by
Ernest Hogan
Finally,
it's here, Latinx Rising: An Anthology of Latinx ScienceFiction and Fantasy, edited by
Matthew David Goodwin. It's available in trade paperback, and ebook.
Order now!
One
reason you will want to is that has a story by me, “Flying Under
the Texas Radar with Paco and Los Freetails.” It tells how my
character Paco Cohen, Mariachis of Mars, (who appeared stories in
Analog, one of which,
“The Rise and Fall of Paco Cohen and the Mariachis of Mars” will
be reprinted in The 2020 Look at Mars Fiction Book
in August!) got from the Lone Star State to the Red Planet.
Here's
a preview:
Why
did I leave Texas, and come to Mars? Why does everybody ask me that?
Haven’t you ever been there? Or heard anything about it?
Especially
way-the-chingada back then when they were worried about who was
Texan, and the whole Great Texas Identity Crisis broke out.
In
case you don’t remember (nobody seems to to remember anything these
days, history becomes myth before you know it) I have a hard time
convincing my daughter that I wasn’t born on Mars-- he whole Texas
secession thing was largely the work of a
billionaire/politician/entrepreneur named Billy-Bob Paolozzi who,
quasi-legally, in the name of the Second Amendment, acquired some
nuclear weapons.“If nukes were outlawed, only outlaws would have
nukes, besides, I’m just a concerned citizen looking out for the
security of my property and/or country!” Billy-Bob forced what used to be
the United States of America to let Texas go, and declared himself
interim President/CEO.
It was a hell of a time to be young man full of talent and hormones and urge to fuck and fight, scream and shout, and do something that would shake the world, or at least make for an exciting weekend.
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Ernest Hogan's career is running wild in the quarantine. Looks like Chicano science fiction writers are essential workers 
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