July 2012 Conversations with Las Comadres: Teleconference Series
The Map of Time, A Novel — Outside Links: Book Author Publisher
Curse the Names, A Novel — Publisher
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July 2012 Book of the Month
The Map of Time, A Novel
By Félix J. Palma
Published by Atria Books, A Division of Simon & Schuster
ISBN-13: 978-1451683035
The Map of Time, A Novel
Set in Victorian London with characters real and imagined, The Map of Time is a page- turner that boasts a triple play of intertwined plots in which a skeptical H. G. Wells is called upon to investigate purported incidents of time travel and to save lives and literary classics, including Dracula and The Time Machine, from being wiped from existence.
What happens if we change history? Félix J. Palma explores this question in The Map of Time, weaving a historical fantasy as imaginative as it is exciting—a story full of love and adventure that transports readers to a haunting setting in Victorian London for their own taste of time travel.
About the Author: Félix J. Palma
Félix J. Palma has been recognized by the critics as one of today’s most brilliant and original writers and has been awarded with many literary awards. In his first volume of stories, El vigilante de la salamandra (The Lizard’s keeper, 1998) stood out his ability to introduce fantasy into the every day -one of the main traits of his narrative. He is also author of the storybooks: Métodos de supervivencia (Methods of Survival, 1999), Las interioridades (Interiors, 2002), Los arácnidos (The Arachnids, Cádiz Latin American Story Award, 2003), and El menor espectáculo del mundo (The World’s Smallest Show, 2010). As a novelist he has published La hormiga que quiso ser astronauta (The Ant that wanted to become an Astronaut, 2001), Las corrientes oceánicas (The Ocean Currents, winner of the 2005 Luis Berenguer Award for Novel), and El mapa del tiempo (The Map of Time, winner of the Ateneo de Sevilla Award 2008). His work has been translated into more than 25 languages. He has also worked as a columnist, literary critic and has given creative writing workshops.
July 2012 Additional Conversation
Curse the Names, A Novel
By Robert Arellano
Published by Akashic Books
ISBN-13: 978-1617750304
Curse the Names, A Novel
High on a mesa in the mountains of New Mexico a small town hides a dreadful secret. On a morning very soon there will be an accident that triggers a terrible chain reaction, and the world we know will be wiped out.
James Oberheim, a reporter at Los Alamos National Laboratory, already sees the devastation, like the skin torn off a moment that is yet to be. He believes he can prevent an apocalypse, but first James must escape the devices of a sensuous young blood tech, a lecherous old hippie, a predator in a waking nightmare, and a forsaken adobe house high away in the Sangre de Cristo mountains whose dark history entwines them all.
A massive bomb is ticking beneath the sands of the Southwest, and time is running out to send a warning. James has to find a way to pass along the message–even if it ruins him.
About the Author: Robert Arellano
Robert Arellano
Robert Arellano is the author of the Edgar-nominated noir Havana Lunar and two earlier novels, all published by Akashic Books. Writing as Eddy Arellano, he collaborated with three artists on the graphic novel Dead in Desemboque from Soft Skull Press.
In 1996, writing as Bobby Rabyd, Arellano created the Internet’s first interactive novel, Sunshine ’69. Arellano has taught writing, literature, and digital media at Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Institute of American Indian Arts, the University of New Mexico, and now at Southern Oregon University, he teaches in the College of Arts & Sciences.