Vernor Vinge

Dos aventuras completas de Mortadelo y Filemón: ¡Y van 50 tacos! y los que volvieron de allá. Una historieta inédita de las aventuras de Rompetechos: el cenizo le acogota y rebusca una mascota. Y las secciones habituales: los inventos del profesor Bacterio, El tablón de anuncios, La cinemateca y mucho más.

Albemuth Bolsillo comenzó publicando volúmenes que contenían dos novelas cortas, con autores como Daniel Mares (Una luz en la noche) o José Antonio Cotrina (Mala Racha).Ahora continúan con esa filoso

Penguin reissues a seminal work of cyberpunk fiction from the Hugo Award-winning author of A Fire Upon the Deep - with a new introduction by Hari Kunzru.Mr Slippery is an illegal computer hacker - a Warlock - and an expert in a new virtual reality technology called the Other Plane. Arrested by US the government and forced to work for them, he finds himself pitted against a new and frightening international cybercriminal: the Mailman.The Mailman is building a network of Warlocks, promising them wealth and power, causing chaos around the globe - but noone has ever met him in person. As Mr Slippery and his sidekick Erythrina drain the world''s computational power to track down their formidable adversary, they begin to wonder if they are chasing a ghost. Is the Mailman a man at all? Is he even human?True Names is part of the Penguin Worlds classic science fiction series.

Abarcando el viaje en el tiempo, increíbles Misterios y la historia futura de la humanidad, hasta Su último puñado de supervivientes, "a través del Tiempo real" se extiende a lo largo de millones de Años, convertido en una referencia de la ciencia Ficción, en un libro que es puro entretenimiento. En "a través del tiempo real" se reúnen por Primera vez en un solo volumen las dos novelas Clásicas de la saga de las burbujas, de vernor vinge. En "la guerra de la paz" se nos narra él Descubrimiento del principio del funcionamiento de las "burbujas", unos campos de fuerza esféricos Completamente infranqueables. Gracias a ellos, sus Usuarios se harán con el poder e impondrán una "paz" Forzada y un estancamiento científico-tecnológico en Un mundo diezmado por los conflictos y las plagas. Una interesante y dinámica exploración de cómo un Nuevo y maravilloso artilugio científico todavía Incomprendido puede alterar el destino del mundo. En "naufragio en tiempo real", una desastrosa Extinción ocurrida en el siglo xxiii amenaza la Continuidad de la civilización. Los poseedores del Poder tecnológico intentan recoger a todos los Supervivientes que van siendo liberados del éstasis de Las burbujas e incorporarlos al proyecto final: Reconstruir la civilización con una diezmada Humanidad. Pero uno de los líderes ha sido Abandonado en el tiempo real, el equivalente al Asesinato, mientras el resto de la humanidad se Encuentra en "viaje hacia el futuro" gracias a las Burbujas. El protogonista, Will Brierson , policía del Siglo xxi, debe encontrar al "asesino" y desentrañar Por qué se intenta obstaculizar la reconstrucción de La civilización.

Non, vraiment, la vie de Dixie Mae n’a pas toujours été rose… Mais grâce à LotsaTech, et au boulot qu’elle vient de décrocher au service clients de ce géant high-tech, les choses vont changer. Telle

Una expedición humana se encuentra muy lejos de su zona, estudiando un archivo de datos que podría contener riquezas inimaginables para la joven y ambiciosa población del reino de Straumli. Desgraciadamente, mientras llevan a cabo sus investigaciones, despiertan a la Plaga, un superente maligno que esta dispuesto a fagocitarse en parte con tal de que los humanos no escapen, tal y como lo han planeado en secreto. La Plaga logra destruir una de las naves, pero la otra escapa con un centenar de niños criogenizados, una familia y una contramedida, quiza la unica cosa en el universo a la que tema la maligna entidad.

Una expedición humana se encuentra muy lejos de su zona, estudiando un archivo de datos que podría contener riquezas inimaginables para la joven y ambiciosa población del reino de Straumli. Desgraciadamente, mientras llevan a cabo sus investigaciones, despiertan a la Plaga, un superente maligno que está dispuesto a fagocitarse en parte con tal de que los humanos no escapen, tal y como lo han planeado en secreto. La Plaga logra destruir una de las naves, pero la otra escapa con un centenar de niños criogenizados, una familia y una contramedida, quizá la única cosa en el universo a la que tema la maligna entidad.

This is science fiction on the grandest of scales - a cast of thousands set across hundreds of years and in the farthest reaches of Human Space. A prequel to his earlier novel A Fire Upon the Deep, this new novel is epic in scope and a thoroughly riveting read.A Deepness In the Sky is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstellar trading fleet of the Queng Ho. Both they and the Emergents are orbiting Arachna, a dormant planet which will shortly wake up when its On/Off star relights after decades of darkness. Both groups hope to exploit the coming age of technology and commerce on Arachna. But while the Queng Ho seek only to trade aggressively, the Emergents plans are far more sinister, amounting to little short of genocide . . .

Penguin reissues a seminal work of cyberpunk fiction from the Hugo Award-winning author of A Fire Upon the Deep - with a new introduction by Hari KunzruMr Slippery is an illegal computer hacker - a Warlock - and an expert in a new virtual reality technology called the Other Plane. Arrested by US the government and forced to work for them, he finds himself pitted against a new and frightening international cybercriminal: the Mailman.The Mailman is building a network of Warlocks, promising them wealth and power, causing chaos around the globe - but noone has ever met him in person. As Mr Slippery and his sidekick Erythrina drain the worlds computational power to track down their formidable adversary, they begin to wonder if they are chasing a ghost. Is the Mailman a man at all? Is he even human?True Names is part of the Penguin Worlds classic science fiction series

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Vinges masterpieces together at last, in one epic volumeThe Hugo Award winning A FIRE UPON THE DEEP and its epic companion novel A DEEPNESS IN THE SKY, set in the same universe but 20,000 years earlier, were benchmarks for SF in the last decade of the 20th century. In FIRE Vinge presents a galaxy divided into Zones - regions where different physical constraints allow very different technological and mental possibilities. Earth remains in the "Slowness" zone, where nothing can travel faster than light and minds are fairly limited. The action of the book is in the "Beyond", where translight travel and other marvels exist, and humans are one of many intelligent species. One human colony has been experimenting to find a path to the "Transcend", where intelligence and power are so great as to seem godlike. Instead they release the Blight, an evil power, from a billion-year captivity. Publishers Weekly In DEEPNESS, the story has the same sense of epic vastness despite happening mostly in one isolated solar system. Here theres a world of intelligent spider creatures who traditionally hibernate through the "Deepest Darkness" of their strange variable suns long "off" periods, when even the atmosphere freezes. Now, science offers them an alternative. Meanwhile, attracted by spider radio transmissions, two human starfleets come exploring - merchants hoping for customers and tyrants who want slaves. Their inevitable clash leaves both fleets crippled, with the power in the wrong hands, which leads to a long wait in space until the spiders develop exploitable technology. Over the years Vinge builds palpable tension through multiple storylines and characters. Dave Langford

Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a minds potential is determined by its location in space - from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these zones of thought, but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artefact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.Fleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines - an alien race with a harsh medieval culture - and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. A rescue party, not entirely composed of humans, must free the children - and retrieve a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization.

Robert Gu is a world-renowned poet and recovering Alzheimers patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a new cure, he discovers that the world has changed. He is seventy-five years old, though by a medical miracle he looks much younger, and hes starting over, for the first time unsure of his poetic gifts. Living with his sons family, he has no choice but to learn how to cope with a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum. But the consensus reality of the digital world is available only if, like his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri, you know how to wear your wireless access and to see the digital contextthrough smart contact lenses. With knowledge comes risk. When Robert begins to re-train at Fairmont High he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination. This conspiracy is something that baffles even the most sophisticated security analysts, including Roberts son and daughter-in law, two top people in the U.S. military. And even Miri, in her attempts to protect her grandfather, may be entangled in the plot . . . In the grand tradition of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, Vernor Vinge just turned the future upside-down in Rainbows End Charles Stross

The prequel to A Fire Upon The Deep, this is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstellar trading fleet of the Queng Ho. The Queng Ho and the Emergents are orbiting the dormant planet Arachna, which is about to wake up to technology, but the Emergents plans are sinister.