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Ben Francisco

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Young Adult, Science Fiction, Gay and Lesbian

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Ben Francisco’s fiction ranges from magic realism to space opera and has been known to feature oversexed ghosts, depressed precognitive psychics, and pantheistic vampire aliens who reproduce like moss. Common themes include cultural misunderstandings, family dysfunctions, LGBTQ experiences, and spiritual searches.

Ben’s short stories have won the Indiana Review Fiction Prize, been featured in year’s best LGBTQ fiction anthologies, and been shortlisted for year’s best science fiction and fantasy anthologies. Their stories have been published in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, PodCastle, Realms of Fantasy, Dreaming Again, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Shimmer, From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction, and It Gets Even Better: St ...more

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10 Must-Read Latinx Science Fiction Books

When you think of Latin American literature, you might think of the magic realist works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, or the surrealist stories of Jorge Luis Borges (two authors I adore and that have had a huge impact on me). But there’s also a whole world of Latinx and Latin American writers working firmly within the science fiction tradition. These authors are writing everything from climate di

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	It Gets Even Better: Stories of Queer Possibility by Isabela Oliveira (Editor), Jed Sabin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Charlie Jane Anders (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.44 avg rating — 48 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction by Charles Rice-González (editor), Charles Vazquez, Ben Francisco (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wilde Stories 2010: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction by Steve Berman (editor), Richard Bowes (Goodreads Author), Elizabeth Hand 3.89 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Val Vega: Secret Ambassador of Earth 4.48 avg rating — 23 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fireside Quarterly 66 April 2019 by Julia Rios (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Izzy Wasserstein (Goodreads Author), Beth Goder 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tangled Bank: Love, Wonder, and Evolution by Chris Lynch (Goodreads Author) (Editor/contributor), A.M. Muffaz (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Ben Francisco (Goodreads Author) (contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Realms of Fantasy, Vol. 15, No. 6, October 2009 by Shawna McCarthy (Editor), Antonis Papantoniou (Artist), Matt Staggs (Contributor) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shimmer Magazine 12 by E. Catherine Tobler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Peter M. Ball (Goodreads Author), Josh Storey did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Parásitos perfectos

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My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales

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