Yesterday, the winner of Premio Minotauro 2013 has been
announced. The jury chose as the winner of the award’s 10th edition the
novel “Panteón” (Pantheon) by Carlos Sisí, submitted under the pseudonym
of Alicia Sotomonte.
“Panteón” (Pantheon) is a novel of space adventures
with Lovecraftian accents. It is a space opera with elements of cosmic terror
in the style of “Alien” and its sequel “Prometheus”. As usual, the winning novel
will be published by Ediciones Minotauro on March.
Earth,
the original planet exploded over 10 millions of years ago. At that time the
man had already begun the journey through space. In this new Era, the war and
the peace are elements carefully kept in balance by The Colony, the
quintessential scientific enclave. From there, the controller Maralda Tardes
detects a military activity on a planet away from any trade route and decides
to initiate a standard protocol inspection.
In
the meantime, Ferdinand and Malhereux, two young junkmen, wait patiently under
the surface of the planet for the war to end and to begin the plundering of the
remains of combat and extract a succulent profit. Among the remains of the battle
they discover a strange artifact that seems to belong to an ancient and unknown
civilization, also desired by both the atrocious sarlab mercenaries and the
scientists of The Colony. Mal and Fer are unaware that the artifact in their possession
could be the key for unlocking a threat older than the galaxy…
Carlos Sisí was born in Madrid in 1971 and currently
lives in Calahonda (Málaga). He made his debut in 2009 with “Los Caminantes”
(The Wanderers), the first novel in the eponymous series. Since then Carlos Sisí
published the next two novels in “Los Caminantes” (The Wanderers” trilogy, “Los
Caminantes: Necrópolis” and “Los Caminantes: Hades Nebula”, another novel, “La
Hora del Mar” (The Time of the Sea), and a novella, “Edén Interrumpido”
(Disrupted Paradise). His debut novel, “The Wanderers”, is also available in
English, released by Permuted Press in 2011.
Congratulations!
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