by Nancy Kress · FisicalBook · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440620149
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«Una luz extraña» is the science fiction novel by Nancy Kress, in paperback (518 pages, in Spanish).
A human colony has forgotten its origin on Qom and lives in a pre-industrial society. The Ged, a species with collective behavior, use that planet as an experiment to understand why humans commit violence against their own species. While the Ged observe how the colonists learn, the latter recover the secrets of science and technology.
Published in 1991, translated by Salo Sadi; original title: An Alien Light (1987). Part of the Nova Ciencia Ficción collection.
For science fiction readers seeking contact conflicts between alien species and human colonies.
Nancy Anne Kress is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella Beggars in Spain (1991), which became a novel in 1993. She also won the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 2013 for After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, and in 2015 for Yesterday's Kin. In addition to her novels, Kress has written numerous short stories and is a regular columnist for Writer's Digest. She is a regular at Clarion Workshops. During the winter of 2008/09, Nancy Kress was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany.
