Лучшие книги Наоми Митчисон

Introduced by Naomi Mitchison. Set over two thousand years ago on the clam and fertile shores of the Black Sea, Naomi Mitchison's The Corn King and the Spring Queen tells of ancient civilisations where tenderness, beauty and love vie with brutality and dark magic. Erif Der, a young witch, is compelled by her father to marry his powerful rival, Tarrik the Corn King, so becoming the Spring Queen. Forced by her father, she uses her magic spells to try and break Tarrik's power. But one night Tarrik rescues Sphaeros, an Hellenic philosopher, from a shipwreck. Sphaeros in turn rescues Tarrik from near death and so breaks the enchantment that has…

Cuando la Ciencia Ficción penetra en la biología puede inducirnos a grandes especulaciones en el estudio de la vida.
Con esta antología de relatos seleccionados por Isaac Asimov y sus colaboradores Martin H. Greenberg y Charles G. Waugh, tenemos ocasión de conocer la importancia de esta ciencia para los grandes maestros de la ciencia ficción. En este volumen se presentan doce relatos cuyo denominador común es la biología, tratando diferentes aspectos de la evolución, la biología celular, la genética, la fisiología, la reproducción o la ecología.

Mary is a communications expert, passionate and compassionate about the strange and often unnerving life forms she encounters on her travels to distant galaxies. Non-interference is the code, but her emotional and erotic entanglements cannot always be avoided, and scientific detachment is not always easy to maintain. Mary explores her own sexuality with colleagues and with friends such as the hermaphroditic Martian, Vly.

The Barbarian is set in an ancient Mediterranean world where civilizations old and new fought for mastery. Its main characters include the barbarian King and Queen of a powerful Thracian kingdom; a radical and courageous Greek ruler striving to save his people from degeneration and defeat; and the effete, sensual Egyptian Pharaoh in whose corrupt court this mighty drama plays out its final act.
Not since Mary Renault have the myths, magic, epic events and eternal truths of the ancient world come to life with such rich and immediate humanity. Here is romance and adventure of the first order.