by Ernest Hogan
It’s here! Now! At long last, on September 16th, Mexican Independence Day, as the National Guard rolls into Memphis with Chicago "probably next", Xicanxfutursim:Gritos for Tomorrow / Codex I, edited by my fellow space vato Scott Russel Duncan and Jenny Irizary, was launched, dropped, whatever the kids are calling it these days.
And it’s giving me visions of an armada of ornate, pyramid-shaped spaceships taking off, filling the sky . . .
Take that, Elon!
It’s not just another story collection, its art, comics, stories, flash fiction, poetry, and essays by Xicanx sci-fi veterans, social justice thinkers, influential speculative. Not just breaking into the genre, but tearing down its borders, creating new universes.
Once again, our language--whatever it may be—is stretched to the limits. I’m not sure what to call it. A movement? An aesthetic? Maybe it just what’s happening now as La (new, transmogrified) Migra patrols our streets, closing in.
Meanwhile, some of us have been having visions of different worlds, universes.
My contributions will be in Codex II, coming in February 2026, but I recommend you buy both, and get on the excitement now.
It got me feeling like a proud Father of Chicano Science Fiction.
Ernest Hogan is also the author of High Aztech and Guerrilla of a Siren’s Song: 15 Gonzo Science Fiction. And this just in: Palabras del Pueblo is taking last applications for the Fall 2025 session, you there's still time to sign up for my "Gonzo Science Fiction, Chicano Style" class.
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