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Creatures that climb onto the roofs and take flight, a teenager with a passion for blood, a teacher who picks up her neighbor's head in her garden, a girl unable to separate herself from her father's teeth, two noisy twins at a festival of experimental music, women who jump from the top of a mountain, apocalyptic earthquakes, a shaman who writes a spell to revive his daughter. The Flyers brings together eight stories that are located in cities, towns, moors, volcanoes where violence and mysticism, the earthly and the celestial, belong to the same ritual and poetic plane. Mónica Ojeda blows our minds with an Andean Gothic and shows us, once again, that horror and beauty belong to the same family.

Will human beings end up worshiping machines? Will the machines have rights? How is people's inner landscape being transformed in the face of the mutation of the outer landscape? In The Way of the Future Edmundo Paz Soldán, one of the unavoidable references of current Latin American literature, explores the disturbing and labyrinthine relationships of the human being with artificial intelligence: an unusual journey that opens the doors of the possibilities to a future that already is here. Thus, through a Church whose divinity is Artificial Intelligence, work communities directed by a hologram, UFO sightings, companion androids, astronauts without memory and drugs that transport you to another dimension, Paz Soldán looks this disturbing world in the face. Here there are troubled characters trying to find their place in the middle of a landscape in which we do not know if the machines are thinking something different from what their creators made them think or if they are even capable of dreaming. With its investigation into the impact of new technologies on everyday life and its ability to summon the strange, this book is essential for addicts of series like Black Mirror or the worlds of Stanislaw Lem, Brian Evenson, Caitlin Kiernan and J. G. Ballard.

Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, cats, a snake, and a strange fungus all serve here as mirrors that reflect the aspects of human nature buried within us. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of cohabitation, the desire to reproduce and the impulse not to, and the inexplicable connection that can bind, eerily, two beings together. Each Nettel tale creates, with tightly wound narrative tension, a space wherein her characters feel excruciatingly human, exploring how the wounds we incur in life manifest themselves within us, clandestinely, irrevocably, both unseen and overtly. In a precise writing style that is both subtle and spellbinding, Nettel renders the ordinary unsettling, and the grotesque exquisite. Natural Histories is the winner of the 3rd Ribera del Duero International Award for Short Narratives, an important Spanish literature prize.

The seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back inside: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, a child's first encounter with darkness or the fallibility of parents. In each story, twists and turns will unnerve and surprise: Schweblin never takes the expected path and instead digs under the skin, revealing surreal truths about our sense of home, of belonging, and of the fragility of our connections with others. This is a masterwork from one of our most brilliant modern writers.