Los que van a morir (Comisario Alec Blume)

Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. After Earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared - and Idris and his kind became obsolete. Now, 50 years later, Idris and his crew have discovered something strange abandoned in space. It's clearly the work...

La mujer de hierro es una novela de modales de la escritora estadounidense Margaret Deland ambientada en el lugar ficticio del siglo 19 de Mercer, una comunidad del río Ohio que representa a Pittsburgh, Pensilvania. La novela cuenta la historia de la señora Maitland, una anciana viuda coriácea que posee y opera un molino de hierro. Su devoción a una ética de trabajo puritana aliena a su hijo Blair, quien aunque hereda el negocio, es testarudo y está enamorado de Elizabeth Ferguson, una pareja que la señora Maitland desaprueba.

Publicada por primera vez en 1953, historia de historias, relato de relatos ambientado en la Praga del siglo XVI, "De noche, bajo el puente de piedra" nos habla del emperador Rodolfo II, rey de Bohemia y emperador del Sacro Imperio, amante de las artes, manirroto y paranoico; del gran rabino Loew, místico y vidente; y del riquísimo judío Mordejai Meisl y su bella esposa Esther, eslabón entre la corte y el gueto

Shanti's quest hangs on the edge of a knife... With Isaru's state critical, Shanti and the crew must leave him in the Hollow. They return to Colonia, this time with leverage that might see her parents saved. But things go from bad to worse when the Sanctum seeks retribution. Shanti finds herself a hunted woman. Former friends have turned to enemies as she flees to the Ruins. There, she hopes vainly that the Sphere Priests will know the true location of Anna's prophecy. They point her in the last place she expected -- the domed cities of the Shen Collective. When she meets with the...