Sinsonte - Tevis, Walter
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In the future, the human race has ceased to progress. Granted endless leisure by widespread automation, the masses devote themselves solely to the pleasures of the here and now, to drugs that dull their senses and electronic bliss that disconnects them from reality. Theirs is a world that is without meaning or purpose, without art, children, or reading, and overseeing the bleak persistence of humanity is an intelligent machine whose only wish is to extinguish its own existence. But when two ordinary people begin to fight the system, hope for the human race glimmers in their journey as they attempt to realize the full potential of humanity.…mehr

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In the future, the human race has ceased to progress. Granted endless leisure by widespread automation, the masses devote themselves solely to the pleasures of the here and now, to drugs that dull their senses and electronic bliss that disconnects them from reality. Theirs is a world that is without meaning or purpose, without art, children, or reading, and overseeing the bleak persistence of humanity is an intelligent machine whose only wish is to extinguish its own existence. But when two ordinary people begin to fight the system, hope for the human race glimmers in their journey as they attempt to realize the full potential of humanity.
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Walter Tevis (1928-1984) fue un uno de los grandes escritores estadounidenses de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Sus relatos cortos, que comenzó a escribir en los años cincuenta, se publicaron en revistas como The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Redbook, Cosmopolitan y Playboy. También publicó cinco novelas: El buscavidas (1959, Impedimenta, 2025) -que saltaría a la gran pantalla en 1961-, El hombre que cayó a la Tierra (1963), Sinsonte (1980; Impedimenta, 2022), Gambito de Dama (1983), Las huellas del sol (1983; Impedimenta, 2023) y El color del dinero (1984). En 2023 se publicó una antología de sus relatos, bajo el título de The King is Dead, que pronto será publicada por Impedimenta. Walter Tevis murió a los cincuenta y ocho años en Nueva York debido a un cáncer de pulmón.