Chunga Maya

In Chunga Maya and Other Stories, Alejandro Martín Rojas Medina writes Cuban science fiction that's sharp, approachable and richly imaginative. Across five stories, salt air eats away at buildings, household technology becomes a means of social control, shared dreams fuel black markets, and necessity breeds creatures. It's a harsh future where survival has a price and dignity has consequences.

Vivid, rhythmic prose brings together cyberpunk, biotechnology and social criticism, with people always at the heart of the stories. Characters bargain with the system, their own bodies and their guilt. Work wears them down, cities devour them, and small decisions change everything. Each story asks an unsettling but plausible question about what happens when innovation outpaces ethics.

For science fiction readers seeking original worlds, narrative tension and questions that linger after the book is closed. If you're drawn to Latin American futures, technological dilemmas and stories with bite, this is the perfect place to start.