Speculative Fiction for Dreamers de Alex Hernandez

Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology

Alex Hernandez

Matthew David Goodwin

Sarah Rafael García

“An outstanding showcase of contemporary Latinx authors exploring identity through the conventions of sci-fi, fantasy, and magical realism. Themes of family, migration, and community resonate throughout these 38 masterful stories. … This is a knockout.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Finalist, 2022 World Fantasy Awards
Finalist, 2022 Ignyte Awards
Finalist, 2022 Utopia Awards

In a tantalizing array of new works from some of the most exciting Latinx creators working in the speculative vein today, Speculative Fiction for Dreamers extends the project begun with a previous anthology, Latinx Rising (The Ohio State University Press, 2020), to showcase a new generation of writers. Spanning diverse forms, settings, perspectives, and styles, but unified by their drive to imagine new Latinx futures, these stories address the breadth of contemporary Latinx experiences and identities while exuberantly embracing the genre’s ability to entertain and surprise. With new work for new audiences in their teens and up, and especially for Latinx people navigating their identities in the ever-shifting, sometimes perilous, but always promising cultural landscape of the US, this book is for dreamers—and DREAMers—everywhere.

Contributors: Grisel Y. Acosta, Stephanie Adams-Santos, Frederick Luis Aldama, William Alexander, Nicholas Belardes, Louangie Bou-Montes, Lisa M. Bradley, Eliana Buenrostro, Diana Burbano, Pedro Cabiya, Steve Castro, Fernando de Peña, Scott Russell Duncan, Samy Figaredo, Tammy Melody Gomez, J. M. Guzman, Ernest Hogan, Pedro Iniguez, Ezzy G. Languzzi, Patrick Lugo, Roxanne Ocasio, Daniel Parada, Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos, Reyes Ramirez, Julia Rios, Sara Daniele Rivera, Roman Sanchez, Tabitha Sin, Alex Temblador, Rodrigo Vargas, Laura Villareal, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Karlo Yeager Rodriguez

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“An outstanding showcase of contemporary Latinx authors exploring identity through the conventions of sci-fi, fantasy, and magical realism. Themes of family, migration, and community resonate throughout these 38 masterful stories. … This is a knockout.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Spanning genres from science fiction to fantasy to magical realism and also including comics, poetry, and plays, these stories are breathtaking in their expansiveness.”—Margaret Kingsbury, Buzzfeed
“Speculative Fiction for Dreamers is an exciting and mind-expanding collection of short stories by contemporary Latinx authors. … The stories take place in alternate Latinx-centric worlds and futures. They are fun, irreverent, and subversive, saturated by self-confidence and spirit." —Erika Harlitz Kern, Foreword Reviews
“Speculative Fiction for Dreamers brilliantly runs the gamut of visual, oral, and textual storytelling, creating magical wormholes that link Indigenous past to place-rooted present, imagined futures, and the abode of syncretic gods. These vital pieces resonate like entangled particles of ancestors and descendants, boundless possibilities stemming from Latinx identity. An important anthology that will inspire readers to dream and discover.” —David Bowles, author of Rise of the Halfling King
“In imaginatively reconfiguring the past, present, and future—and our dreaming and waking lives—the contributors to this expansive anthology capture the kaleidoscopic experiences of Latinx folks living in the Américas. These evocative stories embrace a multitude of forms to surprise us with what is possible. This is a book I’ve been dreaming about and waiting for.” —Rachelle Cruz, author of God’s Will for Monsters

Notă biografică

Alex Hernandez is a Cuban American science fiction writer. His work often explores themes of migration, colonization, and posthumanism, while blending the subgenres of space opera and biopunk. His first novel, Tooth and Talon, was published by EDGE. He lives in South Florida with his wife and two daughters.

Sarah Rafael García is the author of Las Niñas and SanTana’s Fairy Tales. She is also the founder of Barrio Writers and LibroMobile as well as coeditor of the anthology Pariahs.

Matthew David Goodwin is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. His work focuses on the ways that science fiction, fantasy, and digital culture have been used to express the experience of migration. He is the editor of Latinx Rising and the author of The Latinx Files: Race, Migration, and Space Aliens.

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The alternative realities constructed by the many Latinx creators that make up Speculative Fiction for Dreamers step to the challenge of the speculative. They build storyworlds that imagine anew the future, and past, for Latinx subjects otherwise erased, ignored, or swept to shadowed corners. They create Latinx characters with entirely new affective and cognitive systems—and who shed conventional straitjackets of identity. They are creators of the speculative hailing from those otherwise identified extraterrestrial spaces. They are our dreamers of tomorrow.
These new gen Latinx creators build a whole range of storyworlds: from those filled with robots and high-tech, to those that reflect on new ways to relate to one another, to our communities, and to our planet, all while waking us to current toxic racist, masculinist, sexist, neoliberal practices. They choose to build storyworlds to revise yesterday, present an alternate present, or reimagine the future. For some Latinx creators, there needs to be a total reset for us to see critically our current destructive patterns: intersectional oppression and trauma. In others, it is the reimagining of our indigenous pasts and mythologies that clears affirmative intersectional spaces where we are allowed to blossom anew. For other Latinx dreamers, old tech can be refashioned into new tech respectful of culture, tradition, and people—a space to celebrate new ways of existing outside of nonbinary race, gender, and sexuality conventions.
As we face a reality that seems increasingly unbearable—climate change, border patrolling, children caged, families ripped apart—the space of the speculative seems more and more a place of reprieve for us Latinxs. It’s also more and more a space for us to see a way out of these quagmirical, gelatinous masses. Speculative Fiction for Dreamers is testament to how the creative, mindful use of our counterfactual capacity today can imagine better ways for us to think, act, and feel tomorrow—where human and planetary organic life forms can productively and creatively cocreate in stunning and remarkable new ways a future for Latinxs—for all.

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Preface            Dreaming Latinx Realities
Introduction    ¡Seguimos en la Lucha!
Part I   Dreaming of New Homes
How Juan Bobo Got to los Nueba Yores
Those Rumors of Cannibalism and Human Sacrifice Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Saint Simon of 9th and Oblivion
Ancestral Lines and Other Tall Tales
Quetzal Feathers
Tía Abuela's Face, Ten Ways
Part II  Dreams Interrupted
Jean
Like Flowers Through Concrete
A Flock for the Sandhill Crane
Fancy
Time Traveler Intro
The Music Box
Part III My Life in Dreams
My First Word
Do as I Do
The Clarification Oral History Project
Curanderas in the Ceiling
Dream Rider
Spooky Action at a Distance
BlindVision
Part IV When Dreams Awaken
The Chupacabra Next Door
An Adventure of Xuxa, La Ultima
Night Flowers
Alma y Corazón
Ella
Two-Bullet Cowgirl Blues
A Mirage
The One
Grave Talk
Part V  Dreams Never Imagined
A Dangerous Wand
Madrina
Bad Sun
Beacon
Her Number
Old Folks
Soledad
Contraband
The ENCRoach Program
Homebound
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