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"Latinx Science Fiction: Genealogies, Foundations, Futures" with Ernest Hogan, Cathryn Merla-Watson, and Matthew Goodwin is an electric panel discussion that occurred Oct 29 in celebration of the opening day of the Zines to the Future! Exhibit and our theme, "Imagining Diverse Futures."
Our three panelists are award-winning experts who produced ground-breaking firsts in Latinx sf: Hogan's Cortez on Jupiter (originally published 1990) is the first Chicano sf novel; Merla-Watson's Altermundos (2017) is the first critical collection focused on Latinx futurisms; and Goodwin's Latinx Rising (2017) is the first sf anthology of U.S. Latinx writers. These breakthroughs are wonderful, but the recent publication dates reveal how far we have to go.
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