Aun en los actuales días, en que los casquetes polares son sobrevolados con absoluta seguridad, el hombre sigue sometido a la sugestión que en él ejercen dichas regiones extremas del planeta, sobrecogedores escenarios de heroísmos y tragedias que están en la memoria de todos. Quedó ya atrás la época
Austral
✍ Scribed by Paul McAuley
- Publisher
- Orion;Gollancz
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 195 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
‘Paul McAuley’s balanced grasp of science and literature, always a rare attribute in the writer of prose fiction, is combined with the equally rare ability to look at today’s problems and know which are really problems, and what can be done about them.’ William Gibson
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