Jack Williamson

Ciencia ficción clásica llena de acción, exploración espacial y peligros ocultos en los confines del cinturón de asteroides.

Un repentino ataque de curiosidad lleva al Sahara al afable catedrático inglés Will Stone y a sus tres amigos, para realizar excavaciones en un emplazamiento en el que el radar ha detectado que bajo la tierra se esconde un conjunto de piedras de gran tamaño. Alli encuentran una antigua estructura, una puerta de comunicacion entre los diferentes planetas que une la Tierra con mundos lejanos, donde descubriran maravillas y horrores que superan lo imaginable. Pero solo si son capaces de sobrevivir para volver a la Tierra... El autor entreteje una historia apasionante que transporta a los amigos a los confines del universo. Ahora cada viajero debe representar un papel vital para desvelar un antiguo misterio, cuya solucion puede mostrar los verdaderos origenes de la raza humana. Jack Williamson es un escritor magistral que una vez mas pone de relieve toda su habilidad narrativa en El misterio de Stonehenge, su ultima novela.

Jack Williamson, Gran Maestro de la Ciencia Ficción desde 1975, es un escritor magistral que una vez más pone de relieve toda su habilidad narrativa en esta novela, llena de acción, suspense y motivos de reflexion sobre nuestro futuro a corto y largo plazo. Una extraordinaria inmersion en las consecuencias de un desastre ecologico global y en los esfuerzos, los sueños y las esperanzas de una humanidad que lucha por sobrevivir. Se llevo el Premio Hugo de 2001 de novela corta por delante de autores como Ted Chiang o Lucius Shepard.

The unsettling dreams begin for small-town reporter Will Barbee not long after he first meets the mysterious and beautiful April Bell. They are vivid, powerful and deeply disturbing nightmares in which he commits atrocious acts. And, one by one, his friends are meeting violent deaths. It is clear to Barbee that he is embroiled in something far beyond human understanding, something unspeakably evil. And it intimately involves the seductive, dangerously intoxicating April, and the question, ''Who is the Child of the Night?'' When he discovers the answer to that, his world will change utterly.

El día del Armagedón ha alcanzado la Tierra en forma de asteroide, aniquilando en un solo instante millones de años de evolución. Terraformar la Tierra es la historia de la esperanza de la humanidad contada por Duncan Yare. A lo largo de miles de millones de años veremos renacer la Tierra no una sino varias veces. Los sucesivos clones de Duncan documentaran los esfuerzos de sus compañeros y los suyos propios por devolverle al planeta la gloria perdida. A pesar de los fracasos, a pesar de los enfrentamientos, a pesar del miedo... no se rinden jamas. Terraformar la Tierra es un canto a la esperanza y a la vida. Una historia que se repite y sin embargo siempre tiene elementos nuevos, siempre es diferente, siempre nos muestra una faceta original de un personaje que nunca deja de ser el mismo. Jack Williamson ha creado unos personajes inolvidables, protagonistas de un relato que lo tiene todo: suspense, magia, fracasos, triunfos.... y un final sorprendente.

C.T. or Seetee, contraterrene, is also known as anti-matter. It is untouchable by the normal matter universe... yet men must learn to control it, or die!

From the depths of space the Seeker had come, to make the Solar system her nest. The invader was defeated, but not before the Earth was ravaged, its technology destroyed and its inhabitants reduced to barbarism. Mankinds only chance for salvation lay with the alien Eldren - but the Eldren considered humanity primitive and savage, and so they withheld their help. Young Benn Dain hoped to prove humanitys worth on Mazeway, a planetary doublet whose twin worlds, Blade and Stone, were a testing ground for Eldren young. For Roxane Kwan and Diego Bolivar, Mazeway was a path to control of the dying Earth, and Dains quest was not part of their plans. But the Game of Blade and Stone was not designed for humans, and to survive, they would have to work together to fathom the depths of alien minds and the subtle traps of Eldren way...

In a basement in New Mexico, four poker buddies and amateur adventurers who have discovered a dark mystery buried beneath the sands of the Sahara desert decide to do something about it.In the deep Sahara, they find an ancient artifact that will change their lives and the world, forever . . . a gateway between planets that links Earth to distant worlds where they discover wonders and terrors beyond their wildest imagination.

The fourth novel in the classic Legion of Space series. In swarming hordes they poured forth from the core of the Nebula: the shadowflashers - nightmarish parasites bent on enslaving the minds and bodies of the entire human race. Already they had killed the Keeper of the Peace, and stolen the great secret weapon Akka. Now nothing stood between Mankind and the ultimate destruction... It was Jil Gyrel who first sensed danger. Daughter of a lost Legion pilot, Jil had inherited her fathers uncanny gifts of navigation - and his courage. But what was one girls bravery against the most monstrous evil ever to emerge from the treacherous oceans of space?

Dane Belfast is a young scientist seeking the whereabouts of a missing geneticist and family friend.A visit to the mysterious Cadman Corporation results in his being drugged and whisked off to a secret location called Dragons Island, where "not-men" and other strange creatures - as well as human geniuses - seem to be created. Dane cant tell who to trust in this fast-paced adventure, which is the first novel to use the term "genetic engineering".

Astronaut Ben is lost - a million miles from Earth! His last message: "Strange life forms here...were under attack...!"Jeff sets off to rescue him, but soon his own crippled starship is caught in the same eerie web of a monstrous creature from outer space!

The unsettling dreams begin for small-town reporter Will Barbee not long after he first meets the mysterious and beautiful April Bell. They are vivid, powerful and deeply disturbing nightmares in which he commits atrocious acts. And one by one, his friends are meeting violent deaths.It is clear to Barbee that he is embroiled in something far beyond human understanding, something unspeakably evil. And it intimately involves the seductive, dangerously intoxicating April, and the question, Who is the Child of the Night? When he discovers the answer to that, his world will change utterly.

One man fights those who quarantine Earth from alien cultures.

According to legend, Zorns distant ancestors had vanquished fiery devils from the Demon Moon. Now, a thousand years later, that bloody red world looms closer every day. But Zorn knows little of the past. For generations, his family have been Lords of Wolver Riding, flying their winged unicorns to protect the land from werewolves, wyverns and other deadly threats. As Zorn grows, he finds his world increasingly strange. Where did the werewolves come from? How did unicorns fly?His questions end the day his evil uncle usurps the throne. Torn between ancient fears and modern science, wooed by a seductive temptress and plagued by a demonic priest, Zorn must unlock secrets shrouded in the mists of time - or watch everything he loves be consumed in the hellfire of the . . .

Chemical symbol... atomic number... atomic weight... Scientific terms for gold... but science cant begin to explain the mystery and magic of gold. It was gold that lured the Secret Legion - as oddly mixed a group of adventures as any song or story - into the worlds most treacherous desert. And gold they found - a golden man, and exotic golden woman, a huge golden tiger, and an eerie golden snake. Gold brought them together... gold made them enemies in a battle to the death... gold held the key to the mysterious forces that assailed them. Jack Williamson, alchemist with words, spins a rare web of adventure, fantasy and science... a gem from the golden age of Weird Tales, now available in book form for the first time.