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Cargando... Will the Last Person to Leave the Planet Please Shut Off the Sun? (edición 1992)por Mike Resnick (Autor)
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A collection of science fiction stories features Revolt of the Sugar Plum Fairies, The Light That Binds, the Claws That Catch, the title story, and the Hugo Award-winning Kirinyaga. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Many of the stories that make up the collection fit into one or another of Resnick’s larger fictional projects. Two are from his award-winning Kirinyaga cycle, one is set in the alternate New York City of the John Justin Mallory novels (Stalking the Unicorn and sequels), and two are part of a loose series of alternate-history adventures centered on Teddy Roosevelt. Others are one-off tales written for other people’s anthologies, demonstrating Resnick’s penchant for writing “against the grain” of such projects.
Humor abounds – corruption at the elephant-racing track, a bar owner's battle of wits with a bureaucrat, and Robin Hood's mom kvetching about her son -- but this is more than just a collection of funny stories. "Watching Marcia" is a creepy look inside the mind of a stalker-voyeur, "The Last Dog" a moving tale of inter-species friendship, and "Beachcomber" a piece of literary sleight-of-hand that transforms the comic image of a robot half-buried in the beach at Coney Island into a serious meditation on what it means to be human. The last story, "Winter Solstice," is a tale about Merlin and old age: poignant in its own right, and heartbreaking if (having read the author's note) you know what inspired it.
If you're already a fan of Resnick's work, this collection is well worth your time; if you're not, it's an excellent introduction. ( )