Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
High Aztech: The Wildly Inventive Underground SF Classic

High Aztech: The Wildly Inventive Underground SF Classic

Hogan, Ernest

Paperback

Series: The Gonzo Science Fiction of Ernest Hogan

Science FictionGeneral Fiction

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN13: 9798235215610
Publisher: Digital Parchment Press
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The underground cult classic, is back and ready to blow your mind wide open.

A high-energy adventure peppered with great ideas, well-imagined unusual settings, outlandish characters, and a wicked sense of fun.'. -Locus

In mid 21st century Mexico, Tenochtitlán, the metropolis formerly known as Mexico City, is the most exciting place on Earth. Stainless steel pyramids pierce the smoggy sky. Human sacrifice is coming back into fashion, especially on the new Aztechan TV channels, and everyone wants an artificial heart. Xolotl Zapata, celebrated poet, skeptic and journalist, starts receiving death threats from a cult he's lampooned in a comic book. But soon he will have much worse problems and be running for his life. The government, the Mafia, street gangs, cults, terrorists, even garbage collectors will be after him. Why? He has been infected with a technological development that will changing human life as we know it Zapata is carrying a virus that can download religious beliefs into the human brain - a highly contagious virus that is converting everyone he meets, and everyone they meet, to the Aztec religion. This is Witnessing with a PUNCH! Since he's a virulent carrier he infects a large part of the city all by himself, and the masses, filled with visions and portents, await the End of the World.

The plot twists and turns, bouncing between the horrors of a police state with high-tech weaponry and eavesdropping equipment and the feverish hallucinations that the protagonist endures as he is captured first by one enemy then another. Those who enjoy science fiction will probably find pleasure in this book. I found the book entertaining and clever in the complexities of its plot. ... an example of what might be called Latin American sci-fi magico-realism. - Nahua Newsletter

Cyberpunk is the combining of science fiction and technology with a future society on the brink of self-destruction. Ernest Hogan takes the concept a step further, blending in his love of the Aztec's ancient beliefs and civilization to produce very unique and gripping stories. When it comes to science fiction of a different breed, Hogan is definitely sitting in the front row. One reviewer aptly referred to Hogan as a mad Mexican Hunter S. Thompson. -Wicked local.com

Chicano writer Ernest Hogan bridges the gap between hard science fiction and cyberpunk ... interweaving Re-Colombian mythology and Spanish, Spanglish, and Nahuatl language into a humorously dystopian sci-fi context ... exploring the intersection of religion, technology, pop culture ... with a distinctly Latino twist. -- The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature

Imagine, if you will, a world in which Aztec culture and religion were never conquered. Imagine that the U.S. is now a lesser power, guided by a Christian theocracy. And imagine that in this world, a new Aztecan virus has been developed to induce religious fervor in those it infects. This is a wildly readable, manic comedy of a book with surprisingly deep themes at its bloody heart.. If there's a book I'd most like to see made into a movie,

Also from

Hogan, Ernest

View All

Also in

General Fiction

View All