Historical Lovecraft by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Self-published, it has garnered considerable acclaim. Though she is predominantly a fantasy author (in the twenty-first century sense as part of a wider Fantastika, as discussed in this encyclopedia), the novella Prime Meridian ( 2017) is sf – ambitiously so. The Beautiful Ones ( 2017) is a romantic Fantasy of Manners, while Gods of Jade and Shadow ( 2019) is a Jazz Age fantasy replete with Mayan Gods, the tale focusing primarily on the god of Death in his quest to reconquer his kingdom. So far, Moreno-Garcia has refused the genre's demand for series or, indeed, even for striking a similar tone between books. The cop who pursues them has her own problems. In a country overrun with narco-vampires, a street kid joins the runaway daughter of a high-ranking, Aztec vampire crime family on the run. Certain Dark Things ( 2016), her second novel, ambitiously marries a noir narrative and Vampire fiction to address the contemporary Drug crisis in Mexico. The novel itself is a bitter-sweet coming-of-age fantasy set partially in the 1980s. Her debut novel, Signal to Noise ( 2015), showcases her fascination with, and love of, Mexico City, which continues to be an important setting for her fiction. Two small-press short story collections followed. She made her first professional sale with 'Seeds' to Shine: An Anthology of Near-Future, Optimistic Science Fiction (anth 2010) edited by Jetse de Vries. Her first short story publication was 'Mirror Life' in the webzine Deep Magic in June 2006. Moreno-Garcia was initially active in the small press.

She is perhaps the most visible Mexican genre author writing in English, and as such can be identified with the generation of young World SF authors such as Aliette de Bodard and Lavie Tidhar, who similarly chose English as their primary (though never exclusive) medium. Moreno-Garcia grew up in Baja California and Mexico City, the latter featuring prominently in her work (see also Mexico). (1981- ) Mexican author, now in Canada, who attended university in the United States.

Historical Lovecraft by Silvia Moreno-Garcia