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Brescia, Pablo

 
9781957840468: Esc: Tales Left Behind

Synopsis

Readers will find remarkable characters in ESC from across the globe. The collection presents twenty-two stories, a stimulating mix of genres: science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, realism, and the supernatural. The book opens with a long short story and is then divided into three sections. The opening story "The Weeping" introduces readers to the complexity of characters that is a hallmark of Brescia's work, in this case, centered on a Nepalese family. In the first section on reading (Ctrl), characters are deeply affected by books and, at times, destroyed by them. In the second section on writing (Alt), characters develop an intense, sometimes flawed, relationship to writing. In the third section on other worlds (Delete), characters engage another world as they discover new truths. In these stories, the reader is taken outside of their comfort zone to see whether the "Escape" plan really works.

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À propos des auteurs

Pablo Brescia was born in Buenos Aires and has lived in the United States since 1986. He has published three books of short stories: La derrota de lo real/The Defeat of the Real (USA/Mexico, 2017), Fuera de Lugar/Out of Place (Peru, 2012/Mexico, 2013, USA 2021) and La apariencia de las cosas/The Appearance of Things (México, 1997), and a book of hybrid texts No hay tiempo para la poesía/No Time for Poetry (Buenos Aires, 2011), with the pen name Harry Bimer. He teaches Latin American Literature at the University of South Florida. https: //www.pablobresciapreferirianohacerlo.com

Matthew David Goodwin is an Associate Professor in the Chicana/o Studies Department at the University of New Mexico. His research is centered on Chicanx/Latinx science fiction, immigration, digital culture, pilgrimage, and Critical Mystery Studies. He is a co-editor of the Latinx Archive speculative fiction trilogy: Latinx Rising (Ohio State UP, 2020) Speculative Fiction for Dreamers (Ohio State UP, 2021), and Not Your Papi's Utopia (Mouthfeel Press, 2024). His study The Latinx Files: Race, Migration, and Space (Rutgers UP, 2021) introduces the field of Latinx science fiction and demonstrates how the alien has been reclaimed by Latinx creators. As a co-organizer of the Latinx Visions conference at the University of New Mexico (2023 and 2025), Professor Goodwin collaborates with Cathryn Josephina Merla-Watson, Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, and Taryne Jade Taylor to analyze, critique, and promote Latinx speculative fiction. He has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is an active agent in the Albuquerque office of the very much real Speculative Detective Agency.

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