Ciencia Ficción

BARCELONA TIME TRAVELLER TWELVE TALES (GIBBONS, WES)

Barcelona Time Traveller: Twelve Tales is a sci-fi history book written by a geologist and designed to amuse, teach and tease the reader into thinking about the immensity of time. On one level its approach is local, focusing on the city of Barcelona and the surrounding region of Catalonia, and merging the dramas of human history with those of natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, droughts, plagues and volcanic eruptions. On another level it is global, viewing these events against the grand and astonishing backdrop of Earth evolution. It is written not only for those who have visited (or plan to visit) the city of Barcelona, but for anyone who likes stories. The Twelve Tales are stories about humans, of our place in the scheme of things, and of the mysteries of travelling through Deep Time.

THE INLOOKER (TUMBLER, TERRY)

This is a ?black humour? science fiction story set in the near future, where a man finds that he has a very special talent. It is to take over other people?s souls and thus possess their bodies as if they were his own. As he becomes increasingly aware of his abilities, he first uses them to mete out justice to mentally warped criminals, and then to undertake sexual adventures. Growing tired of what are, in the scheme of things, trivial pursuits, he embarks on a life of crime intent on accumulating serious amounts of money. Whilst fleecing the wealthy, he comes across an alien hiding amongst us, and is impressed by the seamless transport system on its own planet, so he decides to emulate it on Planet Earth. With a colleague recruited from The Lockheed Skunk Works in America, he develops a vehicle based on UFO technology, and uses it as a stepping stone to power. His motivation soon goes beyond his revolutionary and hugely successful transport system, and extends to a serious attempt at population reduction. For this he requires even more prominence on the world stage, as he battles aliens to prevent annihi

NOVUM. CIENCIA FICCIÓN. III CONCURSO DE MICRORRELATOS (AA.VV.)

Invasiones alienígenas, viajes en el tiempo, sociedades dominadas por robots, colonias terrícolas en otros planetas, mundos paralelos, mentes controladas por humanoides, el exterminio de la civilización, androides que quieren ser humanos... Todos estos temas, y muchos más, están presentes en esta recopilación de 212 microrrelatos.

ESTOY EN PUERTOMARTE SIN HILDA Y OTROS CUENTOS (ASIMOV, ISAAC)

Además de ser un maestro de la divulgación científica e histórica, Isaac Asimov fue un gran narrador de ciencia ficción, género que concebía como una respuesta literaria a los cambios científicos de la época que debía abarcar la escala completa de la experiencia humana, desde los sentimientos amorosos a los conflictos trágicos. Integrado en su mayor parte por relatos de intriga (sólo dos de los catorce cuentos de que consta escapan a tal clasificación), " Estoy en Puertomarte sin Hilda " sirvió a Asimov para renovar este género de forma brillante y sustancial, combinándolo con la ficción científica, pero sin abandonar nunca su convención básica: la lealtad del autor hacia los lectores, que pueden encontrar en el texto las posibilidades de anticipar el desenlace gracias a las pistas y datos que se le suministran.

ANATEMA (STEPHENSON, NEAL)

Neal Stephenson vuelve a sorprender a sus lectores con una excepcional e inesperada novela y ha creado un nuevo mundo mezclando elementos de la mejor aventura futurística con retazos de matemáticas, física y filosofía.El planeta Arbre estuvo al borde del colapso hace miles de años. Los nuevos intelectuales, los avotos, se reunieron en monasterios para iniciar un nuevo tipo de vida cenobítica sin elemento religioso alguno. El ritmo de evolución y cambio de los avotos es lento, mientras el planeta sufre todo tipo de transformaciones.Ahora, casi cuatro mil años después de la Reconstrucción y la fundación del sistema cenobiótico, el Poder Secular parece ocultar que hay una nave alienígena orbitando el planeta. Descubrirla, establecer contacto y comprender a esos extraños seres procedentes de otro lugar es el gran trabajo que espera al protagonista fra Erasmas, discípulo del heterodoxo Orolo.

OUTSIDE (BONDONI, GUSTAVO)

A novel of Interstellar Contact, Virtual Worlds, and the Essence of Humanity.??Earth is empty of humans. This surprising observation stymies Rome and his shipmates, crew of the starship come to re-establish contact from the colonies. What could have happened in the 500-years of the non-interference treaty to vanish everyone??Meanwhile, on Earth, Emily is living her computer-simulated life, along with the rest of Earth?s residents: bodies stored in vast underground chambers, minds living without disease, poverty, or pain. But dramatic change is coming to their carefully regulated virtual world. Impenetrable black walls suddenly cut off cities. Monsters appear, destroying all they touch. Emily?s expertise has her on the front line of the investigation, trying to understand these frightening developments.?When Rome and Emily meet, it seems they?ve found the answers to each other?s mysteries. But as the colonists and Earth engage in tense diplomacy, suppressed histories are revealed, and a tyrant with frightening powers rises. Together, Rome and Emily discover the terrifying secret buried deep underground that t

SOULMATES (DEBON, DON)

Mechands . . . everyone has one. The metal race built by man to serve our every need. But Aleshia is about to find out they are not the benevolent protectors that she has always been taught. And who is this strange man in her dreams? The man who actually exists and reveals the whole world is not as she thought.

COHORT OF THE DAMNED (KEITH, ANDREW;KEITH, JR. JR., WILLIAM H.)

Can a man escape from his past in a fighting battalion on alien battlefield? Wolfgang Hauser was an aristocrat-right, privileged, pampered ... until the day alien invaders overwhelmed his world and stripped him of everything he held dear. Now he was an outcast, without a family or a home, his honor tainted by accusations of cowardice and murder. He was a man on the run, and sooner or later his enemies would find him and destroy what was left of his shattered life. There was only one safe haven in the far-flung Terran Commonwealth. He joined the Fifth Foreign Legion. But Wolfgang Hauser soon discovered that the Legion demanded a high price from the misfits who flocked to his banner, seeking new life and new hope. The man who had lost everything found that he would have to surrender his name, his beliefs, and his very identity to become a Legionnaire. It was a price he wasn't sure he could pay.

A MILLION DEAD LAWYERS (MILLER, JONATHAN;STABLEY, DAVID)

It's the year 2112 and there are no lawyers. Everything is done by computer. When the governor's son is accused of murder, he invokes his right to trial by a jury. Sam Marlow is brought back from the past to handle the case. He gets help from Sahar, a wannabe attorney with a ?secret. Is the future ready for a rattlesnake lawyer?

CLIMBING OLYMPUS (ANDERSON, KEVIN J.)

They were prisoners, exiles, pawns of a corrupt government. Now they are Dr. Rachel Dycek's adin, surgically transformed beings who can survive new lives on the surface of Mars. But they are still exiles, unable ever again to breathe Earth's air. And they are still pawns. For the adin exist to terraform Mars for human colonists, not for themselves. Creating a new Earth, they will destroy their world, killed by their own success. Desperate, adin leader Boris Tiban launches a suicide campaign to sabotage the Mars Project, knowing his people will perish in a glorious, doomed campaign of mayhem-unless embattled, bitter Rachel Dycek can find a miracle to save both the Mars Project and the race she created.