Greg Bear

Una bióloga, Kaye Lang, y un epidemiólogo, Christopher Dicken, temen que algo que ha permanecido dormido en nuestros genes durante millones de años empiece a despertar. Junto con el antropólogo Mitch Rafelson, son los únicos capaces de resolver un rompecabezas evolutivo que puede determinar el futuro de la especie humana... Un thriller sobre la investigación genética y el devenir de la humanidad.La radio de Darwin ganó el premio Nebula en 2000. Greg Bear es uno de los más destacados escritores de ciencia ficción de la actualidad. Ha sido galardonado con premios como el Nebula en 1994 por Marte se mueve y en 2000 por La radio de Darwin, y tanto el Hugo como el Nebula por Música en la Sangre, en 1984.

Un retrovirus presente en el ADN humano puede ser la causa de una nueva especie destinada a destruir al Homo sapiens sapiens. Unos adolescentes mutados por el microbio Sheva se enfrentan entonces a un mundo que se siente ultrajado por su mera presencia. Son los denominados «niños de Darwin » y permanecen confinados en «escuelas especiales», en realidad atroces campos de concentración...

Los robots calvinianos y el simulacro de Voltaire sobre Lodovik Trema -un robot humaniforme de R. Daneel Olivaw- obligarán a Hari Seldon a intervenir de nuevo. Los calvinianos han reclutado a mentálicos para enfrentarse a Olivaw y extirpar la psicohistoria de la mente de Seldon. Y Fard Sinter, al servicio del primer ministro Linge Chen, perseguira a los mentalicos con una mujer provista de una enorme fuerza mental.

Traducción de Pedro Jorge Romero

Evolution is no longer just a theory -- and nature is more of a bitch goddess than a kindly mother -- in this tense science thriller from the author of the Nebula Award-winning Darwin's RadioStella Nova is one of the 'virus children', a generation of genetically enhanced babies born a dozen years before to mothers infected with the SHEVA virus. In fact, the children represent the next great evolutionary leap and a new species of human, Homo sapiens novus, but this is officially denied. They're gentle, charming and persuasive, possessed of remarkable traits. Nevertheless, they are locked up in special schools, quarantined from society, feared and reviled. 'Survival of the fittest' takes on a new dimension as the children reach puberty. Stella is one of the first to find herself attracted to another 'virus child', but the authorities are watching and waiting for the opportunity to strike the next blow in their escalating war to preserve 'humankind' at any cost.

Blending fierce, fast plots with vivid characters and mind-bending ideas, Greg Bear has mastered a powerful alchemy of suspense, science, and action in his gripping thrillers. Darwin's Radio was hailed across the country as one of the best books of the year. His newest novel, Vitals, begins with a harrowing descent to a netherworld at the very bottom of the sea-and then explodes to the surface in sheer terror. Hal Cousins is one of a handful of scientists nearing the most sought after discovery in human history: the key to short-circuiting the aging process. Fueled by a wealth of research, an overdose of self-confidence, and the money of influential patrons to whom he makes outrageous promises, Hal experiments with organisms living in the hot thermal plumes in the ocean depths. But as he journeys beneath the sea, his other world is falling apart. Across the country, scientists are being inexplicably murdered-including Hal's identical twin brother, who is also working to unlock the key to immortality. Hal himself barely eludes a cold-blooded attack at sea, and when he returns home to Seattle, he finds himself walking into an eerie realm where voices speak to him from the dead . . . where a once-brilliant historian turned crackpot is leading him on a deadly game of hide-and-seek . . . and where the beautiful, rich widow of his twin is more than willing to pick up the pieces of Hal's life-and take him places he's never been before. Suddenly Hal is trapped inside an ever-twisting maze of shocking revelations. For he is not the first person to come close to ending aging forever-and those who came before him will stop at nothing to keep the secret to themselves. Now every person on earth is at risk of being made an unsuspecting player in one man's spectacular and horrifying master plan. From the bottom of Russia's Lake Baikal to a billionaire's bionic house built into the cliffs of the Washington seashore, from the darkest days of World War II and the reign of Josef Stalin to the capitalist free-for-all that is the United States, Vitals tells an astounding tale of the most unimaginable scientific secret of all-exposed by the quest for immortality itself . . .

Hal Cousins y su gemelo Rob son biólogos a la búsqueda de una mayor duración para la vida humana. Su investigación les llevará, por separado, a descubrir que algunos de entre nosotros son mucho más viejos de lo que la naturaleza nunca pretendió lograr. Misteriosamente, todo ello se emparenta con un viejo proyecto, conocido con el nombre de Seda, nacido en los tiempos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial bajo los auspicios y el control de Stalin. La más paranoica de las conspiraciones está servida.Analiza una nueva idea especulativa a partir de los actuales conocimientos biotecnológicos sobre las posibilidades de una mayor longevidad humana.

Durante los dos últimos años, Peter Russell ha llorado la muerte de una de sus dos hijas gemelas, asesinada cuando contaba solo diez años. Divorciado, deprimido y con una carrera sin rumbo, Peter teme que su vida se este yendo por el desague. Entonces aparece Trans, una maravilla creada por una pujante compañia de telecomunicaciones: un dispositivo de comunicacion elegan-te, portatil e interpersonal capaz de funcionar a la perfeccion en cualquier parte del mundo, en cualquier momento. Transmite con claridad cristalina a traves de un ancho de banda recien descubierto y por tanto virgen, capaz de provocar una nueva revolucion tecnologica. Cuando su creador ofrece a Peter un puesto en su equipo todo parece ponerse de cara... de no ser por su incipiente caida en la locura.

The acclaimed author of Eternity offers a compelling sequel to his visionary Forge of God. Earth is gone, completely destroyed by a ruthless alien. Hundreds of years away, a handful of exiles hurtles through the galaxies in a quest for revenge, armed with powers they do not understand--and determined to find and punish the killers who murdered their world.

With his acclaimed novels Darwin's Children and Vitals, award-winning author Greg Bear turned intriguing speculation about human evolution and immortality into tales of unrelenting suspense. Now he ventures into decidedly more frightening territory in a haunting thriller that blends modern technology and old-fashioned terror, as it charts one man's inexorable descent into a world of mounting supernatural dread. For the last two years, Peter Russell has mourned the death of one of his twin daughters -- who was just ten when she was murdered. Recent news of his best friend's fatal heart attack has now come as another devastating blow. Divorced, despondent, and going nowhere in his career, Peter fears his life is circling the drain. Then Trans comes along. The brainchild of an upstart telecom company, Trans is (as its name suggests) a transcendent marvel: a sleek, handheld interpersonal communication device capable of flawless operation anywhere in the world, at any time. A cell phone, but not -- transmitting with crystal clarity across a newly discovered, never-utilized bandwidth... and poised to spark a new-technology revolution. When its creators offer Peter a position on their team, it should be a golden opportunity for him. If only he wasn't seemingly going mad. Everywhere Peter turns, inexplicable apparitions are walking before him or reaching out in torment. After a chilling encounter with his own lost child he begins to grasp the terrifying truth: Trans is a Pandora's box that has tapped into a frequency not of this world... but of the next. And now, via this open channel to oblivion, the dead have gained access to the living. For Peter, and for humankind, a long, shadowy night of the soul has descended, bringing with it the stuff of a horrifying nightmare from which they may never awaken. By turns spine-tingling, provocative, and heart-wrenching, Dead Lines marks a major turning point in the consistently dazzling storytelling career of Greg Bear. Alongside its hero, Dead Lines peers into the darkest place we can imagine and wonders -- fearfully -- what might be peering back.

Un billón de años en el futuro, el Kalpa es la ciudad al final del tiempo, el único reducto de una realidad menguante ante el feroz empuje del caos que representa el Tifón. Allí, el Bibliotecario y sus angelines manejan, en su intento de salvar la realidad, un tiempo dilatado pero finito. Gracias a unas misteriosas piedras sumadoras, que actuan como talismanes y establecen extrañas conexiones, dos personajes del Kalpa, Jebrassy y Tiadba, entran en contacto con unos desarraigados habitantes de la actual Seattle.Sin siquiera imaginarlo, los incomprendidos soñadores Ginny, Jack y Daniel tal vez esten llamados a ser los salvadores de unfuturo distante y condenado. Una novela sorprendente con un nivel de especulacion sumamente original. Un trabajo tan desafiante e imaginativo como solo puede esperarse de la mejor ciencia ficcion.

Los robots calvinianos y el simulacro de Voltaire sobre Lodovik Trema –un robot humaniforme de R. Daneel Olivaw– obligarán a Hari Seldon a intervenir de nuevo. Los calvinianos han reclutado a mentáli