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Herencia (1895) set in the city of Lima during the last decades of the XIX Century, is the third deliberately controversial novel written by Clorinda Matto de Turner (Peru, 1852-1909), well known by then for her novels, Aves sin nido (1889) and Indole (1891), which take place in rural Andean Peru. An experienced writer of essays, historical fiction and biographies, Clorinda Matto had a sociologist's sharply observant eye, but by 1895, when she published Herencia, Clorinda Matto's days as an aggressive journalist in Lima were numbered. Only a few months later, she fled into exile in Argentina...

Semidioses de realidades simuladas en potentes ordenadores se ven obligados a combatir dentro de sus propias simulaciones para su supervivencia en el mundo real. La aparente estabilidad de una casta de soberanos semidivinos de mundos virtuales se tambalea. El universo se enfrenta a la muerte térmica. Un dispositivo permite emigrar a otro universo: es la salvación. Los semidioses saben que uno de ellos está ya experimentando el dispositivo y les angustia el miedo a perder su ocasión. Deciden entonces celebrar combates en las realidades simuladas, bajo el arbitraje de un juez supremo: el...

Tras su aventura en El último de Cuba, Rafael Sánchez, el protagonista de esta novela, efectúa su ‹‹segunda salida››, por decirlo al modo cervantino, desde el corazón de Europa (la Ginebra de 1957) en un periplo que lo llevará a Roma, Madrid, Santander, Nueva York, la selva colombiana y Brasil. Con destellos de alta literatura (y alta cocina y altos poderes del Estado y de las finanzas internacionales), las tramas con trasfondo de espionaje que se suceden en la novela, son una máscara más para hablar del tema central del libro: el Mal, con mayúscula, y su carácter total,...

Homicide Detective Alex Cross teams up with his wife to beat a D. C. criminal at his own game. Washington, DC, has never been more dangerous. After shots pierce the tranquil nighttime calm of Rock Creek Park, a man is dead: what looks at first like road rage might be something much more sinister. But Alex has only just begun asking questions when he's called across town to investigate a new murder, one that hits close to home: his former boss and the beloved mentor of Alex's wife, Bree. Now there's a killer on the loose, a long list of possible suspects, a city in panic, and nobody in charge...