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Every author who ventures into science fiction, including the menda (see my book Alter), on some occasion considers the issue of cloning because of its double component between the scientific and the moral. Dolly the sheep as the supposed first clone of a mammal is already very …
I was one of the "lucky" children who wore glasses from very early on, and even a patch to try to wake up the lazy eye. So a book like this one would surely have come in handy to turn my "magnifying glasses" into a magical element with which to arouse the fascination of...
For problems that are not. Even more so when one belongs to the underworld for the mere fact of being. The disinherited suffer in the first instance the lashes of power to preserve the status quo. Defending these types of people is becoming devil's advocate. But is that Mosley ...
A few months after appearing in Galician, we can also enjoy this great little story in Spanish. Knowing the taste of Manuel Rivas for squeezing the intrahistorical (and until the moment of being touched by his pen even anecdotally), we know that we are facing one of those committed plots and…
The Víctor del Árbol stamp takes on its own entity thanks to a narrative that crosses the noir genre to achieve greater relevance towards the most unexpected extremes. Because the tortured souls that inhabit the plots of this author bring us closer to life events as if devastated by circumstances. Characters …
Draw on uchronies or dystopias to provide a sociological vision. A very common resource in literature. From Aldous Huxley to George Orwell, as the most recognized references of a XNUMXth century that pointed precisely to a world peeking out at another type of dictatorship, buried beyond what is strictly political. …
Time travel freaks me out as an argument. Because it is a full science fiction starting point that often turns into something else. The impossible longing to transcend time, the nostalgia of what we were and the remorse for wrong decisions. Is …
The Wild West and the Gold Rush. As the fledgling United States expanded westward, fortune seekers also formed their own expeditions in the mid-XNUMXth century. Lights and shadows for adventurers of all kinds to conquer a wild territory. Wild especially in the …
The life of Jesus Christ was that first great disruptive story from the idea of a human being conceived "magic" through. Only that there are characters in even more anomalous situations. Worse than being stateless is being stateless. Beings arrived in the world marked by a destiny of uprooting, from the…
Clara Peñalver's suspense novels are not yet limited to endless sagas. The thing seems to go more towards creative flashes that lead to a single story. And the thing has its advantages because one creates the monsters and their antagonists and then forgets them to be the...
The fascinating story of Plautilla Bricci, the first modern female architect, in 1624th century Rome. One day in XNUMX a father takes his daughter to the beach of Santa Severa to see the remains of a chimerical creature, a stranded whale. The father, Giovanni Briccio, called the Briccio, …
The stories focused on small communities on the edge of the world already awaken that feeling of concern about the unknown. From hippies to sects, communities outside the madding crowd have a strange magnetism. Mainly if one looks at the alienation between imposed mediocrities, …