Se forem ao site oficial da revista podem-se inscrever para receberem quatro volumes gratuitos. O primeiro foi-me enviado já esta semana e ainda que os autores deste não me sejam conhecidos, nos volumes anteriores podemos encontrar Nnedi Okorafor, Silvia Moreno-Garcia ou S.L. Gilbow. Mais conhecidos ainda são os editores: Jack Fisher e Sean Wallace. O primeiro editor da revista Flesh & Blood costuma organizar antologias. Já o segundo é o editor da Prime books, tendo já organizado revistas como a Clarkesworld, The Dark ou Fantasy Magazine. Este será sem dúvida um projecto para acompanhar nos próximos tempos.
Para quem usa o Kindle reader através de um Samsung existe a possibilidade de adquirir um volume gratuito todos os meses. De entre as quatro possibilidades deste mês escolhi este The Mongoliad:
The first novel to be released in The Foreworld Saga, The Mongoliad: Book One, is an epic-within-an-epic, taking place in 13th century. In it, a small band of warriors and mystics raise their swords to save Europe from a bloodthirsty Mongol invasion. Inspired by their leader (an elder of an order of warrior monks), they embark on a perilous journey and uncover the history of hidden knowledge and conflict among powerful secret societies that had been shaping world events for millennia.
But the saga reaches the modern world via a circuitous route. In the late 19th century, Sir Richard F. Burton, an expert on exotic languages and historical swordsmanship, is approached by a mysterious group of English martial arts aficionados about translating a collection of long-lost manuscripts. Burton dies before his work is finished, and his efforts were thought lost until recently rediscovered by a team of amateur archaeologists in the ruins of a mansion in Trieste, Italy. From this collection of arcana, the incredible tale of The Mongoliad was recreated.
Full of high adventure, unforgettable characters, and unflinching battle scenes, The Mongoliad ignites a dangerous quest where willpower and blades are tested and the scope of world-building is redefined.
A note on this edition: The Mongoliad began as a social media experiment, combining serial story-telling with a unique level of interaction between authors and audience during the creative process. Since its original iteration, The Mongoliad has been restructured, edited, and rewritten under the supervision of its authors to create a more cohesive reading experience and will be published as a trilogy of novels. This edition is the definitive edition and is the authors’ preferred text.
O site VODO de vez em quando disponibiliza e-books a preços muito acessíveis. Ainda assim quem achar que o preço é excessivo, pode sempre fazer uma proposta de preço, que às vezes até é aceite. Neste momento, dos que se encontram disponíveis interessei-me por um livro de Daryl Gregory, e por esta colectânea de histórias de ficção científica de países tão distintos como Filipinas, Israel, Tailândia, Croácia ou Malácia (entre outros). No site oficial encontram não só uma lista completa de conteúdos como a sinopse:
Among the spirits, technology, and deep recesses of the human mind, stories abound. Kites sail to the stars, technology transcends physics, and wheels cry out in the night. Memories come and go like fading echoes and a train carries its passengers through more than simple space and time. Dark and bright, beautiful and haunting, the stories herein represent speculative fiction from a sampling of the finest authors from around the world.
Entre Pandemonium e The Devil’s Alphabet, os livros de Daryl Gregory costumam apresentar boas histórias de premissas originais e improváveis:
Harrison was the Monster Detective, a storybook hero. Now he’s in his mid-thirties and spends most of his time popping pills and not sleeping. Stan became a minor celebrity after being partially eaten by cannibals. Barbara is haunted by unreadable messages carved upon her bones. Greta may or may not be a mass-murdering arsonist. Martin never takes off his sunglasses. Never. No one believes the extent of their horrific tales, not until they are sought out by psychotherapist Dr. Jan Sayer. What happens when these seemingly-insane outcasts form a support group? Together they must discover which monsters they face are within–and which are lurking in plain sight.
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