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Schwarz, Mauricio-José

(1955-    ) Mexican author and photographer who for seven years had an sf column in the country's daily newspaper Excelsior; he has lived in Spain since 1999. He is the author of about 50 short stories, many sf or horror. Schwarz was the first winner, in 1984, of the Puebla Award for Best SF Short Story in Mexico with his tale "La pequena guerra" ["The Smallest War"]. Some of his stories are collected in Escenas de la realidad virtual ["Scenes from Virtual Reality"] (coll 1991) and Más allá no hay nada ["Out Beyond, There Is Nothing"] (coll 1996; 2012 ebook). In 1991 Schwarz founded and edited the sf Semiprozine Estacosa ["Thisthing"], of which two issues appeared 1991-1992. He was part-author of the Latin America entry in the second edition of this encyclopedia.

He and Don Webb (1960-    ) coedited the first joint United States-Mexico sf anthology, Frontera de espejos rotos ["Border of Broken Mirrors"] (anth 1994), about the border clashes between the two neighbour nations. His short story "Destellos en vidrio azul" ["Glimmerings on Blue Glass"] (in Más allá no hay nada) was included in Cosmos Latinos (anth 2003) edited by Andrea L Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilán. [MAFD/PN]

Mauricio-José Schwarz

born Mexico City, Mexico: 2 February 1955

works

• Escenas de la realidad virtual ["Scenes from Virtual Reality"] (Mexico City, Mexico: Claves Latinoamericanas, 1991) [coll: pb/]
• Más allá no hay nada ["Out Beyond, There Is Nothing"] (Mexico City, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 1996) [coll: pb/]
  • "Glimmerings on Blue Glass" in Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2003) edited by Andrea L Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilán [anth: pp265-270: trans by Ted Angell of "Destellos en vidrio azul" from the above collection: pb/Raúl Cruz]

works as editor

• Frontera de Espejos Rotos ["Border of Broken Mirrors"] (Mexico City, Mexico: Ediciones Roca, 1994) with Don Webb [anth: pb/]

about the author

• Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz. Entry in Biografías del Futuro: La ciencia ficción mexicana y sus autores ["Biography of the Future: Mexican Science Fiction and Authors"] (Mexicali, Baja California: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, 2000) [nonfiction: anth: pp225-229: pb/]
• Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz. Entry in Latin American Science Fiction Writers: An A-to-Z Guide (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2004) edited by Darrell B Lockhart [nonfiction: anth: pp188-189: hb/nonpictorial]
• Marcela Quintero Ayala. Entry in Diccionario de Escritores Mexicanos, Siglo XX ["Dictionary of Mexican Writers, Twentieth Century"] (Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2005) edited by Aurora M Ocampo [nonfiction: volume VIII, pp177-180: hb/]

links

• Mauricio-José Schwarz (in Spanish)
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 06:53 am on 25 April 2024.
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