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Darkly humorous and surreal, Fernando A. Flores's borderlands fiction heralds the future. His new novel Brother Brontë chronicles deportation flights, government propaganda and a tech dystopia.

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Mar 18, 2025
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Fernando A. Flores. (Photo by Steven Ray Martinez)

Broken satellites lie in junk heaps alongside refrigerators and mattresses. Libraries have been shuttered and books banned. A changing climate has pushed the electricity grid to the brink. Newspapers are dead; information comes only through specific controlled portals. Deportation flights sound overhead.

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