Etiqueta: Portadas

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Portada y contenidos de Galactic Empires

Si necesitábamos alguna prueba más para saber que Neil Clarke es un cyborg, como él mismo admite, aquí os traigo la portada y el contenido de su nuevo proyecto: Galactic Empires.

Relatos incluídos:

“Winning Peace” de Paul J. McAuley
“Night’s Slow Poison” de Ann Leckie
“All the Painted Stars” de Gwendolyn Clare
“Firstborn” de Brandon Sanderson
“Riding the Crocodile” de Greg Egan
“The Lost Princess Man” de John Barnes
“The Waiting Stars” de Aliette de Bodard
“Alien Archeology” de Neal Asher
“The Muse of Empires Lost” de Paul Berger
“Ghostweight” de Yoon Ha Lee
  “A Cold Heart” de Tobias S. Buckell
“The Colonel Returns to the Stars” de Robert Silverberg
“The Impossibles” de Kristine Kathryn Rusch
“Utriusque Cosmi” de Robert Charles Wilson
“Section Seven” de John G. Hemry
“The Invisible Empire of Ascending Light” de Ken Scholes
“The Man with the Golden Balloon” de Robert Reed
“Looking Through Lace” de Ruth Nestvold
“A Letter from the Emperor” de Steve Rasnic Tem
“The Wayfarer’s Advice” de Melinda M. Snodgrass
“Seven Years from Home” de Naomi Novik
“Verthandi’s Ring” de Ian McDonald

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Desvelada la portada de Impersonations

Aquí os traigo la portada de la nueva obra de Walter Jon Williams, titulada Impersonations, una novella dentro de la línea de Tor.Com.

Este es el blurb:

Nebula Award-winning author Walter Jon Williams returns to the sweeping space opera adventure of his Praxis universe with an exciting new novel featuring the hero of Dread Empire’s Fall!

Having offended her superiors by winning a battle without permission, Caroline Sula has been posted to the planet Earth, a dismal backwater where careers go to die. But Sula has always been fascinated by Earth history, and she plans to reward herself with a long, happy vacation amid the ancient monuments of humanity’s home world.

Sula may be an Earth history buff, but there are aspects of her own history she doesn’t want known. Exposure is threatened when an old acquaintance turns up unexpectedly. Someone seems to be forging evidence that would send her to prison. And all that is before someone tries to kill her.

If she’s going to survive, Sula has no choice but to make some history of her own.

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Portada Wolfhound Empire

Desde Gollancz nos dejan ver la que será portada del omnibús Wolfhound Empire, que incluirá la trilogía completa de Peter Higgins ( Wolfhound Century, Truth and Fear y Radiant State).

Me alegra muchísimo la publicación de este compendio, por la calidad de sus libros (aunque me falta por leer el último) y por la extrema amabilidad de Peter, que se comportó estupendamente con nosotros en Loncon. Y si ya de paso baja el precio del ebook de Radiant State, ni te cuento.

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Portadas décimo aniversario

Hace poco Armando se hacía eco del décimo aniversario de la publicación de una grandísima obra fantástica, Las mentiras de Locke Lamora. Pero es que este año hay varias obras más que alcanzan esta estupenda cifra, y los chicos de Gollancz han decidido celebrarlo con ediciones nuevas. Aquí tenéis las portadas de unos libros que han cambiado la faz de la fantasía en este siglo (menos The storm caller, que reconozco no haber leido).

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Portada de Walkaway

Aquí os traigo la portada de la nueva novela adulta de Cory Doctorow, Walkaway.

La sinopsis:

Hubert, Seth, and their ultra-rich heiress friend Natalie are getting a little old to hang out at the “Communist parties,” techno-raveups in abandoned industrial spaces, full of insta-printed drugs and toys. And Natalie was finished, years ago, with her overcontrolling zillionaire dad.

And now that anyone can manufacture food, clothing, shelter with equipment comparable to a computer printer, there seems to be little reason to to stick with the world of rules and jobs. So, like hundreds of thousands of others in the mid-21st century, the three of them…walk away.

Mind you, it’s still dangerous out there. Much of the countryside is wrecked by climate change, and predators are with us always. Yet when the initial pioneer walkaways flourish, more people join them. Then the walkaways discover the one thing the ultra-rich have never been able to buy: how to beat death.

Now it’s war—a war that will turn the world upside down.

Fascinating, moving, and darkly humorous, Walkaway is a multi-generation SF thriller about the wrenching changes of the next hundred years…and the very human people who will live their consequences.

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Portada de Revenger

En Gollancz han dado a conocer la portada de Revenger, la nueva y esperada novela de Alastair Reynolds.

Y también el resumen:

The galaxy has seen great empires rise and fall. Planets have shattered and been remade. Amongst the ruins of alien civilisations, building our own from the rubble, humanity still thrives.

And there are vast fortunes to be made, if you know where to find them . . .

Captain Rackamore and his crew do. It’s their business to find the tiny, enigmatic worlds which have been hidden away, booby-trapped, surrounded with layers of protection – and to crack them open for the ancient relics and barely-remembered technologies inside. But while they ply their risky trade with integrity, not everyone is so scrupulous.

Adrana and Fura Ness are the newest members of Rackamore’s crew, signed on to save their family from bankruptcy. Only Rackamore has enemies, and there might be more waiting for them in space than adventure and fortune: the fabled and feared Bosa Sennen in particular.

From the dark, distant future, and the rubble of our solar system comes  a tale of space pirates, buried treasure and phantom weapons, of unspeakable hazards and single-minded heroism . . . and of vengeance . . .

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Portada de Slipping

Me he llevado una grata sorpresa al enterarme de que en agosto se publicará Slipping, una colección de relatos de Lauren Beukes.

Aquí os traigo la sinopsis y la portada:

In her edgy, satiric debut collection, award-winning South African journalist and author Lauren Beukes (The Shining Girls, Moxyland) never holds back. Nothing is simple and everything is perilous when humans are involved: greed, corruption, struggle, and even love (of a sort).

A permanent corporate branding gives a young woman enhanced physical abilities and a nearly-constant high

Recruits lifted out of poverty find a far worse fate collecting biohazardous plants on an inhospitable world

The only adult survivor of the apocalypse decides he will be the savior of teenagers; the teenagers are not amused.

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