| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxiv, 261 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Better than a mirror / Bruce Sterling -- When fixed ideas take flight / Eduardo Jiménez Mayo -- Code and recode / Chris N. Brown -- Today, you walk along a narrow path / María Isabel Aguirre -- The guest / Amparo Dávila -- Murillo Park / Agustín Cadena -- The hour of the fireflies / Karen Chacek -- Waiting / Isiana Esta̋nol -- Hunting iguanas / Hernán Lara Zavala -- 1965 / Edmée Pardo -- Variation on a theme of Coleridge / Alberto Chimal -- Photophobia / Mauricio Montiel Figueiras -- The last witness to creation / Jesús Ramírex Bermúdez -- Rebellion / Queta Navagómez -- Future perfect / Gerardo Sifuentes -- Luck has its limits / Eatriz Escalante -- The stone / Donají Olmedo -- Trompe-l'oeil / Mónica Lavín -- Lions / Bernardo Fernández -- A pile of bland desserts / Yussel Dardón -- Amalgam / Amélie Olaiz -- The Nahual offering / Carmen Rioja -- Pachuca Second Street / Lucía Abdó -- Wittenstein's umbrella / Óscar de la Bordolla -- Mannequin / Esther M. Garcia -- Mr. Strogoff / Guillermo Samperio -- The mediator / Ana Gloria Álvarez Pedrajo -- The pin / Leo Mendoza -- Future nereid / Gabriela Damián Miravete -- Pink lemonade / Liliana V. Blum-- The return of the night / René Roquet -- Three messages and a warning in the same email / Ana Clavel -- The president without organs / Pepe Rojo -- The transofrmist / Horacio Sentíes Madrid -- The drop / Claudia Guillén -- Wolves / José Luis Zárate -- The infamous Juan Manuel / Bruno Esta̋nol. |
| Summary |
This anthology features all-original Mexican science fiction and fantasy stories, many from authors whose works have never been published in English. Stereotypes of Mexican identity are explored and transcended as the borders of fantasy and reality reach unprecedented levels of ambiguity. |
| Subject |
Fantasy fiction, Mexican.
|
|
Short stories, Mexican.
|
| Added Author |
Jiménez Mayo, Eduardo, 1976-
|
|
Brown, Christopher, 1964-
|
| Added Title |
3 messages and a warning |
| ISBN |
9781931520317 paperback $16.00 |
|
1931520313 paperback |
|
9781931520379 ebook |
|
1931520372 ebook |
|
