Ebook gratis: Almost All the Way From the Stars, de Jay Lake y Ruth Nestvold

En estos momentos se puede descargar gratuitamente en Amazon España el ebook Almost All the Way From the Stars, de Jay Lake y Ruth Nestvold.

Ésta es su sinopsis:

Near future dystopia, colonies in space, galactic empires: this collection has it all! "Almost All the Way Home From the Stars" is a collection of seven science fiction short stories by award winning writers Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold. The settings range from galactic empires on distant worlds, to a dystopia in the near future warped by fundamentalism, to an alternate US where slavery was never abolished. Here a sampling:

"Rivers of Eden": In a world transformed by a virus affecting faith, one lone scientist wants to set loose a cure for fanaticism.

"The Big Ice": On Hutchinson’s World, Vega and Mox are trying to unravel the mystery of the Big Ice -- until the family responsibilities Vega has been trying to escape come back to haunt her.

"The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Home From the Stars": An NSA agent is assigned to look after a Canadian scientist whose husband has left Earth to visit the stars -- and the strange dimple in the lake that she is watching, waiting for his return.

Five of the stories have been previously published elsewhere, in various online and print markets, including Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction. Two stories are new with this collection.

Ebook gratis: Looking Through Lace, de Ruth Nesvold

En estos momentos se puede descargar gratuitamente en Amazon el relato Looking Through Lace, de Ruth Nesvold, que fue finalista de los premios Tiptree y Sturgeon. Ésta es su sinopsis:

As the only woman on the first contact team, xenolinguist Toni Donato expected her assignment on Christmas would be to analyze the secret women's language -- but then the chief linguist begins to sabotage her work. What is behind it? Why do the men and women have separate languages in the first place? What Toni learns turns everything she thought they knew on its head.

Originally published in Asimov's in 2003, "Looking Through Lace" was a finalist for the Tiptree and Sturgeon awards. The Italian translation won the Premio Italia for best work of speculative fiction in translation in 2007.

Free Ebook: Beyond the Waters of the World by Ruth Nestvold

Beyond the Waters of the World by Ruth Netstold is currently free to download from Amazon (US, ES). This is the product description:

On the planet Kailazh, the challenges confronting the Allied Interstellar Community first contact team far exceed the norm. Yet if dealing with an alien culture is inevitably problematic for explorers setting foot on an unfamiliar world, how much more so must it be for the inhabitants of the planet themselves, who must deal with bizarre realities that collide head-on with their core beliefs?

Kislan is a factor in his family's shipping company, a man who has seen countless ships dock at his home port of Edaru from many different cities, a man who deals daily with foreign goods from around the known world. But the ship that arrives from the stars brings more than exotic innovations, it brings ideas that will reshape his life.

And it brings the beautiful ambassador from the stars, Toni Donato.

Beyond the Waters of the World is a science fiction novella of approximately 23,000 words, or about 60 pages. It is the second book in the Looking Through Lace series.