"More important than any particular ingredient (nature spirits, afterlife figures, hopping vampires), ready like any folklore creature to populate manga pages and RPG monster manuals, is that Japan’s religious, folkloric, and literary traditions bring a palette of different narrative formulae and assumptions (like Navajo stories’ 4x instead of 3x), which can make something feel surprising by how it works, not what creatures are in it. So, plenty of Japanese fiction about flying saucers, Greek myths, Star Trek-type Space Federations, and D&D elves can still have a stimulating freshness because they mix these ingredients with a different narrative tradition, and different narrative logics."
A gif I put together comprised of all of Josh’s Strange Horizons jumpsuits!! Did any of you attend strange horizons? I was at Bridgeport night 1! Really happy with how this came out :D These are all available as stickers on my Redbubble- dm me if you’re interested in prints!
Wanna check out more of the art I sell? Stop by my Etsy shop which will soon have original drawings of gvf for sale and currently has a sticker of the twins!
New York Times Bestseller Carlos Hernandez is the author of the critically-acclaimed short story collection The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria (Rosarium, 2016), the novel Sal and Gabi Break the Universe (Disney Hyperion, 2019), which won the 2019 Pura Belpré Award from the American Library Association, and its sequel, Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe (2020). He’s also written dozens of short stories, poems, and works of drama, usually in the SFF mode, which have found homes in magazines such as Uncanny, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, and many others.
Read more about Carlos Hernandez: https://www.convergence-con.org/guests/carlos-hernandez/
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I'll be on a few Boskone panels next weekend (Feb 9-11).
Friday:
5:30 - "Our Air! Our Water!" Space Independence
7:00 - Write My Doctoral Thesis: Science Edition
Saturday:
11:30 - The Magic and Science of Scriptwriting
4:00 - 1,779 Miles to Mordor (hiking advice for fantasy adventurers)
Sunday:
11:30 - Real Estate in Space
Hope to see you there.
Unrelatedly, I forgot to mention that a story of mine, "Breath," was in issue #76 of Not One of Us.
It's a short piece about a microbotanist starting to terraform Mars, and is mostly me getting excited about the existence of injectable oxygen (experimentally trialed at Boston Children's Hospital a few years back). Not too late to buy a copy. The old-school way. Through the mail.