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N3 is a young humanonid who gets lost during an interstellar journey on his flying motorbike and ends up on Earth, in the Bay of Cadiz to be precise, where he is rescued by the sailors of the mythical Vaporcito.
Palacios is a man in his forties who is trying to move away from his most recent profession: contract killer. A stroke of luck in the form of a very well-paid job seems to make retirement a possibility, but once the job is done everything starts to become complicated and both his payment and his own integrity are in grave danger.
'On a starry night, if I look at the sky I feel small, as though I were a grain of sand compared to a planet.' In this big world there are times when we can feel very small. The moon is small compared to the Earth; the Earth is small compared to the sun; likewise the sun, compared to other stars. But, really, what are we? Big or small?
Prestigious architect Emil Zarco receives the most important commission of his life, an ambitious urban project with which he can showcase his ideas on the essence and purpose of men: that we are a long lineage destined to perpetuate itself in search of progress and the betterment of our capabilities.
This is the story of Mateo and Olga, and a job application destined for Google. Mateo is interested in robots and determined to establish whether the concept of merit should be banished from human relations. Olga, a mathematician and business woman, believes that statistical models are a kind of story-telling and probability is a more precise way to name the condition of being free.
Adrià learns to lose both on and off the pitch of love when his best friend falls in love with the Sara, the same girl as him. Then he starts to write a letter to his hero, Leo Messi, which ends up becoming a book. Ten is a very important number in life.
Three-eyed Frog is growing up in a contaminated place, the water where he lives is very dirty. But why? He will have to jump very high to understand what's happening and discover the reasons for the damage to his habitat.
Why have they got me out of bed in such a hurry? It's still nighttime. We leave, carrying very few things. This isn't an outing. Every face looks frightened and tired. Dad holds my hand very tightly. It hurts. I want to cry, but I don't. Where are we going? Why are we running away? Those are the questions asked by the young girl who is the protagonist of this fictitional, very contemporary story.
'Relatos Faunescos' ('Fawnish Stories') is a collection of stories that all feature animals, whether they are the protagonists of the story, because an animal is the key to the dénouement, or simply because the protagonist looks or behaves like an animal. On this basis, each story focuses on a specific animal: a sea bream, a fly, a camel...