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February 5, 2016
LA CONVOCATORIA – EL LIBRO #5, FINALMENTE.
¿Cuanto llevamos esperando que salga la entrega #5 de La Guerra de los Dioses? ¡DOS AÑOS! Por los dioses que ha pasado demasiado tiempo y yo mismo estoy que reviento de la emoción. Anuncio con toda la felicidad:
FECHA DE PUBLICACIÓN: Marzo 1 del 2016.
¡Prépara el dedo para hacer click click click el día de su publicación! Espero que os guste.
¿Ha sido un gozo escribirlo?
— Totalmente. Desarrollar a los personajes principales y los secundarios (y terciarios?) ha sido un placer descomunal. Muchas aventuras fueron sorpresa incluso para mí. Como un buen autor alguna vez lo dijo (he olvidado quién), los personajes cobran vida y forjan sus propias aventuras y tú, como el autor, sólo narras lo que observas. Es fascinante.
¿Qué pueden esperar tus lectores de este particular tomo?
— Un desarrollo desenfreando de los personajes; una trama entrelazada que jamás hubieras predicho; sorpresas por doquier; tesoros literarios; epopeyas y canciones; batallas y grandes ejércitos forjando la lucha.
¿Cuánto tiempo tarda en leer uno del libro 1-4 antes de embarcar el #5?
— He observado que un lector dedicado puede tardarse entre 1-2 semanas leyendo uno o dos libros. Diría que tendrías al menos 1 mes y medio de aventuras para luego lanzarte al libro #5. ¿Acaso no es delicioso perderte en otro mundo? ¡Claro!
¿Donde podemos conseguir los libros ya publicados? ¿Y cuáles son?
— #1 EL SACRIFICIO #2 LA MALDICIÓN #3 LA PROFECÍA #4 LA RESURRECCIÓN y #5 LA CONVOCATORIA. Próximamente #6 (el final de la obra) EL ARMAGEDDON.
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¿Cuándo podemos esperar la entrega final, el libro #6?
–Me atrevo decir finales del 2017.
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¿Cómo podemos apoyar tu trabajo?
— ¡Gracias por preguntar! Tu apoyo es inmensurable. Dejando reseñas de los libros donde los hayas adquirido. Llevo más de UNA DÉCADA trabajando en esta serie. Así que tu apoyo es de gran valor para mí.
¿Tras finalizar el proyecto La Guerra de los Dioses piensas dedicarte a otra saga?
— Sí. Una serie de SciFi, de acción futirística llena de tecnología extraña. Será toda una osadía.
¿Algo más?
— Sí. Gracias por pasarte por mi blog. ¡ABRAZOS!
January 25, 2016
LA MONTAÑA DE LOS RECUERDOS (Poema #7)
En una montaña distante y acalorada,
Reside el alma de la sonrisa del tiempo,
Donde los pasares de la vida se congelan,
Como museo visitas y acuerdas con sosiego.
En la montaña distante, alta y placentera,
Brilla un sol celeste cuyo fulgor es fugaz,
Como la risa de las crías del universo,
Que vinieron, fueron, y serán.
Solitaria la montaña navega con elocuencia,
Postrada sobre nubes de arrebol ambarino,
Cuyo avistamiento desvanece mientras
Te aproximas a los mundanos pensamientos.
De vuelta en el mundo sonreirás, la viste, estuviste;
Añorarás volver a la montaña de los aposentos,
Memorias de los grandes eventos, que te hacen ser:
Quien eres, serás, y seguirás siendo.
Cuando observes a los cielos,
Acuerda que sobre una manta de nubes
De arrebol ambarino, flota, esperándote,
La montaña de los buenos recuerdos.
January 10, 2016
Double Star
“I regard them as prostitutes, not colleagues. Let me make myself clear. Does an author respect a ghost writer? Would you respect a painter who allowed another man to sign his work — for money? Possible the spirit of the artist is foreign to you, sir, yet perhaps I may put it in terms germane to your own profession.”
Lawrence Smith, also known as Lorenzo Smythe –The Great Lorenzo!– is a very proud actor, and one of the best know in the Empire. He is asked to act in an interesting and well payed job, though details are lacking and gets tangled with his contractors/captors into acting on this important role. Smythe must impersonate an important politician who has been kidnapped.
Narrated in the first person, I was delighted to read the character development Smythe endured along the slender yet captivating novel. Heinlein has an avid nature to capture the essence of the moment, to elonquently describe a setting with few, precise words and make of it a master-piece. I enjoyed every page, turning them as the action developed and Lorenzo slowly changed, and changed, and became… a mature individual who never thought he could find profoundity in the “nasty” game of politics.
“Politics isn’t a dirty game. But there are dirty players.”
The Great Lorenzo, as he is known, is dramatically affected by the memory of his father, something that shows as the story develops, a trait you see even in the final stages of the plot.
“Before my revered father died he made me promise him three things: first, never to mix whisky with anything but water; second, always to ignore anonymous letters; and lastly, never to talk with a stranger who refuses to give his name.”
As you arrive to the final portions of the book and you realize that it will soon finish, you can’t quite picture who the book will end. But it ends with such delicacy, such intimate and well captured moments that the story is rendered from grand to epic. The way this book was finished is astonishing, with emotions that linger and reside with the long lasting tones of a great read. This is by far science fiction at its best.
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Flowers For Algernon
Intelligence alone means nothing. Truth has a price.
Charlie Gordon is a young man suffering mental retardation. Of course the term “suffering” is not a term employed by him, but by the people who surround him and offer him help. He does not suffer, really, but enjoys a world devoid of nastiness, of lies and corrupted morals.
Charlie undergoes an experiment that offers him the red pill of awareness, intelligence, and a pandora’s box yet to be experienced. He so much desires to become as others, yet has no idea of the price he is about to pay for it.
Once in the realm of the common, a world he thought virtuous is but corrupt and full of confusion. It is not a world confusing because of the world itself, but because the inhabitants of the world he once longed for are shadowed by mediocrity.
What bothers Charlie the most, he discovers, is being told he was created by the hands of others so “righteous” that they gave him a life. The truth is he was always a human being. He wasn’t classified as one in the mind’s of others because he lacked the capacity to experience the world like others do. But he experienced it nonetheless, he enjoyed it, he gained much from it. It was a world simple, a world untouched by folly. Once given the gift to become like others, he soon finds out that this gift is but a maze full of the self-centered, of denatured self-valuation, corrupted by those who thrive by prying on the ignorant. What a price he paid. He paid the price of truth.
Truth has a price. Once unraveled it is impossible to wrap it up and be ignorant of it. You might hide it, store it in a deep dungeon; even so, suppression can only go so far. Ignorance is not bliss. What you don’t know can hurt you. Conversely, what you do not perceive you do not evaluate. Unperceived value cannot be acted upon.
Charlie was a retard surrounded by truth. Truth was veiled by mental retardation, but still truth lingered around him. It was until perception was gained through intelligence that he was able to perceive reality, seek truth, and perceive value. Once value was perceived he was defied by another reality, another truth: that most human beings, although surrounded by truth, prefer to avoid it. They might feel its presence, but truth is a fiber too convoluted to digest.
Charlie was faced with the troubles of every human soul. The battle between individuality and the need to belong, to be part of the social, the tribe. Morality within him was strong when he was reborn, he was virtue naked and pristine. When exposed to a moral dilemma he was troubled by its confusion. To belong or to act accordingly to his values? Is this not the trouble of humanity ever since value was perceived?
As Charlie matures the young retarded Charlie lingers within. It is the child we all carry and cannot ignore nor put away. It can be suppressed, like truth, yet its screams and bellows will be heard even if piles of mental scrap is thrown over it. He is haunted by a relentless search for something, a value he cannot even name. We have all been faced with this reality, this perception, that there is this ideal we can seek out, hunt down, and hold as precious stones within a vault.
That value is and always will be self-valuation. The problem is that self is not a solid that sustains the corruption of time. Anything you gain for your self is as dynamic as embers that whiter in the absence of caressing fuel. The soul has to be fed, it has to be taken care of with delicacy as to not endanger its corruption and further decay into the abyss of a relentless scar. Since adolescence one seeks this precious value, finding only volatile substitutes that too soon evaporate and leave behind emptiness. That void must be filled, someday, somehow. The eternal search for this filling substance is a war bound to last forever unless the fight for self-edification is fought stern and hardily.
In the end this book is a literary achievement for capturing this essence and transmitting it in such a dynamic, corporeal manner. The genius behind it reminds one of one’s inner child midst a crowd of confusing stimuli. Every human has a path to tread, many a crossroad to ponder over. What becomes of each individual is in the end the product of volition and nothing more.
The endless search of knowledge leads to the obfuscation of the search of love. We are defied by our mental powers to actually seek for what really matters. In the end, this book is grand because it makes you look inwardly more often that not. This creation is of great philosophical impact. This book changes the way you perceive mentally retarded individuals. Just listen, pay attention. They might be happier than you.
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Fahrenheit 451
Firemen provoke fires, burning every and any book available. Why? Guy Montag is one of many firemen who are called to fulfill their duty, blindly burning books and the people who defend them. They are evil! Books are evil! Worse are writers of poets!
The Hound, an automated robot who seems to sense your “sins” of feeling and thinking, puts you down with a lethal dose of sedative if you happen to commit a thought-feeling-crime.
Everyone’s the same, every day is gray. To give your day color is to commit a crime. You’re not allowed to express you uniqueness, but rather become part of a populous tamed by constant, intrusive distraction.
Guy Montag is thrown out of the merry-go-round by seventeen year old Clarisse. With a few well placed questions his world slowly crumbles as the veil of lies falls. As truth springs out like Jack in the box, Guy is left to wonder about his gray-scaled world and how it operates under a spell weaved by a government thriving from a tamed crowd.
It all explodes when Montag keeps a book rather than burning it. Reading a few lines creates a colorful collage of thoughts that will completely disable the veil of lies. Truth is now clear, visible. With nothing left to do but fight to defend his forsaken humanity from a totalitarian regime, Montag risks his life for a righteous cause.
A stunning dystopian world created in a short novel; a cautionary tale that has left a valuable foot-print.
Brabury’s tale is inspired by at least three events in history:
The burning of the Library of Alexandria,
The Nazi book burning,
Joseph Stalin’s “Great Purge” where poets, writers, artsits, etc., were arrested and executed.
In all of the above-mentioned historical events, powermongers seek control through censure and destruction.
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SICARIO
Una de las mejores películas que he visto en el año (sólo van dos semanas del 2016, je,je). IMDB le dio 7.8/10. Rotten Tomatoes le dio 93%, y yo le doy 5/5 estrellas. Considero que la grabación de la película fue extraordinaria, como si los encargados de la cinematografía no sólo eran diestros en el sentido de capturar una escena, sino también de extraerle la belleza a los paisajes.
La historia inicia con Kate quien es un miembro de un SWAT team. De pronto encuentra varios cuerpos mutilados, producto de los asesinatos de los Carteles de drogas de México. Con ello se llega a involucrar con un equipo misterioso que lleva a cabo misiones especializadas contra los Carteles. Benicio del Toro (Alejandro) es uno de los especialistas encargado de desmantelar a los carteles. Su actuación es fenomenal y su rol como personaje enigmático es sencillamente fascinante. Recomendadísima. Como he dicho, de las mejores flicks del año.
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December 29, 2015
Reflexión #2. Sobre la magia.
Ser un mago es ser un excelente científico, además de ser un hombre afanado a la naturaleza para comprender sus procesos más ínfimos. Quizá por eso hay pocos magos en el mundo: porque todos hablan y nadie escucha. Y para ser un buen mago debes escuchar con la paciencia de un árbol que permite que los vientos del céfiro más ínfimo exponga sus secretos musicales.
December 27, 2015
Ready Player One
Una obra maestra que urde varios de los temas de la actualidad de manera divertida y aventurera, aún manteniendo un mensaje bastante profundo. A mi gusto RPO ha sido de las mejores novelas que leí durante el 2015, habiendo pillado una copia tanto en Inglés como en Español. Tal fue mi gozo con la novela que tuve que leerla en ambos idiomas. Si bien la obra inicia sosegada explicándonos un futuro probable en donde las megacorporaciones dominan y los individuos son aplacados por las fuerzas gubernamentales. Como lo es hoy por hoy, las profesiones que más dinero pudieran engendrar son las que involucran el desarrollo de la tecnología. Nuestro persona principal no sólo socializa vía el OASIS, mundo virtual donde se desarrolla el 75% de la obra, sino también participa en un juego que no es nada sencillo, y cuyo premio involucra hallarse el Huevo de Halliday, que incluye una fortuna que de hacerte con ella y podrías brindarle una vida cómoda a 20 generaciones tras tu muerte. Para hacerlo más difícil, medio mundo se interesa en hallar el Huevo, y para agravar la situación, eso incluye las megacorporaciones en busca de domeñar el mundo virtual.
No digo demás, salvo que quisieras que te estropee la obra. Con toda honestidad, la obra queda recomendadísima ya sea en Inglés o en Español.
The Man in the High Castle
I rated the book 5/5. The show 2/5.
I had the misfortune to watch the Amazon Series first than reading the book. The read is amazing, as you would expect from Dick’s writings. However, it’s different from the Series. Or better said, the creators of the series took the premise of the book and completely changed the plot. Some consistencies do linger in the popular show. For example The Grasshopper lies Heavy and some characters. But then most things are completely off, and some characters were clearly created for drama’s sake. Don’t get me wrong. Drama is fun at times, and in the right context. And since I saw the series first and then read the book, I can say the drama is well played out in the show.
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But then I read the book…
The book DOES NOT contain all the teary drama we see in the show. Why? I’ve read some of the author’s books and can say he’s not big on the whole i love you drama. But he is on mystery and in transporting you to weird sceneries with his fantastic mode of describing. If you read the book first I’m pretty sure you’ll be disappointed by the show (unless you despised the book altogether and find drama worth your while).
The book is strange. The characters are deep, complex, and the action is scarce. We’re taken into each character’s mind and we explore the world through their thoughts, of how they deal wit this “alternate reality”. Yet again this is the author’s way of describing his characters and showing you the world he created. It’s skillful. NO, it’s mastery. That said, this book is not for everyone. The popular show created by Amazon is. Comes to show why many characters were modified, and why the whole Kempetai vs Nazi fiasco was exploited. I guess it’s more a crowd pleaser than anything else.
Reflexiones #1
A veces no queremos que sea hoy. A veces no queremos que sea mañana. Pero el sabio te dirá: aprovecha cada momento. Nada es perenne.
