Full Description
A huge, energetic, and ambitious groundbreaking anthology from emerging and established Mexican authors which showcases all-new supernatural folktales, alien incursions, ghost stories, apocalyptic narratives, and more. Stereotypes of Mexican identities and fictions are identified and transcended. Traditional tales rub shoulders with mindbending new worlds. Welcome to the new Mexican fantastic. Eduardo Jimenez Mayo's translations include books by Bruno Estanol, Rafael Perez Gay, and Jose Maria Perez Gay. Chris N. Brown lives in Austin, Texas. He is a contributor to the blog No Fear of the Future. Bruce Sterling lives in Turin, Italy, and blogs at Wired's Beyond the Beyond.
Contents
Table of Contents (not final order) Luci'a Abdo', Second-Hand Pachuca Maria Isabel Aguirre, Today, you walk along a narrow path Ana Gloria A'lvarez Pedrajo, The Mediator Liliana V. Blum, Pink Lemonade Agusti'n Cadena, Murillo Park Ana Clavel, Warning and Three Messages in the Same Parcel Yussel Dardo'n, A Pile of Bland Deserts O'scar de la Borbolla, Wittgenstein's Umbrellas Beatriz Escalante, Luck Has Its Limits Bruno Estan‾ol, The Infamous Juan Manuel Iliana Estan‾ol, In Waiting Claudia Guille'n, The Drip Mo'nica Lavi'n, Trompe l'oeil Eduardo Mendoza, The Pin Queta Navago'mez, Rebellious Ame'lie Olaiz, Amalgam Donaji' Olmedo, The Stone Edme'e Pardo, 1965 Jesu's Rami'rez Bermu'dez, The Last Witness to Creation Carmen Rioja, The Na'hual Offering Rene' Roquet, Returning to Night Guillermo Samperio, Mister Strogoff Alberto Chimal, Variation on a Theme of Coleridge Mauricio Montiel Figueiras, Photophobia Pepe Rojo, The President without Organs Esther M. Garcia, Mannequin Bernardo Ferna'ndez, Lions Horacio Senti'es Madrid, The Transformist Karen Chacek, The Hour of the Fireflies Herna'n Lara Zavala, Hunting Iguanas Gerardo Sifuentes, Future Perfect Amparo Da'vila, The Guest Gabriela Damia'n Miravete, Nereid Future Jose' Luis Za'rate, Wolves
