Los equilibristas de realidades han regresado para su última aventura y esta vez no existen las fronteras, porque su playground es el cosmos infinito. Los equilibristas de realidades han regresado para su última aventura y esta vez no existen las fronteras, porque su playground es el cosmos infinito. Un castillo en lo alto de un acantilado que funciona como hospital psiquiátrico; el planeta Piersus con su atmósfera rojiza y su núcleo de almas ancestrales, o una base militar subterránea en territorio estadounidense serán los escenarios porlos que transitaremos en esta ocasión. La sed de venganza de Joshua contra Kim y Björn, y su ambición por convertirse en una Luz Divina podría desencadenar un desastre de proporciones astronómicas. Es el inevitable momento de conformar alianzas para sobrevivir. Un hijo arrebatado de los brazos de sus padres, un aprendiz que asesina a su propio maestro, el mayor sacrificio que se haría por amor, la epifanía de saberse las últimas inteligencias de una galaxia moribunda. Contrario a todo pronóstico, Frank Hidalgo-GatoDurán lo vuelve a hacer: nuestras mentes explotarán una vez más, como lo hace una realidad alternativa aniquilada por equilibristaseficientes.

¿Serías capaz de guardar un secreto? ¿Qué harías si te dijera que la realidad que ves no es más que una simulación creada por seres superiores? ¿Qué si te explicara que ni siquiera existe «la realidad», sino un conjunto de ellas que se entrecruzan y superponen entre sí? Este es el trasfondo de El lugar donde los equilibristas descansan, de Frank Hidalgo-Gato Durán, quien nos regala una trepidante aventura que atraviesa universos, épocas y los cuerpos de un puñado de personajes inolvidables. Björn, Kim, Joshua y Roxanne, entre otros, serán sometidos por los arcontes a duras pruebas físicas y psicológicas en su formación como equilibristas de realidades. A partir de sus propias voces nos convertiremos en testigos de futuras y cruentas guerras contra especies alienígenas, de mundos estremecedoramente cercanos y regidos por el ciberespacio y la virtualidad o de la inevitable caída de sistemas globales carcomidos por el abuso de poder. En estos devastadores escenarios lo único que parecería mantener unidas las piezas es la incansable búsqueda del amor y a ellos mismos dentro de la infinidad de realidades que existen.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time—all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the way you think, feel, and see the world. They are Ted Chiang at his best: profound, sympathetic, revelatory. Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine. In “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and second chances. In “Exhalation,” an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications that are literally universal. In “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom,” the ability to glimpse into alternate universes necessitates a radically new examination of the concepts of choice and free will.

From the author of Exhalation, an award-winning short story collection that blends "absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space ... raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human" (The New York Times). Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change—the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens—with some sense of normalcy. With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty and wonder. An award-winning collection from one of today's most lauded writers, Stories of Your Life and Others is a contemporary classic. Includes “Story of Your Life”—the basis for the major motion picture Arrival

New Mexico cultural envoy Juan Estevan Arellano, to whom this work is dedicated, writes that querencia “is that which gives us a sense of place, that which anchors us to the land, that which makes us a unique people, for it implies a deeply rooted knowledge of place, and for that reason we respect it as our home.” This sentiment is echoed in the foreword by Rudolfo Anaya, in which he writes that “querencia is love of home, love of place.” This collection of both deeply personal reflections and carefully researched studies explores the New Mexico homeland through the experiences and perspectives of Chicanx and indigenous/Genízaro writers and scholars from across the state. The importance of querencia for each contributor is apparent in their work and their ongoing studies, which have roots in the culture, history, literature, and popular media of New Mexico. Be inspired and enlightened by these essays and discover the history and belonging that is querencia.

This curious time-travel novella is a gracefully told lesson about accepting fate-or, as better suits this medieval Arabian setting, the will of Allah. A Baghdad merchant discovers an alchemical device that can send a traveler back in time 20 years. Despite the alchemist's warning that "what is made cannot be unmade," and three illustrative tales about others' attempts to alter the past, the merchant is determined to return to an earlier time to save his long-dead wife

What's the best way to create artificial intelligence? In 1950, Alan Turing wrote, "Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English. This process could follow the normal teaching of a child. Things would be pointed out and named, etc. Again I do not know what the right answer is, but I think both approaches should be tried." The first approach has been tried many times in both science fiction and reality. In this new novella, at over 30,000 words, his longest work to date, Ted Chiang offers a detailed imagining of how the second approach might work within the contemporary landscape of startup companies, massively-multiplayer online gaming, and open-source software. It's a story of two people and the artificial intelligences they helped create, following them for more than a decade as they deal with the upgrades and obsolescence that are inevitable in the world of software. At the same time, it's an examination of the difference between processing power and intelligence, and of what it means to have a real relationship with an artificial entity.