Ken Liu

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La primera investigación de la huérfana-hacker Julia Z en un aterrador futuro cercano en el que la IA permea todos los aspectos de nuestras vidas.Con solo 14 años, Julia Z se convirtió en la infame «

Quince relatos y novelas cortas de uno de los mejores escritores de ficción breve de la ciencia-ficción. "El zoo de papel" es la primera obra que ha obtenido los tres grandes premios del género en e

Quince relatos y novelas cortas de uno de los mejores escritores de ficción breve de la ciencia-ficción."El zoo de papel" es la primera obra que ha obtenido los tres grandes premios del género en el mismo año."La obra breve de Ken Liu ha ganado todos los premios internacionales de prestigio y, lo que es mas importante, ha conquistado tambien y para siempre el corazon de los lectores de todo el mundo."Mariano Villarreal, Literatura Fantastica"A traves de todos estos cuentos, Liu utiliza tropos de la fantasia y la ciencia ficcion para explorar de forma profunda, inteligente y, en muchas ocasiones, tremendamente emotiva una gran diversidad de temas con la intencion final de arrojar un poco de luz sobre la gran pregunta de que significa ser humano... Es una coleccion de relatos impresionante y no podeis perderosla."Elias Combarro, Sense of Wonder"Las historias incluidas en esta coleccion tratan una amplia variedad de temas, pero siempre estan relatadas con una voz clara y segura. Una coleccion imprescindible.""SF Signal""Algunas de estas historias tienen un lado sombrio y a veces inquietante, casi todas son provocadoras y hay varias brillantes.""The Chicago Tribune""Los maravillosos relatos de Liu exploran de forma elocuente el lugar en que se encuentran lo ordinario y lo extraordinario.""The Washington Post""En cada relato Liu planta diminutas semillas de una historia personal, que florecen en narraciones con ramificaciones mucho mas profundas. Un libro que deberia leer absolutamente todo el mundo."Andrew Liptak"Las historias son el lenguaje con el que nos hablamos unos a otros. En "El zoo de papel y otros relatos" Liu lo habla con una elocuencia devastadora."Amal El-Mohtar

Julia Z must use her hacking skills to rescue a kidnapped dream artist in this sci-fi thriller exploring identity and technology.

A TIME MAGAZINE BEST FANTASY BOOK OF ALL TIMEEmperor Mapidéré was the first to unite the island kingdoms of Dara under a single banner. But now the emperor is on his deathbed, his people are exhausted by his vast, conscriptive engineering projects and his counsellors conspire only for their own gain.Even the gods themselves are restless.A wily, charismatic bandit and the vengeance-sworn son of a deposed duke cross paths as they each lead their own rebellion against the emperor's brutal regime. Together, they will journey to the heart of the empire; witnessing the clash of armies, fleets of silk-draped airships, magical books and shapeshifting gods. Their unlikely friendship will drastically change the balance of power in Dara... but at what price?The Grace of Kings is the first novel by Hugo-, Nebula- and World Fantasy Award-winner Ken Liu and the first in a monumental epic fantasy series.

Esta colección incluye una selección de la ficción especulativa de Liu en los últimos cinco años: dieciocho de sus mejores relatos y un fragmento de El trono velado, el tercer volumen de la serie de

Ken Liu is one of the most original, thought-provoking and award-winning short-story writers of his generation. This is the first collection of his work - sixteen stories that invoke the magical within the mundane, by turns profound, beguiling and heartbreaking. Included here are: The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary (Finalist for Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon Awards), Mono No Aware (Hugo Award winner), The Waves (Nebula Award finalist), The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species (Nebula and Sturgeon award finalists), All the Flavors (Nebula Award finalist), The Litigation Master and the Monkey King (Nebula Award finalist) ,and the most awarded story in the genre's history, The Paper Menagerie (the only story ever to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards).

In the much-anticipated sequel to the magnificent fantasy epic (NPR) Grace of Kings, Emperor Kuni Garu is faced with the invasion of an invincible army in his kingdom and must quickly find a way to defeat the intruders.Kuni Garu, now known as Emperor Ragin, runs the archipelago kingdom of Dara, but struggles to maintain progress while serving the demands of the people and his vision. Then an unexpected invading force from the Lyucu empire in the far distant west comes to the shores of Daraand chaos results.But Emperor Kuni cannot go and lead his kingdom against the threat himself with his recently healed empire fraying at the seams, so he sends the only people he trusts to be Daras savvy and cunning hopes against the invincible invaders: his children, now grown and ready to make their mark on history.

Emperor Mapidere was the first to unite the island kingdoms of Dara under a single banner. But now the emperor is on his deathbed, his people are exhausted by his vast, conscriptive engineering projects and his counsellors conspire only for their own gain. Even the gods themselves are restless. A wily, charismatic bandit and the vengeance-sworn son of a deposed duke cross paths as they each lead their own rebellion against the emperor's brutal regime. Together, they will journey to the heart of the empire; witnessing the clash of armies, fleets of silk-draped airships, magical books and shapeshifting gods. Their unlikely friendship will drastically change the balance of power in Dara...but at what price? THE GRACE OF KINGS is the debut novel by Hugo-, Nebula- and World Fantasy Award-winner Ken Liu and the first in an monumental new epic fantasy series.

Una obra visual y de referencia con las técnicas y tendencias de diseó gráfico más novedosas y atrevidas de todo el planeta. Más de 1000 imágenes conforman esta recopilación que abarca todas las aplicaciones de esta disciplina: contenidos electronicos, libros, revistas, catalogos, discos, ropa, juguetes, tablas de skate, logos, accesorios, comida, restaurantes, deporte, transporte y una larga lista de campos donde se implementa el diseño grafico.

Futur proche.Deux scientifiques mettent au point un procédé révolutionnaire permettant de retourner dans le passé. Une seule et unique fois par période visitée, pour une seule et unique personne, et sans aucune possibilite pour lobservateur dinterferer avec lobjet de son observation. Une revolution qui promet la verite sur les periodes les plus obscures de lhistoire humaine. Plus de mensonges. Plus de secrets dEtat.Creee en 1932 sous mandat imperial japonais, dirigee par le general Shiro Ishii, lUnite 731 se livra a lexperimentation humaine a grande echelle dans la province chinoise du Mandchoukouo, entre 1936 et 1945, provoquant la mort de pres dun demi-million de personnes LUnite 731, a peine reconnue par le gouvernement japonais en 2002, passee sous silence par les forces doccupation americaines pendant des annees, est la premiere cible de cette invention revolutionnaire. La verite a tout prix. Quitte a mettre fin a lHistoire.

DEMAIN…Dans son registre, celui de l’investigation, Ruth Law est la meilleure. D’abord parce qu’elle est une femme, et que dans ce genre de boulot, on se méfie peu des femmes. Parce qu’elle ne lâche

« Les yeux fermés, jimagine les photons rebondissant entre les particules de poussière. Jimagine leurs chemins sinueux le long du dédale de surfaces vives, les pièges, les impasses, les culs-de-sac,

From the title storys fantastical inter-dimensional assassins to the steampunk dystopia of "Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal Leopard" burrowing through the ruins of a civilisation destroyed by a plague, from Black Mirror-esque tales of blockchain cryptography ("Byzantine Empathy") and Internet trolling ("Thoughts and Prayers") to a three-story hard-SF arc about artificial intelligence and the singularity ("The Gods Will Not Be Chained", "The Gods Will Not Be Slain" and "The Gods Have Not Died In Vain"), here are 17 interlinking visions that explore what it is to be human, and what it is like to abandon or transcend that. This collection confirms Ken Liu, author of the astonishing and multi-award winning The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, as one of speculative fictions greatest short story writers.Contents include: Ghost Days, Maxwells Demon,The Reborn, Thoughts and Prayers, Byzantine Empathy, The Gods Will Not Be Chained, Staying Behind, Real Artists, The Gods Will Not Be Slain, Altogether Elsewhere Vast Herds of Reindeer, The Gods Have Not Died in Vain, Memories of My Mother, Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts, Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal Leopard, A Chase Beyond the Storms (an excerpt from The Veiled Throne, Book 3 of the Dandelion Dynasty), The Hidden Girl, Seven Birthdays, The Message, Cutting.

1967: University student Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China''s Cultural Revolution. His crime? Failure to recant his belief in science. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind.Four decades later, after a spate of apparent suicides among elite scientists, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of international scientists.During the course of his investigation, Wang is inducted into a mysterious online game that immerses him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredictable interaction of its three suns.This is the Three-Body Problem and it is the key to everything. The key to the scientists'' deaths, the key to humanitys place in the cosmos and the key to the extinction-level threat it now faces.

The second book in The Dandelion Dynasty, the epic fantasy trilogy by Ken Liu. Dara is united under the Emperor Ragin, once known as Kuni Garu, the bandit king. There has been peace for six years, but the Dandelion Throne rests on bloody foundations - Kuni's betrayal of his friend, Mata Zyndu, the Hegemon. The Hegemon's rule was brutal and unbending - but he died well, creating a legend that haunts the new emperor, no matter what good he strives to do. Where war once forged unbreakable bonds between Kuni's inner circle, peace now gnaws at their loyalties. Where ancient wisdoms once held sway, a brilliant scholar promises a philosophical revolution. And from the far north, over the horizon, comes a terrible new threat ...The scent of blood is in the water.

Apres La Grace des Rois et Le Gout de la Victoire, voici le troisieme volet de cette saga unique. Luan Zya est parti il y a plusieurs mois pour tenter de traverser le Mur de Tempetes. Apres avoir franchi de nombreux obstacles, il y est enfin parvenu. Mais ce n'est que le debut de son periple. Pendant des mois, il derive sur un ocean sans fin sur un radeau de fortune. Au moment ou il est pret a perdre espoir, les fabuleuses crubenes viennent a son secours et lui indiquent la terre des Lyucu. Pendant ce temps-la sur les iles de Dara, les Lyucu ont pris le controle grace a leurs garinafins. Si l'empereur Kuni apparait comme desarme et desempare depuis que son fils s'est constitue prisonnier, sa fille, la princesse Thera, et Zomi, vont mettre tout leur talent d'ingenieur a decouvrir les failles des immenses garinafins.

Hace referencia a la marca (Brand) y su diseño de impresión (Print). Muestra marcas y los detalles de impresión. Un buen diseño de impresión contribuye en gran medida a la difusión de la marca.

Idaho City, en pleine fievre de lor.Les temps sont a la conquete. De lOuest, bien sur. De la fortune, surtout Prospecteurs, commerçants, banquiers, filles de petite vertu, bandits et assassins sagregent en une communaute humaine au gout de mauvais whisky et a lodeur de poudre. Et puis il y a ce petit groupe de prospecteurs chinois. Qui vivent entre eux, sentassent dans des baraquements minuscules, et font planer sur la ville les effluves de leur cuisine aux saveurs aussi epicees quinconnues. Lily, la fille de leur proprietaire, est fascinee par ces etrangers aux coutumes impenetrables. Et par lun dentre eux en particulier, un geant au visage rouge et a limmense barbe, Lao Guan, qui lui apprend les mysteres du wei qi et lui raconte des recits stupefiants, les aventures de Guan Yu, le dieu de la guerre, de Lievre roux, son cheval de bataille, et de Lune du dragon vert, sa fidele epee. Guan Yu, qui fait face a linjustice et a la trahison dans cette Chine imperiale fabuleuse. A limage de Lao Guan, dans cette Amerique en gestation