Speculative fiction

Old gods. New worlds. The stories in between.

Speculative fiction rooted in Latin American heritage, from magical realism and the conquest of empires to gene-edited elites and android cities.

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Demons in the Golden Empire

He went to make a name for himself in the New World. But will he be remembered as a hero… or a curse?

A soldier of the Spanish conquest of Peru discovers that the empire he serves, and the one he's helping to destroy, are both haunted by forces older than either crown.

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Where They Burn Books

"Where they burn books, they will in the end burn people too."Heinrich Heine, 1823

Two companion novels named for Heine's warning. In Where They Burn Books, a 16th-century friar's mission to save the Maya turns to destroying them; in They Also Burn People, a young man's obsession with a woman and her books drags him toward madness. Marcos's highest-rated work.

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Two worlds, one shelf: mythic pasts and engineered futures.

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Hispanic American Heritage Stories

Conquest, migration, and Mayan magic: history retold with the volume turned up.

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Indigenous Magic

Magical realism in the García Márquez tradition: old gods walking modern streets.

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The Edited Genome Trilogy

Gene-edited elites, androids, and the cities they built: dystopia with a pulse.

Marcos Antonio Hernandez

About the author

Chemical engineer. Ice cream maker. Strength coach. Novelist.

Marcos took the long road to fiction, and brought the discipline with him. His rule for the page is the same as for the gym: creativity is a muscle you train every day.