Do not miss the best science fiction books

It will not be an easy task to choose the best of a genre as extensive as science fiction literature. But deciding better or worse is always a subjective fact. Because we already know that even flies have their essential eschatological tastes.

The best thing in the end will be to pull subdivisions, to probe those subgenres in which science fiction is separating to take its particular directions, as extended ramifications beyond the Tannhäuser gate, as the illustrious replicant would say. Of course, I will do it my way, I mean, ordering these categories according to my tastes.

A space opera is not the same as a plot about time travel or a hard dystopia. And possibly the readers of a type of fiction with a greater fantastic component, even renounce novels of the same genre but configured around sensible scientific theories. But if we can even find science fiction books for teens. This creative space is so extensive and fertile ...

Be that as it may, clarify before entering the matter that it all started with a spark of light. Science fiction arose, even without having cataloged it at that time, with the prometheus of Shelley, that frankstein that reached an unimaginable popular repercussion and that was labeled at the time as another fantasy.

But no. There was something else there. The awakening of Frankstein spoke of scientific projections, of life after death, of cells capable of reviving thanks to a jet of electrical energy, of a world subjected to new rules after all. It can be admitted as something fantastic, the whole for the part, but that book was the first copy of science fiction.

Now we just need to check how much the genre has grown and spread in what is surely the most extensive of the literary creative fields. Beyond famous sci-fi novels, we can lose ourselves to the infinity of the cosmos ...

Best time travel novels

My literary refuge. I don't know why but time travel novels as a central or tangential argument they have always fascinated me. Like the movies, of course.

Then I tried to write my own story about a time travel myself. The thing was very worthy of me. Perhaps the argument itself gave more than what I finally got. But don't be hard, at that time I was in my early twenties and the Internet didn't even exist.

A second chance Juan Herranz

Beyond my self-promotion, there are many books to highlight, but let's stay with 3, which always seems a good way to choose the best.

HG Wells's time machine

More than 120 years have passed since the publication of this novel. More than a century in which a lot has happened ..., at the same time, little.

It is more than likely that in the imaginary of Wells this advance of the XNUMXst century was determined by gigantic advances, but…, if we look around us, we really only find modernity as commercial advances of the latest smartphone and some exclusive use of medical advances for the privileged classes.

Space is still a place where we can only take a photo from an unmanned spacecraft. I don't know, I think he would be disappointed. In this novel we enjoy the presentation of the mechano as an instrument by which man could patent all kinds of fascinating evolutions.

The time machine, with its gears and levers, fascinated and still fascinates everyone who reads it. The fourth dimension, a term that Wells coined together with other authors and scientists of his time, becomes a plane to be reached thanks to technological developments such as those of the novel's researcher.

A time-traveling protagonist outlined as an eccentric guy who ends up lost in the future, where nothing is as it should have been ...

The time Machine

22/11/63, of Stephen King

He doubted whether to put this novel first. Respect for Wells prevented it. But it's not out of desire ... Stephen King he manages at will the virtue of turning any story, however unlikely it may be, into a close and surprising plot. His main trick lies in the profiles of characters whose thoughts and behaviors he knows how to make ours, no matter how strange and / or macabre they may be.

On this occasion, the name of the novel is the date of a momentous event in world history, the day of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas. Much has been written about the assassination, about the possibilities that the accused was not the one who killed the president, about hidden wills and hidden interests that sought to remove the American president from the middle.

King does not join the conspiracy slopes that point to causes and murderers different from what was said at the time. He only talks about a small bar where the protagonist usually has a coffee. Until one day his owner tells him about something strange, about a place in the pantry where he can travel back in time.

Sounds like a strange argument, pilgrim, right? The grace is that the good Stephen makes perfectly credible, through that narrative naturalness, any entry approach.

The protagonist ends up crossing the threshold that leads him to the past. He comes and goes a few times ... until he sets a final goal of his travels, to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination.

Einstein already said it, is it possible to travel through time. But what the wise scientist did not say is that time travel takes its toll, causes personal and general consequences. The attraction of this story is to know if Jacob Epping, the protagonist, manages to avoid the assassination and to discover what effects this traveling from here to there has.

Meanwhile, with the unique narrative of King, Jacob is discovering a new life in that past. Go through one more and discover that you like that Jacob more than the one from the future. But the past in which he seems determined to live knows that he does not belong to that moment, and time is merciless, also for those who travel through it.

What will become of Kennedy? What will become of Jacob? What will become of the future? ...

22/11/63, of Stephen King

Rescue in time

Okay, it may be that Crichton's approach to his interpretation of the cifi is a bit naïve. But here he also enjoys adventure approaches on one side and the other of the mirror of time ...

The multinational ITC develops, under top secret, a revolutionary and mysterious technology based on the latest advances in quantum physics. However, ITC's critical financial situation forces it to obtain immediate results to attract new investors.

The clearest option is to accelerate the Dordogne Project, for the public an archaeological project to unearth the ruins of a medieval monastery in France but, in reality, a risky experiment to test a technology that allows travel in time. But when it comes to teleporting people from one century to another, the slightest mistake or carelessness can bring unpredictable and terrifying consequences ...

Michael Crichton offers us a new adventure supernovela, with a solid scientific approach and a reflective background. Without a doubt, a milestone in the trajectory of its acclaimed author.

Rescue in time

Best uchronic science fiction novels

In considering how it could have been, History as an argument finds a vein. Because there are no moments that we all want to change or about which we like to ramble about possible changes in parallel realities.

I myself went into a potential escape from Hitler and wrote the diary of the octogenarian dictator ...

The arms of my cross

But beyond my little things, we go there with the professionals ...

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

A spectacular uchrony of Murakami suspected by its protagonists. A change of register as marked by the most random God who is preparing to change the puzzle with which he plays and establishes the future of the world.

In Japanese, the letter q and the number 9 are homophones, both are pronounced kyu, so that 1Q84 is, without being 1984, a date of Orwellian echoes. This variation in the spelling reflects the subtle alteration of the world in which the characters of this novel inhabit, which is, also without being it, the Japan of 1984.

In this seemingly normal and recognizable world, Aomame, an independent woman, an instructor in a gym, and Tengo, a math teacher, move. They are both in their thirties, both lead solitary lives and both perceive slight imbalances in their environment in their own way, which will inexorably lead them to a common destiny.

And both are more than they seem: the beautiful Aomame is a murderer; the anodyne I have, an aspiring novelist who has been commissioned by his publisher to work on The Chrysalis of Air, an enigmatic work dictated by an elusive adolescent. And, as a backdrop to the story, the universe of religious sects, mistreatment and corruption, a rarefied universe that the narrator explores with Orwellian precision.

1Q84

Patria, by Robert Harris

What of Robert Harris in this book it is a pure, resounding uchrony. Hitler was never defeated, Nazism continued to spread its policy of National Socialism and its final solution ...

In 1964, a victorious Third Reich set out to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Adolf Hitler. At that moment, the naked corpse of an old man appears floating in a lake in Berlin. This is a senior Party official, the next in a secret list that condemns everyone on it to death.

And they have been falling one after another, in a conspiracy that has only just begun ... Patria 1964 recounts a dark future, imagined by Robert Harris, the author of the fast-paced thrillers Enigma and Stalin's son. This novel has been taken to both film and television.

Homeland, Robert Harris

The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick

An interesting uchrony in which Thick it entangles us with a special magic. A world that was not and that at times seems chaotically built in an improvised way by God or by whoever did not have planned this plan B of History. Do you know when you are in a movie and suddenly you notice loss of connection, pixelated areas and so on?

Something like this is the new reality of this uchrony, a kind of world in a mosaic that seems capable of being defragmented. This in terms of the background, because the plot itself, the base is very simple. Germany won the second world war.

A new international treaty has divided the United States between the new winning allies, Germany and Japan. What happens on the basis of that parallel world, that slip that has turned everything upside down, connects with what previously indicated to you the sensations of a world through which that other parallel truth of the true story seems to be seen against the light.

The man in the castle

Best dystopian science fiction novels

In this space there is no doubt. Because the three books that I propose to you are the three greatest dystopias of all time.

1984, by George Orwell

When I read this novel by Orwell, in that process of boiling ideas typical of early youth, I was amazed at Orwell's capacity for synthesis to present us with that ideal of a nullified society (ideal for consumerism, capital and the most spurious interests, of course).

Ministries to direct emotions, slogans to clarify the thought ..., The language reaching its highest level of rhetoric to first reach the emptying of concepts, nothingness and the subsequent filling in to the taste and interest of high politics at the service of uniformity. The longed-for unique thought achieved with semantic lobotomy.

London, 1984: Winston Smith decides to rebel against a totalitarian government that controls every movement of its citizens and punishes even those who commit crimes with their thoughts. Aware of the dire consequences that dissent can bring, Winston joins the ambiguous Brotherhood through leader O'Brien.

Gradually, however, our protagonist realizes that neither the Brotherhood nor O'Brien are what they appear, and that rebellion, after all, may be an unattainable goal.

For its magnificent analysis of power and the relationships and dependencies it creates in individuals, 1984 is one of the most disturbing and engaging novels of this century.

This edition below includes the inseparable, undeniably dystopian fable "Farm Rebellion":

George Orwell Pack

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

In first place in the ranking of Huxley and probably within any ranking a bit more extensive literature of the twentieth century. That you feel frustration, take a dose of soma and readjust your thinking towards the happiness that the system offers you. That you are unable to fulfill yourself in a dehumanized world, take a double dose of soma and the world will end up embracing you in a lavish dream of alienation.

Happiness was never really anything other than a chemical adjustment. Everything that happens around you is a predictable general plan with basic guidelines halfway between stoicism, nihilism and a chemical hedonism ...

The novel describes a world in which the worst predictions have finally come true: the gods of consumption and comfort triumph, and the orb is organized into ten apparently safe and stable zones. However, this world has sacrificed essential human values, and its inhabitants are procreated in vitro in the image and likeness of an assembly line.

A happy world

Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury

There can be no trace of what we were. Beyond some stubborn memory, books can never illuminate the minds of a world that needs to be controlled for its own survival. And the most disturbing thing is the parallelism of this story with our present day. Citizens who move through the city with their headphones inserted in the ears, thus listening to what they need to hear ...

The temperature at which the paper ignites and burns. Guy Montag is a firefighter and a firefighter's job is to burn books, which are forbidden because they cause discord and suffering. The Fire Department Mechanic Hound, armed with a lethal hypodermic injection, escorted by helicopters, is prepared to track down dissidents who still keep and read books.

Like George Orwell's 1984, like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451 describes a Western civilization enslaved by media, tranquilizers, and conformism.

The vision of bradbury it is astonishingly prescient: television screens that occupy walls and display interactive brochures; avenues where cars run at 150 kilometers per hour chasing pedestrians; a population that listens to nothing but an insipid stream of music and news transmitted through tiny headphones inserted into their ears.

Fahrenheit 451

Best post-apocalyptic science fiction novels

All worlds point to an end. Any civilization will always be passing through. The question is to feel the cold sweat that our time has come. And how everything will be afterwards, if someone will stay to listen to the sound of the tree falling in the middle of the forest or if it will only be a matter of an end that will move the blue planet without orbit, while an icy Wagner symphony resounds in the cosmos.

I'm Legend, by Richard Matheson

To this day we all remember Will Smith locked up in his New York townhouse (I have a picture on the very door). But as always, the reading imagination surpasses all other recreation.

I'm not saying that the movie is wrong, quite the opposite. But the truth is that reading the life and work of Robert Neville, the last survivor of the bacteriological catastrophe that made our civilization a world of vampires, is much more disturbing in the novel by Richard Matheson.

The siege to which Robert is subjected night after night, his outings to that world turned into a sinister version of what it was, the confrontations to life and death, the risks and the final hope ... a book that you cannot stop reading.

I'm legend

World War Z by Max Brooks

Nothing better than to turn around the typical arguments to point to that marked difference, to that revolutionary vocation. What he did Max Brooks with the theme of zombies towards an overwhelming apocalypse.

Because a lot had been written about zombies since time immemorial and countless movies had been made. The question was to innovate. Any reader of this "novel" will convey to you that feeling of unease that comes with facing something as gloomy as the existence of badly dead beings from the notion of journalism.

This is the chronicle of the disaster, the testimonies of the survivors, the reflection of what was left of us after the worst epidemic that devastated our civilization. The thing is that the fact of reflecting the impressions of the survivors in the past does not leave room for tranquility either. Because for sure no one knows yet if there may be new waves from out there ...

We survived the zombie apocalypse, yet how many of us are still haunted by memories of these terrible times? We have defeated the undead, but at what cost? Is it just a temporary victory? Is the endangered species still? Told through the voices of those who witnessed the horror, World War Z It is the only document that exists about the pandemic that was about to end humanity.

World War Z

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

The world is a hostile, empty place, subject to the chaos of a nuclear-inspired global holocaust. On the way through what was once the United States, a father and his son wander in search of some last space free of so many dangers that lurk in the middle of that new planet delivered to the darkness of humanity itself.

The south instinctively seems like a stronghold of survival between the heat and the calmer sea. Under this apocalyptic approach, Cormac McCarthy It takes the opportunity to insert an ideology about humanity as a civilization, perhaps not so far at present in its essence from any bestial behavior.

A book that was made to the cinema for me with more pain than glory. That a film is preceded by a novel awarded with the Pulitzer does not always ensure quality.

And it is that there are books that in their absolutely literary essence are difficult to accommodate on the big screen. Because in this case the scenario is the excuse and not the foundation. Although if the film serves for the novel to go further, welcome.

The road

Best science fiction novels space opera

Technology reaches its highest idealization. The intellectual orgasm of every engineer. The conquest of space is still that impossible, that dream as remote as that of the ancients could be the moon. But looking at things with perspective, we may not go that far, just a spark like the one that swallowed the fire to our planet.

Foundation, by Isaac Asimov

A work on which a large part of an author's creation pivots cannot but rise to the top of his literary production.

You can start with it and continue immediately until concluding with its essential trilogy (although the Fundación universe has up to 16 installments) or you can later look for some other combined works to have a broader perspective of the author.

Although knowing the work, it is more than likely that you launch yourself to read everything later about the foundations that await you at the limits of the known galaxy. I, just in case, I refer here to the joint volume ...

Man has scattered across the planets of the galaxy. The capital of the Empire is Trantor, center of all intrigues and symbol of imperial corruption. A psychohistorian, Hari Seldon, foresees, thanks to his science founded on the mathematical study of historical facts, the collapse of the Empire and the return to barbarism for several millennia.

Seldon decides to create two Foundations, located at each end of the galaxy, in order to reduce this period of barbarism to a thousand years. This is the first title in the tetralogy of foundations, one of the most important in the science fiction genre.

Foundation trilogy

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

A writer like Dan simmons it is capable of a kind of immeasurable mix between epic science fiction and fantasy. Including interplanetary projections always from our world. Thus it ends up dragging millions of fans who inhabit the new worlds. Simply wonderful.

In the world called Hyperion, beyond the Web of Man's Hegemony, awaits the Shrike, a surprising and fearsome creature revered as Lord of Pain by members of the Church of Final Atonement.

On the eve of Armageddon and against the backdrop of the possible war between the Hegemony, the Exter swarms and the artificial intelligences of the TechnoCore, seven pilgrims flock to Hyperion to resurrect an ancient religious rite.

All of them are bearers of impossible hopes and, also, of terrible secrets. A diplomat, a Catholic priest, a military man, a poet, a teacher, a detective and a navigator cross their destinies in their pilgrimage in search of the Shrike while they search the Tombs of Time, majestic and incomprehensible constructions that house a secret of the future.

Hyperion

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

It is fascinating to imagine this work of Orson Scott Card at its dawn as a short novel. Thinking about what was and what ended up closing as a saga of six voluminous installments, is related to the idea of ​​the inexhaustible source of the author's imagination.

We find ourselves in a futuristic environment with certain airs of social dystopia in which life is limited to a maximum of children. But at the same time, the approach opens up to the idea that in the exception, in the opening of ideologies, the solution to a problem that blocks us can reside. The alien threat in the form of a plague brings a notion of undeniable doom for human civilization.

Spices from other worlds with the size of insects and the capacity of reason with which to coordinate their attacks. Only Ender, the chosen one, the exception, will be able to face the attack. And from this approach that can be considered even simple, a great story extends between epic, romanticism, science fiction and the humanist touch that always contributes a story in which our existence is on the brink of disappearance.

Ender's Game

Best Tech Sci-Fi Novels

I, robot, by Isaac Asimov

Asimov's great passion for robotics is generally known, demonstrated in many of his works and extrapolated to robotics science in his Asimov's Laws. In this, his first compilation of stories already introduces us to his passion for artificial intelligence and its technological and / or ethical limits.

Isaac Asimov's robots are machines capable of carrying out a wide variety of tasks, and they often pose problems of 'human behavior' for themselves.

But these questions are solved in I, robot in the field of the three fundamental laws of robotics, conceived by Asimov, and which do not stop proposing extraordinary paradoxes that are sometimes explained by malfunctions and others by the increasing complexity of the functions. 'programs'.

The paradoxes that arise in these futuristic stories are not only ingenious intellectual exercises but above all an inquiry into the situation of modern man in relation to technological advances and the experience of time.

I robot

Ready player one by Ernest Cline

This novel about digital games and our interaction with them was recently recovered for the cause. Undoubtedly the technology where an AI advances the most towards our leisure and pleasure God knows how far it will go.

In the current state of the seventh art, devoted to special effects and action stories, stocking up on arguments from good science fiction books at least compensates for the dangerous transition from cinema as a mere visual spectacle.

Steven Spielberg is aware of all this, and he has managed to find in the novel Ready Player One a perfect script for a future blockbuster. Novelist Ernest Cline will be flattered when the film comes out in 2018.

As for the novel itself, we could say that it is a dystopia with an eighties setting, only advanced to the year 2044. In the intricacies of the virtual environment Oasis hides an enigmatic proposal that can turn whoever discovers it into a millionaire. The real world has ceased to have any charm for the inhabitants of a planet Earth subjected to the dictatorship of capital.

People live in Oasis, a technological replica of Huxley's Happy World. And in fiction relationships are established. Oasis gives a lot of itself to end up surrendering to fiction as the only way to overcome physical reality.

James Halliday, the creator of the famous setting, has a surprise in store. Upon his death, he reveals that a treasure is hidden in Oasis, a fortune hidden in an Easter egg.

Wade Watts is one of the few who persists in the search as time goes by without anyone finding the famous egg. Until he manages to find the key.

All Oasis and all connected humans suddenly revolve around Wade Watts. The two realities then seem to overlap, and Wade must move through both environments to get his prize in the same way as to save his life, in danger from the moment he becomes the owner of the key.

The action of this novel will enchant thirty-something and forty-something grown up in the shadow of arcades, arcades, the trends of the eighties and nineties, and pop culture of the late twentieth century. A geek point and a wonderful evocative point ...

Ready player one

Machines like me, Ian MacEwan

The trend of Ian McEwan because of the existentialist composition, disguised in the particular dynamism of its plots and humanistic themes, they always enrich the reading of his works of fiction, making his novels something more anthropological, sociological.

Coming to science fiction with the background of this author always augurs a humanistic exploration of his characters or a sociological projection towards the usual dystopia of every author with two fingers in front and a minimum of critical awareness about our future in this world.

And so we come to the start of this story as a uchrony, that magical historical alternative always given from the mere fact of an unexpected butterfly flutter, which shakes reality towards a parallel approach.

Everything starts in good faith. Alan Turing, brilliant mathematician and great promoter of Artificial Intelligence. in this novel he finds that second chance in the face of a harsh reality in which he ended up committing suicide due to the homophobic attacks he suffered and even judicial prosecution back in the 50s in London.

His famous distorted syllogism, written as an acid critique of the morals of his day, sounds even more powerful and suggestive today:

“Turing believes that machines think
Turing lies with men
Then the machines do not think ”.

Against this background, everything McEwan narrated takes on a more transcendent meaning in this foray into science fiction. It is Turing who in his parallel existence is able to create his first two synthetic humans. New Adam and Eve ready to reconquer a world lost by humans after God's legacy. The prototypes can be acquired for a small price so that all human beings can have their services.

An Adam arrives at Charlie and Miranda's house, custom programmed by themselves to make life easier for them. But it cannot be forgotten that an AI touches on its capabilities that human feeling that guides will and decisions. And the Adam of Charlie and Miranda is connecting the dots until he deciphers the reasons for Miranda's behavior, more typical of someone who hides his cards in a poker game. Adan conjugates the variables, analyzes all possible and potentials and ends up deciphering Miranda's truth.

And once the machine knows her big lie, everything can end up exploding. The anthological gap that in the literary sphere addresses the moral and emotional differences between humans and machines, always under the guidelines of Asimov, serves in this story for an action of maximum tension. A novel of great suspense filled with the always moving and disruptive intention of this great writer.

Machine like me

Best medical science fiction novels

When technology and science become an argument to deal with ourselves, about our cells and about our ailments, about our possibilities towards immortality, the plots point to aspects as disturbing as they are philosophical.

At the time I dared with a novel about clones that was recognized in a CiFi contest. If you're interested:

Age

But let's stop talking about my book, as Paco Umbral would say, and let's get to the topic ...

Imposters, by Robin Cook

The novel by Robin cook "Imposters" raises the sinister idea of ​​the doctor disturbed or perhaps moved by evil interests capable of being put before the lives of people. What are you imposing and why is the person in charge of hiding murders in medical rulings?

Reading Cook always manages to fill that idea of ​​hospitals with a more unsettling point than they already have. Because nobody likes to enter a hospital, a common sign of illness, but already thinking that there could be characters like the mysterious murderer undercover in this novel ...

Fiction, of course, everything is limited to fiction. And even in this we find the normal emblem of medical personnel. Because Noah Rothauser is that capable doctor, determined to improve the praxis of a medicine increasingly supported by technology and ultimately very human.

That is why the fiasco of a very new technology to be implemented in his hospital in Boston affects him greatly and launches him to a detailed investigation into what could go wrong for a patient to end up dying. Anesthesiology is a medical practice that summarizes the physiological, the analytical and the chemical. An anesthetist has the power to keep you between here and there. And seen like this, in the hands of an insane man, the matter can lead to the end ...

What Noah is finding out about his staff will lead us to an investigation with pleasure at Agatha Christie, with that circle of possible criminals on which we are guided to shuffle where the seed of that evil is.

Because, what is worse, the matter does not stop there and new patients end up crossing that threshold between sedation and death. And Noah has to act with haste and intuition to end up discovering everything without ending the same peppered by doubt ...

Impostors

Next by Michael Crichton

In literature, and more in this type of prospective literature on disasters, everything happens as a telegraph, in steps, waiting for the final trigger that changes everything forever. A fantastic foray from the master of techno-thriller Crichton in medical fiction.

Talking chimpanzee in Java. A group of Japanese tourists confirms that a chimpanzee yelled at them when they were visiting a jungle area. Scientists identify the authority gene. The genetic base shared by people who become leaders is discovered. Transgenic pets for sale. Giant cockroaches, puppies that do not grow ... In a short time they will be available to everyone.

Welcome to our genetic world. Fast, furious, out of control. It is not the world of the future, it is the world of right now.

Next

Chromosome 6

The first Cook novel that passed through my hands. A good gift from someone who is also dedicated to medicine ...

The murdered corpse of a notorious mobster disappears from the morgue before an autopsy has been performed. Some time later he reappears decapitated, mutilated and without a liver. The deplorable condition of the body draws the attention of the forensic pathologist responsible for the identification of the body, Dr. Jack Stapleton, who undertakes an investigation from which no one will emerge unscathed.

Indeed, the abominable outrage to which the body was subjected is the tip of the iceberg of a sinister genetic manipulation program whose epicenter is in Equatorial Guinea, where Stapleton travels accompanied by two intrepid nurses and his attractive girlfriend.

At the end of the labyrinth they will find a plot of sinister interests whose sole purpose is to enrich themselves, even at the cost of causing a genetic disaster of devastating proportions.

Chromosome 6

Best Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Novels

In a way, the acratic inspiration of this social trend is very inspiring to propose extremist scenographies in new worlds given to their fate

The hard in its best applied aspect. It can be future or an unknown past. The question is to decompose everything, propose new rules, discover from strange to philosophical approaches about the human being.

Ubik

A novel by Philip K. Dick, imperishable because of its disruption, because of that sophisticated point that escapes times or ideas. A plot through which you move as a guide in the middle of an LSD trip.

Glen Runciter is dead. Or is everyone else? What is certain is that someone has been killed in an explosion organized by Runciter's competitors. In fact, his employees attend a funeral. But during the duel they begin to receive disconcerting, and even lurid, messages from their boss, and the world around them begins to crumble in a way that suggests they don't have much time left either.

This scathing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation (which can be carried in a convenient container) is a tour de force of paranoid threat and absurd comedy, in which the dead offer business advice, buy their next reincarnation and take the continuous risk of returning. To die.

Ubik

Neuromancer

Gibson envisions a future invaded by microprocessors, electronic and surgical, in which information is the first commodity. Cowboys like Case make a living stealing information ...

They directly connect their brains and enter a world of dreams, where the exchange of information and the protective ice appear in tangible and luminous blocks ... Gibson makes all this technical imagery, the copious jargon, the oblique professional morals, with real ingenuity and without tedious explanations.

In this lurid and bleak future, most of eastern North America is a single gigantic city, most of Europe an atomic dump, and Japan a bright, corrupting neon jungle, where a personality is the sum of its vices ...

Misfortune leads Case to the citadel of an industrial clan that owns a pair of AIs, the most expensive and dangerous artifacts to be found. For thousands of years men dreamed of making a pact with the devil. Only now is that pact possible.

Neuromancer

Tears in the rain

A surprising novel by Rosa Montero in which it is found that science fiction is a great place accessible to everyone in order to find deep stories disguised as the fantastic.

United States of Earth, Madrid, 2109, increases the number of deaths of replicants who suddenly go mad. Detective Bruna Husky is hired to discover what is behind this wave of collective madness in an increasingly unstable social environment. Meanwhile, an anonymous hand transforms the central archive of documentation of the Earth to modify the history of humanity.

Aggressive, lonely, and misfit, detective Bruna Husky finds herself immersed in a world-wide plot as she faces constant suspicion of treachery from those who claim to be her allies with the sole company of a series of marginal beings capable of preserving reason and reason. tenderness in the midst of the vertigo of the persecution.

A survival novel, about political morality and individual ethics; about love, and the need of the other, about memory and identity. Rosa Montero narrates a search in an imaginary, coherent and powerful future, and she does so with passion, dizzying action and humor, an essential tool for understanding the world.

Tears in the rain
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