“The World is made of floors, connected by stairs, and made of rooms”. Such is the vision of a child and his siamese head, bricked up by their mother in the family manor since they were born… until one day, when, after seeing a strange light, they swear to find… the end of the World.. Winner of the Silver Méliès at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film and nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the Santa Barbara International...

From Academy Award-nominated director Dominique Monféry comes a sumptuously animated adventure about a magic library where characters from classic children’s books come alive.. Nat has fond memories of his eccentric Aunt Eleanor reading to him from her enormous collection of storybooks but is frustrated by his inability to read the books himself. So he is less than thrilled when he learns that his aunt has left him the keys to her attic library...

The stranger-than-fiction story of the creation and loss of an artificially intelligent android of science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Readers get a fascinating inside look at the scientists and technology that made this amazing android possible.

"As any reader of Jo Walton's Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic re-reader of books. In 2008, then-new science-fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her re-reading--about all kinds of older fantasy and SF, ranging from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures, to forgotten oddities and gems. These posts have consistently been among the most popular features of Tor.com....

En una época llena de moralismos y reglas, con prejuicios exagerados, prohibiciones severas y valores «puritanos», donde los formalismos religiosos eran deberes incuestionables, surge una obra que cae como balde de agua fría sobre el orgulloso Imperio británico. En forma de sátira y crítica frontal a las instituciones que operaban como una industria del hambre, de la mortandad, del suplicio y del abuso descarado envuelto en la hipocresía,...

Pinocho, el muñeco inolvidable que se instaló primero en nuestra casa a través del relato de la madre, la abuela o la tía, se metió luego por la ventana de la escuela hecho canción en la voz de la maestra y, finalmente, se inmortalizó en el goce de los niños y la nostalgia de los mayores. Pinocho es un títere mágicamente dotado de vida. Necio como nadie, comete toda clase de travesuras que siempre le acarrean las peores lecciones, desde...

Cumbres borrascosas es una de las novelas más destacadas y potentes del siglo XIX. Narra la apasionada y tempestuosa historia de Catherine y Heathcliff, dos seres atormentados que se debaten entre la pasión, el odio, la obsesión y la venganza; un amor desesperado que traspasa las fronteras de la muerte y que hace de esta obra una de las más atractivas de todos los tiempos. Ambientada en los páramos de Yorkshire, el paisaje se erige como un personaje...

"Miranda shows us her vulnerability, her fears and her sadness. Although her path is full of setbacks and framed by a pandemic that has forced her to hide behind her anguish, she will find in music the way to escape from that internal prison in which an unhealthy society locked her"--Google translation of back cover.

You will never look at Marvel's fan-favorite character Daredevil the same way again! In fact, you may even start to look at your own world a bit differently too. Welcome aboard a genre-bending ride that combines an ambitious exploration of the science of the senses with a deep dive into the comic book and live-action pursuits of the Marvel superhero Daredevil. What could possibly allow someone to hear heartbeats? Is there something it is like to "radar-sense"?...

With The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and comic books to B-movies, it is an epic exploration of literature, new media and technology, the nature of storytelling, and the making and meaning of our most important tales. Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time-fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them-and still...