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A new kind of sci-fi heroine, the tough-as-nails Alyx, is introduced in this Nebula Award finalist that Poul Anderson called an "extraordinary" novel. Set in a semi-utopian world, Joanna Russ's groundbreaking debut novel is the story of Alyx, a female soldier, survival guide, and agent of the Trans-Temporal Authority. Displaced in time from her ancient Greece, Alyx is tasked with safely leading a group of pampered human vacationers--including some unconventional nuns and a detached teenager known as the Machine--across an uninhabited scenic terrain to a relief station. But the journey proves more challenging than anticipated as they confront one another's failings; the physical dangers of an icy, hostile wilderness; and Alyx's own personal demons. Long before the kick-ass heroines of current science fiction and fantasy, Russ unapologetically introduced readers to a short, strong, middle-aged (for her world/time) woman of twenty-six who knows how to survive but struggles with the emotional nuances of her charges and the confusion of her own mixed feelings. With iconic characters like Alyx, Russ "four decades ago helped deliver science fiction into the hands of the most alien creatures the genre had yet seen--women . . . [and] helped inaugurate the now flourishing tradition of feminist science fiction" (The New York Times). … (más)
Paraíso es el más hermoso de los mundos, un planeta para turistas compuesto exclusivamente de montañas, colinas, arrecifes de coral, desiertos, cascadas, ríos, lagos y un cielo cambiante, sin más recursos que su propia belleza. Pero la guerra ruge a su alrededor. La más increíble de las guerras: sin bombas, sin radiaciones, sin virus... una guerra aterradora, en el seno de una sociedad aberrante. Y, en medio de este caos, Alyx, una agente especial de la Trastemporal reclutada hace cuatro mil años en la antigua isla de Creta, en un lejano planeta llamado Tierra, recibe la misión de conducir a un grupo de refugiados, extraños híbridos indefensos, al planeta que es un paraíso no sólo de nombre: Raydos el pintor de colores planos; Gavrily, el importante personaje planetario; la problemática Iris; Maudey; y, sobre todo, Máquina, la revolucionaria psiónica, cuya mente está conectada constantemente a Nircana, Estación Nada...
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She was a soft-spoken, dark-haired, small-boned woman, not even coming up to their shoulders, like a kind of dwarf or miniature -- but that was normal enough for a Mediterranean Greek of nearly four millennia ago, before super-diets and hybridization from seventy colonized planets had turned all humanity (so she had been told) into Scandinavian giants.
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A new kind of sci-fi heroine, the tough-as-nails Alyx, is introduced in this Nebula Award finalist that Poul Anderson called an "extraordinary" novel. Set in a semi-utopian world, Joanna Russ's groundbreaking debut novel is the story of Alyx, a female soldier, survival guide, and agent of the Trans-Temporal Authority. Displaced in time from her ancient Greece, Alyx is tasked with safely leading a group of pampered human vacationers--including some unconventional nuns and a detached teenager known as the Machine--across an uninhabited scenic terrain to a relief station. But the journey proves more challenging than anticipated as they confront one another's failings; the physical dangers of an icy, hostile wilderness; and Alyx's own personal demons. Long before the kick-ass heroines of current science fiction and fantasy, Russ unapologetically introduced readers to a short, strong, middle-aged (for her world/time) woman of twenty-six who knows how to survive but struggles with the emotional nuances of her charges and the confusion of her own mixed feelings. With iconic characters like Alyx, Russ "four decades ago helped deliver science fiction into the hands of the most alien creatures the genre had yet seen--women . . . [and] helped inaugurate the now flourishing tradition of feminist science fiction" (The New York Times).
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Y, en medio de este caos, Alyx, una agente especial de la Trastemporal reclutada hace cuatro mil años en la antigua isla de Creta, en un lejano planeta llamado Tierra, recibe la misión de conducir a un grupo de refugiados, extraños híbridos indefensos, al planeta que es un paraíso no sólo de nombre: Raydos el pintor de colores planos; Gavrily, el importante personaje planetario; la problemática Iris; Maudey; y, sobre todo, Máquina, la revolucionaria psiónica, cuya mente está conectada constantemente a Nircana, Estación Nada...