Ernest Hogan's Blog, page 47

CHICANONAUTICA VISITS FRIDA AND DIEGO IN PHOENIX

Chicanonautica, over at La Bloga, visits the Heard Museum:


And finds Frida and Diego:



That's Frida:


And Diego:

DÉJÀ VU SCI-FI DIVERSITY RIDES AGAIN

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One of my most popular Mondo Ernesto posts is DéjàVu in a Sci-Fi Divesity Time Warp. It's gotten a lot of hits over the years and people keep checking up on it. I’m not sure why. It could be that the whole sci-fI diversity thing is still a hot topic--echoing the déjàvu all over again. It could also be that one of the images used to make my point went missing, and a handful of determined readers keep checking to see if it’s back.
I’ve been checking too, and for years there’s been no sign of it in the interwebs.
We can only speculate as to why.
Fortunately, I found, and bought a copy of the first edition of Steve Barnes’ Streetlethal , I scanned it myself, and put it back on the post, so once again we can see how the hero was de-Africanized.
Are we diverse yet?

CHICANONAUTICA CULTURALLY APPROPRIATES THE TACO

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It's all about tacos in Chicanonautica, over at La Bloga:
Another excuse to post my favorite taco song:

And spread the knowledge:

This is how real pros do it:

Of course, it can get weird:

CHICANONAUTICA GOES TO THE UNIVERSITY OF DOOM

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Chicanonauticatakes La Bloga to the University of Doom!

I love it when they have their own videos:


It's a young adult novel about mad scientists:



This Dr. Frankenstein and his teenage son are Mexicans:


And watch out for the Vampira/chola/goth girl:

ALTERMUNDOS HAS LANDED!

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These are my contributor copies of Altermundos: Latin@ Speculative Literature,Film, and Popular Culture edited by Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson and B.V. Olguín. It features my artwork and “Chicanonautica Manifesto”--in which I declare that “Chicano is a science fiction state of being”--plus Daoine S. Bachran's “From Code to Codex: Tricksterizing the Digital Divide in Ernest Hogan's Smoking Mirror Blues” and other essays that mention and discuss my work and otherwise make me look like somekinda Chicano sci-fi chingón.
It's also cock full of stuff that proves that visions of the future and traditions of wild imagination aren't the intellectual property of English-speaking heterosexual white men. I've started reading it, and am hooked. I'm also rethinking my concepts of the directions and possibilities of Latinoid civilization in the 21stcentury.
Maybe the Intergalactic Barrio is only the beginning . . .

CHICANONAUTICA LOOKS AT MY UNFINISHED NOVELS

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My unfinished novels are discussed in Chicanonautica,over at La Bloga.

One's about a Mariachi on Mars:


My alter ego Victor Theremin runs amok in another:


Then there's the the one about bullfighting:



And weird ass western:

FIVE TO THE FUTURE—THE PAPERBACK

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Even in this age of the ebook, there's nothing like feeling a book in your hands with your words in it. That's why I'm delighted to announce that Five to the Future, is also available in paperback, and in stock at Amazon.
It includes a new novelette—both a dystopia based on current events, as well as a phantasmagorical Chicano futuristic vision. 


There's also one by my wife, the fabulous Emily Devenport. And Cynthia Ward, Arthur Byron Cover, and editor M. Christian.

(And, pssst! Don't tell anybody, but for the time being, if you have Kindle Unlimited, you can get the ebook for FREE!)

If you're interested in reviewing it, please do. You can still be the first to do it on Amazon. Or get in touch with M. Christian.
I'm reading it right now, and would be praising it, even if I weren't a contributor.

CHICANONAUTICA GIVES A POST-CINCO DE MAYO REPORT FROM TRUMPTOPIA

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Chicanonauticalooks back at the first Trump Era Cinco de Mayo, over at La Bloga:
As usual, a history lesson is in order:

For those of you who don't believe in the gun-toting, blackfaced transvestites:

Meanwhile, corporate recomboculture mutates on:

And there is fear, and loathing:

STRANGE HORIZONS REVIEWS HIGH AZTECH

Good reviews for High Aztech keep coming in! The latest is in Strange Horizons , written by Dara Downey, who lectures at Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin. And I'm delighted that there are some quotes that I can exploit for my nefarious purposes:

Ernest Hogan’s High Aztechis in many ways a hybrid creature—a mixture of the hard-boiled cyberpunk associated with William R. Gibson and his ilk, and a reasonably optimistic fantasy about the end of religious intolerance. 
***  P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } . . . the emphasis on globalisation, on post-secularism, and on a riotous celebration of cultural relativism also feels very relevant, even urgent, in a world seeing the return of far-right sensibilities and serious back-pedaling on environmental and socially progressive issues. The book is therefore both very much of its time and remarkably prescient, not to mention really very enjoyable . . .
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For this reviewer at least, this linguistic and stylistic labyrinth is a large part of the book’s ideological thrust—and indeed its charm.

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Displaying as it does a real knack on Hogan’s part for packaging progressive politics in imaginatively lively and entertaining ways, I’ll certainly be looking for more.
So, ticmotraspasarhuililis, nenatzime!

CHICANONAUTICA ANNOUNCES ALTERMUNDOS

Chicanonautica, over at La Bloga, announces Altermundos,still another anthology that I'm in. This time there's stuff aboutmy work, too.

The cover is based on a Jesús Helguera painting:



And it covers a whole lotta Latinoid culture that's getting speculative:



Of course fantastic Latinoid visions are nothing new:



Maybe those visions are the future: