LA MENTALISTA

LA DECISIÓN y otros relatos del Siglo XX Hace tiempo deseaba publicar juntos algunos relatos escritos el pasado Siglo. Elegí sólo nueve de ellos, los cuales considero representativos de épocas y sus contextos. Una verdad que aceptan los escritores de guiones cinematográficos, es que estos no se escriben, se reescriben. Y una forma de darles un punto final es venderlos, y mejor si se transforman en película. Algo parecido me sucede con estos relatos, algunos ya publicados en revistas y -por supuesto- reescritos, otros que están igual como fueron plasmados, pero que la única forma de...

One afternoon, single mother Sara Weston says that she's going to the store—and never returns. In her absence, she leaves her teenage son alone with his damaged past and a legacy of secrets. Keith Weston nearly lost his life in an act of arson. He survived—but with devastating physical and emotional scars. Without his mother, he has no one to help him heal, no money, nothing to live for but the medications that numb his pain. Isolated and angry, his hatred has one tight focus: his half sister, Maggie Lockwood. Nineteen-year-old Maggie Lockwood spent a year in prison for the acts that led...

The Will to Battle—the third book of 2017 John W. Campbell Award winner Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series—a political science fiction epic of extraordinary audacity “A cornucopia of dazzling, sharp ideas set in rich, wry prose that rewards rumination with layers of delight. Provocative, erudite, inventive, resplendent.” —Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption, deception, and insurgency hum within the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location....

Novela narrada en forma de carta que escribe la señora Curren, una profesora de latín que se está muriendo de cáncer, a su hija, quien se ha trasladado a vivir a América, huyendo del régimen sudafricano que tanto desprecia.