Last December, we recommended some exciting and transformative literary proposals where new technologies were the protagonists, thanks to the La Tribu bookstore and the La Carbonera bookstore . This 2025, thanks to Metadata , the Catalan technology digital, we discover five new ICT books, novelties and classics, that revolve around science fiction, fantasy and realism.
The first proposal is 'Antes muerta que sin IA' by Àurea Rodríguez , where the author returns to the charge and brings new reflections on artificial intelligence from its origin to the most human soul of this technology. Rodríguez explains how technologies affect the global economy from everyday life and vice versa and how their accelerated adoption is changing businesses, professions, communication and education. The second proposal is 'La template' by Olga Ravn , which tells the story of the ship Sis Mil that has been orbiting the planet Nova Descoberta for months and is made up of a crew of humans and humanoids, robots with human appearance. The introduction of a series of strange objects into the various compartments of the ship triggers unforeseen effects, which open up the questioning of the established order. The third proposal is 'Learning, if we are lucky' by Becky Chambers , which tells the story of the spacecraft Lawki 6 and its crew who embark on a journey that will last eighty years and will take them far beyond the world and time they know with the purpose of discovering new life and the mysteries of the universe. The mission does not have the purpose of colonization or the acquisition of resources, but of acquiring knowledge, with the least possible impact.
The fourth proposal is 'Afterland' by Lauren Beukes , which tells the story of a near future, where a terrible virus has killed almost all the men in the world, leaving very few who live in research facilities controlled by the institutions of the countries. The last proposal is 'Leaving the World Behind' by Rumaan Alam , which involves a general blackout that leaves cities collapsed and opens up many unknowns.