Gabriel S. de Anda
Bewildering Stories biography
Contrary to popular speculation, I am not the same Gabriel de Anda as Jeff VanderMeer’s character of the same name in his 1993 short story/poem “Flight Is For Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over.”
At least the last time I checked.
My primary love is for science fiction and fantasy. I have sold stories which were published in Gordon Linzner’s Space and Time and in Chris Reed’s British magazine Backbrain Recluse.
I have had poetry published in Best New Chicano Writing of 1986 edited by, among others, the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. A short story of mine titled “Par Autre Vie” won the silver in the Magnolia and Moonlight Fiction Contest of 2002, organized by author Mark Hoover and judged by the writer James Van Pelt. Two of my stories, “Local Color” and “My Year To Be a Horse,” were quarter-finalists in the 2002 Ray Bradbury Fellowship/New Century Writer Awards.
I’ve self-published a collection of stories and three science fiction novels. They are:
Cherubimbo and Other Stories, which was reviewed favorably in Asimov’s magazine;
Scissors, Rock and Paper Doll, published through Xlibris books and, like all my books, available at Amazon;
My Dinner with Jodorowsky, a tale of time travel introducing the Kronokaze;
and most recently, 2020’s Orchidia favorably blurbed by the extraordinary author Paul Di Filippo, author of Ribofunk and other books, as well as the co-author of stories written with Bruce Sterling and Rudy Rucker. Di Filippo writes::
“The same fresh wind that streams through the postmodern space operas of Tom Toner, Ann Leckie and Yoon Ha Lee fills the sails of Gabriel de Anda’s astonishing and thrilling Orchidia. A metaphysical adventure, a high-tech love story, a droll and sardonic dissection of institutions and customs, it reads as if Stanislaw Lem, Cordwainer Smith and Gene Wolfe had collaborated on a six-hour script for Star Trek: The Original Series. If you love realpolitik intrigues mixed with heart-breaking romance and exotic planetary venues, this book will become your inseparable companion.”
My author’s website is at gabrielsdeanda.com
I am honored to be a part of the stories gathered by Bewildering Stories, which is a cornucopia of superb, nicely imagined and very entertaining fiction, and it’s exciting to be part of that.Copyright © 2021 by Gabriel S. de Anda
