Parable
Since: Aug, 2009
#4: Aug 23rd 2012 at 3:18:22 PM
There's a lot of Cuban science fiction. If you search Cuba science fiction (or Cuba ciencia ficción) in google you get tons of hits. Spanish wikipedia even has a page
. I'm sure some of it would be set in Cuba. I'm seeing a recurring trend where science fiction and fantasy that is popular in other countries both is never translated into English, and is hardly mentioned in English source. Science fiction and fantasy are my favorite, but they never seem to get translated to the extent that literature does. Maybe that's just my perception.
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Right now one of the big projects I'm working on on-and-off is a steampunk YA novel with an Alternate History element which is set in Banana Republic Cuba 20 Minutes into the Future (controlled by The Syndicate) and has a 14-year-old protagonist who's a clone of Che. Yep, that Che, and works as a kitchen boy.
He has major Cloning Blues because everyone calls him a communist foreigner. Although they use much more blunt language. (And no, he wasn't commissioned by Fidel Castro) I think I got the idea because most of the "cloning historical figures" stories I know of involve Hitler or Jesus. What is it about Hitler and Jesus that makes people write cloning stories about them?
I haven't come across any human cloning stories or science fiction involving
Che or Cuba. Or political revolution as a strong part of the plot. Or where the original was a revolutionary.edited 23rd Aug '12 3:49:41 AM by MorwenEdhelwen
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