GUERRILLA MURAL OF A SIREN’S SONG: 15 Gonzo Science Fiction Stories by Ernest Hogan

“Energetic, fast-paced, funny, and thoroughly enjoyable.” —Analog

“Ernest Hogan is the creator of a Xicano science fiction genre with a crossover readership. …raw creativity.” —Frank S Lechuga

HERE IS WHAT ERNEST HOGAN HAS TO SAY ABOUT SOME OF THE 15 GONZO* STORIES IN THIS BOOK...

Part of the reason why a lot of what I do turns out science fiction is because it’s so easy for me to identify with aliens and mutants. Being a Chicanoid polluted with Black Irish genes, I’m more Mutant Mex than Futuro-Africoid, and look like that brown, mongrelized Third World nightmare that ruins the sleep of so many Klansmen. This all leaves me with no culture that I can really call my own.

THE YENAGLOSHI EXPRESS
The idea for this one came from a Kerouac-ian road trip through Arizona I took with my high school buddy, Dennis. I’m not sure if my comedic depiction of werewolves jibes with the horror that people have of them. But I’m an outsider from another culture.

REXITOS
I read an item about how on an island near Siberia, mammoths adapted to the post-Ice Age environment by becoming smaller. In reality, millions of years have gone by. Wouldn’t some kind of evolution have gone on? I was following how South America was changing, with the drug trade and other developments, and had all these silly ideas from my fascination with sleazy jungle tales.

PANCHO VILLA’S FLYING CIRCUS
Steampunk started becoming popular, and the centennial of the 1910 Mexican Revolution came along. Then I decided to visualize it as a spaghetti western.The story was suddenly more focused and had a bad attitude that was perfect for the alternative universe social commentary.

LUPITA’S HAND
The Western is the mythology of Norteamerica. The tropes of the western are loosening. The good guys don’t have to be white or speak English. With different viewpoints, come different stories. Which is okay by me. I’ve always preferred my westerns weird. Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo is my all-time favorite.

UNO! … DOS! ONE-TWO! TRES! CUATRO!
They call me the Father of Chicano Science Fiction. I decided to run wild with the idea of what would happen if Chicanos had access to the technology of their mighty, rasquache imaginations, and to do some vicious what-if riffs on current political developments. When the story spun out of control, I let it.

FRANK’S TRICER RUN
Of course my bullfighting fascination overlaps into the running of the bulls at the Fiesta de San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain. Back in the Nineteen-Nineties, after Jurassic Park dinosaurs were all the rage. Could I come up with a story with dinosaurs and bullfighting?

THE GREAT MARS-A-GO-GO MEXICAN STANDOFF
Could I get away with using the word “Mexican” in the title of a science fiction story... Why not a space opera? With a private eye? And gangsters in a colonized solar system. Then I got my twisted mind working on it ...

FLYING UNDER THE RADAR WITH PACO AND LOS FREETAILS
This is the origin story of my character, Paco Cohen, Mariachi of Mars. I was depressed, still observing, learning. I learned a lot from the Chicanas I worked with, their lives fascinated and inspired me. I imagined my situation on a colonized Mars.

COYOTE GOES HOLLYWOOD
This is inspired by my travels in the Southwest/Aztlán, and love of cartoons. All I had to do was plug Native American mythology into the modern media environment, and KER-BLAMMO!

*The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

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CORTEZ ON JUPITER by Ernest Hogan

“Hard SF, satire, adventure, and some very strange humor combine in this intriguing, inventive, and sometimes disconcerting SF story.” —Science Fiction Chronicle

A wild young Chicano artist who covers Greater Los Angeles with fantastic graffiti. A beautiful African telepath who opens the door to communications with the deadly Sirens of Jupiter.

“An alien first contact story featuring a hyperactive, irreverent, and self-absorbed Chicano artist from East LA. Cortez is recruited to make contact with creatures discovered on Jupiter who 'speak' in projected images. It's a dangerous assignment; previous attempts to communicate have ended in insanity and death, but Pablo is always up for a little bit of craziness.” —Michael Lichter, Amazon

“Ernest Hogan is the creator of a Xicano science fiction genre with a crossover readership. …raw creativity.” —Frank S Lechuga

Combining hard science fiction with pyrotechnics worthy of The Stars, My Destination, Ernest Hogan tells the story of the painter who founds the Guerrilla Muralists of Los Angeles, and goes on to make Mankind's first contact with the sentient life-forms of Jupiter.

“Energetic, fast-paced, funny, and thoroughly enjoyable.”  —Analog

Not since Ayn Rand's Howard Roarke has there been an artist as iconoclastic, as idealistic, and as splendidly spectacular as Pablo Cortez. And look out, he's twice as radical!

“If Hunter S Thompson and Alfred Bester had a Chicano child, it would be this.” —Dave Hutchinson

It's a roller-coaster ride from vulgarity to the transcendent, as the unforgettable Pablo Cortez struggles, selfishly and selflessly, to expand humanity's consciousness on a journey from the barrio to the stars.

“It grabs you and won't let you go. The best [first novel] I've read in science fiction since Neuromancer.” —Tom Witmore, Locus

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“All cultures have some acceptable form of human sacrifice. And if you really want to cause trouble, try taking it away.” —Pablo Cortez

PW Review

Hogan's debut, first published in 1990, introduced the subgenre of Chicano SF to a startled, dazzled American audience. Now, 25 years later, the book's Spanglish prose and freeform plot still amuse. All Pablo Cortez cares about is creating art, whether it's humongous graffiti sprayed across Los Angeles or zero-gravity paint slinging in space. Uncool authorities and timid collaborators can't stop him. When he confronts the alien Sirens of Jupiter, who have zapped the minds of earlier explorers, he takes their overwhelming flood of bizarre images as subject matter for new masterpieces. Hogan keeps Pedro's obsessive rants from becoming too intense by working them into a collage of comments from friends and enemies, along with hefty chunks of Aztec mythology, as he builds a jangling, rambunctious picture of artistic genius. This is tons of fun for freethinking readers who appreciate heroes with cojones.
Publishers Weekly

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THE DIRE DEEDS (The Guild of Ornamental Hermits, Book 1) by A. R. Marsh

Oyster Olson—a shy, private, transgender blues musician living peacefully in an intentional community, Hermitville for short, on Hawai’i Island—always knew he was different. But only the magical Book of Moons, thrust upon him by the community’s founder shortly before her death, can reveal just how different he is! And who his real parents are!

Oyster, burdened by this secret, soon shares the book with his unrequited crush, burlesque artiste Babe Bump (she/her), and their best friend, drag performer Tomma Bedlam (ze/zir). The three of them grow closer (and closer!) as they explore the book’s ever-changing number of pages and learn of its origin as the grimoire of an ancient English mystery school, The Guild of Ornamental Hermits.

The Book of Moons brings love, death, Elves, unsuspected family ties, and cosmic cracks in Time/Space, just as a greedy real-estate developer schemes to convert funky Hermitville into a posh eco-resort. Even worse, relentless interdimensional foes, pouring through cosmic cracks, target Hermitville and all life in the Hawaiian archipelago.

Even with ten dedicated Elven mentors and a crash course in Elven magic, will Oyster, Babe, Tomma, and the other residents of Hermitville be able to transform themselves in time from mere misfits and musicians into magicians powerful enough to join the Elves in halting the impending chaos and destruction? Will they all go down in defeat and the world with them, humans and elves alike?

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About the Author

As a fantasy novelist, A.R. Marsh (aka Amy Marsh, Ed.D.) enjoys blending humor, magical realism, urban fantasy, whimsy, satire, absurd situations, and queer and paranormal relationships.

The Dire Deeds, Marsh's first book in the Guild of Ornamental Hermits series, begins a rollicking, sprawling epic serving magic realness and urban fantasy in a quirky tale of queer mid-life magic, set in the lush jungles of rural Hawai’i. It’s a literary “thirst trap” of perilous quests, paranormal romances, outrageous predicaments, and endearing, whimsical characters worthy of your undying admiration and fan fiction.

Marsh is also a clinical sexologist and hypnotist. Ze has appeared as a sexological expert on Tyra Banks, Good Morning America, National Geographic Taboo, NPR, and programs in England and Australia, commenting on such topics as objectum sexuality, erotic hypnosis, and specific types of kinky relationships.

Zir book, Sex Squicks & 100 Other Things You Didn't Know About Sex, is a partial collection of columns written for Carnal Nation, 2009-2010. Ze contributed three entries to The Cultural Encyclopedia of The Penis (2014), edited by Kimmel, Milrod & Kennedy. Marsh also contributed an essay, "Kid Chrysalis," to Transitions of the Heart-Stories of Love, Struggle, and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Childen (2012), edited by Rachel Pepper.

Marsh, who goes by the chosen name of Avnas in zir personal life, lives in Oregon with seven cats. Ze enjoys witchery and other consuming special interests. Zir "Hermits of Hermitville"--and the Elves who love them--form an important part of zir "chosen family." Ze hopes you adore these characters as much as ze does.

Visit https://guild-of-ornamental-hermits.com for audible samples, character background, and more. And visit patreon.com/ARMarshWriter for charter membership in The Guild of Ornamental Hermits.

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THE PERILOUS PAST (The Guild of Ornamental Hermits, Book 4) by A. R. Marsh

TIME SNATCHED INTO THE PAST

"Just spent a wonderful week spending time with some wildly colorful, delightfully eccentric, truly fascinating characters… and miss them already. I have never read anything like this. The language is bright and delicious. The characters are unique and, at the same time, very real. Blew me away. A true original." —Amazon verified 5-Star review

When Tomma Bedlam is Time-Snatched from an Oregon rock club in the middle of zir wildest performance ever, ze hardly expected to land in the middle of a pentagram scrawled on the floor of a seventeenth-century English country house! As Tomma’s sensational disappearance—and sudden reappeareance—goes viral on social media, life becomes immeasurably complicated and far too public for both Hermits and their Elven mentors. So much for settling down to a quiet life of queer magic in a secluded rural area just outside of Eugene!

In short order, Hermitville residents endure visits from federal agents seeking the infamous, mind-manipulating Guru Gizmo; hold a madcap wedding officiated by a Norse god; and continue to work through various mid-life crises; all while struggling to eradicate a farmhouse infestation of pesky “proto-Elsewherians.” And that’s just for starters!

Past and present collide in The Perilous Past, the fourth book in the series, as the origins of The Guild of Ornamental Hermits are revealed during the tragic witch persecutions of the seventeenth century, while a new villainess rips through Time’s fabric to destroy the Hermits and anyone else suspected of witchcraft and magical arts.

Will Tomma, Babe, Oyster and the rest of the human Hermits level up their magical skills in time to help Loki and the Elves contain the chaos? Or will their adversaries in both centuries triumph at last? Only Time will tell, unless it snatches Tomma one last time.

"This book grabbed me from the beginning and never let go. The plot was well thought out, the story moved along and the characters were engaging. I'm looking forward to the next one." —Goodreads 5-Star Review

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THE QUEEREST QUEST (The Guild of Ornamental Hermits, Book 3) by A. R. Marsh

THE GoOH FLED THEIR HOME FOR A SANCTUARY FAR AWAY—ONLY TO FIND THEMSELVES IN EVEN GREATER PERIL—AND FACING EVEN MORE DANGEROUS MAGICK-WEILDING FOES

Youʻd think that after saving their beloved “farm and arts collective” by battling a greedy real estate developer, a hippie doomsday cult, an Elsewherian lawyer, and deadly preternatural Wethrini inquisitors, the “Ornamental Hermits of Hermitville” and their Elven mage teachers could catch a break. But no!

Forced to flee Hermitville and Hawaiʻi after the climatic magical battle at the end of The Witching Work, Babe Bump – along with Oyster Olson, Tomma Bedlam, and the rest — must hunker down in a remote cottage in rural Northern California. Uprooted, homesick and culture-shocked, theyʻre unexpectedly drawn into a Norse godʻs centuries-long search for his missing “wolf son,” Váli, and his quest for vengeance against another Wethrini, Samuel Dipp. Dipp is a predatory cult leader and child trafficker preparing to deploy an indestructible mind-control device.

It all begins when Babe discovers a “handsome drifter,” Lucky LaFey, sleeping on the front porch of their country cottage. Claiming to be the propertyʻs caretaker and cloaked in a disarming human guise, Lucky LaFey proves to be friend—not foe—though his powers outstrip even the Elves.

The Hermits quickly take to Lucky ʻs charm and humor, and soon Lucky renews his passionate love affair with the stunning Elven academic, Professor Almond, while also claiming kinship with one of the Hermits! But even romantic dalliance and family ties canʻt distract Lucky from his quest!

Chaos erupts as Norse and Elven magicks clash with Wethrini technology and local politics! Even Vesta, the giant amorous salamander goddess, and Luckyʻs ex-wives, canʻt resist the battle!

The Queerest Quest is the third book in The Guild of Ornamental Hermits metaphysical urban fantasy series. Action abounds, paranormal romance flourishes, and LGBTQIA+ characters are well represented.

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THE WITCHING WORK (The Guild of Ornamental Hermits, Book 2) by A. R. Marsh

SECOND BOOK IN THE ENTHRALLING FANTASY SERIES THAT'S ALREADY EARNING RAVE REVIEWS FROM READERS:

“A. R. Marsh's The Dire Deeds (The Guild of Ornamental Hermits Book 1) is jam-packed with gloriously spectral, flamboyantly festive rainbow-hued, unabashedly queer characters; penned with unquestionable verve, a thoroughly captivating style, and unquestionable panache; woven into a magical, metaphysical, metaphorical, and meta-fictional epic narrative, this is a book to be loved, written by someone who knows what love is--and how important that is for everyone right now.” —Goodreads 5-star review

“A delightful romp filled with whimsical imagination. More than once I found myself wondering, “Where do xey come up with all these ideas?” Dimension-portaling sentient peach pits? A giant amorous salamander? Elves obsessed with Burning Man clown culture? This book runs the gamut of the strange and marvelous. Part love-story, part critical gender theory, I highly recommend getting swept up in the Guild of Ornamental Hermits. Who knows, maybe you’ll find your way into another dimension!” —Amazon 5-star review

“Wow! Just spent a wonderful week spending time with some wildly colorful, delightfully eccentric, truly fascinating characters… and miss them already. I have never read anything like this. The language is bright and delicious. The characters are unique and, at the same time, very real. Blew me away. A true original. Can’t wait for book two!” —Amazon 5-star review

“Infused with a quick, quirky wit, a joyful read! A.R. Marsh merges the real world of Pahoa, Hawaii, with a magical one where simply saying, “salamander” brings forth kundalini energy surges, where an inter-dimensional, Malibu-Barbie-worshiping baddie may succeed in zir dastardly plot, and where purple edible glitter just might help save the day. I look forward to the fun and giggles to come when the fantastical journey continues.” —Amazon 5-star review

“Add A.M. Marsh to the List of World-Builders. I’ve never read a queer-friendly urban fantasy before but I thoroughly enjoyed this one. It’s a smart, inventive and fun. And it’s full of wonders. The humor, characters and insights into popular and non-mainstream cultures not only held my attention, but richly rewarded it. Sexuality is handled with a light touch and playfulness abounds. The characters, except for the malevolent ones, are likeable and often lovable. Marsh is such a good writer that I found myself reading just to find out zir take on the unfolding action. Danger and evil exist, but as in an English cozy, the mayhem occurs offstage. And more books are coming!” —Amazon 5-star review

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Powerful other-dimensional Wethrini warriors are poised to invade Hawai’i Island!

Half-Elf Oyster Olson, and the all-too-human Babe Bump, Tomma Bedlam, and the other nine “Hermits of Hermitville,” are new to the magical arts, barely conversant with simplest spells and scrying.

Their new Elven mentors make an executive decision: “Time for a crash course in Elf magic!”

So the Hermits are whisked away to a “time warp” replica of a California winery tasting room for intensive instruction designed to prepare them for the conflicts to come.

Meanwhile a local doomsday cult plans a ritual rave to summon a dreaded cosmic goddess from beyond the Mortal Coil.

Then the Hermits, newly initiated into Elven mysteries and spellcraft, return to Hermitville for a battle of magical mind games with the dreaded Wethrini, just as the doomsday cult’s ritual approaches its height, and a massive tropical storm crashes into the Hawaiian islands.

Some live, some die, minds are blown, true love blossoms—and Oyster enchants his harmonica.

But, Hermitville, and all of Hawai’i, will never be the same.

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THE AVATAR [The Complete Science Fiction of H. L. Gold, Book 1]

Astounding — The Tremaine Years, 1934-5

The first book in an ambitious republication of the Hugo Award winning writer, editor comic book and radio script author.

Most of the stories in this volume have never been reprinted since their original publications. This collection of novellas and novelettes is an essential book that belongs on every science fiction readers shelf.

Gold’s SF stories are “practically required reading … the narrative level is high.” —The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
Gold’s work is “way up there at the top of the literary pile.” —Galaxy

“People have forgotten how much Gold had to do, as a writer, with the growth of science fiction[...] [He possesses] an alert and unusual mind investing old ideas with new insights and adds an extra dimension of idea into a deceptively simple story line.” —Fantastic Universe

“Ususual tales, rare collectors items.” —Indianapolis Star

Among the stories readers will find are:

“Inflexure,” in which the passing of a solar system through our own, leads to unexpected, even inconceivable, and terrifying results.

“Avatar,” a tale of genetic engineering and a man who redesigns a human being to be a god – but overlooks a very obvious fact.

“Gold,” the story of a man who made everything so cheaply everything could be purchased for nothing and there was no need for greed – but what of the greedy?

And three more “top-rank stories.” —Analog/Astounding

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INSIDE MAN & Other Science Fictions by H. L. Gold

Hugo Winning Writer-Editor's Nebula Nominee Story!

Fabulous collection of classic humorous and satirical science fiction by legendary writer-editor H. L. Gold. Exclusively in eBook, this don't-miss volume rounds up Gold's uncollected work, including his Nebula Nominee story, "Inside Man." Readers will find fresh, new, delightfully fey wrinkles on ESP (as in "Inside Man" and "The Riches of Embarrassment"); the tale of the wife of a tribal chief whose subtle manipulations of colonial visitors inadvertently saves the world from itself ("The Transmogrification of Wamba's Revenge"); a man unlucky enough to achieve one of humankind's oldest dreams ("He that Hath Wings")," two spacelanes con men who manage only fleece themselves ("Grifter's Asteroid") and the extraordinary short novel, "Some to Watch Over Me," a dark and haunting serio-comic inversion that stands traditional notions of hyperspace, monstrous aliens, true love, ambition, revenge, and human values on their heads.

"There's nothing machine-made about the short stories and novelettes of H. L. Gold. They're individual tales of odd notions, often proving once again that Mr. Gold is almost the only s.f. writer capable of creating lower and lower-middle class backgrounds (a relief, after all of s.f.'s potentates, plutocrats and technological elite)." —The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Gold's SF offers "witty entertainment" from a "sharp and perceptive intelligence." —The Science Fiction Source Book

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INFINITE POWER DEFIED [The Amarrilis Chronicles Book 1] by Simone Chiodini

An astonishing and innovative romantic space opera!

Amarrilis Halai-Tam is a soldier in a matriarchy that controls the known multiverse. She is an aristocrat and the lover of General Sebaren Jorram-Rai. Her assignment is simple; she must neutralize Colonel Nathaniel Carollan who is not part of the matriarchy. She infiltrates his lodge where he lives among his troops. She finds herself falling dangerously in love with him. Torn between two men and two loyalties she finds herself caught in a web of military intrigue.

Jodie Wise is a young woman who doesn't know much about the world she lives on, and is ignorant of the multiverse. She has the instincts to survive. Her innocence is about to be shattered by the impending war between the people of her world and the matriarchy.

 

Simone Chiodini has traveled extensively throughout the USA and Southern Europe. Traveling is one of her greatest passions, second only to telling stories. A former resident of Michigan and current resident of California, she hopes to one day return to Italy where she has family.

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INFINITE LOVE DECREED [The Amarrilis Chronicles Book 2] by Simone Chiodini

"Compelling new Scifi by a fresh new author." —Amazon 5-star review of Book 1 in this series

Ana O'Neill is a lesbian on a hyper-patriarchal Earth within the vast many worlds of the multiverse. She marries the kind, loving and gay Xandreas Tate in order to survive in her society, but when she meets R.J., the woman of her dreams, will she be willing to risk everything to be with her? How far will the granddaughter of Amarrilis Halai-Tam go to be with her beloved?

For fans of Nicola Griffith, Lise MacTague , Lois Mcmaster Bujold, and Robert A. Heinlein.

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