Hoy os ofrezco un nuevo vídeo grabado en la pasada MiRCon 2014. Se trata de la conferencia Estudio de la producción editorial de género fantástico en España (Período 2005-2014), de Mariano Villarreal.
¡Espero que os guste mucho!
On the eve of a recurring catastrophic event known to extinguish nations and reshape continents, a troubled orphan evades death and slavery to uncover her own bloody past… while a world goes to war with itself.
In the frozen kingdom of Saiduan, invaders from another realm are decimating whole cities, leaving behind nothing but ash and ruin. As the dark star of the cataclysm rises, an illegitimate ruler is tasked with holding together a country fractured by civil war, a precocious young fighter is asked to betray his family and a half-Dhai general must choose between the eradication of her father’s people or loyalty to her alien Empress.
Through tense alliances and devastating betrayal, the Dhai and their allies attempt to hold against a seemingly unstoppable force as enemy nations prepare for a coming together of worlds as old as the universe itself.
Elizabeth Barnabus lives a double life – as herself and as her brother, the private detective. She is trying to solve the mystery of a disappearing aristocrat and a hoard of arcane machines. In her way stand the rogues, freaks and self-proclaimed alchemists of a travelling circus.
But when she comes up against an agent of the all-powerful Patent Office, her life and the course of history will begin to change. And not necessarily for the better...
The people of Fellein have lived with legends for many centuries. To their far north, the Blasted Lands, a legacy of an ancient time of cataclysm, are vast, desolate and impassable, but that doesn't stop the occasional expedition into their fringes in search of any trace of the ancients who once lived there… and oft-rumoured riches.
Captain Merros Dulver is the first in many lifetimes to find a path beyond the great mountains known as the Seven Forges and encounter, at last, the half‐forgotten race who live there. And it would appear that they were expecting him.
As he returns home, bringing an entourage of the strangers with him, he starts to wonder whether his discovery has been such a good thing. For the gods of this lost race are the gods of war, and their memories of that far-off cataclysm have not faded.
The Empire of Fellein is in mourning. The Emperor is dead, and the armies of the empire have grown soft. Merros Dulver, their newly-appointed – and somewhat reluctant – commander, has been tasked with preparing them to fight the most savage enemy the world has yet seen.
Meanwhile, a perpetual storm ravages the Blasted Lands, and a new threat is about to arise – the Broken are coming, and with them only Death.
¿Qué pasa cuando la salvación de toda la humanidad depende de un asesino genético?Nota: Gracias a Manuel de los Reyes y Josep María Oriol por el chivatazo.
Año 2116. La humanidad ha logrado colonizar varios sistemas solares gracias a los Tritones, alienígenas que conocen el secreto para viajar entre las estrellas a más velocidad que la luz y lo usan para ejercer como barqueros de la galaxia. Pero ahora, una nave Tritónide ha aterrizado por accidente en Radamantis, un planeta que los terrestres han convertido en colonia penal. Para proteger su monopolio, los Tritones amenazan con aniquilar todos los mundos humanos si no se les devuelve la nave antes de trece días.
No obstante, los planes de la poderosa megacorporación HONYC son muy distintos. Decididos a apoderarse de la tecnología del viaje interestelar, envían a Radamantis a su mejor agente, al que han tenido congelado 20 años.
Éremos es un asesino diseñado física y mentalmente para llevar a cabo su trabajo sin errores y sin remordimientos. Sin embargo, al llegar al planeta presidio y encontrarse con personajes de su pasado, su fría lógica empieza a tambalearse y aparecen las dudas y las emociones. Para colmo, un extraño vidente drogadicto, su única pista para hallar la nave alienígena, le profetiza que morirá el mismo día en que termina el ultimátum de los Tritones.
A partir de ese momento empieza la carrera contrarreloj de Éremos por descubrir el secreto más codiciado del universo, salvar a la humanidad y cambiar su propio destino.
Se acaban de anunciar los contenidos de The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Thirty-Second Annual Collection, la antología anual de Gardner Dozois, que se publicará a medidados del año que viene. Estos son los relatos seleccionados (con enlaces a versiones gratuitas online cuando existen):