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A different aesthetic showing the most interesting varieties in the literary treatment of a wide range of themes related to science and technology, the 30 preselected stories come from the following Latin American countries: Spain, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Brazil and Colombia. The works were selected from a pool of 530 stories – 404 in Spanish and 126 in Portuguese – sent in from 17 countries in the region during a call that closed on August 31.

The final selection – conducted by the prestigious authors Martín Felipe Castagnet, Liliana Colanzi, Fernanda Trias, Joca Reiners Terron, Veronica Stigger and João Tordo – will be announced in December 2023. Package release will be done both. In paper virtual format, international distribution to other countries in the region and in two versions: one in Spanish (paper and virtual) and the other in Portuguese (virtual).

Below we present 30 inappropriate works and their authors’ pseudonyms:

• A test – Krino
• Ein Sof – Reineke Fuchs
• She drew birds – William Boo
• Thelma 2.0 – Free sea
• Chicago Abyss – Malinche
• Prayer – Saturnina
• speak well – M. Larson
• Fyodor machine Alexey
• machine – Inocencio Aguas Stivali
• Holographic Boy – Bess
• Circle – Mysterics
• Momoland – Porrigon
• For Eliza – Leonora
• 2054 – Achiras
• The Girl with the Wolves – home
• I know you will come looking for me. Machinist
• Irregularity – Salvador
• Silk Road – Patricia Neal
• Third Chance – M. the witch
• We were good people – Dr. oh
• Anthropocene – JH Britto
• Miracles – Miguel Attic
• Even if I don’t hand over the note – Arctic fox
• Corridor of Time – Bone injury
• The day after waking up – The famous Chronopion
• pearls – Joseph Kern
• Non-Stick Robot – Cecilia Centillon
• Work while they sleep – Aurora Security
• Disrespectful and especially digital compulsion – Arturo Belano
• life – Maria Pimenta

For more information on the award – rules, schedule, reading panel and biographies of jury members – go here.