There’s Olivas’ gem, Devil Tales, and Garcia’s currently touring novel Closet of Discarded Dreams.
In addition to Hogan, Blogueros Daniel Olivas and Rudy Garcia, are doing their part to keep spec alive. A few years ago, now-defunct publisher Calaca Press advanced the puro sci-fi Lunar Braceros on the Moon 2125-2148. For example, Bloguero Ernest Hogan-among the earliest practitioners of the art-recently began recasting his rare titles into eBook forms, as he’s recounted in his La Bloga Chicanonautica columns.Īnd slowly but inexorably, new titles are finding their way through publisher back rooms into the light of day. Which is changing: the growth of Chicana Chicano speculative fiction / science fiction / fantasy / horror is as exciting news as spotting a tree full of Least Bell’s Vireo.īooks, unlike birds, don’t end up extinct, glass-eyed and stuffed behind plexi in some dusty museo display case. Yet, it’s still possible that one’s life-list of Chicana Chicano speclit sightings can include every specimen of the genre. Per some critics, "magic realism" is a worldwide movement. DDLM, Juan Diego and la Virgen, el cucuy.
Such writing bears no dissonance for raza writers and readers, whose tolerance for fantastic experience results from quotidian cultural experience, e.g. Then there’s “magic realism,” a term some exogenous critic planted upon stuff the critic couldn't tolerate or didn't fully understand. Not that raza literature hasn’t long contained fantasy and out-of-this-world elements-think of the dead baby in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God who flies out of her coffin up to the rafters. It’s the growing population of Chicana Chicano speculative fiction finding its way to bookstores and downloads. But that’s not what I’m most excited about right now.
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