GUD 7 opened to submissions in 2009 and, due to setbacks and circumstances, it was seven years in the making. But the writing and art wouldn’t let us go–we couldn’t abandon the dance. So here it is!
Make way! Make way! — Stand aside Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, Fredric Brown, and Ray Bradbury. And yes, even you Samuel Delaney, Ursula le Guin, and (yes, you too!) Kurt Vonnegut move to one side. Make way for Vourvoulias, Zagitt, Diaz, Alcalá, Braschi, Marcum, Gonsalez and their ilk … This is a collection for lovers of Latinx lit that are not afraid to boldly go where raza has never gone before. Beam me up, Commandante eSpock, and deliver me unto mañana today.
— William Nericcio, San Diego State University
[T]here are several standout selections. In “Sin Embargo,” by Sabrina Vourvoulias, the psychology of immigration and asylum collides with inhuman transformation.
It’s a beautiful story and one that isn’t afraid to mix poetry and prose, theater and aching reality ... A powerful read!
— Charles Payseur, Quick Sip Reviews
A fast-moving, dizzying, tragic tale with magic tattoos, rhymes, love, friendship, and death. The language is powerfully alive, swaggering and moving to its own rhythm and its own beat.
— Maria Haskins, "13 brilliant fantasy & science fiction short stories"
Most spec stories I’ve read about Christianity in the New World limit themselves to the clashes between the spiritual powers of indigenous people and the relentless Christians determined to stamp out the pagan menace. This story brings another dimension to the narrative: that of Jewish people persecuted by the Inquisition. The two girls at the center of it forge a bond that sees neither of them having to give up their own beliefs and core selves in order to understand and help each other. It’s a beautiful story and highly recommended.
— K. Tempest Bradford, io9 Newsstand
Starting 2015 right – an amazing story by Vourvoulias and one that is so very relevant to current events. This short tells us about Jimena Villagrán, a police officer in Zombie City – a grimy downbeat precinct home only to addicts, dealers, and the homeless. But this is a city with magic and monsters of the supernatural variety as well the as the mundane kind.
— Books and Pieces
“The Dance of the White Demons” by Sabrina Vourvoulias is the anchor leg of (Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History) and unfolds in Guatemala during the Spanish Conquest. The fierceness of Vourvoulias’s writing is matched by her distinct lack of sentimentality.
— Serena W. Lin, Necessary Fiction
It starts with a first line as fierce as the punch of a luchadora, and never lets up.
— Lillian Cohen-Moore
The novel is an excellent example of dystopian science fiction and ably demonstrates the power of such fiction to alert us to the consequences of “if this goes on.”
— Los Angeles Review of Books
If Margaret Atwood were Latina, this eerily believable depiction of where U.S. immigration policy is heading is the novel she would have written instead of The Handmaid’s Tale.
— Latinidad, “Best Books of 2012″
