Reseña: The Lady Astronaut of Mars (Lady Astronaut #4.5 )

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The Lady Astronaut of Mars (Lady Astronaut #4.5)

by 

Mary Robinette Kowal

33 pages

Published May 27th 2014 by Tor Books (first published December 2012)

ISBN: 1466873825 (ISBN13: 9781466873827)

Edition Language: English

Series: Lady Astronaut #4.5

BLURB: Thirty years ago, Elma York led the expedition that paved the way to life on Mars. For years she's been longing to go back up there, to once more explore the stars. But there are few opportunities for an aging astronaut, even the famous Lady Astronaut of Mars. When her chance finally comes, it may be too late. Elma must decide whether to stay with her sickening husband in what will surely be the final years of his life, or to have her final adventure and plunge deeper into the well of space.

Premios: Hugo Award for Best Novelette (2014), Locus Award Nominee for Best Novelette (2013), Premio Ignotus Nominee for Mejor cuento extranjero (Best Foreign Story) (2016)

My rating: 3.5 stars

You think they would have sent me to Mars if it weren’t intended to be a colony? I was there to show all the lady housewives that they could go to space too. Posing in my flight suit, with my lips painted red, I had smiled at more cameras than my colleagues.

First thought: That was... depressing.

Elma York es la Dama Astronauta de Marte, una de las pioneras de los viajes espaciales en esta historia alternativa de 1950s que forma parte de la serie conocida también como "punch card" (por las tarjetas perforadas que usaban para programar esos armatostes de computadores). Treinta años después de la primera expedición, ella tiene 63 años, vive en Marte con su esposo , un ingeniero programador , y aun sueña con las estrellas y el espacio.

Reseña: Bayou Born (The Foundling #1)

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Bayou Born  (The Foundling 1)

by  

Hailey Edwards

Paperback, 329 pages

Published October 17th 2017 by Piatkus

ISBN: 0349417067 (ISBN13: 9780349417066)

Edition Language: English

Series: The Foundling #1

BLURB:  Her beginning may be our end... 

Deep in the humid swamps of the Mississippi bayou, a mysterious, half-wild child is dragged just in time from the murky waters. She has no memories, no family and is covered in strange markings, the meaning of which no one is able to decipher. Adopted by the policeman who rescued her, Luce Boudrou follows him into the force, determined to prove herself in the eyes of those who are still suspicious.
However, there's more of a battle ahead than Luce could possibly imagine. She may be an orphan without a past, but no one - including Luce herself - could ever be prepared for the truth of her dark, powerful destiny...

 

 

My rating: 3.5 stars

Luce Boudreau fue una niña encontrada hace 15 años en el pantano, sin memoria previa. El sargento Edward Boudreau que la rescató, más tarde la adoptó, y ella también se convirtió en policía. Ella es la celebridad local , la 'niña salvaje', perseguida por periodistas por algunas marcas extrañas en su cuerpo. De modo que, cuando un caso sobre una joven desaparecida la llama a ella y a su pareja policiaca al pantano, y descubre a una mujer con sus mismas marcas, Luce está ansiosa por obtener finalmente sus respuestas.

Pero tal vez eso de 'ten cuidado con lo que deseas' venga a morderla.

Reseña de ARC: Rewritten (Unwritten 2)

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Rewritten (Unwritten #2)

by  

Tara Gilboy

 200 pages

Published April 7th 2020 by Jolly Fish Press

ISBN: 163163433X (ISBN13: 9781631634338)

Edition Language: English

Series: Unwritten #2

BLURB: After learning the truth about her own fairy tale, twelve-year-old Gracie wants nothing more than to move past the terrible things author Gertrude Winters wrote about her and begin a new chapter in the real world. If only things were going as planned. On the run from the evil Queen Cassandra, the characters from Gracie’s story have all been forced to start over, but some of them cannot forget Gracie’s checkered past. Even worse, Gracie discovers that as long as Cassandra has her magical book, the Vademecum, Gracie’s story is still being written and none of the characters are safe, including her mom and dad. In a desperate attempt to set things right, Gracie finds herself transported into another one of Gertrude’s stories—but this one is a horror story. Can Gracie face her destiny and the wild beast roaming the night, to rewrite her own story?"

3 manage-your-storyline stars

This is a middle grade fantasy very much in the vein of "Once Upon a Time". {Even if Cassandra wish for in her best day to be like Regina (maybe she is more alike Cruella) ...

and Gracie wish for to be like Henry}

Gracie is a 12 year old that, after the first book, has abandoned the literary world of Bondoff to the real world. 

Reseña de relato corto: Dislocation Space

 

Dislocation Space 

by 

Garth Nix

  

44 pages (first published December 11th 2019)

ISBN: 1250768659 (ISBN13: 9781250768650)

Edition Language: English

URL

https://www.tor.com/2019/12/11/dislocation-space-garth-nix/

 

My rating: 3.5

Go on. Try to stay alive.

Maybe something would change.

Stalin might die. Aleksandra might die. The Americans might drop lots of their new bombs…

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Aleksandra es un zek, una prisionera de gulag, y un día dos oficiales vienen con una nueva misión para ella, no como francotiradora sino como contorsionista talentosa en un destino secreto en otra parte de Siberia. Es eso o consecuencias nefastas para su familia, las amenazas habituales.

Los soviéticos están intrigados por una anomalía y quieren explorarla. Para Aleksandra es otro campamento, otra misión mortal o tal vez ... podría ser un posible escape.