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Gigantes en la Tierra / Nosotros los merodeadores
El hombre inventa. El hombre descubre. El hombre recrea. El hombre destruye…
De la inocencia del descubrimiento y de ese momento maravilloso en que la teoría se vuelve realidad práctica, surge un monstruoso horror. Crece, se multiplica y degenera hasta alcanzar el supremo terror.
He aquí el terror de un laboratorio destinado a crear una nueva generación más fuerte, más sabia y de más larga vida… He aquí el horror fabricado en una oficina de relaciones públicas el mismo día en que se descubre la primera vida interplanetaria.
Sólo grandes maestros de la ciencia-ficción como James Blish y Robert Silverberg podían haber llevado a un libro como éste todo el asombroso realismo del infierno repentinamente fraguado en probetas y mesas de conferencia.
De la inocencia del descubrimiento y de ese momento maravilloso en que la teoría se vuelve realidad práctica, surge un monstruoso horror. Crece, se multiplica y degenera hasta alcanzar el supremo terror.
He aquí el terror de un laboratorio destinado a crear una nueva generación más fuerte, más sabia y de más larga vida… He aquí el horror fabricado en una oficina de relaciones públicas el mismo día en que se descubre la primera vida interplanetaria.
Sólo grandes maestros de la ciencia-ficción como James Blish y Robert Silverberg podían haber llevado a un libro como éste todo el asombroso realismo del infierno repentinamente fraguado en probetas y mesas de conferencia.
- GenresScience Fiction
268 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1958
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About the author
James Blish
454 books327 followersJames Benjamin Blish was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling Jr.
In the late 1930's to the early 1940's, Blish was a member of the Futurians.
Blish trained as a biologist at Rutgers and Columbia University, and spent 1942–1944 as a medical technician in the U.S. Army. After the war he became the science editor for the Pfizer pharmaceutical company. His first published story appeared in 1940, and his writing career progressed until he gave up his job to become a professional writer.
He is credited with coining the term gas giant, in the story "Solar Plexus" as it appeared in the anthology Beyond Human Ken, edited by Judith Merril. (The story was originally published in 1941, but that version did not contain the term; Blish apparently added it in a rewrite done for the anthology, which was first published in 1952.)
Blish was married to the literary agent Virginia Kidd from 1947 to 1963.
From 1962 to 1968, he worked for the Tobacco Institute.
Between 1967 and his death from lung cancer in 1975, Blish became the first author to write short story collections based upon the classic TV series Star Trek. In total, Blish wrote 11 volumes of short stories adapted from episodes of the 1960s TV series, as well as an original novel, Spock Must Die! in 1970 — the first original novel for adult readers based upon the series (since then hundreds more have been published). He died midway through writing Star Trek 12; his wife, J.A. Lawrence, completed the book, and later completed the adaptations in the volume Mudd's Angels.
Blish lived in Milford, Pennsylvania at Arrowhead until the mid-1960s. In 1968, Blish emigrated to England, and lived in Oxford until his death in 1975. He is buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford, near the grave of Kenneth Grahame.
His name in Greek is Τζέημς Μπλις"
In the late 1930's to the early 1940's, Blish was a member of the Futurians.
Blish trained as a biologist at Rutgers and Columbia University, and spent 1942–1944 as a medical technician in the U.S. Army. After the war he became the science editor for the Pfizer pharmaceutical company. His first published story appeared in 1940, and his writing career progressed until he gave up his job to become a professional writer.
He is credited with coining the term gas giant, in the story "Solar Plexus" as it appeared in the anthology Beyond Human Ken, edited by Judith Merril. (The story was originally published in 1941, but that version did not contain the term; Blish apparently added it in a rewrite done for the anthology, which was first published in 1952.)
Blish was married to the literary agent Virginia Kidd from 1947 to 1963.
From 1962 to 1968, he worked for the Tobacco Institute.
Between 1967 and his death from lung cancer in 1975, Blish became the first author to write short story collections based upon the classic TV series Star Trek. In total, Blish wrote 11 volumes of short stories adapted from episodes of the 1960s TV series, as well as an original novel, Spock Must Die! in 1970 — the first original novel for adult readers based upon the series (since then hundreds more have been published). He died midway through writing Star Trek 12; his wife, J.A. Lawrence, completed the book, and later completed the adaptations in the volume Mudd's Angels.
Blish lived in Milford, Pennsylvania at Arrowhead until the mid-1960s. In 1968, Blish emigrated to England, and lived in Oxford until his death in 1975. He is buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford, near the grave of Kenneth Grahame.
His name in Greek is Τζέημς Μπλις"
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March 16, 2025
This is a kind of obscure little book that collects two novellas in the spirit (but not the format) of the Ace Double line. It does have two different paintings on the front cover, but I can't figure out who the artists were. The first story is We, the Marauders by Robert Silverberg, which first appeared in Robert Lowndes' SF Quarterly magazine in February of 1958. It's a shorter and somewhat different plot-wise version of his novel Invaders from Earth that Ace published. The other half is Giants in the Earth by James Blish, which first appeared in another magazine edited by Lowndes, the somewhat unimaginatively named SF Stories in the January issue in 1956. It was a somewhat revised version of a novella called Beanstalk that had appeared in a Kendell Foster Crossen anthology called Future Tense from Greenberg in 1952. It served as about half of his novel Titan's Daughter, and it has been speculated that his wife, Virginia Kidd, actually wrote the expansion. A Pair from Space is a fairly quick read, pretty typical '50s fun fare.
October 12, 2016
I liked "We, the Marauders," but didn't care too much for the other story, "Giants in the Earth."
July 2, 2019
‘Giants in the Earth’ is also published as ‘Titan’s Daughter’.
July 15, 2022
We , the Marauders was the better of the two; it reminded me strongly of The Space Merchants. Giants in the Earth was OK, but a little weak. Lots of speechifying and dodgy science.
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