Eric Brown

It''s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to awake.

La acción tiene lugar en el futuro. Ana y su hermano son dos hindúes que sobreviven en la calle gracias a las propinas de los paseantes. Al ser Ana una "intocable", es decir, una persona inmortal, intenta salvar la vida a su hermano, enfermo a traves de la Red.

En un futuro cercano, los ataques nucleares contra el centro y la costa oeste de Norteamérica ha hecho que millones de personas emigren a las grandes urbes del este, y Nueva York, con sus más de 30 millones de habitantes es el gran vertedero de los desahuciados. En una ciduad dónde la incipiente Realidad Virtual es el único escape posible para sus habitantes, Hal Hallyday y Berney Kluger, detectives especializados en personas desaparecidas, se ven involucrados en la búsqueda de una de las principales diseñadoras de RV. Poseedora de una información vital, descubrir el paradero de la científica en la inmesidad de la metrópoli, puede suponer la diferencia entre la vida y la muerte de millones de personas.

A new addition to the Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series from science fiction and crime author Eric Brown.A DEADLY PLOTFor the second time in human history, Martian invaders occupy planet Earth. After a common terrestrial virus thwarted the first deadly invasion, another Martian armada arrived six years later to make peace. Now, mankind enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the aliens scientific wonders and technology, and an entente exists between the two races. But when Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson are called upon to investigate the death of an eminent Martian philosopher, they unravel an intricate web of betrayal and murder that leaves no one human or Martian beyond suspicion

A hundred years after the death of Jules Verne, the founding father of science fiction, The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures celebrates his amazing vision. A host of top science fiction authors pay homage to Verne''s genius with a series of breathtaking stories using as a springboard his iconic ideas and characters. Collected in this anthology of Extraordinary Voyages are stories of intrigue and adventure set in the four corners of the globe, and even within it. Stories set in the past, present and future - tales that will delight with the same sense of wonder conjured by Jules Verne in such novels as Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea..