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SMOKING MIRROR BLUES sf novel by Ernest Hogan ISBN: 1-877655-37-6, first trade edition, 212 pgs., 2001 $12 plus s/h (U.S. only) INVENTORY REDUCTION TITLE: $9.60 plus $5.00 s/h Cover design by Brian Clark "To read Ernest Hogan's Smoking Mirror Blues is to dive into a new vision of storytelling...[It] resonates with the voices of the Chicano punk ear of the eighties, rightfully placing Hogan in the canon of Latinx writers to read." - Rolando Rubalcava, American Book Review, Nov.Dec. 2019 Vol. 41, No. 1 |
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AN ANCIENT GOD
Tezcatlipoca, the Mirror that Smokes, warrior/wizard god of the Aztecs. Western Civilization thought it wiped him out centuries ago.
A NEW TECHNOLOGY
With the help of silly-bio nanochips, Beto Orozco creates an artificial-intelligence version of Tezcatlipoca. The result is a computerized resurrection...
THE FUTURE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME
So Tezcatlipoca hijacks Beto’s body, and runs wild through futuristic Hollywood. The trickster adapts well to the brave, new world, and gets back to his old business of creating chaos and taking control...
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Tezcatlipoca, the Mirror that Smokes, warrior/wizard god of the Aztecs. Western Civilization thought it wiped him out centuries ago.
A NEW TECHNOLOGY
With the help of silly-bio nanochips, Beto Orozco creates an artificial-intelligence version of Tezcatlipoca. The result is a computerized resurrection...
THE FUTURE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME
So Tezcatlipoca hijacks Beto’s body, and runs wild through futuristic Hollywood. The trickster adapts well to the brave, new world, and gets back to his old business of creating chaos and taking control...
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PRAISE FOR SMOKING MIRROR BLUES
“hyperactive, racy, imaginative...”
— Publisher’s Weekly
“One of 2001's best sf novels.”
— Claude Lalumière,sfsite.com
“Anyone who bemoans the lack of serious speculation in today’s science fiction will appreciate Hogan’s true insights...”
— Allie S. McKnight, darkmoonrising.com
“Fast-paced, dense with detail, intelligently written, and imbued with a weirdness that’s quite fun to read, this novel is so good that this author bears watching.”
— Cat Eldridge,greenmanreview.com
“...William Burroughs on steroids, only writing linearly.”
--Factsheet Five
“...the most original voice to hit science fiction since Harlan Ellison.”
— Ben Bova
“Ernest Hogan has created a kind of North American magic realism...”
— Norman Spinrad
— Publisher’s Weekly
“One of 2001's best sf novels.”
— Claude Lalumière,sfsite.com
“Anyone who bemoans the lack of serious speculation in today’s science fiction will appreciate Hogan’s true insights...”
— Allie S. McKnight, darkmoonrising.com
“Fast-paced, dense with detail, intelligently written, and imbued with a weirdness that’s quite fun to read, this novel is so good that this author bears watching.”
— Cat Eldridge,greenmanreview.com
“...William Burroughs on steroids, only writing linearly.”
--Factsheet Five
“...the most original voice to hit science fiction since Harlan Ellison.”
— Ben Bova
“Ernest Hogan has created a kind of North American magic realism...”
— Norman Spinrad
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ernest Hogan was born in Los Angeles. His mother's maiden name is Garcia. He has climbed pyramids from Teotihuacan to Chichen Itza. He has worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, writers, all-purpose stooge, and a consultant on pre-Columbian mytholgy and applied surrealism. His novels, Cortez on Jupiter and High Aztech, are internationally acclaimed. His short fiction has appeared in Science Fiction Age, Amazing Stories, Last Wave, New Pathways, Penthouse Hot Talk, Pulphouse, Proud Flesh, The Red Dog Journal, Analog, and the Semiotext(e) SF anthology.