Michael Swanwick

In the distant future, Surplus arrives in China dressed as a Mongolian shaman, leading a yak which carries the corpse of his friend, Darger. The old high-tech world has long since collapsed, and the artificial intelligences that ran it are outlawed and destroyed. Or so it seems.Darger and Surplus, a human and a genetically engineered dog with human intelligence who walks upright, are a pair of con men and the heroes of a series of prior Swanwick stories. They travel to what was once China and invent a scam to become rich and powerful. Pretending to have limited super-powers, they aid an ambitious local warlord who dreams of conquest and once again reuniting China under one ruler. And, against all odds, it begins to work, but it seems as if there are other forces at work behind the scenes.

The Three Mile Island accident has contaminated all of central Pennsylvania, where two-headed monsters, mutated vampires, and other outcasts struggle to survive their shattered world. "Compulsively r

A subversive and at times truly perverse cross between high-fantasy and steampunk. You don't need to do drugs when there are books as trippy as this out there! The main character, Jane, is a changeling—a child stolen from our reality and taken into Faerie. There she works alongside other urchins in a Dickensian factory producing huge flying war machines—iron dragons. When she comes of age she is destined never to fly, but only to serve as a breeder producing half-human pilots. In terror, Jane escapes. As a human, she never quite fits into Faerie (a malevolent, magic-ridden world that seems to have no moral centre) no matter where she flees. The world of the book is an unsettling place for the reader as well. It's a many-layered and beautifully dark experience that unfolds to a surprising final resolution.

Traducción de Manuel de los Reyes

El paleontólogo Leyster recibe una propuesta: participar en un proyecto científico secreto, mientras se lo piensa le dejan una nevera con la cabeza de un estegosauro, tratando de evitar la cancelación del proyecto. Asi le introducira en un viaje en el tiempo y conocera a la raza de los Eternos, una especie de hombres-pajaro. Su investigacion enlazara directamente con su pasado: los dinosaurios, antecesores de los pajaros.