Mooncop

Resumen del libro

Living on the moonWhatever were we thinking? ...It seems so silly now. The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. As our hero, the Mooncop, makes his daily rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the population dwindles.

A young girl runs away, a dog breaks off his leash, an automaton wanders off from the Museum of the Moon. Each day that the Mooncop goes to work, life gets a little quieter and a little lonelier. As in Goliath, Tom Gauld's retelling of the Bible story, the focus in Gauld's science fiction is personal-no big explo-sions or grand reveals, just the incremental dissolution of an abandoned project and a person's slow awakening to his own uselessness.

Depicted in the distinctive, matter-of-fact style of his beloved Guardian strips, Mooncop is equal parts funny and melancholy. Gauld captures essential truths about humanity, making this a story of the past, present, and future, all in one.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Tom Gauld x{0026}lt;/B (Escocia, 1976) es ilustrador y caricaturista. Ha colaborado con x{0026}lt;I The Guardian x{0026}lt;/I (diario en el que publica una viñeta semanal desde hace años, recopiladas en los libros mencionados y que en España ha publicado Salamandra Graphic: x{0026}lt;I Todo el mundo tiene envidia de mi mochila voladorax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I En la cocina con Kafkax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El departamento de teorías alucinantesx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I La venganza de los bibliotecariosx{0026}lt;/I ), x{0026}lt;I The New York Timesx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I The New Yorkerx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I The Believerx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Grantax{0026}lt;/I . Su primera novela gráfica, x{0026}lt;I Goliatx{0026}lt;/I ,que narra la historia bíblica desde el punto de vista del gigante, fue recibida elogiosamente por la crítica, cosechó un notable éxito entre los lectores y se tradujo a nueve idiomas. El éxito de crítica y público se revalidó con su segunda novela gráfica,x{0026}lt;I Un policía en la lunax{0026}lt;/I .x{0026}lt;/P