¿Qué pasaría si un inocente juguete dinamitara nuestra noción de libre albedrío? ¿Y si fuera posible ponerse en contacto con versiones de nosotros mismos en otras líneas temporales? No importa cuál sea el tema que trate Ted Chiang en sus narraciones, siempre demuestra una formidable habilidad para indagar en los enigmas de la condición humana y abordar los conflictos éticos que la relación con la tecnología plantea en nuestra existencia, desde una perspectiva abiertamente positiva y ...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-09-15 Género:Ciencia ficción y fantasía 13,99 €
‘A science fiction genius . . . Ted Chiang is a superstar.’ – Guardian With Stories of Your Life and Others , his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose. From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations are a wondrous and terrifying part of ever...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-06-19 Género:Ciencia ficción y fantasía 5,99 €
‘One of the most exciting writers in science fiction . . . Although dark in premise, these parables – threaded through with references to ancient mythology and folklore – are filled with hope and humanism: a balm for anxious souls.’ – Daily Telegraph From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others – the basis for the Academy Award nominated film Arrival – comes a groundbreaking second collection of short fiction: nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stor...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-07-11 5,99 €
"99 Science Fiction Short Stories" brings together some of the finest sci fi short stories ever crafted. Featuring gems from masters of the genre, such as H.G Wells , Robert Barr , PKD, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Norton, and many, many more!
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-02-17 0,49 €
Una compilación de historias que te atraerán tu imaginación con fuerzas de marea inmensas y siempre te plantearan preguntas adicionales. Después de leerlas tu también podrás decir: "Yo he visto cosas que vosotros no creeríais" Según la Wikipedia Una distopía, es una utopía perversa donde la realidad transcurre en términos opuestos a los de una sociedad ideal. Sinopsis Crónicas de la Distopía. Una colección de relatos, sin conexión aparente, que profundizan en diversas vertientes d...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-10-20 0,99 €
The strange and wonderful tale of man’s experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions. Now part of the Voyager Classics collection. The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease they called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a fist. They felt they had never been born. Those few that survived found no welcome on Mars. The s...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-02-14 Género:Ciencia ficción y fantasía 6,99 €
This book contain collection of 9 books 1. All the Sad Young Men [1926] 2. The Beautiful and Damned [1922] 3. Flappers and Philosophers [1920] 4. Tales of the Jazz Age [1922] 5. This Side of Paradise [1920] 6. The Pat Hobby stories [1941] 7. Taps at Reveille [1935] 8. Tender is the Night [1934] 9. Short Stories About the Author F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940 Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th Century. The self-styled spokesman of the "Lost Gen...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-04-11 0,49 €
The third volume in the Science Fiction Megapack series collection 26 tales of high adventure through other worlds and times, including a complete novel by H. Beam Piper! Included in this volume are: “The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity,” by Fritz Leiber “Time Bum,” by C.M. Kornbluth “The Human Equations,” by Dave Creek “The Gun,” by Philip K. Dick “Not Stupid Enough,” by George H. Scithers “Jackpot,” by E.C. Tubb “The Killing Streets,” by Colin Harvey “Moon D...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-02-08 0,49 €
From #1 bestselling author of A Game of Thrones, Nightflyers , now a television show on SyFy and Netflix, features an epic story of space exploration and cosmic horror, plus five George R. R. Martin classic science fiction tales. On a voyage toward the boundaries of the known universe, nine misfit academics seek out first contact with a shadowy alien race. But another enigma is the Nightflyer itself, a cybernetic wonder with an elusive captain no one has ever seen in the flesh. Soon, however, th...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-03-27 5,49 €
Three stories for the price of one from a Science Fiction Grand Master. “Living Space”— It’s nice to own an entire planet. Clarence Rimbro owns his own personal planet Earth. You see, there are an infinity of possible Earths, each existing in its own parallel universe. A perfect solution to overpopulation is to give everyone their own earth in an alternate universe. So Clarence and his family is totally alone right? Then why are there noises and shaking going on his own private ear...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-10-09 0,49 €
Un holocausto nuclear global. Un vicioso asesino en serie acechando las calles de París. Un misterio en México. Esta colección del premiado novelista y guionista Brian L. Porter muestra algunos de sus mejores cuentos. La pieza del título, Después del Armagedón, muestra las secuelas de un holocausto nuclear global, con un giro sorprendente en la historia. La voz de Anton Bouchard, que Thunderball Films pronto convertirá en una película, cuenta la escalofriante historia...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-04-12 2,99 €
Романы, повести, рассказы и пьесы Аркадия и Бориса Стругацких несомненно входят в золотой фонд мировой классики ХХ века. В настоящем уникальном иллюстрированном издании собрано практически все творческое наследие великих мастеров фантастики. В книгу вошли: Романы и п...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2022-06-23 0,99 €
Includes "After Yang," the basis for the acclaimed A24 film After Yang , starring Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Haley Lu Richardson, and directed by Kogonada. A New York Times Notable Book “A darkly mesmerizing, fearless, and exquisitely written work. Stunning, harrowing, and brilliantly imagined.” —Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersiv...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-09-13 8,99 €
All three volumes of the worldwide bestselling Mars trilogy. Mars – the barren, forbidding planet that epitomises mankind’s dreams of space conquest. From the first pioneers who looked back at Earth and saw a small blue star, to the first colonists – hand-picked scientists with the skills necessary to create life from cold desert – Red Mars is the story of a new genesis. It is also the story of how Man must struggle against his own self-destructive mechanisms to achieve his dreams: befor...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-07-30 Género:Ciencia ficción y fantasía 20,99 €
Pocos relatos resumen con tanta perfección el mundo aventurero y salvaje de Jack London como Encender una hoguera. Escrito originalmente en 1902 para una revista dirigida al público juvenil, su autor lo pulió y modificó hasta ofrecer su versión definitiva en 1910. Esta historia de un hombre y un perro que avanzan al atardecer por un bosque nevado, a sesenta grados bajo cero, guarda muchos paralelismos con Colmillo Blanco y La llamada de la selva, las dos novelas más populares de London, en...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-11-06 7,99 €
A classic collection of stories – all told on the skin of a man – from the author of Fahrenheit 451. If El Greco had painted miniatures in his prime, no bigger than your hand, infinitely detailed, with his sulphurous colour and exquisite human anatomy, perhaps he might have used this man’s body for his art… Yet the Illustrated Man has tried to burn the illustrations off. He’s tried sandpaper, acid, and a knife. Because, as the sun sets, the pictures glow like charcoals, like scattered ...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-02-14 Género:Ciencia ficción y fantasía 6,49 €
Here for the first time is the complete suite of five linked stories from Ursula K. Le Guin’s acclaimed Hainish series, which tells the history of the Ekumen, the galactic confederation of human colonies founded by the planet Hain. First published in 1995 as Four Ways to Forgiveness , and now joined by a fifth story, Five Ways to Forgiveness focuses on the twin planets Werel and Yeowe, two worlds whose peoples, long known as “owners” and “assets,” ...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-09-05 Género:Ciencia ficción y fantasía 9,49 €
The definitive collection of terrifying stories by "one of the greatest writers of the 20th century" (Ray Bradbury), edited by award-winning author Victor LaValle Among the greats of 20th-century horror and fantasy, few names stand above Richard Matheson. Though known by many for novels like I Am Legend and his sixteen Twilight Zone episodes, Matheson truly shines in his chilling, masterful short stories. Since his first story appeared in 1950, virtually every major writer of science fiction, ho...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-10-10 5,99 €
Previously published as Stories of Your Life and Others . Includes "Story Of Your Life," the basis for the major motion picture Arrival , starring Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner, and directed by Denis Villeneuve. “A swell movie adaptation always sends me to the source material, so Arrival had me pick up Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others : lean, relentless, and incandescent.” —Colson Whitehead, GQ Ted Chiang has long been known as one of the most powerful science ficti...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-06-14 5,99 €
20 Classic Sci-Fi Novels and Short Stories! Featuring Ayn Rand, Edward Bellamy, Harry Harrison, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Frederick Pohl, H. Beam Piper, Poul Anderson , Phillip K. Dick, Jules Verne, R. F. Starzl, Victor Rousseau, Edmond Hamilton & Harl Vincent, Murray Leinster, Samuel R. Delaney, Arthur Stangland and Marion-Zimmer Bradley
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-06-03 0,99 €
Seven Authors with three stories each, hence the Triple Feature—presenting 21 exciting stories of classic Science Fiction. Three stories from Science Fiction Grand Master, Isaac Asimov, including “Living Space”. Three tales by fellow SF Grand Master Poul Anderson including “The Temple of Earth”. Donald E. Westlake, primarily known as a mystery writer, is represented with three stories of his own including “Meteor Strike”. Fritz Leiber has three tales that include “Hatchery of Dre...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-10-09 2,49 €
"A clown with an axe walks into a church..." It sounds like the start of a bad joke but in a dark future overrun by unspeakable horror, an evil clown with an axe that tells him to kill things might be just what the doctor ordered.
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-06-16 0,99 €
Tales of Space and Time was written by H.G. Wells and first published in 1899. Tales of Space and Time is a classic fantasy and science fiction collection of three short stories and two novellas.
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-01-24 0,49 €
Habían avanzado hasta el borde del gran vacío oscuro, en busca de una nueva patria. Pero en la Edad del Renacimiento de los nuevos colores vitales, el regreso de los destructores de pueblos, una raza de guerreros que adora las armas y el exterminio, contaminará el orden y la tranquilidad. ¿Vale la pena ganar una batalla para salvarse?
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-11-20 1,49 €
Enjoy Fourteen Original Fan Fiction tales set in the Hunterverse with a Foreword by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Over a century ago, the Peltier clan came to New Orleans and established one of the best-known Limanis in the world. Now out of the shadows of their past, the present, and the future, readers will be treated to stories from fans of Sherri's as they dip their pens into the realms of the Dark-Hunters, Were-Hunters, and Dream-Hunters. Join us for this exciting collection of short stories set a...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-11-26 5,99 €
When you hear Sci-Fi, do your normally think of Arthur Conan Doyle, J.R.R. Tolkien, H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, or George Orwell? Or do some more recent authors come to mind? Looking for your next sci-fi must-read? We've pulled together some of the favourite science fiction novels. Some are eerily plausible, others are wild trips of the imagination, but all present compelling visions of our possible future. Science fiction quite literally means t...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-10-16 0,99 €
No todo el mundo en el espacio es un héroe ... … Algunos simplemente luchan por sobrevivir en este loco universo. La Estación Alcance Lejano fue un sueño que nunca se hizo realidad. Construida en el espacio profundo en la terminal de Ring Network, la estación se convirtió en un puerto de escala para aventureros, comerciantes y sinvergüenzas de un número incalculable de mundos, cada uno con agendas ocultas. La mayoría de las personas que llaman hogar a la estación solo quieren hacer un...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-06-17 4,49 €
“Instantiation” is a collection of eleven science fiction stories by Hugo Award winning author Greg Egan: • “The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine” • “Zero For Conduct” • “Uncanny Valley” • “Seventh Sight” • “The Nearest” • “Shadow Flock” • “Bit Players” • “Break My Fall” • “3-adica” • “The Slipway” • “Instantiation”
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-01-24 3,99 €
Ukyo es un krypsos descendiente del linaje de Susanoo. Como tal, su tarea es crecer y convertirse en un guerrero para luchar en la batalla contra Kendal Ish'mar. Los gemelos Gracco, descendientes del linaje Prometeo y su hermano, Yasuhiro, lo criarán. Un hermano con el que es difícil tratar, un hermano que le convence de ser un incapaz, un inepto. Por otro lado, Ukyo siempre ha sido frágil y débil, no tiene los medios para luchar. Sin embargo, su mente curiosa y brillante le lleva a interesa...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-09-15 2,99 €
“Onamuji el primogénito"; es el cuarto libro de la serie de historias de “Anomalías Estructurales” que examinan un episodio particular en la vida de cada uno de los personajes que luego se reunirán en la novela “La ciudad de las luces vivientes". La Última Gran Cruzada fue el comienzo de la degeneración de la guerra que llevó a la humanidad al borde de la extinción. Una presunta deidad, Kendal Ish'mar, se propuso proteger a los sobrevivientes, rodeando una franja de tierra, el act...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-04-06 2,99 €
Con Sepulcro de canciones , Orson Scott Card demuestra una maestría narrativa poco común. Es, sin duda alguna, uno de sus mejores relatos. « Que siguiera viviendo me parecía una crueldad inimaginable. Que lograra ser relativamente feliz, una favorita de las enfermeras, me parecía incomprensible. Quizá fuera porque no tenía otra cosa que hacer. Una persona sin brazos ni piernas no tiene muchos modos de matarse .» Elaine tiene cinco años cuando, a causa de un accidente de tráfico, queda ...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-06-04 Género:Ciencia ficción y fantasía 0,99 €
Seventeen of the funniest science fiction stories published in the past decade (2005-2015), featuring alien invasions, global conspiracies, time travel and even animal uprisings. Fiction by Hugo and Nebula award winners and nominees as well as talented newcomers. Stories were selected by the Unidentified Funny Objects series curator Alex Shvartsman.
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-02-19 3,49 €
MDP Publishing has compiled a second collection of Novels, novelettes, novellas and short stories from prolific Science Fiction icon Isaac Asimov. These stories were originally published by Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine in the late 1950's. Stories include the 3 part full length novel Caves of Steel , as well as Lastborn, Galley Slave and Ideas DIe Hard . With over 250+ electronic pages and all of the originally artwork from each issue of Galaxy , you can experience these stories the same way s...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-09-01 5,49 €
Prólogo de Ian Watson Traducción de Rodolfo Martínez Un perfume maravilloso que preludia la muerte; una bloguera decidida a lo que haga falta con tal de no perder visitas; un barrio marginal dominado por las bandas en el que, pese a todo, quizá haya un atisbo de esperanza; un peculiar primer contacto con una especie alienígena; una tienda que no parece de este mundo; una simple llave; un artista obsesionado con los tiburones... En estos diecinueve relatos Ian Whates dibuja con mano firme, p...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-05-22 3,49 €
Aquest recull, concebut com unes succintes "obres escollides!, permet un coneixement global de l'obra del millor Lovecraft. 'La crida de Cthulhu' és una obra mestra de la narrativa en llengua anglesa, i la resta dels relats que integren el volum combinen a la perfecció la qualitat literària i la riquesa imaginativa de l'autor més important en l'àmbit del que ell anomenava "l'horror sobrenatural". La selecció, que abasta la maduresa literària de Lovecraf...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2010-03-06 Género:Ciencia ficción y fantasía 8,49 €
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Greatest Works of Jules Verne: 25 Books in One Volume (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) The Mysterious Island (1875) Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) From the Earth to the Moon (1865) Around the Moon (1869) Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar (1876) In Search of the Castaways or, The Children of ...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-11-23 0,99 €
Invisible Planets , edited by multi award-winning writer Ken Liu--translator of the bestselling and Hugo Award-winning novel The Three Body Problem by acclaimed Chinese author Cixin Liu--is his second thought-provoking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction. Invisible Planets is a groundbreaking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction . The thirteen stories in this collection, including two by Cixin Liu and the Hugo and Sturgeon award-nominated “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfan...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-11-01 10,99 €
"The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack" contains 27 more works spanning time and space--including 24 stories, 2 interviews, and "A Science Fiction Alphabet." Fun stuff indeed! Included are: INTERVIEW: DAN SIMMONS, conducted by Darrell Schweitzer THE SPIRES OF DENON, by Kristine Kathryn Rusch AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A HOUND DOG, by Brenda W. Clough FOR I AM A JEALOUS PEOPLE! by Lester del Rey LUVVER, by Mack Reynolds FROG LEVEL, by Bud Webster CAPTAINS CONSPIRING AT THEIR MUTINIES, by Jay Lake SHIFTING SE...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-08-20 0,99 €
Un rey que se gana malamente la vida como funcionario, un hada un tanto histérica y una niña de siete años, Alicia, son los protagonistas de este cuento de Charles Dickens que apareció por primera vez en 1868 en Estados Unidos. La raspa mágica, que su autor atribuyó juguetonamente a la pluma de la pequeña Alicia, contiene un final sorprendente con todo el humor y el genio narrativo característicos de Dickens. La presente edición -procedente de la biblioteca privada de Luis Alberto de Cu...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-03-22 5,99 €
A compilation of short science fiction and fantasy from Elizabeth Bear—tales of myth and mythic resonance, fantasies both subtle and epic in tone; hard science fiction and speculations about an unknowable universe. This collection, showcasing Bear's unique imagination and singular voice, includes her Hugo- and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winning story "Tideline" and Hugo-winning novelette, "Shoggoths in Bloom," as well as an original, never-published story. Recipient of the John W. Campbe...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-12-18 6,49 €
"The Philip K. Dick Anthology: 18 Classic Science Fiction Stories" contains a fantastic selection from the legendary master of the genre. The stories in this anthology excellently illustrate the Genius of Philip K. Dick's irrepressible imagination, and the intelligent prescience of his writing. As suggested by the title, there are 18 separate stories, as well as numerous illustrations in this Anthology - the stories are listed below. 1. Beyond Lies the Wub 2. The Gun 3. The Skull 4. ...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-06-28 0,99 €
Publicadas originalmente em revistas de pulp fiction, no final dos anos 1950, nos Estados Unidos, As crônicas marcianas foram reunidas num livro por seu autor, no início dos anos 1960, e interligadas por pequenas costuras narrativas. As crônicas acabaram formando emocionante panorama imaginário da chegada do homem a Marte e da colonização do planeta pela espécie humana. Livro que pode ser visto como um romance fragmentado ou uma seqüência conceitual de contos.
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-03-28 7,49 €
Long before A Game of Thrones became an international phenomenon , #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin had taken his loyal readers across the cosmos. Now back in print after almost ten years, Tuf Voyaging is the story of quirky and endearing Haviland Tuf, an unlikely hero just trying to do right by the galaxy, one planet at a time. Haviland Tuf is an honest space-trader who likes cats. So how is it that, in competition with the worst villains the universe has to offer...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-01-29 7,49 €
Technology Review Science Fiction: 12 visions of the future of computing, biotechnology, energy and more from the editors of MIT’s Technology Review. TRSF, is an anthology of original near-future science fiction stories by celebrated science fiction masters, and some of the best new talent from around the world. The collection is inspired by real world technological breakthroughs. Featuring an original cover by legendary science fiction artist Chris Foss, and illustrated with six classic Foss ...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-11-11 5,99 €
Everyone wants to know how I proposed to Claire. Well, it’s complicated...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-10-09 0,49 €
Un voyageur, membre d'une mystérieuse expédition, fait de morbides découvertes. Une nouvelle dans l'esprit de La Quatrième Dimension. EN BONUS : la nouvelle De Toute Urgence, dans laquelle un médecin se lance dans une folle course, pour une raison connue de lui seul.
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-07-29 0,99 €
From the author of "The Stars My Destination" and "The Demolished Man" comes this science fiction comedy. Bester skewers the 20th Century in this piercing science fictional look back at our age from a remote future. Join the Artsy-Crafty Kid, Jane Tarzan, Edward G. Robinson, and other characters on an adventure beyond our wildest reality! This edition adds a new Introduction and Bibliography.
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-04-05 Género:Ciencia ficción y fantasía 0,49 €
From the mind of #1 New York Times bestselling author Larry Niven, come twenty-six tales and vignettes from this interplanetary gathering place, collected for the first time in one volume. When a tremendous spacecraft took orbit around the Earth's moon and began sending smaller landers down toward the North Pole, the newly arrived visitors quickly set up a permanent spaceport at Mount Forel in Siberia. Their presence attracted many, and a few people grew conspicuously rich from secrets they lear...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2007-04-01 10,99 €
An omnibus volume of two of Marion Zimmer Bradley's classic, long-unavailable Darkover novels, including the first Darkover novel ever written! To Save a World includes The World Wreckers and the Planet Savers , plus the short story "The Waterfall." The Planet Savers: Originally published in Amazing Stories in December 1958, The Planet Savers was the very firs Darkover novel to see print. It was here readers were first introduced to the now legendary world of Cottman ...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2004-12-07 8,49 €
Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our July 2022 issue (#190) contains: Original fiction by Eliane Boey ("The Forgotten"), Ahmed Asi ("To Be"), David Goodman ("Carapace"), Suzanne Palmer ("The Sadness Box"), Xiu Xinyu ("The Strange Girl"), and Isabel J. Kim ("Termination Stories for the Cyberpunk Dystopia Protagonist").Non-fiction includes an article by E.E. Kin...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2022-07-01 3,99 €