La mala semilla

Año 2014 - Ancona Un científico, descendiente de Guglielmo Marconi ha inventado un tipo de humanoide muy especial que cambiará la Humanidad Año 7485 Los animales se han adueñado de la Tierra y los humanos se han convertido en sus esclavos. ¿Qué ha sucedido realmente? PUBLISHER: TEKTIME

Tessa and her kind are sick and tired of being the victims. Now is payback time! "Shooting pool all by yourself can be fun for a little while, but it gets boring in the end, and I had been doing it for two days in a row now. All I knew was that this was where the recruiter was likely to show up. I hoped that my platinum blond hair and my innocent blue eyes would be enticing enough for him to hit on me; otherwise, I would have to find another way. But wait a minute--you have no idea what this is all about, right? And you may be wondering what blond hair and blue eyes I'm blabbering about when...

Fiction. You're sitting in a darkened theater, waiting for the movie to begin when American culture explodes all around in I-Max, Sensurround, Technicolor--this is the experience of reading Lance Olsen's brilliant 10:01, a novel in frames that unreels the random thoughts of a random movie audience: a screening of our own moment that Olsen lights with the white heat of a a projector beam. Be sure to check out Lance Olsen's other titles at SPD, including SEWING SHUT MY EYES.

La abadesa de Crewe ocurre como un cuento de hadas exasperado, rica en circunstancias y detalles que gravitan en el lugar en que el título nos sitúa, entre religiosas que desplazan casi involuntariamente el conflicto y lo conducen, con cierta parsimonia dolorosa, de la pleitesía al agravio. Con una virtuosa precognición, la autora coloca en la novela un sistema de mensajes interno que socava rápidamente la información, la magnetiza con un método que tiene al mismo tiempo algo de político y algo de maléfico. El conflicto mismo no tarda en encontrar una importancia capital, pero es el...