Ergebnis für "Maria" in Anthologien & Kurzgeschichten

The best of Deep Magic: Volume 1—fantastical worlds of space adventures, changelings, and dragons await—stories with depth, strong protagonists, high tension, all told while pulling at your heartstrings, or making you smile with understanding. In this volume, you'll find twenty-two stories, including many novelettes. Go on adventures from deep space to ancient Rome (with magic), to Mars, and many other new fantasy worlds.

A fresh post-apocalyptic anthology: the end of the world seen through the salvage and ruins, featuring Emily St. John Mandel, Carmen Maria Machado, and more.

Tradotti per la prima volta in italiano da Raul Ciannella, questi nove racconti rappresentano una selezione della migliore fantascienza contemporanea spagnola e latino-americana. Il tema che unisce le storie di quest’antologia è il corpo: corpo biopolitico e artificiale, umano e animale, desiderato e rifiutato. María Angulo Ardoy descrive le vicende di due scienziati giapponesi in pensione, ridotti a esuberi in un paese che non si cura più degli anziani.

En Una música futura, galardonada en Chile, en 2019 con el premio Mejores Obras Literarias en la categoría de cuento inédito, María José Navia vuelve a ahondar en relaciones íntimas mediadas, y a veces infectadas, por la tecnología. Familias pantalla y en pantalla, mujeres que se refugian en el exceso de información o intentan desconectarse completamente del mundo, personajes extranjeros que se enfrentan a escenarios de autoexigencia feroz o franca violencia.

A new anthology by writer and translator Maria K., including all three "Nightmare Hunters" stories, holiday specials "Yuletide with Meem" and Madam Enigma" and a brand new tale "A Mermaid's Song."

Serafima Nichols decided a cross-country road trip from North Carolina to Oregon would be an adventure. Little did she know that somewhere in the middle of nowhere, this adventure would take a very unsettling turn.

They don't alter the past. They don't spy on the future. Yet, even very cautious time-travel research leaves plenty of room to get into trouble. Time, Limited is a foremost authority on space and time research. Wary of the time travel-related doomsday scenarios described by science fiction writers, the employees of the company take every precaution imaginable and move forward carefully as slowly. But when a critical experiment is threatened by a natural disaster, even the best-laid precautions go tumbling down, and the nerds have to think on their feet to protect the research and ensure the company's recovery.

A new collection of 10 fantastica short stories by Lorina Stephens. Darkness and light. Wonder and sorrow. The ambiguity, sometimes, of reflected illumination: Dreams of the Moon. In this collection of both previously published and new short fiction, Lorina presents a progression from darker, sometimes horrific stories which explore religious mythology, mental health, and the beloved dead, to the more light-hearted explorations of spirit guides and illustrations made manifest.

Smirk the hiring gnome wreaks havoc for his superiors once again. He accidentally rescues two spirits - a human and her dog.

When disaster strikes, all they can do is dance. The elementals are superior beings who help take care of every aspect of our environment. When a major natural disaster strikes, they find themselves short on workforce, as some of their own make matters worse.

An exciting new technology with limitless entertainment possibilities turns out to be a lot more than anyone had bargained for.

Just when you think you are settled comfortably in your career, you get the most peculiar job offer in your life. Megan Buchanan is a project analyst. She is not considering a career change. Until one evening she gets an offer to become an elemental.

Publicados en 1697 en Francia con el título de Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye, los ocho relatos incluidos en este libro han sido objeto de incontables versiones y adaptaciones, además de haber sufrido numerosas oleadas de censura en función de la cambiante pacatería del momento. El resultado, recortado y desvirtuado, es un somnífero para niños pequeños, que ha empalagado a generaciones de lectores adultos y traicionado, en la letra y en el espíritu, a la pluma del maravilloso Charles Perrault (Francia 1628-1703), maestro del misterio y el humor negro.

A collection of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's short stories, including Prime Meridian and The Return of the Sorcerers or the Diamond Heart.

Los personajes de estas historias varían en edad, desde Gloria, de 70 años, que está a punto de encontrar el amor de nuevo, hasta Bobby, de cinco años, que no tiene ni idea de por qué su papá ya no está. También está Hannah, de 16 años, una fugitiva que encuentra el amor sólo para perderlo. A nivel filosófico, estas historias reflejan el mundo en el que vivimos, sacando a la luz cuestiones sociales como la falta de vivienda, el coste humano de la guerra, los abusos sexuales y cuándo vamos demasiado lejos en el tratamiento médico.