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Una nueva reedición de un clásico de Ballard.Para un extraño, los jubilados británicos que viven en la Costa del Sol española, en las residencias de Estrella de Mar, parecen miembros de una comunidad idilica, dedicada a actividades deportivas y culturales constantes, propiciadas por el Club Nautico local. Pero, de pronto, cinco personas mueren en un misterioso incendio y el administrador del club, Frank Prentice, es arrestado por asesinato.El hermano de Frank, Charles Prentice, llega a Estrella de Mar desde Londres y descubre que ni siquiera la policia sabe lo que ha ocurrido. Frank insiste en declararse culpable y Charles piensa que para entender la actitud de su hermano primero tiene que explorar los misterios de Estrella de Mar. Bajo la civilizada superficie se mueve un mundo secreto de crimenes, drogas y sexo ilicito. Noches de cocaina es a la vez una fascinante novela de misterio y la alarmante y tragica descripcion de una sociedad enfrentada a una vida de ocio ilimitado.

¡Salva los snacks, salva el universo! ¡Los SpaceCowboys están de vuelta y más hambrientos que nunca! Lilli, la reina del caos con su batido de zogfruta, y Mia, con su tez morena profunda y una pasión por las frutas estelares, lideran a su colorido equipo de aliens esponjosos y heroes mariquita en una nueva aventura. Junto a Zippel, el torbellino de tentaculos con fiebre por la mantequilla de cacahuete, Noel, el Señor carmesi de las Mariquitas, y el descarado ejercito infantil Nopales, Avena, Brotes, Floc, Sera, Kip y Mila, se lanzan al Planeta Pelusin, donde los nopales lisos y los crujientes muffins de musgo estan en peligro. El malvado Alquimista de Sangre, Varnok, ha regresado con un nuevo plan: ¡quiere destruir los snacks galacticos con su papilla toxica de leche de vaca! Sus robots envenenan los arboles de zogfruta, capturan vacas sagradas y convierten las fuentes de leche de avena en un caldo apestoso. Pero los SpaceCowboys contraatacan ¡con galletas de zog como granadas, bombas de carmin y un monton de caos! Zippel cae en mantequilla de cacahuete, Floc resbala en nubes de hojuelas, y la oreja cactus de Brotes provoca un desorden galactico. Mientras Lilli y Noel hacen chispear corazones en las estrellas, luchan contra los robots de Varnok para salvar a los Pelusines y los snacks. ¿Podra su caos salvar la galaxia, o terminara todo en una catastrofe pegajosa? SpaceCowboys Volumen 2: El Llamado de la Cronoesfera es una aventura de ciencia ficcion salvaje y divertida, llena de slapstick, amistad y poder de snacks, que transporta a los jovenes lectores a un mundo de colores neon y geiseres galacticos.

Neal Stephenson, en medio del desierto y bajo la protección de mezcalito, habla con un escorpión que le ofrece un arma para los niños perdidos del futuro. SH00TER es la historia de esos niños perdido

A thrilling and cataclysmic collection of city-smashing titans and the desperate coalitions of humanity clinging to survival in the wreckage, from the New York Times-bestselling and multiple award-winning editors.Featuring bestselling and award-winning authors such as Tananarive Due, Christopher Golden, Seanan McGuire, Scott Sigler and Steve Alten, author of The Meg.An explosive collection of monster terror, featuring 25 original tales of creatures the size of skyscrapers. See cities shattered and worlds ended, as great beasts rise from the deep.Featuring work from: Steve Alten Linda D. Addison Kevin J. Anderson Maurice Broaddus Tananarive Due Luke Dumas Kane Gilmour Maxwell Gold Christopher Golden Henry Herz Jamal Hodge Ai Jiang Alma Katsu Tim Lebbon Jonathan Maberry Seanan McGuire Lee Murray Tobi Ogundiran Cynthia Pelayo Jeremy Robinson Michelle Sagara Scott Sigler Ben Spada Anne Walsh

An alternate 1970s science fiction romance blending first contact and queer counterculture in the Los Angeles disco scene, perfect for readers of Vajra Chandraseker and Victor Manibo.In 1977a world where America launched its space program shortly after WWIIMitch Ward is a grunt in the US Spaceguard. Stationed in a backwater base on the Moon, his only friends are Gloria, who performs "Lady Stardust" for fellow soldiers, and Flynn.Following a visit from an unseen, terrifying but also maybe euphoric being,they find themselves quickly discharged from the army, and sent back to earth. Moving to Los Angeles tochase their dreams, Mitch and Gloria scrape by, finding their joy at the discos in the city.But when Flynn crashes back into their lives, claiming to be the host for a traveler and emissary of a utopian civilization, he comes with an offer for Mitch to join him, ad claim power so that he, and his friends across the queer community, never have to live in the shadows or face oppression again.As the forces of prejudice and oppression seek to push their community back into hiding, keeping them out of sight and oppressed, its down to this community of disco-loving outcasts to stand up for what is beautiful and right.

From the acclaimed critic and award-winning author of Anno Dracula comes a bitingly satirical story of superheroism, soap opera and alternative reality -- for readers of Austin Grossmans Soon I Will Be Invincible and George R.R. Martins Wild Cards.When Chrissie Chambers (model actress whatever) discovers her soap opera character is about to be killed off, she finally stops dieting and discovers hitherto untapped supernatural abilities. Meanwhile, Chrissies aunt - former national heroine Lady Shade - goes missing. Afraid for Jasmines safety and itching to costume-up, Chrissie and her ghost-possessed best friend Loulee break into Devils Dyke, the asylum where Jasmine works as a therapist with the most dangerous cutthroats (supervillains) in Britain only to find the inmates have taken over Chrissie debuts successfully as a cloak (superheroine), but who will become the arch-nemesis of Lady Shade II?In Chrissies timeline, the Beatles didnt split up and recorded a hallucinodelic album in 1972 Never Mind (strictly, Never Mind the Beatles) which literally changed the world. Set in an alternative 2020s London, this hugely entertaining, darkly humorous superhero tale is packed with Newmans trademark wit, and comes with wickedly sharp edges.

In this twisty and action-packed adventure from the BSFA award-winning author of Descendant Machine and Futures Edge, a crew of bounty hunters find themselves ensnared in a conspiracy on the very fringes of the devastated solar system. Perfect for fans of James S. A. Corey and Adrian Tchaikovsky."On Earth, they depicted justice as blindfolded and impartial, but out here on the frontier, she was red in tooth and claw."Jupiter and Saturn are gone, and a mysterious force has built a huge habitable sphere from their ashes. When criminals try to lose themselves on this new frontier, bounty hunters like Copernicus Brown and the crew of his sentient ship Jitterbug get paid to hunt them down. But when Brown rescues Amber Roth, sole survivor of a pirate attack, the Jitterbug and her crew find themselves the target of powerful political factions who want control of the data chip hidden in Roths stomach.And all the while, something vast and ancient creeps towards them from the depths of space

Faixa etária: A partir de 12 anosTemas: ficção científica, ciência, ética, ficção científica vitoriana, literatura de língua inglesa, romance.Griffin, um cientista, descobre uma fórmula de invisibili

SE NÃO CONSIGO INSPIRAR AMOR,CAUSAREI MEDO.Escrito numa noite tempestuosa de 1816 por uma jovem de apenas dezoito anos, Frankenstein não é só o ponto de partida da ficção científica ‒ é uma história