Part of Series
En noviembre del 2012 nació el blog "Cuentos para Algernon" con el objetivo de publicar traducciones on-line gratuitas de relatos escritos en inglés de ciencia ficción, fantasía y terror que, pese a su calidad e interés, continuaban inéditos en español. "Cuentos para Algernon: Año VIII" es una recopilación gratuita, legal y descargable desde dicho blog en diversos formatos, que contiene los doce relatos publicados durante la octava temporada (año 2020). Entre ellos se incluye un relato ganador del premio Mundial de Fantasía y otro galardonado con los premios Nebula y Sturgeon. El contenido de la antología es el siguiente: . Concierto a dos voces, de Melanie Tem y Steve Rasnic Tem . Monos, de Ken Liu . Recetas a tutiplén, de Naomi Kritzer . Las flores de la prisión de Aulit, de Nancy Kress . Tiro a la cabeza, de Julian Mortimer Smith . Volver a cruzar la Estigia, de Ian R. MacLeod . Los mascarones del último imperio, de Mark Valentine . Amor de pago único, de Aliya Whiteley . Un planteamiento programático de la conquista de la felicidad perfecta, de Tim Pratt . Hablar con los muertos, de Sarah Pinsker . Empatía bizantina, de Ken Liu . Un módico precio por el trino de un pájaro cantor, de K. J. Parker La antología se puede descargar visitando la página del propio blog: "Cuentos para Algernon".
Authors
Ken Liu (http://kenliu.name) is an American author of speculative fiction. He has won the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, as well as top genre honors in Japan, Spain, and France, among other places. Ken's debut novel, The Grace of Kings, is the first volume in a silkpunk epic fantasy series, The Dandelion Dynasty, in which engineers play the role of wizards. His debut collection, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, has been published in more than a dozen languages. He also wrote the Star Wars novel, The Legends of Luke Skywalker. He has been involved in multiple media adaptations of his work. The most recent projects include “The Message,” under development by 21 Laps and FilmNation Entertainment; “Good Hunting,” adapted as an episode of Netflix's breakout adult animated series Love, Death + Robots; and AMC's Pantheon, which Craig Silverstein will executive produce, adapted from an interconnected series of short stories by Ken. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Ken worked as a software engineer, corporate lawyer, and litigation consultant. Ken frequently speaks at conferences and universities on a variety of topics, including futurism, cryptocurrency, history of technology, bookmaking, the mathematics of origami, and other subjects of his expertise. Ken is also the translator for Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, Hao Jingfang's Vagabonds, Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide, as well as the editor of Invisible Planets and Broken Stars, anthologies of contemporary Chinese science fiction. He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.
K.J. Parker is a pseudonym for Tom Holt. According to the biographical notes in some of Parker's books, Parker has previously worked in law, journalism, and numismatics, and now writes and makes things out of wood and metal. It is also claimed that Parker is married to a solicitor and now lives in southern England. According to an autobiographical note, Parker was raised in rural Vermont, a lifestyle which influenced Parker's work.
Nancy Kress is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo and Nebula-winning 1991 novella Beggars in Spain which was later expanded into a novel with the same title. In addition to her novels, Kress has written numerous short stories and is a regular columnist for Writer's Digest. She is a regular at Clarion writing workshops and at The Writers Center in Bethesda, Maryland. During the Winter of 2008/09, Nancy Kress is the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany. Excerpted from Wikipedia.
