Le grand livre

A mediados del siglo XXI, Kivrin, una audaz estudiante de historia, decide viajar en el tiempo para estudiar `in situ` una de las eras más mortíferas y peligrosas de la historia humana: la Edad Media asolada por la Peste Negra. Pero una crisis que enlaza extrañamente pasado, presente y futuro atrapa a Kivrin en uno de los años más peligrosos de la Edad Media, mientras sus compañeros de Oxford en el año 2054, atacados de repente por una enfermedad desconocida, intentan infructuosamente rescatarla. Perdida en una época de superstición y de miedo, Kivrin descubre que se ha convertido en un improbable Angel de Esperanza durante una de las horas más oscuras de la historia.

Un tour de force narrativo, una novela que explorará el miedo atemporal de la enfermedad, el sufrimiento y la indomable voluntad del espíritu humano. Con diferencia, la mejor novela de ciencia ficción de 1992 con la que Connie Willis ha obtenido los más importantes premios del género: Nebula, Hugo y Locus

`Sin ser doctrinario, éste es el libro de inspiración religiosa tan apasionado con su humanismo como Un cántico por Leibowitz de Walter M. Miller. Una historia mucho mas sencilla que su trama, mucho más vasta que el número de sus paginas. El libro del Día del Juicio Final impresiona con la fuerza de una verdad profundamente sentida` John Kessel, Science Fiction Age

What a stitch! Willis’ delectable romp through time from 2057 back to Victorian England, with a few side excursions into World War II and medieval Britain, will have readers happily glued to the pages. Rich dowager Lady Schrapnell has invaded Oxford University’s time travel research project in 2057, promising to endow it if they help her rebuild Coventry Cathedral, destroyed by a Nazi air raid in 1940. In effect, she dragoons almost everyone in the program to make trips back in time to locate items — in particular, the bishop’s bird stump, an especially ghastly example of Victorian decorative excess. Time traveler Ned Henry is suffering from advanced time lag and has been sent, he thinks, for rest and relaxation to 1888, where he connects with fellow time traveler Verity Kindle and discovers that he is actually there to correct an incongruity created when Verity inadvertently brought something forward from the past. Take an excursion through time, add chaos theory, romance, plenty of humor, a dollop of mystery, and a spoof of the Victorian novel, and you end up with what seems like a comedy of errors but is actually a grand scheme "involving the entire course of history and all of time and space that, for some unfathomable reason, chose to work out its designs with cats and croquet mallets and penwipers, to say nothing of the dog. And a hideous piece of Victorian artwork.

Nominated for Nebula Award in 1998.

Won Hugo and Locus Awards in 1999.

indriddy y Carson son dos exploradores en un planeta reseco. Su mayor preocupación no son los peligros que puedan acechar en su superficie, sino en evitar que su guía les multe por . Evelyn Parker, un se une a ellos desde una rendida admiración.

Vincitore del John W. Campbell Memorial Award, ambito premio statunitense riservato agli autori più promettenti, (1987) è il primo romanzo importante di Conie Willis, un’autrice che si è poi segnalata con opere di tutto rispetto.

Che accadrebbe se una donna dei nostri tempi scoprisse di poter viaggiare nel tempo grazie ai suoi poteri mentali, in particolare a una specie di ponte psichico stabilito con il generale Robert Lee, il grande sconfitto della guerra civile? Da questa premessa parte un romanzo appassionante, una cruda e realistica ricostruzione della guerra civile americana e del suo mondo, ma anche un’avventura ricca di imprevisti: per esempio; che ruolo ha nella vicenda il cavallo di Lee, Traveller? E perché un uomo dei nostri glomi sembra inspiegabilmente identificarsi con lui? Lo scoprirete con Connie Willis.

Tornata sul suo pianeta natale per vendere, nel più breve tempo possibile una tenuta ereditata dalla madre, appena sconparsa, Delanna si trova di fronte a un ostacolo imprevisto: prima di poter cedere le proprie terre, dovrà trascorrere un intero anno su Keramos. E come se non bastasse, scopre anche di essere la moglie del figlio dei vicini. Sonny Tanner, un giovanotto non troppo sveglio e decisamente zotico. Il matrimonio era stato combinato dalle famiglie prima che Delanna lasciasse il pianeta, per evitare che la tenuta finisse nelle mani di speculatori intergalattici. La vita di Delanna è a un bivio: si rassegnerà a perdere la proprietà della splendida tenuta di Milleflores Lanzye oppure seguirà Sonny in un lungo viaggio, effettuato a bordo di veicoli a energia solare, lungo le sterminate e fertili pianure di Keramos per raggiungere le sue terre, conservarne la proprietà e, una volta scaduto l’anno sbarazzarsene? È ovvio che voi abbiate già immaginato la risposta, ma è ancora più ovvio che apprezzerete l’atmosfera spumeggiante e scanzonata di questo romanzo.

Ocho premios Hugo, seis premios Nebula, y el John W. Campbell Memorial en unos diez años avalan la excepcional habilidad narrativa de la autora de y . Se trata de una de las mejores y más inteligentes voces de la narrativa modena, que esta vez nos sorprende e intriga con una emotiva y racional exploración del mundo de las ECM (Experiencias Cercanas a la Muerte) en una novela de implacable suspense.

Según diversos testigos, en una ECM parece haber varios elementos nucleares: experiencia extracorporal, sonido, un túnel de altas paredes, una luz al final del túnel, parientes fallecidos y un ángel de luz con resplandecientes túnicas blancas, una sensación de paz y amor, una revisión de la vida, una revelación del conocimiento universal y la orden de regreso final. ¿Es todo esto algo real, o se trata tan sólo de manifestaciones surgidas de la bioquímica de un cerebro moribundo?

En , Joanna Lander es un psicóloga que investiga las ECM. Su encuentro con el neurólogo Richard Wright ha de permitirle simular clínicamente ese tipo de experiencias con el uso de drogas psicoactivas. Pero los sujetos del experimento del doctor Wright ven cosas completamente distintas de lo esperado, y Joanna decide someterse al experimento para conocer directamente una ECM. Y las sorpresas empiezan…

Novela finalista del premio Hugo 2002

Novela finalista del premio Nebula 2001

Novela finalista del John W. Campbell Memorial Award 2002

Cuento ganador del premio Hugo y SF Chronicle Readers. Finalista de los premios Nebula y Bram Stoker.

In “Service for the Burial of the Dead,” a young woman mourning her lover comes upon a surprising funeral guest.

Biblical prophecies turn out to have unexpected meanings as the End Times approach in “Lost and Found.”

The dangers of ordering merchandise from the back pages of pulp magazines become apparent in “Mail-Order Clone.”

In “Blued Moon,” a young man uncovers a scientific property of coincidence—and falls in love.

As a tourist attraction, a total eclipse draws an even wider audience than (almost) anyone realizes in “And Come from Miles Around.”

In “Samaritan,” an enthusiastic young assistant pastor plunges the entire church hierarchy into a firestorm of controversy when she brings forward an orangutan to be baptized.

Parental abuse is all the rage in an institute of higher learning—for those who have no parents… and for those who have no children, in “All My Darling Daughters.”

Произведения, составившие сборник, написаны в жанре повести-предупреждения и посвящены самой животрепещущей проблеме современности: страшной реальности возникновения ядерного конфликта. В сборник вошли: повесть Хассо Грабнера «Операция «Норск гидро» (ГДР), роман Энтони Трю «За два часа до темноты» (Великобритания) и два произведения американских писателей — роман Мартина Кэйдина «Почти в полночь» и рассказ Конни Уиллис «Письмо от Клири».

In the Hollywood of the future there’s no need for actors since any star can be digitally recreated and inserted into any movie. Yet young Alis wants to dance on the silver screen. Tom tries to dissuade her, but he fears she will pursue her dream — and likely fall victim to Hollywood’s seamy underside, which is all to eager to swallow up naive actresses. Then Tom begins to find Alis in the old musicals he remakes, and he has to ask himself just where the line stands between reality and the movies.

Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1996.

In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds—great and small—of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collide—and the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening.

Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place. Scores of time-traveling historians are being sent into the past, to destinations including the American Civil War and the attack on the World Trade Center. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser, Mr. Dunworthy, into letting her go to VE Day. Polly Churchill’s next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London’s Blitz. And seventeen-year-old Colin Templer, who has a major crush on Polly, is determined to go to the Crusades so that he can “catch up” to her in age. 

But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments for no apparent reason and switching around everyone’s schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, unexploded bombs, dive-bombing Stukas, rationing, shrapnel, V-1s, and two of the most incorrigible children in all of history—to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control.