Speculative fiction
Speculative fiction rooted in Latin American heritage, from magical realism and the conquest of empires to gene-edited elites and android cities.
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He went to make a name for himself in the New World. But will he be remembered as a hero… or a curse?
A soldier of the Spanish conquest of Peru discovers that the empire he serves, and the one he's helping to destroy, are both haunted by forces older than either crown.
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"Where they burn books, they will in the end burn people too."Heinrich Heine, 1823
Two companion novels named for Heine's warning. In Where They Burn Books, a 16th-century friar's mission to save the Maya turns to destroying them; in They Also Burn People, a young man's obsession with a woman and her books drags him toward madness. Marcos's highest-rated work.
Two worlds, one shelf: mythic pasts and engineered futures.
Conquest, migration, and Mayan magic: history retold with the volume turned up.
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Magical realism in the García Márquez tradition: old gods walking modern streets.
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Gene-edited elites, androids, and the cities they built: dystopia with a pulse.
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