Friday, October 22, 2010

Podcast of Ernest Hogan’s 2001 story "The Rise and Fall of Paco Cohen and the Mariachis of Mars"

Artwork by Zach Reddy
I just finished listening to a neat podcast of "The Rise and Fall of Paco Cohen and the Mariachis of Mars" (mp3, 36 mins.), a novelette written by Mexican American science fiction writer Ernest Hogan that was published in the April 2001 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine and later recorded for Theme and Variations, a 2009 podcast anthology of music-themed speculative fiction edited by Michelle M. Welch.

Read by Hogan with music composed and performed by Jack Mangan, "The Rise and Fall of Paco Cohen and the Mariachis of Mars" is the story of a talented custodian from the Nuzoom corporation who is chosen to create popular music in order to improve the morale of transplanted workers on Mars. But Paco has other ideas...

A self-professed “recombocultural Chicano mutant, known for committing outrageous acts of science fiction, cartooning, and other questionable pursuits,” Ernest Hogan is the author of three novels: Cortez on Jupiter (1990), High Aztech (1992), and Smoking Mirror Blues (2001). His forthcoming story “The Great Mars-A-Go-Go Mexican Standoff” will be published in the Winter 2010 (Vol. 6, No. 3) issue of Tales of the Talisman.

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