Versos, 1978-1994

A thirteen-year-old girl wakes up in a future where human emotions are extinct and people rely on personal-assistant robots to navigate daily life. Imagine a future in which many human emotions are extinct, and “emotional masseuses” try to help people recover those lost sensations. Individuals rely on personal-assistant robots to navigate daily life. Students are taught not to think but to employ search programs. Companies protect their intellectual property by erasing the memory of their employees. And then imagine what it would feel like to be a sweet, smart thirteen-year-old girl from...

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Severin von Kusiemski, un noble polaco culto, sensible y un tanto visionario, conoce a Wanda von Dunajew en un pequeño balneario de los Cárpatos. Pronto caerá fascinado ante sus encantos y tratará de convencerla para que le acepte como esclavo y materializar así sus más íntimas fantasías eróticas. En un principio, Wanda se resiste a este ofrecimiento, pero, poco a poco, la relación se irá sumergiendo en un infierno-paraíso de creciente crueldad y humillación. Admirado por Zola, Victor Hugo y Edmond de Goncourt, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895), «el Turgueniev austriaco»,...

El gran autor de bestsellers Wilbur Smith nos lleva en un viaje increíble por las aguas de la costa de África en este retorno a la serie que lo hizo famoso: la saga de los Courtney. Costa este de África, 1670. El capitán Henry Courtney, "Hal", se dirige al sur desde Etiopía a bordo de su barco, Rama Dorada. Bajo la cubierta, su tripulación y su amante, la intrépida guerrera Judith Nazet, duermen plácidamente. De pronto la luna asoma entre las nubes y Hal cree divisar la sombra de otra embarcación. Pese a la tregua reciente en la guerra entre ingleses y daneses, el peligro es...