Con ellos también viven dos extraterrestres de una raza llamada “obin”, que actúan de guarda espaldas de Zöe, y que a lo largo del libro vamos descubriendo porqué son sus guardaespaldas y porqué son tan raros (esta parte es bastante interesante).įamily tranquility ZOE is interrupted when his parents are selected to lead the colonization of a new planet on the border of the human colonies. Mi opinión se basa únicamente en la lectura de éste último libro y lo cierto es que aunque no plantea grandes cuestiones, está bien narrado.Įl argumento es más o menos el siguiente: Zöe es una niña que vive tranquilamente con sus padres (militares ya retirados) en un planeta llamado Huckleberry.

John Scalzi It tells the same story that explained in 'The Lost Colony', but from the point of view of zoe, the adopted daughter of John and Jane Perry, the protagonists of the earlier novels.Ĭomo no he leído las anteriores, no puedo dar indicaciones sobre si el contenido es muy repetitivo o no, o sobre si este nuevo punto de vista aporta algo nuevo a la narración. Since 2003, Minotauro has awarded the Minotauro International Prize for Science Fiction and Fantastic Literature, which has become well established in its vocation to strengthen literature in the fantastic genre and science fiction in the Spanish language and to become a springboard for the projection of Spanish and Spanish-American writers in this genre.This is a book that is part of a series of three books ( 'The Old Guard', 'The Brigades Ghost' and 'The Lost Colony'), but can be read separately, which is what I did because not he knew none of the above three. Bret, and Lamento, by Ken Scholes – to science fiction – La Vieja Guardia by John Scalzi is a good example – and to horror literature – with works such as the anthology Zombies, edited by John Joseph Adams, and the novel 13 balas, by David Wellington. In addition to the classic authors in this genre, the Minotauro catalogue includes collections dedicated to fantasy – with titles such as El hombre marcado, by Peter V.

It also publishes best-selling Spanish authors: Javier Negrete, León Arsenal, Rafael Marín and Juan Miguel Aguilera. Le Guin, creator of Terramar William Gibson, father of cyberpunk John Crowley Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Trilogía de Marte, and the popular Christopher Priest. Dick Ray Bradbury, creator of the legendary Crónicas marcianas Ursula K. Tolkien, Minotauro features authors such as Philip K. The publisher of the complete works of J. Minotauro is a publisher specialising in fantastic literature and science fiction belonging to Grupo Planeta, which it joined in 2001, forty-five years after it was founded in Argentina.

La vieja guardia by John Scalzi