La maldición gitana

"Mis hijos, como otros miles de adolescentes, eran jugadores impenitentes, y no pasaba día en que no ganaran una partida, es decir, destruyeran un mundo." En un futuro remoto en el que los libros se consideran materia muerta, un grupo de hermanos adolescentes se aficionan a un juego llamado Realidad Total. El juego es casi su única actividad, la pasión que consume sus días. Consiste en trasladarse virtualmente a un mundo poblado por una especie inteligente y declararle la guerra. Su objetivo: lograr la aniquilación de la especie en cuestión. Preocupado, el padre y narrador –un...

Karan, de veintiún años, acude a la hacienda del millonario míster Newley para servirle como enfermera. El lujo y la comodidad en la mansión son más que evidentes, sin embargo, Rock Waltan, sobrino del empresario, hará todo lo posible para que Karan esté incómoda. ¿Será verdad eso que dicen de que del amor al odio hay un paso...?

"the Action Française...from its inception regarded the author of La philosophie de la misère as one of its masters. He was given a place of honour in the weekly section of the journal of the movement entitled, precisely, 'Our Masters.' Proudhon owed this place in L'Action française to what the Maurrassians saw as his antirepublicanism, his anti-Semitism, his loathing of Rousseau, his disdain for the French Revolution, democracy, and parliamentarianism: and his championship of the nation, the family, tradition, and the monarchy." Proudhon's thought has seen some revival since the end of...

Sherlock Holmes, a fictional character created in 1887 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is a ‘detective consultant’ in London in the late nineteenth century, known for his intelligence and his skillful use of observation and deductive reasoning to solve difficult cases. This type of investigator, known for his extreme intelligence, influenced the majority of later detective fiction. He is the creator of his own profession ‘detective consultant,’ which consists of helping clarify the particularly difficult cases to the official detectives of Scotland Yard, or private detectives, like is the...