A review by lmurray74
Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic by Guillermo Samperio, Chris N. Brown, Amparo Dávila, José Luis Zárate, Eduardo Jiménez Mayo, Iliana Estañol, Yussel Dardón, Donaji Olmedo, Queta Navagomez, Eduardo Mendoza, Alberto Chimal, Mónica Lavín, Carmen Rioja, Ana Gloria Álvarez Pedrajo, Amélie Olaiz, Mauricio Montiel Figueiras, Horacio Sentíes Madrid, Karen Chacek, Agustín Cadena, Bernardo Fernández, Bruno Estañol, Hernán Lara Zavala, Liliana Blum, Jesús Ramírez Bermudez, María Isabel Aguirre, Pepe Rojo, Claudia Guillén, Edmee Pardo, Óscar de la Borbolla, Gabriela Damián Miravete, Gerardo Sifuentes, Rene Roquet, Lucía Abdó, Beatriz Escalante, Ana Clavel

4.0

I'd love to read some of these stories in the original Spanish. Not that I felt the translations were clunky but I feel that with 'lo fantastico' the ambiguities present in the Spanish language are used to advantage. "Lo fantastico" is one of my favourite genres. You often never know until the end how things are and what was really going on. Not science fiction nor fantasy nor a mix of the two. Cortazar is maybe the best known of the writers who often use this genre and China Mieville's work is also reminiscent of lo fantastico. There were a lot of stories in here I loved, some I liked but none that I didn't enjoy. I'll definitely look out for many of these authors down the line. I'm grateful this anthology was put out.