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Daryl Gregory

    Este autor galardonado mezcla magistralmente elementos de fantasía y ciencia ficción para explorar los intrincados aspectos de la psique humana y las relaciones interpersonales. Sus narrativas a menudo profundizan en temas de identidad, realidad y los límites de la percepción, empleando un estilo único que es a la vez sugerente y cautivador. Su habilidad para crear personajes creíbles y tramas convincentes le ha valido el aprecio de la crítica y una base de lectores dedicada. Este enfoque innovador de la ficción de género lo consagra como una voz distintiva en la literatura contemporánea.

    Daryl Gregory
    Spoonbenders
    Revelator
    The Album of Dr. Moreau
    Made To Order
    Harrison Squared
    100 Paintings from the Collections of the National Trust
    • 2021

      The Album of Dr. Moreau

      • 176 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      "It's 2001, and the WyldBoyZ are the world's hottest boy band, and definitely the world's only genetically engineered human-animal hybrid vocal group. When their producer, Dr. M, is found murdered in his hotel room, the 'boyz' become the prime suspects. Was it Bobby the ocelot (the cute one), Matt the megabat (the funny one), Tim the pangolin (the shy one), Devin the bonobo (the romantic one), or Tusk the elephant (the smart one)? Las Vegas Detective Luce Delgado has only twenty-four hours to solve a case that goes all the way back to the secret science barge where the WyldBoyZ' journey first began--a place they used to call home."--Provided by publisher

      The Album of Dr. Moreau
    • 2021

      Revelator

      • 352 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • The dark, gripping tale of a 1930’s family in the remote hills of the Smoky Mountains, their secret religion, and the daughter who turns her back on their mysterious god—from the acclaimed author of Spoonbenders. “Gods and moonshine in the Great Depression, written with a tenderness and brutality … this is as good as novels get.” —Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians In 1933, nine-year-old Stella is left in the care of her grandmother, Motty, in the backwoods of Tennessee. The mountains are home to dangerous secrets, and soon after she arrives, Stella wanders into a dark cavern where she encounters the family's personal god, an entity known as the Ghostdaddy. Years later, after a tragic incident that caused her to flee, Stella—now a professional bootlegger—returns for Motty's funeral, and to check on the mysterious ten-year-old girl named Sunny that Motty adopted. Sunny appears innocent enough, but she is more powerful than Stella could imagine—and she’s a direct link to Stella's buried past and her family's destructive faith. Haunting and wholly engrossing, summoning mesmerizing voices and giving shape to the dark, Revelator is a southern gothic tale for the ages.

      Revelator
    • 2021
    • 2020

      Made To Order

      • 400 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      A cutting-edge anthology, published on the 100th anniversary of the word Robot, exploring the impact it has had on the world.

      Made To Order
    • 2017

      Spoonbenders

      • 399 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Teddy Telemachus is a charming con man with a gift for sleight of hand and some shady underground associates. In need of cash, he tricks his way into a classified government study about telekinesis and its possible role in intelligence gathering. There he meets Maureen McKinnon, and it’s not just her piercing blue eyes that leave Teddy forever charmed, but her mind — Maureen is a genuine psychic of immense and mysterious power. After a whirlwind courtship, they marry, have three gifted children, and become the Amazing Telemachus Family, performing astounding feats across the country. Irene is a human lie detector. Frankie can move objects with his mind. And Buddy, the youngest, can see the future. Then one night tragedy leaves the family shattered. Decades later, the Telemachuses are not so amazing. Irene is a single mom whose ear for truth makes it hard to hold down a job, much less hold together a relationship. Frankie’s in serious debt to his dad’s old mob associates. Buddy has completely withdrawn into himself and inexplicably begun digging a hole in the backyard. To make matters worse, the CIA has come knocking, looking to see if there’s any magic left in the Telemachus clan. And there is: Irene’s son Matty has just had his first out-of-body experience. But he hasn’t told anyone, even though his newfound talent might just be what his family needs to save themselves — if it doesn’t tear them apart in the process. Harnessing the imaginative powers that have made him a master storyteller, Daryl Gregory delivers a stunning, laugh-out-loud new novel about a family of gifted dreamers and the invisible forces that bind us all.

      Spoonbenders
    • 2015

      Harrison Squared

      • 271 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      Harrison is a lonely teenager, afraid of water ever since a boating accident as a toddler. And he and his mother have just moved to the worst possible place: Dunnsmouth, a Lovecraftian town on the Atlantic coast. When his mother disappears, Harrison tries to solve the mystery, putting him in conflict with a strange church, a killer, and the Deep Ones. It will take all his resourcesand an unusual host of alliesto defeat the danger and find his mother.

      Harrison Squared
    • 2014

      1300 Jahre vor Colonel George Taylors Ankunft auf dem Planeten der Affen haben die Primaten die Hoheit über die Menschen erlangt, während beide Zivilisationen nebeneinander existieren, jedoch die Harmonie täglich auf dem Prüfstand steht. An der Oberfläche gibt es immer mehr Unstimmigkeiten, während der humanoide Untergrund sich zum Widerstand gegen die Affenherrschaft organisiert. Eine mysteriöse Sekte führt diese Bewegung an und sorgt für Spannungen zwischen der hochschwangeren Sally, „Bürgermeisterin“ des Südteils von Mak und Anführerin der Menschen, und der Affenmatriarchin Stimme Alaya, die einst Adoptivgeschwister waren. Als eine wichtige öffentliche Figur einem geheimnisvollen Attentäter zum Opfer fällt, eskaliert die Situation. Daryl Gregorys Arbeit umfasst die 16 Ausgaben der monatlichen Heftserie sowie vier One-Shots, die nun in diesem limitierten Sammelband vereint sind. Die PLANET DER AFFEN-Saga zählt zu den langlebigsten SciFi-Reihen der Film- und TV-Geschichte, und der Konflikt zwischen Menschen und Affen ist seit dem ersten Filmklassiker von 1968 ein bekanntes Phänomen der Popkultur. Der Comicband spielt zwischen den aktuellen und alten Filmen und führt zahlreiche neue Charaktere ein, die die von Pierre Boulle erdachte Welt erweitern.

      Planet der Affen - die Chroniken von Mak
    • 2014

      Afterparty

      • 304 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament by a new Church that preys on the underclass. But she is arrested and put into detention, and without the drug, commits suicide. Lyda Rose, another patient in that detention facility, has a dark secret: she was one of the original scientists who developed the drug. With the help of an ex-government agent and an imaginary, drug-induced doctor, Lyda sets out to find the other three survivors of the five who made the Numinous in a quest to set things right. A mind-bending and violent chase across Canada and the US, Daryl Gregory's Afterparty is a last chance to save civilization, or die trying.

      Afterparty
    • 2012

      Hommes et singes vivaient en harmonie. mais juste après l'attentat-suicide de la jeune Chaika, la révolte gronde. Cette fois, personne, homme ou singe, ne pourra empêcher la révolution ! Totalement inédit, cet arc, en trois volumes, se déroule 1 300 ans avant l'histoire racontée par Pierre Boulle dans le roman la Planète des singes qui est devenu un film culte de Franklin J Schaffner. Une nouvelle série à suspense et d'action imaginée par le scénariste américain Daryl Gregory (Dracula : The Company of Monsters) et dessinée avec un sens du cadrage spectaculaire par l'artiste brésilien Carlos Magno (Batman ; Manhunter ; Transformers...).

      La Planète des Singes
    • 2009

      Pandemonium

      • 334 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Je to náš svět – nebo není? Neliší se skoro ničím, nic v něm nechybí... Spíš něco přebývá: množství démonů, kteří mají ve zvyku posednout vybranou oběť, v jejím těle si odehrát oblíbenou scénku (v mnoha případech končící něčí smrtí), a tiše se vytratit. Do jiného hostitele. Případů posednutí je už tolik, že se jimi musí vážně zabývat církve i vědci. Pořádají se konference, fanoušci démonů mají své cony, ani jeden názor se nepodobá druhému...

      Pandemonium