El león y la araña

Seven science fiction stories explore encounters between humans and extraterrestrials, space exploration, the planets, and related topics and reveal the effects that knowing other worlds and their inhabitants might have on humankind.

A humble planter of date trees teaches a wealthy merchant the value of investing today in what will benefit the future generations of tomorrow.

En las profundidades... Cuando Fox Murder tiene que realizar una investigación sobre un cadáver encontrado en las alcantarillas de Newark, Nueva Jersey, se siente indignado por el carácter ordinario del caso. Pero cuando un perverso monstruo que habita en las cloacas ataca a varios trabajadores del alcantarillado, Murder cree que en todo ello hay algo siniestro. En poco tiempo, él viscoso rastro de una criatura tan desagradable como peligrosa. Medio humano, medio parásito, ataca a los hombres y deja en ellos sus larvas para que se alimenten de su carne. Murder y Schully deben descubrir...

An updated version of the timeless children's classic featuring a business-savvy mouse, a kind alley cat, and a talented country cricket, featuring a new foreword and revisions by YA author Stacey Lee. Tucker is a streetwise city mouse. He thought he'd seen it all. But he's never met a cricket before, which really isn't surprising, because, along with his friend Harry Cat, Tucker lives in the very heart of New York City—the Times Square subway station. Chester Cricket never intended to leave his Connecticut meadow. He'd be there still if he hadn't followed the entrancing aroma of liverwurst ...