Pat Murphy

Pat Murphy es una consolidada y reconocida escritora de libros de fantasía y ciencia-ficción. “Chicas Salvajes es, por lo tanto, una nueva y diferente dirección en su escritura. “Chicas Salvajes” nar

Tres máquinas voladoras propulsadas a motor de goma y todo lo que necesitas para construirlas y volarlas. Fáciles de armar. Aptas para volvar en interiores y exteriores. Capaces de sobrevivir a un ch

The stories in this groundbreaking collection - including the Nebula Award-winning Rachel in Love - effortlessly cross the boundaries between the real and the imaginary, blending visionary storytelling with uncompromising realism. They reveal the extraordinary range, depth, and insight that imbue all of Murphys work, confirming her as one of the most gifted authors of short fiction writing today.

Susan Galina and her friend Pat have escaped their normal lives into the elegant, isolated world of the Odyssey, a luxury cruise ship heading from New York to Europe via Bermuda. Pat is working on her doctoral thesis in quantum physics, and Susan is recovering from a recent and unhappy divorce.To Susans delight, she discovers that her favourite author, Max Merriwell, is also aboard ship, teaching a writers workshop. Susans life becomes even more interesting when she meets Tom Clayton, the handsome chief of security. This cruise looks very promising indeed. But the pleasant shipboard vacation turns dark as the Odyssey passes into the Bermuda Triangle. Each year, Max Merriwell writes three novels: a science fiction novel under his own name, a fantasy novel under the pseudonym Mary Maxwell, and a mystery novel under the pseudonym Weldon Merrimax. The trouble begins when Max receives a threatening note that appears to come from Weldon Merrimax, Maxs own pseudonym. Susan hears wolves howling in the night, the ships passengers are seized with a dancing mania, and monsters lurk in the ships corridors. An eyewitness reports a murder - but the victim of the crime is not on the passenger list and the body is nowhere to be found. While others struggle to understand these strange events, Pat seeks the explanation in quantum theory.

Growing up on the edge of the Missouri wilderness in the 1830s, Nadya knew she was not like other girls. But when she became a woman and the Change came, she discovered just how different she was. For Nadya was a shapechanger, a werewolf like her mother and father before her...

When Sarah McKensies parents are murdered, the young girl is saved by a mother wolf and raised in the pack. Part Mowgli, part Tarzan of the Apes, Sarah becomes the Wild Angel of the Sierras, rescuing those in need, while eluding her parents killer, a man who still wants to see her dead.An amazing young savage, Sarah lives with the wolves, hunts with the wolves, fights for dominance in the pack. She watches people from a distance, but she does not think of herself as one of them. She belongs to the pack. How can such a child be reclaimed for civilization?Sarahs struggle for survival brings together a fascinating assortment of characters: Max Phillips, who found her parents bodies and never gave up the search for the missing child; Audrey North, Sarahs aunt, who wants nothing more than to find her niece; and, ultimately, a young Temperance missionary, Professor Seruncas travelling circus, and a mysterious itinerant fortune-teller named Gitana.

A man waits for me in the light of the mountaintop.No, not a man. Antlers rise from his head. A tail, like a lions tail, sweeps the ground behind him. He stands on hooves and his legs are as shaggy as the legs of the bison. His hands are tipped with claws like the claws of a cat. He stares at me and I recognise the look in his eyes. He was the spirit in the young buck. He was the leader of the wolf pack. He was the snake and the mammoth. When he looks at me, my chant dies in my throat. My hands stop tapping on the drum. Suddenly, I do not feel the strength I once felt, only the ancient terror . . .

"I finished it in a couple of hours, sat back and thought Wow!" - Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars"[Adding] this to my rapidly expanding top-shelf-loves. This was just amazing!" - Goodreads Reviewer, 5 starsThe city, devastated by plague, is home to pale ghosts and chattering monkeys. A nameless young woman arrives from the countryside to find she must join with a band of artists, journalists and writers, in order to lead them into a bloodless battle... in a world with little blood left to spill.

On the space station known as Moon Talk, engineers and poets work together to prototype and manufacture communications satellites. The founder of the station decided to include poets because they specialize in communicating high-density information in very short bursts. Angel, a 20-year-old robotics engineer, is visiting Moon Talk on a poetry/engineering internship when an accident on the stations hull leaves her paralyzed. Unable to return to Earth where the relentless pull of gravity would kill her, Angel must make the station her home. Though her body is trapped, the poets and engineers who run Moon Talk find a way for Angels consciousness to escape the confines of the station. The robotics staff jacks Angel first into a robotic unit on the stations hull, and then into a body that can move about the stations interior. She inhabits a robotic probe that prospects among the orbiting rocks of the asteroid belt. But thats just the beginning of Angels journey. A novelette.

Winner of the 1987 Nebula Award! Rachel has the mind of a teenage girl, but the body and the innocent heart of a young chimp. Sometimes when she looks at her gnarled brown fingers, they seem alien, wrong, out of place. She remembers having small, pale, delicate hands with painted fingernails. Memories lie upon memories, layers upon layers, like the sedimentary rocks of the desert buttes. Aaron Jacobs, the man Rachel calls father, was a neurologist who discovered how to capture the electrical pattern of a living brains thoughts and memories. When his daughter died unexpectedly, the grieving father imposed the electrical pattern of the girls brain on a young chimp, creating Rachel, a chimp he recognizes as his daughter. Rachel knows that she is a real girl but when Aaron Jacobs dies, she must make her way in a world that treats her as nothing but an animal.

What do women want? Well, if Pat Murphy is to be trusted (and were not saying she is), women are looking for trouble. And in this collection of powerful stories, they find it at an archeological dig in the Southwest, in the urban alleys, in California suburbs, in the old West, in ironic fantasy settings. Over the past 25 years, Pat Murphy has been writing stories that garner critical attention and win awards. Her work is difficult to categorize, living on the boundaries between genres. But her characters are easy to recognize. They are troublemakers, every last one of them.

The bombs have fallen, and the world as we know it has ended. In her final days, one robotics engineer works to ensure that life will go on, constructing the creatures that will inherit the earth. New times are coming. The future echoes with the rattle of metal claws. A short story.

The Irish Giant thats what Londoners called Charlie Bryne, an enormous country lad standing 8 feet tall in his bare feet. He made his fortune by exhibiting himself, but Bryne was far more than a human oddity. He had the magical power of healing, a deep connection to the natural magic of the earth, and the blood of Irish kings in his veins. In 1782, he came to London with a single goal to bring the Irish home to the island they had left. John Hunter was a man of science and insatiable curiosity a surgeon, a natural philosopher, and a tireless collector of natural oddities. With analysis and dissection, Hunter strove to understand the natural world and he wanted to add the bones of a giant to his collection. This novella, winner of the 1990 World Fantasy Award, examines what happens when the quest for scientific knowledge meets ancient natural magic.

Traveling across the Martian polar cap, the second TransPolar Expedition is tracing the shape of the hidden lands beneath the ice and snow. Sita, the expeditions cartographer, has a talent for interpreting the shades and squiggles that the computer produces from satellite photos and sonic recordings. She takes ambiguous data and makes a clear and precise map of lands no one has ever seen. But Sita knows that maps are black-and-white portraits of a world that exists in shades of gray and, like cartographers before her, she knows that dragons lurk beyond the edges of every map. At night, in the darkness of her dreams, she believes in the yeti, the messengers from the secret lands, the dark-eyed dream beasts that haunt the crevasses and move as softly as the blowing snow. The world is not all that it seems on the surface. Beneath the polar ice lies danger and discovery. A novelette.

San Francisco, après lapocalypse.Dans la grande cité californienne, des artistes se sont forgés leur propre société, qui tend vers lutopie — mais de lautre côté de la Baie, des militaires sagitent, d

La vie est un combat, pour la femme comme pour le loup.Dans l’Amérique au temps du Far West, Nadya est une jeune femme née de parents loups. Tous trois vivent harmonieusement dans le Missouri, à l’or

"Construye 5 feroces bestias de 30 cm de largo, 6 dragones bebés y diseña tu propio dragón robot. Son tan resistentes que sobreviven a las catástrofes y siguen volando."

WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER AWARD A heartwarming coming-of-age tale that explores the journey of self-discovery that comes with growing up.A terrific mix of imagination, insight, character inventiveness and kindness create the kind of read that nourishes young minds and hearts.Kirkus ReviewsA fantastic book. . . . Pat Murphys wonderful girls are as real and as lovable as characters get.Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book ClubTwelve-year-old Joan is sure that she is going to be miserable in her new home. Then she meets a kindred spirit: Sarah, who prefers to be called Fox and who lives with her writer father in a rundown house in the middle of the woods. Joan and SarahNewt and Foxspend all their spare time outside, talking and fooling around, and soon start writing stories together. When they win first place in a student fiction contest, theyre recruited for a prestigious summer writing class taught by a free spirit named Verla Volante. The Wild Girls is a stunning novel about friendship, the power of story, and how coming of age means finding your own answersrather than simply taking adults on faith.