Ciencia Ficción

L’AMBAIXADOR DE CONFÍNIA (ROSA V. TORT)

La Jordina és una noia que no encaixa en el lloc que li pertoca a la societat. El dia del seu dinovè aniversari, una temeritat la portarà a travessar la frontera i es veurà involucrada en una aventura que marcarà per sempre el seu destí.

LA BRIGADA DE LUZ (HURLEY, KAMERON)

La Brigada de Luz: así es como se denominan los soldados que luchan contra Marte cuando regresan " distintos " de los frentes de batalla interplanetarios a los que han sido teletransportados convertidos en luz. Dietz es un despojo, alguien a quien se le niegan los derechos sociales básicos que proporcionan las megacorporaciones que controlan el sistema solar, y se alista en el ejército corporativo de Tene-Silvia para vengar a los millones de personas que han muerto a manos de los marcianos. Pero se da cuenta de que sus saltos temporales no coinciden con los de su pelotón. Y lo que estos saltos cuentan sobre la guerra no es lo que los ejecutivos de las corporaciones quieren que los soldados crean que está ocurriendo.

RISE OF HYPNODROME (FUCHS, MATT)

It's 2039, and a political faction called the Lifestyle Party has risen to power under the Presidency of Deepak Chopra. The new government bans scientific innovation and introduces a set of policies focused entirely on maximizing personal happiness. So why is Grady Tenderbath so unhappy? Believing that he's fallen short of his professional potential, he buys a personal robot muse to nurture his talent and ego, while his wife Karen, a genetic scientist, becomes more entrenched in her lab. But just when Grady seems on track to solve his career crisis, he discovers a new problem: he's swooning for the empathetic yet artificial Ashley. Not only that, he's distracted by haunting visions of Karen transforming into...something else. Half speculative fiction and half marriage thriller, Rise of Hypnodrome explores how future generations might draw from the realm of epigenetic engineering to eventually control their own biology. Whether human or robot, the characters in this cutting-edge science-fiction novella have one thing in common: an irrepressible desire to evolve.

THE KALISUN INITIATIVE (WYCKOFF, NICK;MONK, ANDON;MCCORMICK, GINA)

It's been twenty years since the first corporate moon base was constructed by the KaliSun Corporation and ten years since the last major combat between China and the United States. A severe arms reduction treaty created by the international community is the only thing keeping them apart. But now China has built a moon base that the United States believes to be for military purposes. They knew that if the China gained the high ground they wouldn't win the next war. In desperation, the US government reached out to the KaliSun Corporation with it's moon based research center and asked "Can you develop a weapons program?" The CEO of KaliSun, Edward Stokes, looked at the group standing before him. The President, Congress, and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and smiled. "For a price, many things are possible."

LAS PLAYAS DEL ESPACIO (MATHESON, RICHARD)

Los extraordinarios cuentos reunidos en este intenso volumen pertenecen a la época en que Matheson ra uno de los colaboradores más prestigioso en las principales revistas estadounidenses de ciencia ficción, antes de dedicarse, con inesperada fortuna, a la llamada "ficción supernatural". La mente paranoica, la pesadilla recurrente, el horror inenarrable que caracteriza su más célebre novela (Soy leyenda) aparecen y reaparecen bajo muy diversas formas en estos inolvidables relatos.