John Crowley

La fragmentación ideológica y la elevada tasa de paro amenazan la estabilidad de Estados Unidos. Los experimentos científicos con fines militares que consisten en mezclar el ADN humano con el de ciertos animales tocan a su fin por falta de financiacion, y los mutantes son abandonados a su suerte, sin trabajo ni proteccion social, pues no se les considera humanos.En un clima de maxima tension, violentos grupos de barbaros y anarquistas luchan contra los agentes del Sindicato por la Ingenieria Social, quienes planean hacerse con el control total. Lo unico que ambas facciones tienen en comun es su odio hacia los leos. Todos estan en contra de esas criaturas, mitad hombres, mitad animales, esos depredadores a quienes los hombres llaman bestias.

Clemson and Alabama opened their 2008 seasons against each other with the Tide winning. Little did we know that game would lead to both programs reemerging as dynasties and dominating College Football in the Early days of the Playoff System.

Smoky Barnable es un joven anodino que viaja a pie desde la ciudad hasta un lugar de nombre Edgewood, que no figura en ningún mapa, con la intención de casarse con Daily Alice Drinkwater, tal y como le han profetizado. Es una historia epica de cuatro generaciones de una peculiar familia que vive en una casa que es muchas casas. Pero tambien es la historia de un amor fantastico, de una perdida desgarradora, de cosas imposibles y destinos inamovibles, y de la vision de un futuro distopico en el que Estados Unidos es gobernado por un despota siniestro.

Mil años después de la Tormenta, que ha destruido la sociedad industrial, los supervivientes se han dividido en comunidades aisladas, con sus propias y minúsculas culturas. En Belaire Pequeña viven los del Habla con Verdad, que practican una etica de franqueza total, un misticismo alimentado por intoxicantes, y un estilo serpeante de vida y conversacion. Vecinos proximos son las gentes mas reservadas y puritanas de la Lista de la doctora Botas, aficionadas a los gatos, y descendientes de una organizacion feminista que llego a anunciar el fin del mundo.Junco que Habla, de Belaire Pequeña, pretende ser santo, tener una vida de textura transparente, en la que todos los hombres puedan verse a si mismos. Asi va de un lado a otro: examina los artefactos misteriosos e irrepetibles creados por los "angeles", que ahora viven en las ciudades flotantes del cielo; comparte la vida arborea de un ermitaño; rechaza los modos y costumbres de la Lista; y conoce a los saqueadores, que aun reverencian los restos de la civilizacion tecnologica. Por ultimo se encuentra con Mongolfier, enviado en paracaidas desde un puesto de angeles, y registra con el las vicisitudes de su propia hagiografia en cristales de ocho caras. Alcanza asi una apoteosis ironica: la aceptacion otoñal de una conciencia infeliz en un libro titulado 'El Verano del Pequeño San John', y que instruira a los angeles, nosotros, sobre las virtudes de las gentes de la superficie. Encuadernacion: Tapa dura con sobrecubierta.

A novel of tremendous scope and beauty, The Translator tells of the relationship between an exiled Russian poet and his American translator during the Cuban missile crisis, a time when a writer's words -- especially forbidden ones -- could be powerful enough to change the course of history.

En una mansión que es un sinuoso laberinto se esconden unas puertas pequeñas que comunican con el parlamento de las hadas. Un libro verdaderamente original en todos los sentidos. Una fantasía tan extraordinariamente bien contada que escapa a cualquier categorizacion. La escritura es simple y clara: la ventana a traves de la cual observamos las cosas asombrosas que pasan en el interior... Pequeño, Grande cuestiona la realidad, describe circulos dentro de circulos, mundos dentro de mundos, vidas dentro de vidas. Encuadernacion: Tapa dura con sobrecubierta.

Endless Things is the fourth and final installment in Crowleys Aegypt sequence.Spanning three centuries, and weaving together the stories of Renaissance magician John Dee, philosopher Giordano Bruno, and present-day itinerant historian and writer Pierce Moffitt, the Aegypt sequence is as richly significant as Lawrence Durrells Alexandria Quartet or Anthony Powells Dance to the Music of Time. Crowley, a master prose stylist, explores transformations physical, magical, alchemical, and personal in this epic, distinctly American novel where the past, present, and future reflect each other.

The Translator tells of the relationship between an exiled Russian poet and his American translator during the Cuban missile crisis, a time when a writers words - especially forbidden ones - could be powerful enough to change the course of history.

Courage and achievement are celebrated and questioned, paradoxes examined, and human frailty appreciated in fifteen tales, at once lyrical and provocative, ranging fromthe fantastic to the achingly real. Be it a tale of an expulsion from Eden, a journey through time, the dreams of a failed writer, ora dead womans ambiguous legacy, each story in Novelties & Souvenirs is a glorious reading experience, offering delights to be savored ... and remembered.

His name is Caspar Last, and this is the unique chronicle of the vacation he took from the twentieth century. It begins - or does it? - when Caspar, a genius, poor of course, and resentful at that, decides to use his "time machine" to bring back a modest fortune. It begins - or maybe it doesnt - with a mysterious bequest to a secret Otherhood charged with preserving and extending the British Empire at any cost. From the bold colonial days of empire-builder Cecil Rhodes through the wide-eyed and wondrous possibilities of the present to a strange and haunting future of magi and angels, of men and many races other than our own, John Crowleys time-travel masterpiece surfs bravely along "the infinite, infinitely broken coastline of Time" to tell a story that takes place neither here nor there, but everywhen.

The Girlhood of Shakespeares Heroines is a moving meditation on the things that endure in the face of implacable circumstance: art, love, freedom, the persistence of erotic fervor, the indelible beau

For the people in this novel, the concerns of everyday life are beginning to transmute into the extraordinary and to reveal the forces, dark and light, that truly govern their lives. So it is for Pierce Moffett, would-be historian and author, who has moved from New York to the Faraway Hills, where he seems to discover - or rediscover - a path into magic, past and present. And so it is for Rosie Rasmussen, a single mother grappling with her mysterious uncles legacy and her young daughter Samanthas inexplicable seizures. For Pierces lover Rose Ryder, another path unfolds: shes drawn into a cult that promises to exorcise her demons - the same cult that Samanthas father has joined. It is the dark of the year, between Halloween and the winter solstice, and the gateway is open between the worlds of the living and the dead. A great cycle of time is ending, and Pierce and Rosie, Samantha and Rose Ryder must take sides in an age-old war that is approaching the final battle...Or is it?

El autor realiza en esta obra, galardonada con el premio World Fantasy , siete incursiones por un pasado mítico de luz tenue y por un presente rico y vívido, abarcando desde la delicada tragedia hasta la alta comedia. Hay en estos cuentos colores, imagenes e ideas que hacen evocar con gran realismo el paso de las estaciones. Crowley, considerado por muchos como un mago literario, consigue hacer de este libro un relato intemporal que atrapara al lector por su gran sencillez y su maravillosa captacion de ambientes y lugares.

One of our most accomplished literary artists, John Crowley imagines the novel the haunted Romantic poet Lord Byron never penned...but very well might have. Saved from destruction, read, and annotated by Byrons own abandoned daughter, Ada, the manuscript is rediscovered in our time - and almost not recognized. Lord Byrons Novel is the story of a dying daughters attempt to understand the famous father she longed for - and the young woman who, by learning the secret of Byrons manuscript and Adas devotion, reconnects with her own father, driven from her life by a crime as terrible as any of which Byron himself was accused.

John Crowley evokes, with absolute precision, the ordinary-and not so ordinary-moments that reflect and illuminate the essential nature of family life. Moving gracefully back and forth between the imaginary planet Brxx and our own familiar Earth, this deeply affecting tale examines the primal importance of stories, while challenging some of our most common misconceptions about those who are "different" and those who are not.

Este libro describe una América futurista y anárquica en que el protagonista es una nueva especie, parte león, parte hombre.Norteamérica ha sido destruida por la guerra civil. Los animales han sido transformados biologicamente en criaturas hibridas. Violentas bandas de barbaros combaten contra los agentes de ingenieria social. Pero unos y otros odian por igual a los leones y a todas las ultimas criaturas depredadoras, que los hombres llaman Bestias.

Painter is a leo - part man, part lion - the result of one of mans genetic experiments, a powerful, beautiful, enigmatic creature deemed a failure to be be hunted down. But Painter has two advantages in this world of small bickering nation states and political accommodation and compromise: his own strength and integrity, and the guile of Reynard, another of mans experiments, a subtle and potent intriguer, a king-maker . . .

Once the world was not as it has since become. Once it worked in a way different from the way it works now...Pierce Moffett is a teacher and historian who at midlife feels himself to be standing at a great turning point in the history of the world. As a child, Pierce was no stranger to magic, but those revelations faded with time. Now Pierces search for a secret history of the world - one in which magic works and angels speak to humankind - has begun again.Pierce finds clues offered to him in the unfinished last novel of a writer named Fellowes Kraft and in the real-life histories of the doomed Renaissance heretic Giordano Bruno and the Elizabethan magus John Dee. He will also find the secret history pervading his present in his involvement with two Roses: Rosie Rasmussen, guardian of the dead Krafts legacy, and Rose Ryder, who will soon become his lover.