Una spedizione interstellare disastrata, un remoto sistema solare colonizzato dai discendenti dei terrestri, una cultura refrattaria a ogni contatto con l'esterno e isolata nei gusci di dodici vecchie astronavi... "The Ballad of Beta-2 è un'opera avventurosa nel senso più completo della parola; ma ricca, piena, intensa. Il mondo complesso e multiforme delle dodici astronavi è ricostruito con intelligenza dall'interno, senza risparmiare le frecciate polemiche verso il mondo contemp...

Samuel R. Delany is an acclaimed writer of literary theory, queer literature, and fiction. His works have fundamentally altered the terrain of science fiction (SF) through their formally consummate and materially grounded explorations of difference. This anthology of essays, talks, and interviews addresses topics such as sex and sexuality, race, power, literature and genre, as well as Herman Melville, John Ashbery, Willa Cather, Junot Diaz, and others. The second of two volumes, this book ...

From the author of the connected universe of the Cosmere comes the standalone novel from which spring characters who later play roles in the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive.In the world of Warbreaker, each person is born endowed with the power of one Breath―which can be sold and collected by others, then used to Awaken objects and even corpses to do their bidding. A few individuals who die in glory return as gods, with the power of thousands of Bre...

From the author of the connected universe of the Cosmere comes the standalone novel from which spring characters who later play roles in the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive.In the world of Warbreaker, each person is born endowed with the power of one Breath―which can be sold and collected by others, then used to Awaken objects and even corpses to do their bidding. A few individuals who die in glory return as gods, with the power of thousands of Bre...