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1984: Tercera parte (y última)

Posted on July 24th, 2008 at 11:39am by Pi.
Categories: Reading, Unimultiverse, Books, Untranslated.

Con 1984, Orwell crea una antiutopía muy cercana al arquetipo perfecto de infierno futuro. De hecho, todas las distopías con gobierno totalitario suelen llamarse orwellianas, hasta tal punto llega su influencia. Pocas veces se ha llegado a ese grado distópico, tal vez en novelas como Un Mundo Feliz (Aldous Huxley, 1932) donde todos debían ser felices, les gustase o no; o la delirante parodia, y a la vez ácida crítica de Fin De Siglo (Jacques Sternberg, 1971). (more…)

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1984: Segunda parte

Posted on July 9th, 2008 at 7:17pm by Pi.
Categories: Books, Untranslated.

En 1984, Orwell dibuja un futuro poco esperanzador, en el que una sociedad paupérrima se arrastra bajo el yugo de un gobierno totalitario. En esa sociedad, un miembro llamado Winston Smith lucha con su escepticismo y su inteligencia para no ser absorbido por el lavado de cerebro continuo al que es sometido. Pero Winston no es el héroe del libro; es sólo una victima más. Vemos su camino que va, como él mismo reconoce, hacia la muerte y la destrucción, al ir en contra del gobierno casi omnipresente y casi omnipotente. (more…)

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1984: Primera parte

Posted on June 25th, 2008 at 2:05pm by Pi.
Categories: Reading, Books, Untranslated.

Ayer terminé la relectura de 1984, de George Orwell. Y he pensado en escribir un par de artículos sobre la opinión que me merece dicho libro. Y esta opinión es que 1984 es la mejor novela escrita en el siglo XX. No he estudiado literatura, ni escribo críticas para una revista especializada, ni siquiera he leído todos los libros del siglo XX (o por lo menos los más importantes, p.e. Ulises de James Joyce) como para estar seguro de mi afirmación; pero con mis conocimientos y experiencia de simple lector, considero que mi afirmación es cierta a nivel personal. Así que lo que sigue es mi visión absolutamente subjetiva y personal de esta magnífica novela. (more…)

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The last two books I’ve bought for myself

Posted on March 2nd, 2008 at 4:41pm by Pi.
Categories: Arts, Personal, Books.

So yesterday I was shopping and I pampered myself with two whimsical things I had from long ago. The first one is Gil Elvgren - The Complete Pin-Ups, which I’ve been searching for a long time, and that I found by pure chance. A wonderful thing, and with this thing of Taschen’s 25th anniversary, very cheapy. The other one is M.C. Escher, Graphic Work, and this one was also ubercheap for the quality it has. And both of them were together! I didn’t want to separate one of each other so I bought both ^_^

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Hart’s Hope

Posted on October 10th, 2007 at 5:05pm by Pi.
Categories: Books.

Hart’s Hope is a fantasy novel written in 1983 by Orson Scott Card. Hart’s Hope is not the usual sword & sorcery book, with a hero who finds allies to fight against the darkness. It’s very far from the genre’s standards, and maybe that’s one of its strong points. (more…)

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Dune

Posted on October 3rd, 2007 at 1:47pm by Pi.
Categories: Books.

Dune is one of the most famous works by sci-fi writer Frank Herbert. Written in 1965, is often cited as one of the most important and popular science fiction novels of all time, and also mentioned as the best selling science fiction book ever edited. (more…)

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Norstrilia - The Lords of the Instrumentality (III)

Posted on July 6th, 2007 at 10:02am by Pi.
Categories: Books.

Norstrilia is the third book in the series The Lords of the Instrumentality, a compilation of short stories in a common universe, written and imagined by Cordwainer Smith. (more…)

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The Lords of the Instrumentality (I and II)

Posted on July 5th, 2007 at 9:10am by Pi.
Categories: Books.

The Lords of the Instrumentality is a four book edition containing the science fiction novels and short stories related to the universe often called Instrumentality of Mankind. As far as I know, this is the first edition of its kind, compiling all the works by Cordwainer Smith in this magnificently imaginative and lyrical universe. (more…)

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SciFi Books

Posted on June 26th, 2007 at 8:08am by Pi.
Categories: Books, Untranslated.

I wrote this many years ago and posted it in a forum. Here it is, mainly unchanged and uncorrected. I’ll do another list one of these days.

This is a selection I’ve made of the books I’ve read from a list of timeless SciFi classics. The comments are mine, I’ve read all the books except where noted. I hope this makes someone to get interest in SciFi, or if you already have that interest, makes you discover another gem. (more…)

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La Red De Caronte

Posted on June 13th, 2007 at 10:22pm by Pi.
Categories: Reading, Books, Untranslated.

Me gustaría comentar la adición a mi blogroll de LaRedDeCaronte.tk, el sitio de mi amiga Gemma, donde habla de los libros que ha publicado o que está escribiendo, además de algunos cuentos cortos, y un foro donde se puede hablar de literatura y el arte de superar el bloqueo del escritor ^_^ En cualquier caso, siempre es interesante que una amiga sea una de mis escritoras favoritas. Un día de estos releeré su ópera prima, La Red De Caronte, y escribiré una larga y detallada crítica. Hasta entonces, disfrutad de y participad en su página.

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