{"id":1710,"date":"2017-02-16T03:41:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T03:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2017-02-16T03:45:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T03:45:59","slug":"sft-recs-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=1710","title":{"rendered":"SFT Recs: Zombies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cGreetings From a Zombie Nation\u201d by Eric J. Mota, translated by Lawrence Schimel (Terra Nova: An Anthology of Contemporary Spanish Science Fiction<\/em>, 2013)<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Mota\u2019s engrossing story about a mysterious alien zombie virus and the zombification of Cuba is horrifying but also extremely believable.<\/p>\n

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\"cabiya\"<\/em><\/p>\n

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Wicked Weeds<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/em> by Pedro Cabiya, translated by Jessica Powell (Mandel-Vilar Press, 2016)<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

This is a book whose main character is a self-professed \u201czombie,\u201d but it is also a work of simultaneously free-wheeling complexity and carefully-plotted exploration of the intersection of the human mind, body, and soul.<\/p>\n

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\"depestre\"<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hadriana in All My Dreams<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/em> by Ren\u00e9 Depestre, translated by Kaiama L. Glover (Akashic Books, 2017)<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Combines magic, fantasy, eroticism, and delirious humor to explore universal questions of race and sexuality.<\/p>\n

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\"loureiro-1\"<\/em><\/p>\n

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Apocalypse Z<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/em> series by Manel Loureiro, translated by Pamela Carmell (AmazonCrossing, 2012-14)<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

This bestselling Spanish series imagines what would happen if a zombie virus erupted on Earth and threw civilization into chaos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  \u201cGreetings From a Zombie Nation\u201d by Eric J. Mota, translated by Lawrence Schimel (Terra Nova: An Anthology of Contemporary Spanish Science Fiction, 2013) Mota\u2019s engrossing story about a mysterious alien zombie virus and the zombification of Cuba is horrifying but also extremely believable.         Wicked Weeds by Pedro Cabiya, translated by<\/p>\n

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