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David Cuen

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David Cuen is a Mexican British storyteller with a background in journalism and digital culture. He spent over eight years at the BBC as a journalist and editor before moving to Instagram, where he led global storytelling efforts. His fiction explores memory, identity, and the emotional weight of our choices. He lives in Madrid and writes in both English and Spanish.

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Sueños de un Mundo Feliz

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Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

by Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)

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El reino de este mundo (Cõnspicuos)

by Alejo Carpentier

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Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination

by Karen Hao

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Very entertaining and original
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Fantastic hook, great writing Yet I feel a lot of things happened off page to justify the ending. I admired almost everything about how Yesteryear was constructed though.
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