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Desde la alegría inapelable, el amor o el desamor, la creatividad exótica, la desesperación, la risa, la ebriedad o la locura, los seres que pueblan estas páginas revelan una originalidad que puede parecer alucinada. Este conjunto de locos, de rinocerontes resplandecientes, nos conduce a la empatía o al asombro pasmado, pero siempre, de alguna forma, a la identificación profunda con unas personas que desde su deriva están sintiendo de verdad, con desorden, con dulzura, desenfrenadamente. Manuel Vilas retrata en este libro la excepcionalidad de la mente del hombre moderno y transmite, con acrobacias imposibles, plenas de fantasía, que la elección más sugerente siempre es el trastorno. Porque éste, aun en sus manifestaciones más extremas, es sin duda una de las maneras más intensas de vivir.

When Sadie Brooks unexpectedly loses her marketing job, she flees New York City to spend the summer with her best friend in small-town Texas, where joining his Dungeons & Dragons campaign is the perfect distraction while she plans her next steps. In the game, she becomes Jaylie, a powerful human cleric blessed by the Goddess of Luck. But in real life, Sadie believes her luck has run out—until she meets Noah Walker, the outgoing bartender roped into joining their party as Loren, an adventurous and charismatic lute-strumming elf. Just as Jaylie finds herself succumbing to the bard’s charms over the course of their party’s travels, Sadie also begins to fall under Noah’s spell. As their relationship progresses in both worlds, Sadie wonders if what they have might last beyond the game. But like his traveling bard character, Noah never stays in one place for long. When a new opportunity arises in New York, Sadie must face the truth about why she lost her job in the first place—and whether she and Noah have found something in Texas worth staying for. Torn between her career dreams in the city and the exciting uncertainty of a new adventure, she will have no choice but to roll the dice.

“The most important part of this magic trick is just a willingness to get weird.” The stories in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 are brimming with bizarre and otherworldly premises. Women can’t lie or fall in love. Fathers feed their children ghost preserves. Souls chase one another through animal incarnations. Yet these stories are grounded deeply in our reality. Out of these stories’ weirdness emerges the cruelty of border enforcement, the horror of legislation restricting reproductive freedom, the frightening pace of AI. The result is a stunning, immersive, intensely felt experience, showing us less of what the world is, and more of what it could be.

Imaginemos una mezcla de componentes olfativos que nos permitiera revivir, de manera literal, nuestro más preciado recuerdo. Esta experiencia de inmersión en el pasado es un servicio que la empresa Fragrancia presta en exclusividad a una reducida élite a un precio astronómico, gracias a una sustancia, la SVM, que posee intensos poderes psicotrópicos. Las leyes que rigen su uso resultan ambivalentes: tolerada hasta ahora, también podría ser considerada una droga tremendamente adictiva. El joven Hélias Révol se dedica de manera oficial a la aromaterapia, aunque lleva cuatro años trabajando en la sucursal de Fragrancia en Le Mans como ayudante de Alain Fisson, uno de los olfatos más veteranos de la compañía. Decidido a convertirse en un experto en traducir recuerdos en fórmulas químicas, se traslada a la sede central de Fontainebleau para continuar su aprendizaje, pero en su camino se cruza Nora Olsson, la fría directora de marketing dispuesta a defender a ultranza los secretos de la empresa y los suyos.

In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. From their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to address an earl and curtsey before a prince—while other dictates of the ton are unspoken yet universally understood. A proper duke should be imperious and aloof. A young, marriageable lady should be amiable…but not too amiable. Daphne Bridgerton has always failed at the latter. The fourth of eight siblings in her close-knit family, she has formed friendships with the most eligible young men in London. Everyone likes Daphne for her kindness and wit. But no one truly desires her. She is simply too deuced honestfor that, too unwilling to play the romantic games that captivate gentlemen.

Cayden Veles, renowned Demon Commander of Vareveth, overthrew the throne to save Elowen Atarah, the woman he searched for since childhood. Now he’s determined to fulfill his quest for revenge against her father, even if it means forcing the only person he’s ever wanted into a marriage of political convenience. Elowen Atarah has everything she thought she’d ever want. Finally reunited with her dragons, she now has an army to enact vengeance, but as events transpire, she begins contemplating if she wants more. As her father’s only living heir, the Imirath throne is her right and destiny. But fighting and winning a war will require trusting Cayden Veles, her partner in crime and now king to her queen; the man she both longs for and doubts, especially after opening her heart only to become a pawn in his game. Navigating the shifting allegiances amongst all the kingdoms of Ravaryn will require all their strategy and strength, with devastating and bloody attacks on one side and cutthroat diplomacy for alliances on the other. But Elowen and Cayden must find a way to stand strong within the power they’ve gained, or risk losing everything. Delving deeper into a vast and ever-changing world, Wrath of the Dragons will take you on a journey filled with epic battles and a tender, angsty love for the ages.