Aquí podéis ver la que será portada de The Thorn of Emberlain, la cuarta entrega de la serie Gentlemen Bastards de Scott Lynch. La ilustración es obra de Alejandro Colucci, con quien compartimos una agradable sobremesa en Londres.
Portada de All that outer space allows
Ian Sales ha publicado en su blog la que será portada de la última entrega de su imprescindible Apollo Quartet. El libro se titulará All that outer space allows y aún no tenemos fecha para la publicación.
Portada de The whispering swarm
Gollancz ha desvelado cuál será la portada de la nueva novela de Michael Moorcock, The whispering swarm. El libro, definido como parte autobiografía y parte ficción, se pondrá a la venta en julio de este año.
Portada de The rebirths of Tao
Ya tenemos la posibilidad de conocer la portada de la que será la tercera entrega de Lives of Tao, llamada The rebirths of Tao. Si tenéis curiosidad por la serie, aquí os dejo la reseña de la primera entrega.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Portada de The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2015
Ya tenemos la portada del libro The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2015, que están editando entre John Joseph Adams y Joe Hill (¡menudo par!).
¿Qué os parece?
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.
“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.
Portada de Seveneves
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?
Contenidos de In the stars I’ll find you and other tales of futures fantastic
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:
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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?
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“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.
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“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?