Contiene: “Zen y el arte del mantenimiento de naves espaciales”, de Tobias S. Buckell. Después de ganar una batalla espacial con su facción, el bot de mantenimiento de una nave se encuentra a un refugiado importante que le hace una oferta que no puede rechazar. “Veredas”, de Maureen McHugh. La doctora Rosni Gupta examina a Malni, una mujer internada por un serio problema de habla. Sin embargo, Gupta está convencida de que Malni está hablando otro idioma, pero ¿cuál? “La vida secreta de los bots”, de Suzanne Palmer (relato ganador del Hugo 2018). Hacía mucho que la nave no activaba a Bot 9, un modelo antiguo e inestable con rutinas de Improvisación, pero es una situación desesperada y necesita todos sus recursos. Además, solo tiene que cazar una rata: ¿qué podría salir mal? “La Luna no es un campo de batalla”, de Indrapramit Das. Un reportero entrevista a Gita, que, tras pasar casi toda su vida como soldado lunar, le cuenta su experiencia y sus problemas de adaptación a la vida civil en la India. Regalo Promocional de Sant Jordi 2019.
Authors
See also Indra Das. Indrapramit Das (also known as Indra Das) is an Indian science fiction, fantasy and cross-genre writer, critic and editor from Kolkata. His fiction has appeared in several publications including Clarkesworld, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com, and has been widely anthologized in collections including Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction. His debut novel The Devourers (Penguin Books India, 2015; Del Rey, 2016) won the 29th Annual Lambda Award in LGBT SF/F/Horror category. The Lambda Award celebrates excellence in LGBT literature. The Devourers was shortlisted for 2016 Crawford Award, and included in the 2015 Locus Recommended Reading List. It was also nominated for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and the Tata Live! Literature First Book Award in India. Das is an Octavia E. Butler Scholar and a graduate of the 2012 Clarion West Writers Workshop. He completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is a former consulting editor of speculative fiction for Indian publisher Juggernaut Books.
Maureen F. McHugh (born 1959) is a science fiction and fantasy writer. Her first published story appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1989. Since then, she has written four novels and over twenty short stories. Her first novel, China Mountain Zhang (1992), was nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula Award, and won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. In 1996 she won a Hugo Award for her short story "The Lincoln Train" (1995). McHugh's short story collection Mothers and Other Monsters was shortlisted as a finalist for the Story Prize in December, 2005. Maureen is currently a partner at No Mimes Media, an Alternate Reality Game company which she co-founded with Steve Peters and Behnam Karbassi in March 2009. Prior to founding No Mimes, Maureen worked for 42 Entertainment, where she was a Writer and/or Managing Editor for numerous Alternate Reality Game projects, including Year Zero and I Love Bees.
