Comments | nwhyte: Who are the leading Hispanic writers of science fiction?

nwhyte

Who are the leading Hispanic writers of science fiction?

Feb 27, 2018 23:55

I was a bit surprised the other day to discover someone who describes himself as "The Leading Hispanic Voice in Science Fiction". How could that possibly be quantified, I wondered? It is probably not too difficult to be *A* Leading Voice of whatever kind one might want to be. But *The* Leading Voice surely requires some numerical evidence ( Read more... )

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anonymous February 27 2018, 23:51:01 UTC

Ann Aguirre is married to a Mexican man, but is white. Not Latina.

Ty Franck ext_4543966 February 27 2018, 23:56:11 UTC

Ty is certainly of Mexican descent on his mother's side, but I don't know whether he identifies as Mexican-American/Latino/Hispanic.

Re: Ty Franck ext_4193450 February 28 2018, 00:39:17 UTC

A story is told in the comments on this File770 post where Ty Franck identifies as Hispanic, in response to the same claim Nicholas is tracking: http://file770.com/?p=35340

landofnowhere February 28 2018, 00:09:12 UTC

(I tried posting this before, and it was marked as spam, so I'm going to try again without hyperlinks.)

Ann Aguirre self-describes as a white woman married to a Mexican. (Google "Ann Aguirre race relations")

On the other hand, she and her Mexican husband Andres Aguirre have published books together under the pseudonym of A. A. Aguirre, so Andres Aguirre counts as a Hispanic SF author, and would be somewhere in the middle of your pack.

anonymous March 1 2018, 05:27:27 UTC

Michael J. Martinez has five SF novels to his name.

anonymous June 6 2021, 20:59:32 UTC

Note that this "hispanic" is actually of Italian descent, and changed the spelling of his name to a more "hispanic" sound. He also took a sci fi convention yo court. The upshot was he got a document saying he isnravist - instead of just not acting like a racist. What a turd.