en-US Wed, 23 Apr 2025 06:19:35 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 2612048 255pages. poche. Poche. 256 Agustín Gómez Arcos 2020065614 Jose 0 4.48 1976
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]]> 12291273 384 Agustín Gómez Arcos 8493518565 Jose 0 4.48 1975
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]]> 20983712 304 Agustín Gómez Arcos 8494035355 Jose 0 4.57 1977
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]]> 216212391
Sentir la revolución alza la voz a través de trece relatos de fantasía, ciencia ficción y terror en los que se reinterpretan los cuentos tradicionales, se defienden los derechos sociales y se tratan temas como la violencia policial, el anticapitalismo y la invisibilización de las mujeres en los movimientos artísticos a lo largo de la Historia.

Esta antología es una selección de las voces más distintivas del panorama nacional e internacional. En ella, la literatura de género lucha, palabra a palabra, por la revolución.

Relatos que aparecen en esta antología:
Nosotras, las chicas que no sobrevivimos, de E. A. Petricone
Los huesos de abajo, de Vanessa Fogg
Interregno, de Nieves Delgado
Para elevarte, estalla, de Jen Brown
El cuento de las tres hermosas hermanas terópodas y el príncipe hecho de carne, de Brooke Bolander
Reflexiones en alienígena, de Vandana Singh
Morera y Lechuza, de Aliette de Bodard
Sentir lo suficiente, de Caryanna Reuven
Retrato de tres mujeres con búho, de Gwen C. Katz
Asfalto, río, madre, niña, de Isabel Yap
No te sientes a la mesa de la bruja, de Marina Tena
La fiesta eterna de los condenados, de Fonda Lee
El test de la coneja, de Samantha Mills]]> 295 Laura Morán Iglesias 8412661796 Jose 0 4.03 2024
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name: Jose
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]]> 22907032 169 Henri Lefebvre 8429709169 Jose 0 4.09 1968
author: Henri Lefebvre
name: Jose
average rating: 4.09
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]]> 142415368 416 Charles Montgomery 8412619811 Jose 0 3.94 2012
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]]> 62919855 A dazzling tour through 2,000 years of audacious utopian thinking and experiments, exploring better ways to arrange our daily lives, plus a globetrotting jaunt to the communities already putting these seemingly fanciful visions into practice today.

In the 6th century BCE, the Greek philosopher Pythagoras—a man remembered today more for his theorem about right-angled triangles than for his progressive politics—founded a commune in a seaside village in what’s now southern Italy. The men and women there shared their property, lived as equals, and dedicated themselves to the study of mathematics and the mysteries of the universe.

Ever since, humans have been dreaming up better ways to organize how we live together, share our property, raise our children, and determine who’s part of our families. Some of these experiments burned brightly for only a brief while—but others carry on today.

In Everyday Utopia, fascinatingly feminist thinker Kristen R. Ghodsee whisks you away on a tour through history and around the world to explore those places that have boldly dared to reimagine how we might live our daily lives: from the Danish cohousing communities that share chores and deepen neighborly bonds to matriarchal Colombian ecovillages where residents grow all their own food; and from Connecticut, where new laws make it easier for extra “alloparents�� to help raise children not their own, to China, where planned microdistricts ensure everything a busy household might need is nearby.

One of those startlingly rare books that upends what you think is possible, Everyday Utopia offers a radically hopeful vision for how to build more contented and connected societies, alongside a practical guide to what we all can do in the meantime to live the good life each and every day.]]> 352 Kristen R. Ghodsee 1982190213 Jose 0 3.96 2023
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]]> 212106735 376 Janette Sadik-Khan Jose 0 4.00 2016
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]]> 38338491
O’Neil expone los modelos que dan forma a nuestro futuro, como individuos y como sociedad. Estas «armas de destrucción matemática» califican a maestros y estudiantes, ordenan currículos, conceden (o niegan) préstamos, evalúan a los trabajadores, se dirigen a los votantes, fijan la libertad condicional y monitorean nuestra salud.]]> 280 Cathy O'Neil 8494740849 Jose 0 3.77 2016
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]]> 59753730 396 Vincent Bevins 8412390245 Jose 0 4.53 2020
author: Vincent Bevins
name: Jose
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]]> 60524136
En este revelador libro, Katharina Pistor sostiene que la ley "codifica" selectivamente ciertos bienes, dotándolos de la capacidad de proteger y producir riqueza privada. Con la codificación legal adecuada, cualquier objeto, reclamación o idea puede convertirse en capital y los abogados son los guardianes del código. Pistor describe cómo eligen entre los distintos sistemas y dispositivos jurídicos los que mejor sirven a las necesidades de sus clientes, y cómo las técnicas que se perfeccionaron hace siglos para codificar las propiedades de la tierra como capital se utilizan hoy para codificar acciones, bonos, ideas e incluso expectativas, activos que sólo existen en el derecho.

Una nueva y poderosa forma de pensar sobre uno de los problemas más perniciosos de nuestro tiempo, 'El código del capital' explora las diferentes formas en que la deuda, los productos financieros complejos y otros activos se codifican para dar ventajas financieras a sus poseedores.

Este provocativo libro describe un inquietante retrato de la naturaleza global del código, de las personas que lo configuran y de los gobiernos que lo aplican.]]> 410 Katharina Pistor 8412458060 Jose 0 3.60 2019
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]]> 197568204 184 Yago Álvarez Barba 8412708563 Jose 0 3.93
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]]> 16064382 Es hoy, transcurridos 5000 años, cuando por primera vez nos encontramos ante una sociedad dividida entre deudores y acreedores, con instituciones erigidas con la voluntad única de proteger a los prestamistas.A la estela de la gran crisis que padecemos se hace imprescindible analizar la naturaleza de la deuda, el dinero y las instituciones financieras que tienen el destino del mundo en sus manos, desmontar ideas encastradas en nuestra conciencia colectiva y superarlas conociendo cuál es la verdadera historia de la economía, o lo que es lo mismo, de la relación del ser humano con el dinero.
Al margen, por supuesto, de mitos–el truque- o de postulados que tienen más de ideológico que de histórico.En deuda es una crónica fascinante, pertinente y brillante que viene a poner luz sobre el debate más importante que ha tenido lugar en los últimos años.]]> 720 David Graeber 8434404893 Jose 0 4.42 2011
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]]> 213380773 752 Naomi Oreskes 8412838882 Jose 0 4.25 2023
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]]> 123239491 384 George Monbiot 8412619994 Jose 0 4.78 2022
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]]> 224032614 184 George Monbiot 8412953150 Jose 0 4.08 2024
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]]> 227664600 512 Clara E. Mattei 8412953258 Jose 0 5.00 2022
author: Clara E. Mattei
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]]> 45860015 256 Héctor Tejero 8412042603 Jose 0 4.19 2019
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name: Jose
average rating: 4.19
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]]> 55515260 168 Andreu Escrivà 8412135431 Jose 0 4.02
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]]> 223219043 392 8412953142 Jose 0 4.00
author: José Luis Fernández Casadevante Kois
name: Jose
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]]> 377254 Robot Dreams follows an ill-fated friendship between a dog and robot. After a Labor Day jaunt to the beach leaves Robot rusty and immobilized in the sand, Dog, unsure what to do, abandons him. As the seasons pass, Dog tries to replace his friend, making and losing a series of new ones, from a melting snowman to epicurean anteaters. Meanwhile, Robot passes his time daydreaming, escaping to better places... Through interwoven journeys, the two characters long to recover from their day at the beach.

Although its adorable characters and playful charm will win over young readers, Robot Dreams speaks universally to the fragile nature of friendship, loss, and redemption.]]> 208 Sara Varon 1596431083 Jose 0 3.94 2007
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]]> 34593278 240 Han Kang 8416738130 Jose 0 3.81 2007
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]]> 218473 196 Larry Niven 0345337778 Jose 0 4.00 1974
author: Larry Niven
name: Jose
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]]> 62017
The protagonist, Dilvish, was sent to Hell by the dark sorcerer Jelerak when he interrupted one of Jelerak's rituals. The stories recount his adventures after he escapes Hell two hundred years later, with a handful of awesome, but impractical destructive spells and a sapient Steed named Black, and sets out for revenge on Jelerak.]]> 215 Roger Zelazny 0345901754 Jose 0 3.80 1982
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]]> 25972396 Robert Sheckley vive algunos segundos por delante del resto de la Humanidad. Conoce bien el futuro... desde los problemas que se presentan cuando una nave tiene su propio punto de vista acerca de a donde debe dirigirse hasta lo que sucede con el negocio matrimonial por correspondencia, cuando se efectúa a escala interestelar. Porque Sheckley es esa extraña combinación: Un filósofo que extrapola lo que ve aquí y ahora, para trasladarlo a otros tiempos y otros mundos. Y, cuando lo hace, a veces nos provoca la risa, a veces nos causa escalofríos, pero siempre despierta en nosotros la inquietud que hace pensar.

Contenido:

Aflicciones del hombre humano
El cuerpo
El motín del bote salvavidas
La trampa
Mala medicina
Miedo en la noche
Peregrinación a la Tierra
�ʴDZ�����ó��
Primer modelo
�ʰ��dzٱ𳦳���ó��
Servicio de eliminación
Tierra, aire, fuego y agua
Todas las cosas que sois
Un viaje de placer]]> 168 Robert Sheckley 8436600797 Jose 0 3.67 1957
author: Robert Sheckley
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average rating: 3.67
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]]> 100343 "The Subject Is Closed" - Could AI stop working on life after death because subject solved?
"Table Manners" - Is Rick hunter or hunted by five Folk aliens?
"Losing Mars" - Unpublished. Aliens on Mars angry humans forget their planet.]]> 316 Larry Niven 0765347717 Jose 0 3.88 2006
author: Larry Niven
name: Jose
average rating: 3.88
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]]> 150247395
Called in to investigate this mystery is Ana Dolabra, an investigator whose reputation for brilliance is matched only by her eccentricities.

At her side is her new assistant, Dinios Kol. Din is an engraver, magically altered to possess a perfect memory. His job is to observe and report, and act as his superior’s eyes and ears--quite literally, in this case, as among Ana’s quirks are her insistence on wearing a blindfold at all times, and her refusal to step outside the walls of her home.

Din is most perplexed by Ana’s ravenous appetite for information and her mind’s frenzied leaps—not to mention her cheerful disregard for propriety and the apparent joy she takes in scandalizing her young counterpart. Yet as the case unfolds and Ana makes one startling deduction after the next, he finds it hard to deny that she is, indeed, the Empire’s greatest detective.

As the two close in on a mastermind and uncover a scheme that threatens the safety of the Empire itself, Din realizes he’s barely begun to assemble the puzzle that is Ana Dolabra—and wonders how long he’ll be able to keep his own secrets safe from her piercing intellect.

Featuring an unforgettable Holmes-and-Watson style pairing, a gloriously labyrinthine plot, and a haunting and wholly original fantasy world, The Tainted Cup brilliantly reinvents the classic mystery tale.]]> 410 Robert Jackson Bennett 1984820702 Jose 0 4.28 2024
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]]> 29868611
Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud Awards. She has had her work collected over the years, but never as a complete retrospective of her longer works as represented in the wonderful The Found and the Lost.

CONTENT
"Vaster Than Empires And More Slow"
"Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight"
"Hernes" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"The Matter Of Seggri"
"Another Story Or A Fisherman Of The Inland Sea"
"Forgiveness Day"
"A Man Of The People"
"A Woman’s Liberation"
"Old Music And The Slave Women"
"The Finder"
"On The High Marsh"
"Dragonfly"
"Paradises Lost"

This collection is a literary treasure chest that belongs in every home library.]]> 816 Ursula K. Le Guin 1481451391 Jose 0 4.42 2016
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
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]]> 6790271 248 Jirō Taniguchi 8496427285 Jose 0 3.78 2004
author: Jirō Taniguchi
name: Jose
average rating: 3.78
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]]> 7704642 176 Jirō Taniguchi 8496427110 Jose 0 4.00 1991
author: Jirō Taniguchi
name: Jose
average rating: 4.00
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]]> 55888998 164 Jirō Taniguchi Jose 0 4.33
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]]> 12543888 336 Jirō Taniguchi Jose 0 3.55 1999
author: Jirō Taniguchi
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]]> 4144132 240 Jirō Taniguchi 8493399256 Jose 0 4.34 1993
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]]> 12898004
La conciencia de Kazuhiro Kubota se despierta en el cuerpo del joven, como si le ofrecieran la última oportunidad de comprender lo que de verdad era importante en su vida. Pero el tiempo apremia: Takuya va recuperando la memoria, mientras que el espíritu de Kazuhiro intenta retomar el contacto con su familia. Y la convivencia de dos almas en un solo cuerpo no resultará fácil.]]> 304 Jirō Taniguchi 1908007133 Jose 0 3.86 2005
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name: Jose
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]]> 23464666 240 Jirō Taniguchi 1908007508 Jose 0 4.11 2011
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name: Jose
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]]> 36538793
In Taisho-era Japan, Tanjiro Kamado is a kindhearted boy who makes a living selling charcoal. But his peaceful life is shattered when a demon slaughters his entire family. His little sister Nezuko is the only survivor, but she has been transformed into a demon herself! Tanjiro sets out on a dangerous journey to find a way to return his sister to normal and destroy the demon who ruined his life.

Learning to slay demons won’t be easy, and Tanjiro barely knows where to start. The surprise appearance of another boy named Giyu, who seems to know what’s going on, might provide some answers…but only if Tanjiro can stop Giyu from killing his sister first!]]> 192 Koyoharu Gotouge 1974700526 Jose 0 4.39 2016
author: Koyoharu Gotouge
name: Jose
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2016
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]]> 22882931 432 Michael Ende 8444111201 Jose 0 4.13 1994
author: Michael Ende
name: Jose
average rating: 4.13
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]]> 3655071
Es corto el pasillo del imponente palazzo romano pero jamás alcanzaremos su final. Es ancho el zaguán de la villa magnífica, y ahí lo tenemos, invitándonos a entrar, engañándonos con una oferta de facilidad. Si te lanzas al mundo para aprender la admiración, ¿adónde debes dirigirte?. Los cuentos de Michael Ende demuestran q ue existe la libertad y que la fantasía es nuestro mejor rescate. La prisión de la libertad secuestra al lector y se lo lleva a un mundo de colores abigarrados, de enigmas y milagros y señales misteriosas. Y sin embargo nunca nos perderemos en los pequeños universos de cada cuento, porque sus raíces están en nuestro propio interior. Este volumen contiene ocho narraciones de Michael Ende: excelentes, tiernas, tristes, crueles. Cada una de ellas posee su propia perspectiva, su propia estructura, su propia solución estilística. Las figuras y los tiempos, los sucesos inauditos, los cambios inesperados, contados por el Gran Maestro de la literatura fantástica, son fenómenos que nos sorprenden, sí, que nos provocan un maravillado asombro, pero que acabamos aceptando con naturalidad.]]> 212 Michael Ende Jose 0 4.24 1992
author: Michael Ende
name: Jose
average rating: 4.24
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rating: 0
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]]> 218372802 An award-winning mathematician shows how we prove what’s true, and what to do when we can’t

How do we establish what we believe? And how can we be certain that what we believe is true? And how do we convince other people that it is true? For thousands of years, from the ancient Greeks to the Arabic golden age to the modern world, science has used different methods—logical, empirical, intuitive, and more—to separate fact from fiction. But it all had the same goal: find perfect evidence and be rewarded with universal truth.

As mathematician Adam Kucharski shows, however, there is far more to proof than axioms, theories, and laws: when demonstrating that a new medical treatment works, persuading a jury of someone’s guilt, or deciding whether you trust a self-driving car, the weighing up of evidence is far from simple. To discover proof, we must reach into a thicket of errors and biases and embrace uncertainty—and never more so than when existing methods fail.

Spanning mathematics, science, politics, philosophy, and economics, this book offers the ultimate exploration of how we can find our way to proof—and, just as importantly, of how to go forward when supposed facts falter.]]> 368 Adam Kucharski 1541606698 Jose 0 4.15 2025
author: Adam Kucharski
name: Jose
average rating: 4.15
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]]> 900597 151 Miguel Azaola 8434847337 Jose 0 3.74 1995
author: Miguel Azaola
name: Jose
average rating: 3.74
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]]> 214151616 192 Inio Asano 1974749991 Jose 0 3.80 2023
author: Inio Asano
name: Jose
average rating: 3.80
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]]> 35262573 240 Jordi Elias 8496730212 Jose 3
Mediante esta técnica el autor proporciona varios juegos distintos: algunos portales a otros mundos en el sentido amplio (como un libro o un puerto); combinaciones interesantes de localización, puerta, jambas, dintel, cerradura, paredes anexas, umbral, y personas que lo traspasan, junto con un título que describa la idea a posteriori; y el juego inverso, en el que el autor trata de plasmar de manera creativa un título abstracto previamente fijado (por ejemplo, "la asfixia") mediante el uso de las puertas. Este último tipo es el más frecuente con diferencia.

El dibujo es sencillo, en blanco y negro (carboncillo) con unos pocos trazos magistrales en la mayoría de dibujos. La reproducción de las ilustraciones en el libro es demasiado pequeña, me habría gustado que las hubieran ampliado más y dejado menos espacio en blanco en cada página.

El resultado me ha parecido un ejercicio interesante aunque no memorable: si las puertas hubieran sido más espectaculares en su dibujo o su concepto, y hubiera habido más diversidad en la temática, me habría podido parecer una obra maestra. Tal y como es, no siento la necesidad de revisitarlo en el futuro.




]]> 3.67
author: Jordi Elias
name: Jose
average rating: 3.67
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/03
date added: 2025/03/04
shelves: art, comic, comic-strip, humour, autor-espanhol
review:
En este libro, más una colección artística que un cómic, el autor nos propone un juego sugerente: presenta un conjunto de 300 dibujos independientes, cada uno consistente en un portal (o una puerta, o un conjunto de ellas) con particularidades, elementos ajenos, o contexto evocador, acompañado de un título abstracto. El resultado de aunar mentalmente los conceptos del título y la imagen puede ser muy estimulante. La innovación o extravagancia varía bastante entre dibujos, siendo algunos sencillas impresiones de puertas que pueden perfectamente existir en algún pueblo, y otros verdaderas metáforas conceptuales.

Mediante esta técnica el autor proporciona varios juegos distintos: algunos portales a otros mundos en el sentido amplio (como un libro o un puerto); combinaciones interesantes de localización, puerta, jambas, dintel, cerradura, paredes anexas, umbral, y personas que lo traspasan, junto con un título que describa la idea a posteriori; y el juego inverso, en el que el autor trata de plasmar de manera creativa un título abstracto previamente fijado (por ejemplo, "la asfixia") mediante el uso de las puertas. Este último tipo es el más frecuente con diferencia.

El dibujo es sencillo, en blanco y negro (carboncillo) con unos pocos trazos magistrales en la mayoría de dibujos. La reproducción de las ilustraciones en el libro es demasiado pequeña, me habría gustado que las hubieran ampliado más y dejado menos espacio en blanco en cada página.

El resultado me ha parecido un ejercicio interesante aunque no memorable: si las puertas hubieran sido más espectaculares en su dibujo o su concepto, y hubiera habido más diversidad en la temática, me habría podido parecer una obra maestra. Tal y como es, no siento la necesidad de revisitarlo en el futuro.





]]> 10767466 Hark! A Vagrant is an uproarious romp through history and literature seen through the sharp, contemporary lens of New Yorker cartoonist and comics-sensation Kate Beaton. No era or tome emerges unscathbed as Beaton rightly skewers the Western world's revolutionaries, leaders, sycophants, and suffragists while equally honing her wit on the hapless heroes, heroines, and villains of the best-loved fiction. She deftly points out what really happened when Brahms fell asleep listening to Liszt, that the world's first hipsters were obviously the Incroyables and the Merveilleuses from eighteenth-century France, that Susan B. Anthony is, of course, a "Samantha," and that the polite banality of Canadian culture never gets old. Hark! A Vagrant features sexy Batman, the true stories behind classic Nancy Drew covers, and Queen Elizabeth doing the albatross. As the 5600.000 unique monthly visitors to already know, no one turns the ironic absurdities of history and literature into comedic fodder as hilarious as Beaton.]]> 168 Kate Beaton 1770460608 Jose 4
Humor basado principalmente en trasladar conceptos actuales (jerga, preocupaciones modernas...) a situaciones históricas o literarias, de forma socarrona e irreverente y sin complejos en cuanto al tratamiento del sexo, ideología, etc. En ocasiones el chiste es bastante independiente del contexto, y puede ser disfrutado aunque éste se desconozca; en cambio a menudo los pormenores históricos son fundamentales para poder saborear la gracia.

La calidad del humor es bastante variable. En primer lugar, como no soy experto en historia, hay bastantes viñetas cuyo contexto se me escapa y no puedo valor adecuadamente. Hay unas cuantas que sí entiendo pero no me hacen demasiada gracia, las más de las veces porque se basan tan solo en una forma de hablar anacrónica, o porque el humor es chusco-adolescente. Otras por el contrario me resultan geniales; mis favoritas son las referentes a la buena educación de los canadienses, la saga de los némesis, y las centradas en las escritoras victorianas (hermanas Brönte, Jane Austen...) y sus mazaos fecundables.

En caso de duda, para decidir si comprar el libro recomiendo echar un vistazo a la , en la que están publicadas todas las viñetas de forma gratuita (en inglés). [Nota: como algunos textos son dependientes del contexto, al cambiar de idioma se traducen libremente, como la aparición de algunas canciones modernas en situaciones históricas. Estas libertades de traducción son muy acertadas, e.g. los mazaos fecundables mencionados arriba.]
]]> 4.21 2011
author: Kate Beaton
name: Jose
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/15
date added: 2025/03/03
shelves: comic, humour, history, smart, historical-fiction, comic-strip
review:
3.5 estrellas.

Humor basado principalmente en trasladar conceptos actuales (jerga, preocupaciones modernas...) a situaciones históricas o literarias, de forma socarrona e irreverente y sin complejos en cuanto al tratamiento del sexo, ideología, etc. En ocasiones el chiste es bastante independiente del contexto, y puede ser disfrutado aunque éste se desconozca; en cambio a menudo los pormenores históricos son fundamentales para poder saborear la gracia.

La calidad del humor es bastante variable. En primer lugar, como no soy experto en historia, hay bastantes viñetas cuyo contexto se me escapa y no puedo valor adecuadamente. Hay unas cuantas que sí entiendo pero no me hacen demasiada gracia, las más de las veces porque se basan tan solo en una forma de hablar anacrónica, o porque el humor es chusco-adolescente. Otras por el contrario me resultan geniales; mis favoritas son las referentes a la buena educación de los canadienses, la saga de los némesis, y las centradas en las escritoras victorianas (hermanas Brönte, Jane Austen...) y sus mazaos fecundables.

En caso de duda, para decidir si comprar el libro recomiendo echar un vistazo a la , en la que están publicadas todas las viñetas de forma gratuita (en inglés). [Nota: como algunos textos son dependientes del contexto, al cambiar de idioma se traducen libremente, como la aparición de algunas canciones modernas en situaciones históricas. Estas libertades de traducción son muy acertadas, e.g. los mazaos fecundables mencionados arriba.]

]]> 1626410 Lewis Trondheim 2070611892 Jose 4
Serie de historias interrelacionadas, sombrías pero no carentes de su humor negro, cada una expuesta desde el punto de vista de uno de los "lindos" personajes alienígenas; y digo "expuesta" y no "narrada" porque el lenguaje que aparece en los bocadillos es alienígena (aunque algunos conceptos no es difícil entreverlos, como las peticiones de socorro). El lector tiene por tanto la tarea de tratar de descifrar los sucesos y comportamientos que se plasman en el cómic, algunos muy alienígenas, otros probablemente muy humanos.

La narración desde distintos puntos de vista y las conexiones entre las historias me han parecido bastante inteligentes, como también lo son los gestos de los alienígenas, que con tres trazos en una cara transmiten perfectamente las emociones (si es que la proyección antropomórfica es adecuada para estos seres). Hacia el final las historias se vuelven más largas y por ello algo menos interesantes.

El dibujo, simple chachiguay con toda la intención, ayuda a que el shock de tan morbosas historias se vuelva más chistoso.

En conclusión, una obra corta y original con ciertas dosis de shock y de humor negro, que requiere algo de implicación neuronal del lector, y que merece su lectura.]]> 3.43 2004
author: Lewis Trondheim
name: Jose
average rating: 3.43
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/03
date added: 2025/03/02
shelves: comic, european-comic, dark-humour, humour, comedia, weird
review:
3.5 estrellas.

Serie de historias interrelacionadas, sombrías pero no carentes de su humor negro, cada una expuesta desde el punto de vista de uno de los "lindos" personajes alienígenas; y digo "expuesta" y no "narrada" porque el lenguaje que aparece en los bocadillos es alienígena (aunque algunos conceptos no es difícil entreverlos, como las peticiones de socorro). El lector tiene por tanto la tarea de tratar de descifrar los sucesos y comportamientos que se plasman en el cómic, algunos muy alienígenas, otros probablemente muy humanos.

La narración desde distintos puntos de vista y las conexiones entre las historias me han parecido bastante inteligentes, como también lo son los gestos de los alienígenas, que con tres trazos en una cara transmiten perfectamente las emociones (si es que la proyección antropomórfica es adecuada para estos seres). Hacia el final las historias se vuelven más largas y por ello algo menos interesantes.

El dibujo, simple chachiguay con toda la intención, ayuda a que el shock de tan morbosas historias se vuelva más chistoso.

En conclusión, una obra corta y original con ciertas dosis de shock y de humor negro, que requiere algo de implicación neuronal del lector, y que merece su lectura.
]]> 7627836 Weathercraft is Woodring’s first full-length graphic novel set in this world—indeed, Woodring’s first graphic novel, period!—and it features the same hypnotically gorgeous linework and mystical iconography.


As it happens, Frank has only a brief supporting appearance in Weathercraft, which actually stars Manhog, Woodring’s pathetic, brutish everyman (or everyhog), who had previously made several appearances in “Frank�� stories (as well as a stunning solo turn in the short story “Gentlemanhog��).


After enduring 32 pages of almost incomprehensible suffering, Manhog embarks upon a transformative journey and attains enlightenment. He wants to go to celestial realms but instead altruistically returns to the unifactor to undo a wrong he has inadvertently brought about: The transformation of the evil politician Whim into a mind-destroying plant-demon who distorts and enslaves Frank and his friends. The new and metaphysically expanded Manhog sets out for a final battle with Whim...


Weathercraft also co-stars Frank’s cast of beloved supporting characters, including Frank’s Faux Pa and the diminutive, mailbox-like Pupshaw and Pushpaw; it is both a fully independent story that is a great introduction to Woodring’s world, and a sublime addition to, and extension of, the Frank stories.


Weathercraft will be a defining graphic novel of 2010.]]> 104 Jim Woodring 1606993402 Jose 0 4.14 2009
author: Jim Woodring
name: Jose
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2009
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/03/02
shelves: to-read, comic, jim-woodring, surrealism, weird, humour, comedia, original
review:

]]> 48540963 240 Kei Fujii 8417318526 Jose 4
En cuanto a la calidad del guion, varía mucho entre historias:
1. Bajo un nuevo cielo 1 (5/5). Historia sencilla y verdaderamente conmovedora, de las que se recuerdan mucho tiempo. No es extremadamente original, pero sí está extremadamente bien contada.
2. Bajo un nuevo cielo 2 (4/5). La historia continúa, aún muy conmovedora pero menos excepcional, más típica.
3. El guante de mi madre (2/5). Toda la historia está basada en una premisa usada para dar una "sopresa" al final, premisa de roles de género que en pleno siglo XXI, incluso en Japón, se me antoja absurda (vale, la historia podría estar ambientada unas décadas antes, pero eso no cambia que se pretenda sorprender o hacer sentir bien a los lectores de ahora).
4. Como un niño de corazón puro (1/5). La premisa aquí es del todo increíble, y la ejecución del guion bastante amateur. Incluye además la redención sin verdadera solución de continuidad de un personaje deleznable [spoilers removed], pretendiendo ser un feel good.
5. La última lección (5/5). Sin duda un relato divisivo que no será del gusto de todos, pero que a mí me ha encantado, tanto por el mensaje como por la ejecución a nivel de guion y dibujo, con un uso muy acertado del surrealismo.
6. Bajo un nuevo cielo 3 (4/5). Más original que el primero y el segundo, aunque con menos pegada que el primero. Un buen broche final a esta historia en tres partes.]]> 3.66
author: Kei Fujii
name: Jose
average rating: 3.66
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/28
date added: 2025/03/02
shelves: comic, manga, seinen, drama, feel-good, con-patry, short-stories
review:
Recopilatorio de historias cortas, aunque tres son diversas partes de una misma historia, la que da título al volumen. El dibujo es muy adecuado en todas ellas, en especial por cómo transmite las emociones de los personajes; en cambio no hay demasiados fondos ni secuencias de acción destacables (4 de 5 estrellas).

En cuanto a la calidad del guion, varía mucho entre historias:
1. Bajo un nuevo cielo 1 (5/5). Historia sencilla y verdaderamente conmovedora, de las que se recuerdan mucho tiempo. No es extremadamente original, pero sí está extremadamente bien contada.
2. Bajo un nuevo cielo 2 (4/5). La historia continúa, aún muy conmovedora pero menos excepcional, más típica.
3. El guante de mi madre (2/5). Toda la historia está basada en una premisa usada para dar una "sopresa" al final, premisa de roles de género que en pleno siglo XXI, incluso en Japón, se me antoja absurda (vale, la historia podría estar ambientada unas décadas antes, pero eso no cambia que se pretenda sorprender o hacer sentir bien a los lectores de ahora).
4. Como un niño de corazón puro (1/5). La premisa aquí es del todo increíble, y la ejecución del guion bastante amateur. Incluye además la redención sin verdadera solución de continuidad de un personaje deleznable [spoilers removed], pretendiendo ser un feel good.
5. La última lección (5/5). Sin duda un relato divisivo que no será del gusto de todos, pero que a mí me ha encantado, tanto por el mensaje como por la ejecución a nivel de guion y dibujo, con un uso muy acertado del surrealismo.
6. Bajo un nuevo cielo 3 (4/5). Más original que el primero y el segundo, aunque con menos pegada que el primero. Un buen broche final a esta historia en tres partes.
]]> 212808263 Close to Cronenberg and deeply indebted to Kafka, this gaucho-punk novel offers an explosive interpretation of an ultra-capitalistic society at the grips with climate collapse.

The protagonist of this story has no understanding of the words “winter��, "cold��, or "snow" because he has never experienced the phenomena they describe. We find ourselves in Victorica, a province of La Pampa, Argentina, some time after 2197 �� the year in which the last of the Antarctic icecaps melted and an unprecedented climate catastrophe ensued, radically transforming the landscape of the region into a Caribbean Pampas. It is here that the Dengue Child grows up, a mutant mix of child and mosquito, the result of crazy experimenting driven by ultra-capitalistic corporations racing against each other to own viruses and their cures, destroying even their very own children’s existence to cash in on the stock exchange.

Another of the surprising effects of the thaw is the appearance of powerful telepathic pebbles from the bowels of the earth that seem to encapsulate the world's original wisdom, and which are the subject of lucrative smuggling. Meanwhile, the wealthy of the region chose to cruise around on ships where they can experience ice-skating and hand carve ice from valuable remains of glaciers. In their ultra-air conditioned homes, their kids play Indians vs Christians, a brutal video game set in the historical 19th century.  

The future according to Michel Nieva looks frenetic and shocking. He counts among the rising voices of Argentina, packing punches in a deeply intelligent, informed, and humorful prose which takes root in Latin American storytelling and sci-fi tradition.]]> 224 Michel Nieva 1662602650 Jose 0 3.57 2023
author: Michel Nieva
name: Jose
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/28
shelves: to-read, ciencia-ficcion, science-fiction, sci-fi, comedia, humour, surrealism, capitalism, weird, cyberpunk
review:

]]> 12638953 1153 Santiago Posteguillo 8408103253 Jose 0 4.63 2011
author: Santiago Posteguillo
name: Jose
average rating: 4.63
book published: 2011
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/26
shelves: to-read, con-patry, historical-fiction
review:

]]> 13613740 189 Carmen Pacheco 8467553146 Jose 0 to-read, childrens, con-patry 4.48 2012
author: Carmen Pacheco
name: Jose
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2012
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/20
shelves: to-read, childrens, con-patry
review:

]]> 60786406 202 Tatsuki Fujimoto Jose 0 4.33 2022
author: Tatsuki Fujimoto
name: Jose
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/18
shelves: to-read, comic, manga, drama, fantasy, tatsuki-fujimoto
review:

]]> 58580969
Two young artists from a small town inspire each other to improve their art and become manga creators. But as they grow up, a terrible tragedy will change their lives forever.]]> 144 Tatsuki Fujimoto 1974735125 Jose 0 4.34 2021
author: Tatsuki Fujimoto
name: Jose
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/18
shelves: to-read, comic, manga, drama, one-shot, tatsuki-fujimoto
review:

]]> 40532013 Allí vive John Moore con su mujer, su madre y su hija, trabajando la tierra que su familia cultivó durante generaciones. Sin embargo, desde el momento en que un forastero aparentemente inofensivo llega al pueblo y organiza una serie de subastas en beneficio de la policia local sus días de libertad están contados. Las subastas se suceden y gradualmente los granjeros se ven despojados de sus tierras. Lo que en un principio fue una molestia menor, llega de esta manera a convertirse para John Moore y para todo el pueblo en una batalla desesperada.

Página tras página el libro va creando una sutil atmósfera de horror y de suspenso. El subastador es una dura parábola sobre la eterna lucha entre las fuerzas del bien y del mal cuya lectura proporcionará al lector una experiencia inolvidable.]]> 288 Joan Samson 8473860810 Jose 0 3.50 1976
author: Joan Samson
name: Jose
average rating: 3.50
book published: 1976
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/18
shelves: to-read, con-patry, terror, psychological-thriller, horror
review:

]]> 12148457 140 Isami NAKAGAWA ISAMI 2915492271 Jose 3 3.89 2001
author: Isami NAKAGAWA ISAMI
name: Jose
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2001
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/16
date added: 2025/02/17
shelves: comic, comic-strip, manga, humour, surrealism, weird, original
review:
Muy original, aunque algo anodino: tan sólo son realmente divertidas una de cada tres-cuatro historietas. Pero esto se le puede perdonar pues, al ser tan corto, se puede disfrutar sin llegar al aburrimiento.
]]> 11130243 An alternate cover edition exists here.

From acclaimed author Joshua Hale Fialkov (Tumor, Pilot Season: Alibi) and rising artist Rahsan Ekedal (Creepy) a disturbing story of murder and mystery wrapped in questions of sanity. Minotaur Press premieres with a story of madness, family and death. Brian Cohn was learning to deal with the schizophrenia inherited from his father. Supportive wife, new baby on the way, drugs to control the voices. But, when on his father's deathbed he learns that he also inherited the trophies of his father's career as a serial killer, will his madness send him further down into the crawlspace of his father's mind?]]> 144 Joshua Hale Fialkov 1607062151 Jose 0 3.84 2011
author: Joshua Hale Fialkov
name: Jose
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2011
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/17
shelves: to-read, comic, american-comic, joshua-hale-fialkov, horror, psychological-thriller
review:

]]> 6966115 225 Joshua Hale Fialkov 1932386823 Jose 0 3.64 2009
author: Joshua Hale Fialkov
name: Jose
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2009
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/17
shelves: to-read, comic, american-comic, noir, mental-health, joshua-hale-fialkov
review:

]]> 16136634 224 Joshua Hale Fialkov 8483573628 Jose 3
Script: good characters and worldbuilding, but the story is just too simple and predictable. I like small stories which don't need to blow up the world -but this one does, in a way.

Overall this comic is enjoyable, but not memorable.]]> 3.00 2007
author: Joshua Hale Fialkov
name: Jose
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/18
date added: 2025/02/17
shelves: comic, american-comic, graphic-novel, thriller, good-characters, bad-art, joshua-hale-fialkov
review:
Art: The sketchy art is somewhat appropriate to the story told, but it is mainly confusing, being difficult to tell if some character is the same from the previous vignette or is just someone vaguely resembling him.

Script: good characters and worldbuilding, but the story is just too simple and predictable. I like small stories which don't need to blow up the world -but this one does, in a way.

Overall this comic is enjoyable, but not memorable.
]]> 3713083 288 Various 8472236145 Jose 2 no contener demasiadas conferencias de valor, sea porque no existe texto escrito de las mismas, sea porque su carácter técnico ha impedido su inclusión en un libro destinado a un público lo más amplio posible."

En efecto, la lista de matemáticos de renombre incluidos como autores en este libro (Apéry, Dieudonné, Fraïssé, Mandelbrot, Thom...) hace pensar en una obra más relevante que la que finalmente se encuentra el lector. Ni siquiera merece la pena entrar a valorar cada uno de los textos por separado; mencionaré de pasada que Dieudonné es zafio e insultante en su pretensión de establecer qué matemáticas merecen la pena y cuáles no, el texto de Apéry en respuesta es interesante pero se queda corto, Mandelbrot (en su línea de pseudogenio) no dice casi nada y además dice lo mismo de siempre, Thom no incluye un necesario resumen sobre la teoría de la catástrofe que habría enriquecido su aportación, y Fraïssé en su confrontación sistema axiomático-juego abstracto incurre en varios errores de apreciación manifiestos. Posiblemente lo más interesante del texto sean los comentarios sobre lógica y fundamentos repartidos aquí y allá, y especialmente en los apéndices producidos por Fraïssé y Loi; pero no son sino pequeños resúmenes de resultados bien conocidos que sería mejor leer en otros libros. En conclusión, una obra absolutamente prescindible, aunque con ciertas notas esporádicas de color.

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Prólogo. Maurice Loi.
Primera parte: De las matemáticas a la realidad.
Algunas observaciones sobre el trato que recibe el continuo en los Elementos de Euclides y en la Física de Aristóteles. Maurice Caveing.
Matemáticas y realidad física en el siglo XVII (de la velocidad de Galileo a las fluxiones de Newton). François de Gant.
Física y matemáticas. Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond.
Pintura y geometría en el siglo XIX. Jean-Claude Pont.
De los monstruos de Cantor y Peano a la geometría fractal de la naturaleza. Benoît Mandelbrot.
Matemática y teorización científica. René Thom.
Segunda parte: De las matemáticas al lenguaje.
Matemáticas vacías y matemáticas significativas. Jean Dieudonné.
¿Son las axiomáticas sólo un juego? Roland Fraïssé.
Matemática constructiva. Roger Apéry.
La semántica recursiva de Davidson y Montague. Paul Gochet.
Algunas reflexiones sobre las relaciones entre lingüística y matemáticas. Jean-Pierre Desclés.
Rigor y ambigüedad. Maurice Loi.
Apéndice 1: Tesis, deducción, axiomática y fuerza de una teoría. Roland Fraïssé.
Apéndice 2: Recursividad. Roland Fraïssé.
Apéndice 3: Teoría, metateoría y existencia de fórmulas indecidibles. Roland Fraïssé.
Apéndice 4: El décimo problema de Hilbert. Maurice Loi.
Apéndice 5: La axiomatización de la teoría de conjuntos. Maurice Loi.
Apéndice 6: La hipótesis del continuo y el axioma de elección. Maurice Loi.
Apéndice 7: El axioma de Solovay. Maurice Loi.]]> 3.00 2002
author: Various
name: Jose
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2002
rating: 2
read at: 2025/02/15
date added: 2025/02/15
shelves: mathematics, math-proofs, philosophy-of-science, philosophy, logic, popularization
review:
Como sorprendente pero acertadamente afirma el editor del texto en su prólogo, esta selección de textos del Seminario de Filosofía y Matemáticas de la Escuela Normal Superior de la Rue d'Ulm "ofrece una imagen adecuada de las actividades del seminario, pese a no contener demasiadas conferencias de valor, sea porque no existe texto escrito de las mismas, sea porque su carácter técnico ha impedido su inclusión en un libro destinado a un público lo más amplio posible."

En efecto, la lista de matemáticos de renombre incluidos como autores en este libro (Apéry, Dieudonné, Fraïssé, Mandelbrot, Thom...) hace pensar en una obra más relevante que la que finalmente se encuentra el lector. Ni siquiera merece la pena entrar a valorar cada uno de los textos por separado; mencionaré de pasada que Dieudonné es zafio e insultante en su pretensión de establecer qué matemáticas merecen la pena y cuáles no, el texto de Apéry en respuesta es interesante pero se queda corto, Mandelbrot (en su línea de pseudogenio) no dice casi nada y además dice lo mismo de siempre, Thom no incluye un necesario resumen sobre la teoría de la catástrofe que habría enriquecido su aportación, y Fraïssé en su confrontación sistema axiomático-juego abstracto incurre en varios errores de apreciación manifiestos. Posiblemente lo más interesante del texto sean los comentarios sobre lógica y fundamentos repartidos aquí y allá, y especialmente en los apéndices producidos por Fraïssé y Loi; pero no son sino pequeños resúmenes de resultados bien conocidos que sería mejor leer en otros libros. En conclusión, una obra absolutamente prescindible, aunque con ciertas notas esporádicas de color.

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Prólogo. Maurice Loi.
Primera parte: De las matemáticas a la realidad.
Algunas observaciones sobre el trato que recibe el continuo en los Elementos de Euclides y en la Física de Aristóteles. Maurice Caveing.
Matemáticas y realidad física en el siglo XVII (de la velocidad de Galileo a las fluxiones de Newton). François de Gant.
Física y matemáticas. Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond.
Pintura y geometría en el siglo XIX. Jean-Claude Pont.
De los monstruos de Cantor y Peano a la geometría fractal de la naturaleza. Benoît Mandelbrot.
Matemática y teorización científica. René Thom.
Segunda parte: De las matemáticas al lenguaje.
Matemáticas vacías y matemáticas significativas. Jean Dieudonné.
¿Son las axiomáticas sólo un juego? Roland Fraïssé.
Matemática constructiva. Roger Apéry.
La semántica recursiva de Davidson y Montague. Paul Gochet.
Algunas reflexiones sobre las relaciones entre lingüística y matemáticas. Jean-Pierre Desclés.
Rigor y ambigüedad. Maurice Loi.
Apéndice 1: Tesis, deducción, axiomática y fuerza de una teoría. Roland Fraïssé.
Apéndice 2: Recursividad. Roland Fraïssé.
Apéndice 3: Teoría, metateoría y existencia de fórmulas indecidibles. Roland Fraïssé.
Apéndice 4: El décimo problema de Hilbert. Maurice Loi.
Apéndice 5: La axiomatización de la teoría de conjuntos. Maurice Loi.
Apéndice 6: La hipótesis del continuo y el axioma de elección. Maurice Loi.
Apéndice 7: El axioma de Solovay. Maurice Loi.
]]> 39168639 46 Marga Biazzi Jose 3 Script: 1 star. Amateurish, with hard-loaded morals and constant justification of cruelty (an eye for an eye).

I'd be keen to read other books illustrated by Marga Biazzi -but only with someone else as the scriptwriter. Artbooks by her must be wonderful to look at too.]]> 3.96
author: Marga Biazzi
name: Jose
average rating: 3.96
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/15
date added: 2025/02/15
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review:
Drawings: 5 stars. Absolutely gorgeous and original. The author is a great addition to the list of fantasy, horror and folklore illustrators.
Script: 1 star. Amateurish, with hard-loaded morals and constant justification of cruelty (an eye for an eye).

I'd be keen to read other books illustrated by Marga Biazzi -but only with someone else as the scriptwriter. Artbooks by her must be wonderful to look at too.
]]> 49611879
Ciudad de jade es una historia épica de familia y honor, El padrino con magia y kung-fu, ambientada en una metrópolis de inspiración asiática.]]> 537 Fonda Lee 8412104307 Jose 0 4.23 2017
author: Fonda Lee
name: Jose
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> 48657621 147 Carlos Romá-Mateo 849187500X Jose 0 3.95
author: Carlos Romá-Mateo
name: Jose
average rating: 3.95
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rating: 0
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shelves: to-read, science, popularization, nonfiction, biology, biologia
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]]> 16002089 408 Yoshiki Tonogai 0316245305 Jose 3 manga, psychological-thriller 3.85 2007
author: Yoshiki Tonogai
name: Jose
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 2019/06/20
date added: 2024/11/08
shelves: manga, psychological-thriller
review:

]]> 25849 190 Kazuo Umezu 1421507226 Jose 0 3.80 2006
author: Kazuo Umezu
name: Jose
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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]]> 129459205 Arthur C. Clarke Jose 0 4.01 1973
author: Arthur C. Clarke
name: Jose
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1973
rating: 0
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shelves: to-read, ciencia-ficcion, sci-fi, science-fiction, arthur-c-clarke, first-contact, bought-at-kobo
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]]> 51407041
'Combines the excitement of a medical thriller À la Michael Crichton with sensitive characterisation and social insight in a timely debut novel all the more remarkable for being conceived and written before the current pandemic' Guardian

'STUNNING and terrifying ... The Waiting Rooms wrenches your heart in every way possible, but written with such humanity and emotion' Miranda Dickinson

'Chillingly close to reality, this gripping thriller brims with authenticity ... a captivating, accomplished and timely debut from an author to watch' Adam Hamdy

________________

Decades of spiralling drug resistance have unleashed a global antibiotic crisis. Ordinary infections are untreatable, and a scratch from a pet can kill. A sacrifice is required to keep the majority safe: no one over seventy is allowed new antibiotics. The elderly are sent to hospitals nicknamed 'The Waiting Rooms' ... hospitals where no one ever gets well.

Twenty years after the crisis takes hold, Kate begins a search for her birth mother, armed only with her name and her age. As Kate unearths disturbing facts about her mother's past, she puts her family in danger and risks losing everything. Because Kate is not the only secret that her mother is hiding. Someone else is looking for her, too.

Sweeping from an all-too-real modern Britain to a pre-crisis South Africa, The Waiting Rooms is epic in scope, richly populated with unforgettable characters, and a tense, haunting vision of a future that is only a few mutations away.]]> 379 Eve Smith 1913193268 Jose 0 3.87 2020
author: Eve Smith
name: Jose
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> 25935854
Lord Crevan demands that Rhea visit his remote manor before their wedding. Upon arrival, she discovers that not only was her betrothed married six times before, but his previous wives are all imprisoned in his enchanted castle. Determined not to share their same fate, Rhea asserts her desire for freedom. In answer, Lord Crevan gives Rhea a series of magical tasks to complete, with the threat “Come back before dawn, or else I’ll marry you.��

With time running out and each task more dangerous and bizarre than the last, Rhea must use her resourcefulness, compassion, and bravery to rally the other wives and defeat the sorcerer before he binds her to him forever.

Revised edition: This edition of The Seventh Bride includes editorial revisions.]]> 237 T. Kingfisher 150394767X Jose 0 3.94 2014
author: T. Kingfisher
name: Jose
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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shelves: to-read, fantasy, fairy-tales, fantasia, con-patry, t-kingfisher
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]]> 58439992
This first book collection of Heart of the City comics by the strip’s new creator, Steenz, is packed with outstanding art, a diverse cast of characters, and engaging, positive storylines about friendship, pop culture, ghost stories, and a wide range of real-world issues.

Heart Lamarr is a girl with big dreams who lives in Philadelphia with her single mom. She has her sights set on a life of theater, but she runs into plenty of drama off-stage, too. Luckily, her best friends Dean, Kat, and Charlotte form a stellar supporting cast to help Heart navigate the challenging world of school plays, cliques, rumors, and everything else middle school throws at them.

���ձ�> 208 Steenz 1524871591 Jose 0 3.52 2022
author: Steenz
name: Jose
average rating: 3.52
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/09/11
shelves: to-read, feel-good, comic-strip, strip, coming-of-age, slice-of-life
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]]> 10303367 Debunking Economics (Revised and Expanded Edition), now including a downloadable supplement for courses, exposes what many non-economists may have suspected and a minority of economists have long known: that economic theory is not only unpalatable, but also plain wrong.

When the original Debunking Economics was published in 2001, the market economy seemed invincible, and conventional "neoclassical" economic theory basked in the limelight. Steve Keen argued that economists deserved none of the credit for the economy's performance, and "The false confidence it has engendered in the stability of the market economy has encouraged policy-makers to dismantle some of the institutions which initially evolved to try to keep its instability within limits." That instability exploded with the devastating financial crisis of 2007, and now haunts the global economy with the prospect of another Depression.

In this expanded and updated new edition, Keen builds on his scathing critique of conventional economic theory while explaining what mainstream economists cannot: why the crisis occurred, why it is proving to be intractable, and what needs to be done to end it. Essential for anyone who has ever doubted the advice or reasoning of economists, Debunking Economics (Revised and Expanded Edition) provides a signpost to a better future.]]> 554 Steve Keen 1848139926 Jose 0 4.10 2001
author: Steve Keen
name: Jose
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2001
rating: 0
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shelves: to-read, nonfiction, economics, global-crisis
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]]> 860926 295 Alastair Reynolds 1597800589 Jose 0 4.05 2006
author: Alastair Reynolds
name: Jose
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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]]> 43521682 A saga of honor, glory, and warfare, The Bone Ships is the launch of a new fantasy from R.J. Barker.

Two nations at war. A prize beyond compare.

For generations, the Hundred Isles have built their ships from the bones of ancient dragons to fight an endless war.

The dragons disappeared, but the battles for supremacy persisted.

Now the first dragon in centuries has been spotted in far-off waters, and both sides see a chance to shift the balance of power in their favour. Because whoever catches it will win not only glory, but the war.]]> 512 R.J. Barker 0316487961 Jose 0 3.98 2019
author: R.J. Barker
name: Jose
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> 40859980
Aeneas Tell of the House of Tell is one of the youngest Lords of Creation. His family rules the Nine Worlds through its control of the ultra-advanced technology that has permitted the colonization of the entire solar System. More gods than men, the Lords of Creation have cheated Death itself. But even a quasi-immortal god will take exception to being assassinated. Twice. Especially when the assassin turns out to be a someone he thought was a friend.

And when his assassinations turn out to be a prelude to interstellar war on the grandest possible scale with an evil so cosmic that its limits can scarcely be imagined, Aeneas has no choice but to declare himself the Emperor of Man.

SUPERLUMINARY is the latest and most brilliant creation of science fiction grandmaster John C. Wright, the Dragon-award winning author of THE UNWITHERING REALM, THE GOLDEN AGE, MOTH & COBWEB, and AWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND.]]> 482 John C. Wright 9527065496 Jose 0 3.69 2018
author: John C. Wright
name: Jose
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> 57693406
What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at least. In an alternate dimension, massive dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm and human-free world. They're the universe's largest and most dangerous panda and they're in trouble.

It's not just the Kaiju Preservation Society that's found its way to the alternate world. Others have, too--and their carelessness could cause millions back on our Earth to die.]]> 264 John Scalzi 0765389126 Jose 0 3.93 2022
author: John Scalzi
name: Jose
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 34068552
Bursting with tension and big ideas, this standalone series highlights the inventiveness of an author at the top of his game, as the interweaving story lines tell us not only how humanity arrived at this moment, but also the far-future consequences that spin off from it.]]> 576 Peter F. Hamilton 0399178848 Jose 0 4.05 2018
author: Peter F. Hamilton
name: Jose
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> 44664435 192 Timothé Le Boucher 8417294481 Jose 0 4.31 2017
author: Timothé Le Boucher
name: Jose
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> 26140340
This edition collects the first three arcs of the seminal pulp sci-fi smash hit by jive-ass super powered disco dancers RICK REMENDER and MATTEO SCALERA. Crammed with sketches, concept art and other rare goodies in a glorious oversized 8”x12�� hardcover, truly the most incredible edition of BLACK SCIENCE in all the Eververse.

Collects BLACK SCIENCE #1-16.]]> 432 Rick Remender 1632154935 Jose 0 4.18 2015
author: Rick Remender
name: Jose
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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shelves: to-read, ciencia-ficcion, sci-fi, science-fiction, pulp, comic, american-comic
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]]> 37570572
Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about space ships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever—to illuminate what it means to be human. With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor N. K. Jemisin, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 explores the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today, with Jemisin bringing her lyrical, endlessly curious point of view to the series�� latest edition.

Rivers Run Free / Charles Payseur --
Destroy the City With Me Tonight / Kate Alice Marshall --
You Will Always Have Family: A Triptych / Kathleen Kayembe --
Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities / Lettie Prell --
Loneliness is in Your Blood / Cadwell Turnbull --
The Hermit of Houston / Samuel R. Delany --
The Last Cheng Beng Gift / Jaymee Goh --
Brightened Star, Ascending Dawn / A. Merc Rustad --
The Resident / Carmen Maria Machado --
The Greatest One-Star Restaurant in the Whole Quadrant / Rachael K. Jones --
Tasting Notes on the Varietals of the Southern Coast / Gwendolyn Clare --
Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue / Charlie Jane Anders --
Church of Birds / Micah Dean Hicks --
ZeroS / Peter Watts --
Carnival Nine / Caroline M. Yoachim --
The Wretched and the Beautiful / E. Lily Yu --
The Orange Tree / Maria Dahvana Headley --
Cannibal Acts / Maureen McHugh --
Black Powder / Maria Dahvana Headley --
Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance / Tobias S. Buckell]]> 357 N.K. Jemisin 1328834565 Jose 0 3.80 2018
author: N.K. Jemisin
name: Jose
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> 64398291 28441 Jules Verne Jose 0 0.0
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name: Jose
average rating: 0.0
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]]> 56749359 The first-draft Alien screenplay by William Gibson, the founder of cyberpunk, turned into a novel by Pat Cadigan, the Hugo Award-Winning “Queen of Cyberpunk.�� William Gibson’s never-before-adapted screenplay for the direct sequel to Aliens, revealing the fates of Ripley, Newt, the synthetic Bishop, and Corporal Hicks. When the Colonial Marines vessel Sulaco docks with space station and military installation Anchorpoint, a new form of Xenomorph appears. Written by Hugo Award-winning novelist and “Queen of Cyberpunk�� Pat Cadigan, based on Gibson’s never-produced first draft. The Sulaco—on its return journey from LV-426—enters a sector controlled by the “Union of Progressive Peoples,�� a nation-state engaged in an ongoing cold war and arms race. U.P.P. personnel board the Sulaco and find hypersleep tubes with Ripley, Newt, and an injured Hicks. A Facehugger attacks the lead commando, and the others narrowly escape, taking what remains of Bishop with them. The Sulaco continues to Anchorpoint, a space station and military installation the size of a small moon, where it falls under control of the military’s Weapons Division. Boarding the Sulaco, a team of Colonial Marines and scientists is assaulted by a pair of Xenomorph drones. In the fight Ripley's cryotube is badly damaged. It’s taken aboard Anchorpoint, where Ripley is kept comatose. Newt and an injured Corporal Hicks are awakened, and Newt is sent to Gateway Station on the way to Earth. The U.P.P. sends Bishop to Anchorpoint, where Hicks begins to hear rumors of experimentation—the cloning and genetic modification of Xenomorphs. The kind of experimentation that could yield a monstrous hybrid, and perhaps even a Queen.ALIEN 3 TM & © Twentieth Century Films. All rights reserved.]]> 277 Pat Cadigan Jose 0 3.56 2021
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name: Jose
average rating: 3.56
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rating: 0
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]]> 45153407 2534 Philip K. Dick 883257778X Jose 0 3.93
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name: Jose
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]]> 48484 Two months since the stars fell...

Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown.

Two months of silence while a world holds its breath.

Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune’s orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever’s out there isn’t talking to us. It’s talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route.

So who do you send to force introductions on an intelligence with motives unknown, maybe unknowable? Who do you send to meet the alien when the alien doesn’t want to meet?

You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees X-rays and tastes ultrasound, so compromised by grafts and splices he no longer feels his own flesh. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won’t be needed, and a fainter hope she’ll do any good if she is needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called “vampire,�� recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist �� an informational topologist with half his mind gone �� as an interface between here and there, a conduit through which the Dead Center might hope to understand the Bleeding Edge.

You send them all to the edge of interstellar space, praying you can trust such freaks and retrofits with the fate of a world. You fear they may be more alien than the thing they’ve been sent to find.

But you’d give anything for that to be true, if you only knew what was waiting for them…]]> 384 Peter Watts 0765312182 Jose 0 4.01 2006
author: Peter Watts
name: Jose
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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]]> 41427865 240 Daniel M. Bensen 1787580962 Jose 0 3.94 2012
author: Daniel M. Bensen
name: Jose
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> 2050954 432 Donella H. Meadows Jose 0 4.80
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name: Jose
average rating: 4.80
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]]> 60037894
The flowering of the strange child ; The star ; The crystal egg ; The new accelerator ; The chronic Argonauts / H.G. Wells --
Off on a comet / Jules Verne --The day of an American journalist in 2889 / Jules Verne with Michael Verne --
A Martian odyssey ; A valley of dreams ; The worlds of if / Stanley G. Weinbaum --
With the night mail: a story of 2000 A.D. ; Wireless / Rudyard Kipling --
Sultana's dream / Rokeya Sakhaway Hossain --
The tachypomp ; The man without a body ; The ablest man in the world ; The crystal man / Edward Page Mitchell --
A thousand deaths ; The shadow and the flash ; The enemy of all the world ; A curious fragment / Jack London --
The man who saved the earth / Austin Hall --
The visitation / Cyril G. Wates --
The moon metal / Garrett P. Serviss --
The sky woman / Charles B. Stilson --
Palos of the dog star pack / John Ulrich Giesy --
Dr. Heldegger's experiment ; Rappacini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The emancipatrix / Homer Eon Flint --
The Thames Valley catastrophe / Grant Allen --
World of the war ; A glimpse of the sinless star ; The world of the crystal cities ; In Saturn's realm god / George Griffith --
The raid from Mars ; The Einstein see-saw ; The Gostak and the Doshes / Miles J. Breuer --
By the waters of Babylon / Stephen Vincent Benet --
In the year ten thousand / Will Harben --
The ultimate experiment / Thornton Deky --
The mentanicals / Francis Flagg.]]> 290 Adam Roberts 1529069084 Jose 0 3.75
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name: Jose
average rating: 3.75
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]]> 42114304
Acclaimed as one of the most original voices in modern literature, Raphael Aloysius Lafferty has been awarded and nominated for a multitude of accolades over the span of his career, including the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement.

This collection contains 22 unique tall tales, including:

1. Slow Tuesday Night (Introduction by Michael Dirda)
2. Narrow Valley (Introduction by Michael Swanwick)
3. Nor Limestone Islands (Introduction by Michael Bishop)
4. Interurban Queen (Introduction by Terry Bisson)
5. Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne (Introduction by Jack Dann)
6. In Our Block (Introduction by Neil Gaiman)
7. Ride a Tin Can (Introduction by Neil Gaiman)
8. Nine Hundred Grandmothers (Introduction by Patton Oswalt/Afterword by Andy Duncan)
9. Land of the Great Horses (Introduction by Harlan Ellison/Afterword by Gregory Frost)
10. Eurema's Dam (Introduction by Robert Silverberg)
11. Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies (Introduction by Kelly Robson)
12. The Primary Education of the Camiroi (Introduction by Samuel R. Delany)
13. Continued on Next Rock (Introduction by Nancy Kress/Afterword by R.A. Lafferty)
14. Sky (Introduction by Gwenda Bond)
15. Cliffs That Laughed (Introduction by Gregory Feeley)
16. Seven-Day Terror (Introduction by Connie Willis)
17. Boomer Flats (Introduction by Cat Rambo)
18. Old Foot Forgot (Introduction by John Scalzi)
19. The World as Will and Wallpaper (Introduction by Samuel R. Delany)
20. Funnyfingers (Introduction by Andrew Ferguson)
21. Thieving Bear Planet (Introduction by Jeff VanderMeer)
22. Days of Grass, Days of Straw (Introduction by Gary K. Wolfe)]]> 400 R.A. Lafferty Jose 0 3.92 2019
author: R.A. Lafferty
name: Jose
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> 165908
Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.]]> 256 Philip K. Dick 1400030102 Jose 0 3.75 1957
author: Philip K. Dick
name: Jose
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]]> 16176440
Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, Lowell, Rosemary and her unusual sister Fern. Rosemary begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. “Until Fern’s expulsion...,�� Rosemary says, “she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her.�� As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. Then, something happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence.

In We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler weaves her most accomplished work to date—a tale of loving but fallible people whose well-intentioned actions lead to heartbreaking consequences.]]> 310 Karen Joy Fowler 0399162097 Jose 0 3.70 2013
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Contents:
The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things (1985)
The Poplar Street Study (1985)
Face Value (1986)
The Dragon's Head (1986)
The War of the Roses (1985)
Contention (1986)
Recalling Cinderella (1985)
Other Planes (1986)
The Gate of Ghosts (1986)
The Bog People (1986)
Wild Boys: Variations on a Theme (1986)
The View from Venus (1986)
Praxis (1985)]]> 218 Karen Joy Fowler 055326219X Jose 0 3.86 1986
author: Karen Joy Fowler
name: Jose
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1986
rating: 0
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]]> 79058 256 Kazuo Ishiguro 8433914294 Jose 0 4.05 1989
author: Kazuo Ishiguro
name: Jose
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1989
rating: 0
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]]> 34713572 Thirty years ago, threatened by an invading fleet from the Dai Viet Empire, the Citadel disappeared and was never seen again.
But now the Dai Viet Empire itself is under siege, on the verge of a war against an enemy that turns their own mindships against them; and the Empress, who once gave the order to raze the Citadel, is in desperate needs of its weapons. Meanwhile, on a small isolated space station, an engineer obsessed with the past works on a machine that will send her thirty years back, to the height of the Citadel's power.
But the Citadel's disappearance still extends chains of grief and regrets all the way into the fraught atmosphere of the Imperial Court; and this casual summoning of the past might have world-shattering consequences...
A new book set in the award-winning, critically acclaimed Xuya universe.]]> 164 Aliette de Bodard 1625672551 Jose 0 3.71 2015
author: Aliette de Bodard
name: Jose
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> 57399873 150 Dan Dougherty Jose 0 4.00
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]]> 4476880 Cyclone Bill and the Tall Tales, is shot dead in front of a packed house. In piecing together what happened that night, the remaining Tall Tales wonder if a supernatural force was behind his murder. Only filmmaker Maggie Bloom has the footage to solve the mystery, but she may have lost her mind in her search for fame. It seems she's being haunted by a man whose soul is one with rock n roll itself. Who is this man, and with what power does he confront the players in our tale? From stardom's dizzying heights to midnight's darkest crossroad, the answer will terrify all who seek quick deals for fame and immortality.

]]> 232 Dan Dougherty 1933076070 Jose 0 4.00 2006
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name: Jose
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]]> 34941811 She can kill anyone she touches...
...if they're evil.
Collects issues 1-7, as well as a never-before-seen bonus story, pinup gallery with art from Ryan Browne, Andrew Dimitt, Tom Kelly, and Doug Klauba.]]> 240 Dan Dougherty 1939888271 Jose 0 4.30 2013
author: Dan Dougherty
name: Jose
average rating: 4.30
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]]> 22791963 152 Dan Dougherty 1939888026 Jose 0 4.00 2014
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]]> 197063361
Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth's first life forms �� what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our own beginnings. Her discovery leads Leigh to the Mojave desert and an ambitious new space agency.

Drawn deeper into the agency's work, she learns that the Atlantic trench is only one of several related phenomena from across the world, each piece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding. Leigh knows that to continue working with the agency will mean leaving behind her declining mother and her younger sister, and faces an impossible choice: to remain with her family, or to embark on a journey across the breadth of the cosmos.

Exploring the natural world with the wonder and reverence we usually reserve for the stars, In Ascension is a compassionate, deeply inquisitive epic that reaches outward to confront the greatest questions of existence, looks inward to illuminate the smallest details of the human heart, and shows how �� no matter how far away we might be and how much we have lost hope �� we will always attempt to return to the people and places we call home.]]> 496 Martin MacInnes 0802163467 Jose 0 3.70 2023
author: Martin MacInnes
name: Jose
average rating: 3.70
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]]> 60012514 Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Rebecca Roanhorse and series editor John Joseph Adams select twenty pieces that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year and explore the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today. 

Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about spaceships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever—to illuminate what it means to be human.

With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Rebecca Roanhorse, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 explores the ever-expanding and changing world of contemporary science fiction and fantasy.]]> 432 Rebecca Roanhorse 0358690129 Jose 0 3.72 2022
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name: Jose
average rating: 3.72
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]]> 61273436 A bold, bitingly satirical near-future mosaic novel about a city run along 'meritocratic' lines, the injustice it creates, and the revolution that will destroy it.

We are the future of the human race.

Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore. Here, technology is the key to survival, productivity is power, and even the self must be engineered, for the only noble goal in life: success.

Everything is decided by the mathematically perfect Bell Curve. With the right image, values and opinions, you can ascend to the glittering heights of the Ten Percent �� the Virtual elite �� and have the world at your feet. The less-fortunate struggle among the workaday Seventy Percent, or fall to the precarious Twenty Percent; and below that lies deportation to the ranks of the Analogs, with no access to electricity, running water or even humanity.

The system has no flaws, and cannot be questioned. Until a single daring theft sets events in motion that will change the city forever...

Previously published in South Asia only as Analog/Virtual, The Ten-Percent Thief is a striking debut by a ferocious new talent.]]> 368 Lavanya Lakshminarayan 1786188538 Jose 0 3.71 2020
author: Lavanya Lakshminarayan
name: Jose
average rating: 3.71
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Severin Unck's father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an alternate 1946 in which talking movies are still a daring innovation due to the patent-hoarding Edison family. Rebelling against her father's films of passion, intrigue, and spirits from beyond, Severin starts making documentaries, traveling through space and investigating the levitator cults of Neptune and the lawless saloons of Mars. For this is not our solar system, but one drawn from classic science fiction in which all the planets are inhabited and we travel through space on beautiful rockets. Severin is a realist in a fantastic universe.

But her latest film, which investigates the disappearance of a diving colony on a watery Venus populated by island-sized alien creatures, will be her last. Though her crew limps home to earth and her story is preserved by the colony's last survivor, Severin will never return.

Told using techniques from reality TV, classic film, gossip magazines, and meta-fictional narrative, Radiance is a solar system-spanning story of love, exploration, family, loss, quantum physics, and silent film.]]> 432 Catherynne M. Valente 0765335298 Jose 0 3.73 2015
author: Catherynne M. Valente
name: Jose
average rating: 3.73
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]]> 195790684 272 Madeline Ashby 076538292X Jose 0 3.24 2024
author: Madeline Ashby
name: Jose
average rating: 3.24
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Eye of Cat: A retired hunter of alien zoo specimens, William Blackhorse Singer, the last Najavo on a future Earth, is called upon by the World Government to aid in protecting an alien diplomat from a powerful and hostile member of his own species. Singer, in turn, seeks the aid of a shape-shifting alien known as "Cat" in carrying out the mission. Cat accepts, with one condition: when the mission is over, he wants a return bout with the man who captured him -- a chase with Singer as the hunted instead of the hunter....]]> 351 Roger Zelazny Jose 0 4.22 2001
author: Roger Zelazny
name: Jose
average rating: 4.22
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Several of Wells' books have become classics of science fiction, including his novella THE TIME MACHINE, THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU, THE INVISIBLE MAN, THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, and THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON. This collection also includes several of Wells' lesser-known middle and late-period novels. This ebook contains an active table of contents and is DRM free.

The Time Machine
The Wonderful Visit
The Island Of Dr. Moreau
The Wheels Of Chance
The Invisible Man
The War Of The Worlds
When The Sleeper Wakes
Love And Mr. Lewisham
The First Men In The Moon
The Food Of The Gods And How It Came To Earth
Kipps
A Modern Utopia
In The Days Of The Comet
The War In The Air
Tono-Bungay
Ann Veronica
The History Of Mr. Polly
The New Machiavelli
The Passionate Friends
The Wife of Sir Isaac Harmon
The World Set Free
The Research Magnificent
Mr. Britling Sees In Through
The Soul Of A Bishop
The Secret Places Of The Heart

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific 19th- and 20th century science fiction writer. Together with French author Jules Verne, Wells has been called "The Father of Science Fiction." Wells was an outspoken socialist and sympathetic to pacifist views. Best known for his early works of science fiction, his later works became increasingly political in nature.
]]> 3999 H.G. Wells Jose 0 3.50 2009
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]]> 35811 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End, The City and the Stars, and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke is the most celebrated science fiction author alive. He is—with H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, and Robert A. Heinlein—one of the writers who define science fiction in our time. Now Clarke has cooperated in the preparation of a massive, definitive edition of his collected shorter works. From early work like "Rescue Party" and "The Lion of Comarre," through classics like "The Star," "Earthlight," "The Nine Billion Names of God," and "The Sentinel" (kernel of the later novel, and movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey), all the way to later work like "A Meeting with Medusa" and "The Hammer of God," this immense volume encapsulates one of the great SF careers of all time.]]> 966 Arthur C. Clarke 0312878605 Jose 0 4.30 2000
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