Nick Harkaway
1) Tigerman
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El sargento británico Lester Ferris, veterano de Iraq y Afganistán, es un buen hombre y está a punto de retirarse. Por ello, es destinado a la isla de Mancreu, una antigua colonia inglesa remota y tranquila en un limbo legal que descansa sobre nubes tóxicas de desechos y que se enfrenta a una destrucción inminente. La isla es también el lugar perfecto para infinidad de negocios turbios multinacionales: bases de espionaje, tráfico de...
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El Tubo de Jorgmund es la columna vertebral del mundo y está en llamas. Gonzo Lubitsch, héroe de profesión y solucionador de problemas, es contratado para apagarlo. Pero hay más en el incendio y en el propio Tubo de lo que parece a primera vista. El encargo llevará a Gonzo y a su mejor amigo, el narrador, de vuelta a sus propios orígenes y hasta el oscuro corazón de la Compañía de Jorgmund.
El mundo que vimos desaparecer es una aventura vertiginosa,...
3) Angelmaker
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Avoiding the lifestyle of his late gangster father by working as a clock repairman, Joe Spork fixes an unusual device that turns out to be a former secret agent's doomsday machine and incurs the wrath of the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator.
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2018.
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"From the widely acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World and Tigerman, a virtuosic new novel and his most ambitious book yet--equal parts dark comedy, gripping detective story, and mind-bending philosophical puzzle--set in a not-too-distant-future, high-tech surveillance state. In the world of Gnomon, citizens are ceaselessly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of "transparency." When suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in government...
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2023.
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"Cal Sounder is a detective working for the police on certain very sensitive cases. So when he's called in to investigate a homicide at a local apartment, he is surprised at first to see that the victim appears to be a rather typical, milquetoast techie. But on closer inspection, he finds the victim is over seven feet tall. And even though he doesn't look a day over thirty, he is actually ninety years old. Clearly, he is a Titan-one of this dystopian,...