NOVEDADES

Casandra es simpática, culta y rápida en sus respuestas, aunque su prodigiosa memoria a veces recuerda a la de Dori, la amiga del pez Nemo. También cuenta chistes malos y se muestra tan educada como zalamera al conversar. Sorprende con ideas únicas, desde un nuevo acuerdo social para superar esta época de malestar generalizado hasta imaginar máquinas enamoradas, «si la tecnología dejara de ser solo una herramienta y se volviera un interlocutor con vivencias propias». Pedro Vallín consigue casi superar esa misma barrera en este fascinante diálogo con una IA. Logra acercarse y acercarnos a un robot intelectual al que da identidad femenina e interroga sobre todos los asuntos que lo convierten en una amenaza potencial para nuestro futuro o en un formidable aliado para nuestra prosperidad: el empleo, el gobierno, las relaciones sociales, el nuevo orden mundial, incluso su propia «consciencia» como un ser de algoritmos.

Duncan’s crayons just can’t seem to stay put! After convincing one group of crayons to go back to work after they wanted to quit and rescuing another group who got lost in the most inconvenient places, Duncan’s crayons have disappeared once more.

Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising young citizens. But Elphaba’s Oz is no utopia. The Wizard’s secret police are everywhere. Animals—those creatures with voices, souls, and minds—are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals—even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas.