by Kim Stanley Robinson · Minotauro · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788445077801
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«El sueño de Galileo» is the science fiction novel by Kim Stanley Robinson, published by Minotauro in paperback (544 pages, in Spanish).
In 1609, a stranger approaches Galileo in Venice and reveals the existence of a device for seeing distant things. The astronomer perfects the telescope, confirms the Copernican model, and is tried for heresy. Later, the same mysterious figure takes him to Europa, Jupiter's moon, in a remote future, to mediate between factions.
Part of the Kim Stanley Robinson Library; translated by Manuel Mata.
Recommended for readers aged 14 and up who are fans of science fiction and the work of Kim Stanley Robinson.
Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer best known for his Mars trilogy of novels. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes, featuring scientists as heroes. Robinson has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the World Fantasy Award. The Atlantic magazine has called Robinson's work "the gold standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing." According to The New Yorker magazine, Robinson is "generally acknowledged as one of the greatest living science-fiction writers."
