ARTHUR BYRON COVER

Un renacimiento robótico es capaz de hacer que los robots produzcan obras de arte, pero esta nueva libertad les conduce directamente al asesinato.¿Puede un robot envidiar a un ser humano? ¿Sería capaz de tener envidia de la fragilidad humana, de su necesidad de dormir diariamente, de su capacidad para cometer errores, triviales y graves, de su tendencia a contraer enfermedades o de su posibilidad de caer en la locura o en la enajenacion por las tormentas de la emocion? Ningun robot inteligente lo haria. Sin embargo, enProdigio, nos encontramos a robots capaces de crear obras de arte sublimes y conmovedoras, esa deriva a los margenes de la logica les llevara directamente a cometer asesinato.Arthur Byron Coveres un conocido guionista de comic y escritor de ciencia ficcion, conoce el universo asimoviano a la perfeccion y es capaz de traernos una nueva aventura de la saga Robot City en la que las Leyes de la Robotica y las relaciones entre humanos y robots se ponen a prueba nuevamente. Derec y Ariel, los protagonistas de la saga, deberan resolver el caso del robot asesino antes de abandonar la ciudad de los robots, en un mundo ficticio pero con una cuidada base cientifica y descrito hasta en su detalle mas pequeño.Razones para comprar la obra:...

"Three Godlike men (the lawyer, the fatman and the demon) seek to give a godlike humanity depression, in an attempt to make their race seek purpose and become the ultimate species in the universe. What follows is a novel which plunges you into an original sci-fi world which raises thought provoking questions throughout the plot. fast paced with engaging and unique characters ... thought provoking and emotive ... Buy it now or I will send you to the antimatter universe." Adam Gent, GoodreadsThe book that ushered in the 21st century in 1975! So far ahead of its time that no one knew what to make of it!"recommended to readers of Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett." The PorPor Books BlogAutumn Angels is a fast moving, anarchistic romp, filled with pop culture references, in which the cliches and conventions of sci-fi are used as slapstick props, just like Hitchickers Guide to the Galaxy written four years before Douglas Adams."It takes the materials of everyday entertainmentspulp heroes, movies, comics, detective storiesand transforms them . into a gestalt that is fresh. ..:the lawyer is modeled after Doc Savages sidekick, ;Ham, Brig. Gen. Theodore Marley Brooks; the fat man is Sidney Greenstreet; the gunsel is Elisha Cook, Jr. in The Maltese Falcon; the Big Red Cheese is Captain Marvel; the Insidious Oriental Doctor is Fu Manchu; the Queen of England who calls herself a virgin is Elizabeth I; the ace reporter is Lois Lane; the zanny imp from the Fifth Dimension is Mr. Mxyzptlk, and both the imp and Lois are, of course, from the Superman comics; the godlike man with no name is Clint Eastwood in the Sergio Leone-directed spaghetti westerns; the galactic hero with two right arms is Harry Harrisons Bill, the Galactic Hero; the fuzzy (but boring) little green balls of Sharkosh are Star Trek scenarist David Gerrolds tribbles; and you can figure out for yourself the true identities or esoteric references for The Ebony Kings, the poet, the shrink, the bems, the other fat man and his witty leg man, and on and on." Harlan EllisonNo wonder Autumn Angels is over the top, the author lists as influences the Marx Brothers, Monty Python, Richard Lester, the silent comedians, Woody Allen, Harry Harrison, Keith Laumer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Dorothy Parker, Hemingway, Jeeves and Wooster, Phil Dick, Robert Sheckley, and Alfred Bester."agile inventiveness extraordinary salience and outlandishness astonishing imagination grotesque and hilarious honest and often truly beautiful shocking and exultant. nothing like the usual sf fare. I read it through in one sitting." --A.A. Attanasio, author, RadixRead Autumn Angels now, you will be glad you did.

Nebula Nominee Authors Brilliant, Profound, Zany, Off-The-Wall Sf Extravaganza!"Unclassifiable, brilliant, takes weird to a whole new level! Highly recommended!" -Goodreads 5-star review SpecialBonus: Reprinted for the first time ever since its original 1973 appearance in the anthology "Infinity Five", the first story set in the universe of God-like Men, "In Between Then and Now."From the My Readers Block review blog: ""The Platypus of Doom": This gigantic, bow-tie-wearing space monster can grant the winner of the "great game"* his or her hearts desire. Sounds great, right. Well, you know the old adage....Be careful what you wish for; you just might get it. [*The great game appears to be ping pong, by the way :-) ]"The Armadillo of Destruction": An immortal creature that feeds off the powerful negative energy of hate. Hes often on the lookout for a new energy source--which always ends badly for the source. Leopold Janifer thinks he has found a way to beat the Armadillos system. Is he right?"The Aardvark of Despair": Can Davis, a mean-streets private eye who has been flung through a time vortex into the future, help Dr. Bishop and his family shake off the suicidal depression that the Aardvark instills in its victims?"The Clam of Catastrophe": Will the Clam, the goddess of love, teach the first and most long-lived consulting detective to love and then turn it into disillusionment. Or will the detective find the solution the one of mans oldest problems? When you meet these monsters, never fear, for there are godlike men in this book to defeat them! "There is, under the near-farcical trappings, an examination of such things as love, hate, motivation, and the meaning of existence itself. Cover manages to pose his questions with a light touch that offers food for though as well as entertaining stories." - My Readers Block reviews"Four absolutely staggering novelettes, saucy and sharp and fun. Cover plays games that are worthy of Philip Jose Farmer (until it was proven otherwise, I thought that Cover *was* Farmer!) The Platypus, et al, are small-g gods, interfering, in an Euripdean fashion, with the fates of mankind. The stories have hidden depths and riddles that reward the effort of solving, but, mostly, they entertain. This is thoughtful stuff, but also highly readable." -Amazon verified reviewCover image: Ron Miller

Robot City representa una amenaza cada vez mayor para Derec. A su lado, su compañera se enfrenta a una locura fatal. De lleno en el fermento de un renacimiento de la robótica, ven como la conciencia positrónica emerge en nuevas formas de arte, arquitectura, música y… roboticidio.