Dos ebooks de Jack McDevitt en oferta

En estos momentos se pueden adquirir en Amazon España dos ebooks de Jack McDevitt a precio rebajado. Son los siguientes:

Firebird (2,94€)

Forty-one years ago the renowned physicist Chris Robin vanished. Before his disappearance, his fringe science theories about the existence of endless alternate universes had earned him both admirers and enemies. 

Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath discover that Robin had several interstellar yachts flown far outside the planetary system where they too vanished. And following Robin's trail into the unknown puts Benedict and Kolpath in danger...

Time Travelers Never Die (2,78€)

When physicist Michael Shelborne mysteriously vanishes, his son Shel discovers that he had constructed a time travel device. 

Following his father's trail through history-from the enlightenment of Renaissance Italy through the American Wild West to the civil-right upheavals of the 20th century-Shel makes a devastating discovery that sends him feeling back through the ages, and changes his life forever.

Novedad: Ancillary Mercy, de Ann Leckie

Ayer se puso a la venta Ancillary Mercy, de Ann Leckie, tercera y última entrega de la saga iniciada con Ancillary Justice. 

Ésta es su sinopsis:

Ancillary Mercy is the stunning conclusion to the trilogy that began with Ancillary Justice, the only novel ever to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards. 

For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship. Then a search of Athoek Station's slums turns up someone who shouldn't exist and a messenger from the mysterious Presger empire arrives, as does Breq's old enemy, the divided, heavily armed, and possibly insane Anaander Mianaai - ruler of an empire at war with itself. 

Breq could flee with her ship and crew, but that would leave the people of Athoek in terrible danger. Breq has a desperate plan. The odds aren't good, but that's never stopped her before.

Novedad: A Conflict of Orders, de Ian Sales

Ya está a la venta A Conflict of Orders, de Ian Sales, continuación de A Prospect of War (que reseñé hace unos pocos meses). Ésta es la sinopsis de la novela: 

Casimir Ormuz and the Admiral, at the head of the biggest fleet the Empire has seen since its founding, are on their way to Geneza to meet the forces of the Serpent.

On Shuto, capital world of the Empire, the Serpent has begun his siege of the Imperial Palace.

Ormuz and the Admiral must win their battle on Geneza, and then travel to Shuto to save the Emperor, to save the Empire. But winning the fight and lifting the siege are only the beginning. Still complicating matters is the millennia-long conspiracy which seems to

be driving the Serpent's rebellion.

So who is the real villain?

And when it all ends, who will be sitting on the Imperial Throne?

Novedad: Shadows of Self, de Brandon Sanderson

Hoy se pone a la venta Shadows of Self, la continuación de The Alloy of Law, de Brandon Sanderson. Ésta es su sinopsis:

The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns to the world of Mistborn with his first novel in the series since The Alloy of Law. 

With The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson surprised readers with a New York Times bestselling spinoff of his Mistborn books, set after the action of the trilogy, in a period corresponding to late 19th-century America. 

The trilogy's heroes are now figures of myth and legend, even objects of religious veneration. They are succeeded by wonderful new characters, chief among them Waxillium Ladrian, known as Wax, hereditary Lord of House Ladrian but also, until recently, a lawman in the ungoverned frontier region known as the Roughs. There he worked with his eccentric but effective buddy, Wayne. They are "twinborn," meaning they are able to use both Allomantic and Feruchemical magic. 

Shadows of Self shows Mistborn's society evolving as technology and magic mix, the economy grows, democracy contends with corruption, and religion becomes a growing cultural force, with four faiths competing for converts. 

This bustling, optimistic, but still shaky society now faces its first instance of terrorism, crimes intended to stir up labor strife and religious conflict. Wax and Wayne, assisted by the lovely, brilliant Marasi, must unravel the conspiracy before civil strife stops Scadrial's progress in its tracks. 

Shadows of Self will give fans of The Alloy of Law everything they've been hoping for and, this being a Brandon Sanderson book, more, much more.

Ebook en oferta: Lovecraft Unbound, antología de Ellen Datlow

En estos momentos se puede adquirir a precio promocional en varias tiendas online (Amazon ES - 1,07€; Kobo - 1,11€) la antología Lovecraft Unbound, editada por Ellen Datlow, que contiene relatos de autores como Caitlín R. Kiernan, Michael Cisco, Michael Chabon, Lavie Tidhar, Laird Barron, Gemma Files o Sarah Monette y Elizabeth Bear (de quienes se incluye el estupendo "Mongoose").

Ésta es la sinopsis del libro:

The stories are legendary, the characters unforgettable, the world horrible and disturbing. Howard Phillips Lovecraft may have been a writer for only a short time, but the creations he left behind after his death in 1937 have shaped modern horror more than any other author in the last two centuries: the shambling god Cthulhu, and the other deities of the Elder Things, the Outer Gods, and the Great Old Ones, and Herbert West, Reanimator, a doctor who unlocked the secrets of life and death at a terrible cost. In Lovecraft Unbound, more than twenty of today's most prominent writers of literature and dark fantasy tell stories set in or inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft.

Vídeo: Presentación de El imperio de Yegorov, de Manuel Moyano, en el Festival Celsius 232 (2015)

Siguiendo con los vídeos de los actos del pasado Festival Celsius 232, hoy os traigo la grabación de la presentación de El imperio de Yegorov, de Manuel Moyano. Participan Jorge Iván Argiz y el propio autor de la novela.

¡Que lo disfrutéis!

Novedad: The Best of Nancy Kress

Subterranean Press ha puesto a la venta The Best of Nancy Kress, una edición de lujo que recoge 21 relatos de la autora estadounidense. Éstas son las historias elegidas:

• “And Wild For to Hold”
• “Out of All Them Bright Stars”
• “Pathways”
• “Dancing on Air”
• “Unto the Daughters”
• “Laws of Survival”
• “Someone To Watch Over Me”
• “Flowers of Aulit Prison”
• “Price of Oranges”
• “By Fools Like Me”
• “Casey’s Empire”
• “Shiva in Shadow”
• “Grant Us This Day”
• “Kindness of Strangers”
• “End Game”
• “My Mother, Dancing”
• “Trinity”
• “People Like Us”
• “Evolution”
• “Margin of Error”
• “Beggars in Spain”