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Welcome. You are hereby invited to compete in a tournament of LifeGame™ Bridge ("LiGa™ Bridge"). LiGa™ Bridge is a tournament of duplicate individual bridge in which eight players gamble with, and for, a portion of their lives. Yes, it is possible to gamble with life! We have the technology. Life-gambling is enabled by a process we call "hand imprinting". The physical manifestation of this is a network of cranberry-hued lines on the palms of the players' left hands. These lines track the natural print of the palm and the effect is akin to a fortune-teller's hand map. For further...

MARIONA REBULL se publica en 1944 con un gran éxito que dura hasta los años setenta, incluidas varias traducciones. En 1946 se lleva al cine y en los setenta sale la serie televisiva La saga de los Rius. MARIONA... es la crónica social de una época a la vez que una historia de amor, que es la línea central del argumento y el punto del que derivan y en el que convergen los restantes episodios de la acción. En esa historia de amor (o desencuentro amoroso) se distinguen dos partes: una, el noviazgo entre Joaquín Rius y Mariona; la otra, el matrimonio que fracasa y deriva al adulterio...

In a Berkeley lab, Bruce Banner works intensely day and night. A bright scientist with repressed emotions and few social skills, Bruce and his colleague, the sharp and beautiful Betty Ross, experiment with the body's ability to repair itself and fight disease. But their research draws unwanted attention. For the power of regeneration catches the eye of the military, which sees its potential on the battlefields of the future. But when Bruce is exposed to radiation in an accident that should have killed him, a ferocious truth about his past begins to emerge-along with something else, something...