Launching on 26th Jan in Texas at the Creativity and the Brain conference, a new doorstopper 300-page anthology Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Stories of the Fantastic. It’s from Small Beer Press, and the book is in English…

“Thirty four all-original Mexican science fiction and fantasy features ghost stories, supernatural folktales, alien incursions, and apocalyptic narratives, as well as science-based chronicles of highly unusual mental states in which the borders of fantasy and reality reach unprecedented levels of ambiguity. Introduction by Bruce Sterling.”

Here’s Alberto Chimal reading his story from the anthology, “Variation on a Theme of Coleridge”…

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Amazon USA currently has the paper version available for pre-order at an enticing $10 with free shipping, for those who own surgical wrist supports. No news of any lighter-weight Kindle edition, although there will be a $10 PDF edition for tablet PC users.