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Una sátira actual sobre el poder y el capitalismo: una crítica ingeniosa al mundo corporativo y a los superricos, disfrazada de comedia con supervillanos.Charlie Fitzer, un profesor suplente con problemas financieros, jamas imagino que su vida cambiaria por una herencia. Al morir su tio, un empresario tan rico como excentrico, Charlie se convierte en el nuevo propietario de un vasto imperio... que resulta ser mucho mas siniestro y ridiculo de lo que parece. No solo hereda una isla secreta y una fortuna, sino tambien una red de operaciones encubiertas, enemigos letales y un equipo de gatos con habilidades extraordinarias.Pronto, Charlie descubre que el mundo de los supervillanos no es como en las peliculas: aqui hay juntas directivas, sindicatos de delfines, burocracia internacional y protocolos de recursos humanos para usar armas laser. Mientras intenta sobrevivir a atentados, sabotajes y negociaciones con multimillonarios sin escrupulos, debera decidir si sigue los pasos de su tio o si reinventa las reglas del juego.Con una voz narrativa agil, sarcastica y profundamente actual, Villano en practicas es una satira brillante del poder, la avaricia y la absurda maquinaria que mueve al mundo. John Scalzi convierte el cliche del villano en una comedia con fondo critico, donde lo extraordinario se vuelve rutina.

Una de las primeras obras de ciencia ficción que tienen el cambio climático como tema central.Mares, pantanos y lagunas cubren la mayor parte de la Tierra. El aumento de la temperatura ha propiciado un clima tropical, de manera que la flora y la fauna proliferan de forma extraordinaria y el mundo parece volver al Triasico. Los pocos humanos deben desplazarse en embarcaciones y sobrevivir con los escasos restos de la civilizacion que pueden encontrar en los pisos mas altos de los rascacielos ahora sumergidos.Viven continuamente amenazados por animales, insectos y enfermedades, que ahora son dificiles de combatir. En este mundo, Kerans intenta sobrevivir, aunque en muchas veces parece mas el aliado que el enemigo de una naturaleza que intenta eliminar al hombre. Sin embargo, mas alla de la aventura, el desarrollo psicologico de los personajes encuentra su reflejo en imagenes maravillosas y sorprendentes, pues la lucha se plantea tambien dentro de cada persona y entre ellas porque el infortunio comun no es obstaculo para seguir con envidias, rivalidades y egoismos.

El cierre magistral del tríptico de Tomás Hijo sobre el universo de Lovecraft. Existen verdades tan antiguas que la mente humana apenas puede procesarlas sin quebrarse. En los rincones más oscuros de la realidad, alli donde el arte se funde con la pesadilla y los dioses ciegos rigen el vacio, aguardan los relatos que cimentaron el horror cosmico. Dagon y otros relatos nos sumerge en las profundidades abisales del oceano, nos conduce ante los lienzos blasfemos de El modelo de Pickman y nos asoma al centro mismo del caos infinito junto a Azathoth . Con este volumen, Tomas Hijo culmina su viaje visual por la obra del genio de Providence, transformando cada pagina en una experiencia perturbadora que respira horror y fascinacion a partes iguales. Un broche de oro para una coleccion que ya es referente en el catalogo ilustrado de terror. H. P. Lovecraft es el maestro indiscutible del horror moderno y el arquitecto de los Mitos de Cthulhu, cuya sombra se proyecta sobre toda la literatura y el cine contemporaneos. Tomas Hijo, ilustrador de prestigio internacional y gran conocedor de la obra lovecraftiana, ha colaborado con figuras de la talla de Guillermo del Toro (en su reciente Frankenstein ) y Rodrigo Cortes. Tras el exito de El morador de las tinieblas y La sombra sobre Innsmouth , este tercer libro cierra su ambicioso triptico, convirtiendo estos relatos fundamentales en una pieza de coleccionista esencial tanto para los devotos del autor como para quienes se atrevan a asomarse por primera vez al abismo.

WE LOVE CARL EL MAZMORERO! LA ADICCIÓN DEFINITIVA: LOS 3 PRIMEROS VOLÚMENES, AHORA EN PACK. ¡MÁS DE 6 MILLONES DE LECTORES!¡EL APOCALIPSIS SERÁ TELEVISADO!Bienvenido a la mazmorra definitiva. Prepárate para una aventura tan salvaje como hilarante, donde el fin del mundo es solo el principio.Cuando una invasion alienigena arrasa la superficie de la Tierra, los pocos supervivientes son arrastrados a un proyecto cosmico despiadado: un gigantesco complejo de mazmorras convertido en reality show intergalactico. Millones de espectadores alienigenas disfrutan del espectaculo. Los humanos, no tanto.En medio del caos, Carl un veterano de la Guardia Costera despierta en este infierno subterraneo acompañado unicamente por la princesa Donut, una gata de exhibicion tan elegante como peligrosa. Juntos deberan abrirse paso por niveles cada vez mas letales, plagados de criaturas disparatadas, trampas imposibles, humor negro, criticas afiladas y situaciones tan dementes como adictivas. Cada piso es un nuevo reto; cada capitulo, una batalla por la supervivencia.Este estuche reune por primera vez la trilogia completa de Carl el Mazmorrero, para que puedas sumergirte sin interrupciones en su universo gamberro, frenetico y lleno de sorpresas. Una edicion pensada para quienes quieren vivir la experiencia de principio a fin y tambien para quienes buscan un regalo original, impactante y muy distinto a cualquier saga de fantasia tradicional. Ya sea para ampliar tu coleccion, para devorar los tres libros del tiron o para sorprender a alguien con una historia tan epica como desternillante, este pack es la puerta de entrada perfecta a una de las sagas mas comentadas y divertidas del genero.

Neal Stephenson, en medio del desierto y bajo la protección de mezcalito, habla con un escorpión que le ofrece un arma para los niños perdidos del futuro. SH00TER es la historia de esos niños perdido

An original novel set in the Halo universebased on the New York Times bestselling video game series!2552. As the planet Reach falls to the alien alliance known as the Covenant, a lone human shipthe UNSC Pillar of Autumnfled into slipspace and has arrived at a place that could change the course of this decades-long war. An ancient, mysterious ringworld: Halo.With human forces scattered across the surface of this immense alien construct, Staff Sergeant Marvin Mobuto must now lead his fellow crewmatessurvivors from the ships brigback to the Autumns crash site to rally and regroup with their allies. Desertion, drunk and disorderly, and murder are only a few of the charges that Mobutos squad carriesand keeping them in line might prove to be just as difficult as surviving the zealous, entrenched Covenant warriors who believe they have found the gateway to paradise.But as war rages across the rings landscape for control of the installations weapons and secrets, a far more terrible threat from deep within Halos underworld is hellishly unleashed that transforms this conflict into a desperate battle of survival for UNSC and Covenant alike...

Riveting and highly inventive Chinese-inspired science-fantasy of a royal family torn apart, painful betrayal and deadly secrets. Set on a drowning continent full of corruption and deception and strange technology this is richly envisioned and powerfulOn Pio, the floating empire of lotuses, Xlian discovers the royal advisors ploy to overthrow her brother, Yun, the emperor, in the same way they had murdered their parents, by creating a deadly flood that will make Yuns death seem as though an accident. She flees to the drowning continent of Opera, a place of high tech and near environmental collapse where companies vie to sell a chance at immortality. There Xlian seeks out her exiled brother Lang to help in her efforts to disrupt the advisors plans and remove them from court.Also residing on Opera is the outcast, No Face. Abandoned by the empire of Pio, they plot to destroy those who tore their family apart. When Xlian is caught and imprisoned and No Face discovers the shocking truth about their past, the two must work together to stop the advisors and unify their two lands or lose everyone they love to flood and revolution.

A propulsive and thrilling chase through the multiverse as a washed-up writer joins an elite crew of scouts on a mission to stop terrorists destroying entire realities. Perfect for fans of character-driven multiverse adventures such as The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson, and The Long Earth series by Terry Pratchett and Stephen BaxterTim Drake is bottoming out. Having failed to sell his new book he finds himself without a publisher, an agent, a partner, and now a job, something needs to change. But when they do, its the wrong things the cafe on the corner, the bank thats now a burger restaurant, maybe even who hes meant to be.Suddenly broken off from his reality, Tim finds himself wheeling through new worlds. Dangerous places, worlds that have no place for him.And when his path leads him to Fred, a grizzled soldier who travels between worlds, and Zhue, a mysterious person sent back from 5,000 years in the future, he discovers events far greater than his next book are at stake.Zhue and Fred are on the trail of John Cho, a man who is destroying entire worlds, and who killed Freds last team. And with no way home, Tim must join them on a deadly pursuit through realities and time, or risk losing his entire world.

A thrilling and cataclysmic collection of city-smashing titans and the desperate coalitions of humanity clinging to survival in the wreckage, from the New York Times-bestselling and multiple award-winning editors.Featuring bestselling and award-winning authors such as Tananarive Due, Christopher Golden, Seanan McGuire, Scott Sigler and Steve Alten, author of The Meg.An explosive collection of monster terror, featuring 25 original tales of creatures the size of skyscrapers. See cities shattered and worlds ended, as great beasts rise from the deep.Featuring work from: Steve Alten Linda D. Addison Kevin J. Anderson Maurice Broaddus Tananarive Due Luke Dumas Kane Gilmour Maxwell Gold Christopher Golden Henry Herz Jamal Hodge Ai Jiang Alma Katsu Tim Lebbon Jonathan Maberry Seanan McGuire Lee Murray Tobi Ogundiran Cynthia Pelayo Jeremy Robinson Michelle Sagara Scott Sigler Ben Spada Anne Walsh

On May Day, 2018, sixty meteors entered Earths atmosphere and exploded around the globe with a force greater than a nuclear blast. Earthquakes and tsunamis followed. Then China attacked Europe, Asia, and the United States in the belief the disaster was an act of war.Washington D.C. was obliterated. And the countrys leadership class was decimated. That left the surviving elements of the armed forces to try and impose order on chaos.As refugees across America engage in open warfare with the military over scarce resources, a select group of individuals representing the surviving corporate structure decides to remake the country based on free market principles. They call their creation "The New Confederacy."With no orders from higher up, Army Captain "Mac" Macintyre and her company of Strykers head east to find the supplies they need, and if things go well, reach Arizona. The place where they hope to find refuge.

The Second Civil War continues to rage as Union president Samuel T. Sloan battles to keep America whole and, more than that, to restore the country to its former greatness."Wanted Dead or Alive." Following a fateful battle between Union Army major Robin "Mac" Macintyre and her sister, the New Confederacy places a price on Macs head, and bounty hunters are on her trail.But theres work to be done, and Mac is determined to help Sloan reunify the country by freeing hundreds of Union POWs from appalling conditions in Mexico and capturing a strategic oil reserve that lies deep inside Confederate territory. And as the two of them work together their relationship starts to evolve.However, to truly have peace it will be necessary to capture or kill the New Confederacys leadership, and that includes Macs father, General Bo Macintyre.

As people fight to survive the aftereffects of more than a dozen meteor strikes, a group of wealthy individuals conspires to rebuild the United States as a corporate entity called the New Confederacy, where the bottom line is law. As a second civil war rages, with families fighting against families on opposite sides, Union president Samuel T. Sloan battles to keep the country whole.To help in the fight for unity, Union Army captain Robin "Mac" Macintyre and her company of Stryker vehicles are sent after the ruthless "warlord of warlords," an exGreen Beret who rules a large swath of the West. But defeating him will be even more difficult than she thought. The warlord is receiving military assistance from Macs sisterand rivalConfederate major Victoria Macintyre. And when the siblings clash in the war-torn streets of New Orleans, only one of them will walk away.

The exhilarating and riotously entertaining science fiction romance blending queer counterculture, joy as resistance, and banging disco hits, perfect for readers of Kaliane Bradley, Vajra Chandraseker and Victor Manibo.In 1977 - a world in which America launched its space program shortly after WWII - Mitch Ward followed Flynn, the lost love of his youth, into the US Spaceguard. Now, hes stuck on a backwater moon base with his only friend, Gloria, watching every shuttle in the hope Flynn will be on it.After an inexplicable encounter with a strange, euphoric being, Mitch and Gloria find themselves dishonourably discharged, and stuck in a USA rapidly sliding into fascism with no plans and no future. Theres nothing for it but to move to Los Angeles to chase their dreams, and find their people in the discos of the city.But when Flynn crashes back into their lives, claiming to be the host for an emissary of a utopian civilization approaching Earth, he offers Mitch the power to protect himself and friends across the queer community, so they never have to live in the shadows or face oppression again.With the world on the brink of cataclysm, and Mitch and his friends being squeezed out of every space, its down to this community of disco-loving outcasts to stand up for what is beautiful and right.

A thrilling short story collection set within the expanded universe of the New York Times bestselling video game series Halo!Delve once more into stories of legendary heroism and star-spanning conflictsfrom the time of the ancient Forerunners to the perils of a twenty-sixth century clash between the United Nations Space Command and the Banished alien alliance.Halo: Waypoint ChroniclesVolume One collects over thirty short stories from all corners of the Halo universe, including twenty-four adventures previously only available online, plus ten brand-new tales exclusive to this collected volume! Also included are dozens of additional pieces of lore-laden intel items and story vignettes connected to the Halo Infinite game experience.

From the acclaimed critic and award-winning author of Anno Dracula comes a bitingly satirical story of superheroism, soap opera and alternative reality -- for readers of Austin Grossmans Soon I Will Be Invincible and George R.R. Martins Wild Cards.When Chrissie Chambers (model actress whatever) discovers her soap opera character is about to be killed off, she finally stops dieting and discovers hitherto untapped supernatural abilities. Meanwhile, Chrissies aunt - former national heroine Lady Shade - goes missing. Afraid for Jasmines safety and itching to costume-up, Chrissie and her ghost-possessed best friend Loulee break into Devils Dyke, the asylum where Jasmine works as a therapist with the most dangerous cutthroats (supervillains) in Britain only to find the inmates have taken over Chrissie debuts successfully as a cloak (superheroine), but who will become the arch-nemesis of Lady Shade II?In Chrissies timeline, the Beatles didnt split up and recorded a hallucinodelic album in 1972 Never Mind (strictly, Never Mind the Beatles) which literally changed the world. Set in an alternative 2020s London, this hugely entertaining, darkly humorous superhero tale is packed with Newmans trademark wit, and comes with wickedly sharp edges.

One hundred thousand years ago. In the wake of the apparent self-destruction of the alien Forerunner empire, two humansChakas and Riserare like flotsam washed up on very strange shores indeed. Captured by the Forerunner known as the Master Builder and then misplaced during a furious battle in space, Chakas and Riser now find themselves on an inverted world, where horizons rise into the sky and humans of all kinds are trapped in a perilous cycle of horror and neglect. They have become both research animals and strategic pawns in a cosmic game whose madness knows no enda game of ancient vengeance between the powers who seeded the galaxy with life, and the Forerunners who expect to inherit their sacred Mantle of Responsibility to all living things.In the company of a young girl and an old man, Chakas begins an epic journey across a lost and damaged Halo ringworld in search of a way home, an explanation for the warrior spirits rising up within, and the reason for the Forerunner Librarians tampering with human destiny. Their travels will take them into the domain of a powerful and monstrous intelligenceknown as "the Captive" by Forerunners, and "the Primordial" by ancient human warriors, this being may not only control the fate of Chakas, Riser, and the rest of humanity, but of all sentient life across the galaxy