Alphaland

By: Cristina Jurado, James Womack (Translator)

Paperback | 26 July 2018

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Award-winning short story writer Cristina Jurado's first collection in English is filled with the idea of the other: different lives that take place at the corners of our eyes, just out of sight. The boundaries between the real and the unreal have never before been so porous, or so fragile. Alien sex-goddesses feed off venal politicians; people have their memories wiped and their personalities changed - for a fee; a vision of the champing jaws of hell accompanies a death in the family. These six stories are six different worlds, and introduce into the English-speaking market a fascinating new author of speculative fiction.

Industry Reviews

‘Cristina Jurado is a powerful new voice in Spanish speculative fiction’

Lavie Tidhar, 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Central Station and 2011 World Fantasy Award for Osama

‘Here is erotic cosmic dark fantasy; here is a doomed astronaut snatched from suicide in space by ... something. Here is a psychopath with her memories erased, murderously on the trail of Who, and Why? Here are very dark visceral visions—of a swamp creature upon the ceiling, of ruthless bestial battles against shadows. Here are radically ‘other’ stories, muscular, gritty, evocative. Here’s your chance to relish what Spanish readers voted the best story of 2017. I am so impressed by this outstanding, and eloquently translated, collection.’

Ian Watson, author of the screen story for Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence

‘Jurado’s fiction sometimes defies classification, but is always stimulating, imaginative and thought-provoking. Thank the stars that none of the quality got lost in translation. Any fan of fantastical fiction will enjoy the stories in Alphaland’

Tade Thompson, author of Rosewater and The Murders of Molly Southbourne

‘Stories of identity, paranoia and loss that reso-nate in the mind and which will leave you both uncomfortable and entertained. Recommended for any fan of dark fiction.’

Jason Sizemore, Hugo-nominated editor of Apex Publications.

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