Categoria: Inglés

Angelfall – Susan Ee

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Penryn is trying to survive. Because after the angels came to destroy the modern world there are no rules. Streets are ruled by gangs and angels are hunting for humans. When her sister is kidnapped, Penryn will do everything she can to find her, even if it means working with the enemy. Everything could happen in this new dangerous world.

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Nova – Samuel R. Delany

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The balance of galactic power in the 31st century revolves around Illyrion, the most precious energy source in the universe. The varied and exotic crew who sign up with Captain Lorq Von Ray know their mission is dangerous, and they soon learn that they are involved in a deadly race with the charismatic but vicious leader of an opposing space federation. But they have no idea of Lorq’s secret obsession: to gather Illyrion at...

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Babel 17 – Samuel R. Delany

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Babel-17 is the novel which catapulted Samuel R. Delany into the front rank of SF writers. In the far future, after human civilization has spread through the galaxy, communications begin to arrive in an apparently alien language. They appear to threaten invasion, but in order to counter the threat, the messages must first be understood. Babel-17, winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is a fascinating tale of a famous poet...

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick

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Written in 1966, first published in 1968, and the basis for Ridley Scott’s 1982 cult classic film Blade Runner, this novel is a disturbing exploration of what really constitutes life, reality and faith. Primarily, it is about a bounty hunter whose job is to track down and “retire” renegade androids which almost perfectly resemble actual human beings.

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A Scanner Darkly – Philip K. Dick

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Substance D – otherwise known as Death – is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain’s two hemispheres, leading first to disorentation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, undercover narcotics agent, is trying to find a lead to the source of supply, but to pass as an addict he must become a user, and soon, without...

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The Slow Regard of Silent Things – Patrick Rothfuss

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Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient passageways and abandoned rooms. A young woman lives there, tucked among the sprawling tunnels of the Underthing, snug in the heart of this forgotten place. Her name is Auri, and she is full of mysteries. The Slow Regard of Silent Things is a brief, bittersweet glimpse of Auri’s life, a small adventure all her own....

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Star Maker – Olaf Stapledon

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One moment a man sits on a suburban hill, gazing curiously at the stars. The next, he is whirling through the firmament, and perhaps the most remarkable of all science fiction journeys has begun. Even Stapledon’s other great work, Last and First Men, pales in ambition next to Star Maker, which presents nothing less than an entire imagined history of life in the universe, encompassing billions of years.

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Cities in Flight – James Blish

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Cities in Flight is an omnibus volume of four novels, originally published between 1955 and 1962, two of which are fix-ups of pieces that first appeared in various magazines in the early ’50s. Despite having been conceived more than 50 years ago, and produced in episodic fashion, they stand head and shoulders above most SF available today. Cities in Flight explores a future built on two crucial discoveries: antigravity devices, which allow whole cities to be...

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The Island of Dr. Moreau – H. G. Wells

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Edward Prendick is shipwrecked and finds himself stranded on an island in the Pacific. Here he meets the sinister Dr. Moreau, a vivisectionst driven out of Britain in disgrace. And soon strange events cause Prendick to uncover the full horror of Dr. Moreau’s activities on the island. The Island of Dr. Moreau mixes discussion on the divide between humans and the animal kingdom and chilling macabre horror in an unrivalled fashion. Its question on...

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Earth Abides – George R. Stewart

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In this profound ecological fable, a mysterious plague has destroyed the vast majority of the human race. Isherwood Williams, one of the few survivors, returns from a wilderness field trip to discover that civilization has vanished during his absence. Eventually he returns to San Francisco and encounters a female survivor who becomes his wife. Around them and their children a small community develops, living like their pioneer ancestors, but rebuilding civilization is beyond their...

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