El don de Rachel

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...

Sometimes hope for the future is found in the ashes of yesterday. Shane Galanter is a man ready to put down roots after years of searching. But is he making the right choice? Or is there a woman somewhere who even now remembers---as does he---those longago days . . . and a love that hasn't faded with time? Lauren Gibbs is a successful international war correspondent who gave up on happily-ever-after years ago---when it was ripped away from her. Since then, she's never looked back. So how come she can't put to rest the one question that haunts her: Why is life so empty? Emily Anderson is a...

Mientras mi niña duerme cuenta las peripecias de una cronista de sucesos habituada a moverse en un mundo marginal lleno de locos y asesinos. Por desgracia queda involuntariamente embarazada de un hombre («el hijoputa») que la ha abandonado. Mientras se recrea en el odio contra el muy canalla con un lenguaje más propio de un descargador que de una joven embarazada, aparece en escena Fruit, una cantante joven, sensual y arrebatadora, con quien comparte una noche de pasión sáfica. A partir de ahí se desplegará una sucesión de asesinatos, sucesos tragicómicos y enrevesados que nuestra...

Probablemente el mayor logro de la antolog a que presenta Gladys Rodr guez Vald s sea el de la relectura cuidadosa de la obra de la poeta Gabriela Mistral y su actualizaci n. la selecci n de los diferentes trazos de su obra po tica se complementan con acotaciones y notas sobre las fases de su evoluci n en la escritura.