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Justicia para Tessa es un relato corto de ciencia ficción ambientado en una sociedad distópica donde el poder corporativo, la corrupción institucional y la justicia personal se entrelazan. La historia sigue a Tessa Cline, una mujer que investiga por su cuenta el asesinato de su marido, un científico cuyos descubrimientos resultaron incómodos para personas demasiado poderosas. Su búsqueda la llevará a moverse por los márgenes de la ciudad y del sistema, enfrentándose a viejos conocidos, verdades ocultas y decisiones irreversibles.

The author, Donald J. Bingle, who was the world's top-ranked player of RPGA-sanctioned, classic role-playing tournaments for the last fifteen years of the last century, is also a well known player of board games, strategy games, and collectible card games. This collection tells tales for all sorts of gamers, from players of MMORPGs to attendees of GenCon and other gaming conventions. Take a look or give it to your favorite gamer.

When young Tad Thatcher told his grandfather he wanted to command a starship like he did, his grandfather took him seriously. He taught his grandson everything he knew. Fast forward over two decades, and a young Space Fleet officer's dream becomes reality: he's made captain of a starship…just in time for the return of humanity's most terrible enemy, after 50 years of peace.

The last living astronaut to walk on the Moon has been murdered… Silas visits his estranged grandfather's lakehouse in the aftermath of the deadly home invasion. What he discovers hidden below the floorboards triggers a mystery buried since the final trip to the Moon, over fifty years earlier. Rory returns to her family home in Vermont to write her second novel, but fate has a different story in mind. Her reunion is shattered when she's thrust into danger revolving around the same tokens.

A subversive debut short-fiction collection from one of the hottest talents in speculative fiction: 2025 Compton Crook Award winner and Pushcart Prize nominee Samantha Mills (The Wings Upon Her Back). These riveting stories range effortlessly from fantasy and science fiction to literary fiction, from the here and now all the way into the farthest reaches of space. The central tale of the collection is Mills’ pivotal Nebula, Locus, and Sturgeon Award-winning story “Rabbit Test,” which interrogates the past, present, and future of abortion rights.

The first book in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover series, The Planet Savers introduces listeners to the world of Darkover. Darkover is plagued with a disease called trailman’s fever, but Dr. Randall Forth has a plan. He sends a man with two distinct and warring personalities, Jay and Jason, out on an expedition to find a cure.

It's all fiction, but then the ceiling bends and twists until a blue light shines through. You don't understand, but you know you should run. Your body won't allow you to move. An incredible force holds you in place. Fight or Flight is no longer an option. You are now in a frozen state, a fawn blinded by headlights. Then, you feel lighter and lighter until you realize everything is moving past you as if you were quickly going through a fast growth spurt. But no, that isn't possible. That can't be it. You aren't growing. No, that isn't it at all. You are levitating towards the ceiling.

Punktown is considered by many critics and readers to be one of the new classics of SF short story collections. In the nightmarish city they call Punktown, on a planet where countless sentient species collide, you can become a creator of clones. You can become a piece of performance art. You might even become a library of sorrows...

Author Henry Elder came to Alta Novis to learn more about the fabled battle lord and his lady. But rather than re-tell the tales of their already well-known exploits, he wants to hear about the couple from the people who really know them. The people who live, love, interact, and fight alongside with them. He wants to hear those personal anecdotes in order to discover a side of Yulen and Atty D'Jacques that few people know.

From boardrooms to befuddled aliens, what if the high-tech absurdities of modern life accelerated to warp speed? The stories in Neil Rackham's debut science fiction collection, Elliptical Billiard Balls, explore the worlds of business and tech - not to mention English-speaking dogs and aliens who communicate via smells - to create strange new futures.

Los cuentos de Alberto Chimal tratan de las proyecciones y los demonios de una «inteligencia» que desplaza y suplanta lo humano hasta su extinción, del poder absoluto de una tecnología adictiva, propiedad de unos pocos, de la ingenuidad de creer en sus buenas intenciones y de las horribles fantasías de poder absoluto y saqueo de este mundo (y hasta de otros mundos). Porque incluso aunque esas máquinas «enfermaran», nuestra fe en ellas podría ser suficiente para que triunfasen sobre nosotros.

In the quiet hours of the desert night, ordinary people encounter things they cannot explain. The Quiet Visitors is a collection of calm, atmospheric UFO encounter stories set beneath the vast skies of the American Southwest. From isolated campsites and empty highways to ancient ruins and remote ranchland, each chapter follows a different witness through a single night that quietly changes everything.

This short story collection delves into the origins of our civilization. How we came to be and where we will end up if we are not careful. One story is about a small alien sent to Earth to help a primitive couple become more civilized and what kind of chaos ensues. The other involves a NASA astronaut discovering the truth about our origins and what harm it cause once he delves further into the truth. Enter if you dare....

En los cuentos de El comienzo del paraíso, Edmundo Paz Soldán explora cómo, al cambiar dramáticamente lo que nos rodea, nosotros también nos hemos vuelto seres extraños en este planeta. En estos cuentos impactantes y de vigoroso ritmo narrativo –escritos con una prosa envolvente capaz de construir atmósferas variadísimas– aparecen peces monstruosos de las profundidades abisales, árboles estranguladores y animales de una península devastada, que van de mutación en mutación.

Eight months after a failed assassination attempt on confederation leadership, Nathan Bishop faces infrastructure warfare unlike anything the confederation has ever encountered. Federal authorities have weaponized confederation infrastructure systems using the confederation's own native protocols—the sophisticated technical standards designed to protect critical systems now turned into attack vectors. Water treatment systems fail. Power grids cascade into darkness. Telecommunications networks collapse.

For life in America it was quite laid back albeit mundane. When America is decimated by an unknown virus the world for many changed irrevocably. Millions are killed across the world by this unknown virus. Just when people were learning to cope and survive, America was hit by an EMP, which compounded the problem. Zachary Cain an ex-military soldier is in for the fight of his life for survival and that of his family. Is he up for the challenge? Will he survive what's to come? Would you be able to survive in the aftermath of an unknown virus compounded by an EMP!?

Lucía trabaja como mecánica en un carguero espacial, dando las mismas rondas día tras día. Entre bromas pesadas de compañeros, herramientas "para zurdos" inexistentes y motores que parecen tener vida propia, pensaba que ya había visto de todo.

From award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull comes a brilliant collection of short stories, including old favorites and brand-new adventures. Eighteen stories. Unseen places that lie just within, beneath, beyond our reality. A father and daughter traverse postapocalyptic America seeking safe haven and the truth about why the world ended. Three siblings write intimate letters as their society slips ever deeper into dystopia. On an island where locals use cooperative AI to survive hurricanes, a journalist returns home to cover their story and reconnect with her past.

When the alien Exlian invade, humanity’s only hope lies with the empowered, those rare few granted supernatural abilities. Mark Fields isn’t one of them. He’s a dishwasher with broken dreams, no powers, and even less luck. Until a dying stranger changes everything. Suddenly, Mark has what he’s always wanted: the power to fight back. To prove himself. To rise. But as he joins the Defense Force and begins to level up, he quickly learns that the System hides secrets of its own—and that monsters aren’t always alien. Some wear human faces.

Sheriff Deena Mallory’s murder investigation aboard the solar failsafe ship Agni unravels into a desperate fight against eco-terrorist sabotage threatening Earth itself. But survival comes at a heartbreaking cost.