Incluye: - Robo de identidad, por Robert J. Sawyer - Siccus, por Miguel Hoyuelos - Las lunas invisibles, por Manuel Santos Varela - El ocio de los sanos, por Santiago Egido - Conferencia: La herencia de los utopistas, por Miquel de Palol El canadiense Robert J. Sawyer (que obtuvo el premio Hugo 2003 con "Homínidos") ha ganado de nuevo el Premio UPC con "Robo de Identidad", una historia de detectives con un protagonista que emula a personajes clásicos cono Sam Spade o Philip Marlowe, esta vez en un ambiente de ciencia ficción en el Marte del futuro. La nueva tecnología de los "tránsfer" (una mente humana transferida a un nuevo cuerpo artificial fabricado con técnicas biológicas y robóticas), crea graves problemas al detective Alexander Lomax cuando intenta averiguar el paradero de un marido desaparecido. El argentino Miguel Hoyuelos nos habla de los "Siccus", nuevas inteligencias artificiales dotadas de conciencia, y de su lucha por ser reconocidos como seres libres. Casi una novela de aventuras, repleta de interesantes y sugerentes disquisiciones cercanas a la filosofía sobre conciencia y lo que determina ser o sentirse humano. Manuel Santos nos sorprende con una interesante narración con abundantes referencias literarias y cinematográficas. "Las Lunas Invisibles" es una compleja novela en la que diversos personajes de cinco distintos "niveles" desarrollan historias de, a primera vista, pueden parecer inconexas, pero que acaban confluyendo, en la mente del lector, para dar sentido único a una misma problemática. "El Ocio de los Sanos" usando el vocabulario desenfadado que suele atribuirse a los jóvenes, Santiago Egido describe un mundo futuro más o menos inmediato en el que las drogas de diseño actuales parecen haber sido sustituidas por virus y antivirus biológicos, en curioso y sorprendente paralelismo al actual uso y abuso de los virus informáticos. Junto a este amplio abanico con la mejor oferta de la moderna ciencia ficción escrita en castellano, el volumen se completa con el texto de la conferencia de Miquel de Palol sobre "La herencia de los utopistas", en el que se incluye, además, un curioso relato de este conocido autor y poeta catalán.
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Robert J. Sawyer is one of Canada's best known and most successful science fiction writers. He is the only Canadian (and one of only 7 writers in the world) to have won all three of the top international awards for science fiction: the 1995 Nebula Award for The Terminal Experiment, the 2003 Hugo Award for Hominids, and the 2006 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Mindscan. Robert Sawyer grew up in Toronto, the son of two university professors. He credits two of his favourite shows from the late 1960s and early 1970s, Search and Star Trek, with teaching him some of the fundamentals of the science-fiction craft. Sawyer was obsessed with outer space from a young age, and he vividly remembers watching the televised Apollo missions. He claims to have watched the 1968 classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey 25 times. He began writing science fiction in a high school club, which he co-founded, NASFA (Northview Academy Association of Science Fiction Addicts). Sawyer graduated in 1982 from the Radio and Television Arts Program at Ryerson University, where he later worked as an instructor. Sawyer's first published book, Golden Fleece (1989), is an adaptation of short stories that had previously appeared in the science-fiction magazine Amazing Stories. This book won the Aurora Award for the best Canadian science-fiction novel in English. In the early 1990s Sawyer went on to publish his inventive Quintaglio Ascension trilogy, about a world of intelligent dinosaurs. His 1995 award winning The Terminal Experiment confirmed his place as a major international science-fiction writer. A prolific writer, Sawyer has published more than 10 novels, plus two trilogies. Reviewers praise Sawyer for his concise prose, which has been compared to that of the science-fiction master Isaac Asimov. Like many science fiction-writers, Sawyer welcomes the opportunities his chosen genre provides for exploring ideas. The first book of his Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, Hominids (2002), is set in a near-future society, in which a quantum computing experiment brings a Neanderthal scientist from a parallel Earth to ours. His 2006 Mindscan explores the possibility of transferring human consciousness into a mechanical body, and the ensuing ethical, legal, and societal ramifications. A passionate advocate for science fiction, Sawyer teaches creative writing and appears frequently in the media to discuss his genre. He prefers the label "philosophical fiction," and in no way sees himself as a predictor of the future. His mission statement for his writing is "To combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic." http://us.macmillan.com/author/robert...
1/ Manuel Santos Varela is a Spanish writer born in Zaragoza in 1962. An inveterate reader (novels, plays, poetry, encyclopaedias, comics, brochures, film credits, T-shirt slogans, graffiti, ancient inscriptions, etc.), Santos Varela has been unable to resist the temptation to write. It could be stated that he writes science fiction, but he has no aversion to other genres; in fact, what he likes best is mixing them up. After graduating with an engineering degree in 1985, he has been teaching since 1988. Married with children, he cultivates the fine art of squeezing as much as he can into each 24-hour period. You can visit https://about.me/thewriterinhislabyrinth 2/ Manuel Santos Varela, escritor español, nacido en Zaragoza en 1962. Lector impenitente (novela, teatro, poesía, enciclopedias, comics, prospectos, créditos de cine, textos estampados en camisetas, graffitis, inscripciones antiguas...) no ha podido contener la tentación de escribir. Podría decirse que escribe ciencia ficción, pero no le hace ascos a ningún género; de hecho, lo que más le gusta es mezclarlos. Acabó una ingeniería en 1985 y desde 1988 se dedica a la docencia. Casado y padre de familia, cultiva el bello arte de exprimir al límite las 24 horas que tiene cada día. Puedes visitar https://about.me/elescritorensulaberinto
