bitter Waters, Chaz Brenchley, Lethe Press
Butcher’s Road, Lee Thomas, Lethe Press
Child of a Hidden Sea, A. M. Dellamonica, Tor Books
Full Fathom Five, Max Gladstone, Tor Books
FutureDyke, Lea Daley, Bella Books
Skin Deep Magic, Craig Laurance Gidney, Rebel Satori Press

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Portada y sinopsis de Shower of stones

Desde Angry Robot han publicado la que será portada de Shower of stones, la continuación de No return, el prometedor debú de Zachary Jernigan.

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Aquí tenéis la sinopsis:

At the moment of his greatest victory, before a crowd of thousands, the warrior Vedas Tezul renounced his faith, calling for revolt against the god Adrash, imploring mankind to unite in this struggle.

Good intentions count for nothing. In the three months since his sacrilegious pronouncement, the world has not changed for the better. In fact, it is now on the verge of dying. The Needle hangs broken in orbit above Jeroun, each of its massive iron spheres poised to fall and blanket the planet’s surface in dust. Long-held truces between Adrashi and Anadrashi break apart as panic spreads.

With no allegiance to either side, the disgraced soldier Churls walks into the divided city of Danoor with a simple plan: murder the monster named Fesuy Amendja, and retrieve from captivity the only two individuals that still matter to her—Vedas Tezul, and the constructed man Berun. The simple plan goes awry, as simple plans do, and in the process Churls and her companions are introduced to one of the world’s deepest secrets: A madman, insisting he is the link to an ancient world, offering the most tempting lie of all… Hope.

Concluding the visceral, inventive narrative begun in No Return, Shower of Stones pits men against gods and swords against civilization-destroying magic in the fascinatingly harsh world of Jeroun.

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Tebeo gratis : 2000 AD Origins

digitalgn_2000_ad_originsPara celebrar su 38 aniversario, está disponible para su descarga gratuita el tebeo 2000 AD Origins, con las primeras historias de personajes icónicos como el Juez Dredd o los Perros de Estroncio.

Aquí tenéis los contenidos:

  • Judge Dredd (2000 AD Prog 2)
  • Nemesis the Warlock: Terror Tube (2000 AD Prog 167)
  • Slaine: The Time Monster (2000 AD Prog 330)
  • Rogue Trooper (2000 AD Prog 228)
  • Nikolai Dante: The Romanov Dynasty (2000 AD Prog 1035)
  • Strontium Dog (Starlord Issue 1)
  • Halo Jones (2000 AD Prog 376)
  • A.B.C. Warriors (2000 AD Prog 119)
  • Shakara (2000 AD Prog 2002)
  • Kingdom (2000 AD Prog 2007)

Contenido adicional

Bonus Judge Dredd Strip

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Portada de Ancillary Mercy

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.

ancillarymercy«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.

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Portada de Seveneves

Aquí os traigo la portada de la nueva novela de Neal Stephenson, Seveneves, que se publicará en mayo de este año.

Seveneves

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?

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Anunciados los nominados a los Nebula 2015

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)