Smoking Mirror Blues: A Novel [Paperback]

When Beto Orozco revives the ancient Aztec god Tezcatlipoca via artificial intelligence technology in the ethnically indeterminate, cyber-heavy future, the trickster god inhabits Beto's body and enters the Hollywood scene in Ernest Hogan's (High Aztech) Smoking Mirror Blues. This hyperactive, racy, imaginative novel imagines the collision of a pop-American underworld, practically limitless technological capabilities and a mischievous deity's predilection for taking control by wreaking havoc.
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"...hyperactive, racy, imaginative novel..." -- Publisher's Weekly, Sept. 17, 2001

"...the most original voice to hit science fiction since Harlan Ellison." -- Ben Bova

"Ernest Hogan has created a kind of North American magic realism..." -- Norman Spinrad

Science Fiction novel

AN ANCIENT GOD

Tezcatlipoca, the Mirror that Smokes, warrior/wizard god of the Aztecs. Western Civilization thought it wiped him out centuries ago...

A NEW TECHNOLOGY

With the help of silly-bio nanochips, Beto Orozco creates an artificial intelligence version of Tezcatlipoca. The result is a computerized resurrection...

THE FUTURE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME

So Tezcatlipoca hijacks Beto's body, and runs wild through futuristic Hollywood. The trickster adapts well to the brave, new world, and gets back to his old business of creating chaos and taking control...

Ernest Hogan is the author of two internationally acclaimed novels, CORTEZ ON JUPITER and HIGH AZTECH. His short fiction has appeared in SCIENCE FICTION AGE, AMAZING STORIES, LAST WAVE, NEW PATHWAYS, PENTHOUSE HOT TALK, PULPHOUSE, PROUD FLESH, THE RED DOG JOURNAL, ANALOG and the SEMIOTEXT(E) SF anthology. "Black Obsidian," his story collaboration with Rick Cook was included in the latest YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION edited by Gardner Dozois and was nominated for a Nebula Award.

Hogan was born in Los Angeles. His mother's maiden name is Garcia. He has climbed the pyramids from Teotihuacan to Chichen Itzan. He has worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, writer, and consultant on pre-Columbian mythology and applied surrealism. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona, and is married to at least two science fiction writers.