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Tales of the Quintana Roo
  
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Tales of the Quintana Roo (Hardcover)

by James, Jr. Tiptree (Author), Glennray Tutor (Illustrator)
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In the early '70s Tiptree (the pseudonym of clinical psychologist Alice B. Sheldon), made a big splash in SF with a series of powerful, convoluted and misanthropic stories. The three recent tales included in this small, illustrated collection, however, show a certain mellowing. They are touristy romantic fantasies, all set in a Mayan region of the Yucatan Peninsula, the Quintana Roo. The heavy psychological freight that weighed down the earlier work remains, but the Mayans have been tritely cast in place of Tiptree's inscrutable aliens. In fact, her self-proclaimed "Mayaphilia" turns the Indians into one-dimensional objects of uncritical worship. Finally, these ghosts, gods incarnate and oceanic apparitions are pallid inventions with less impact than the unpleasant drawings that accompany them here.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Just amazing., Jun 3 2004
By Kenneth D'ambrosio (Merrimack, NH) - See all my reviews
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"Tales of the Quintana Roo", a fictional book set in the Yucatan peninsula (back in the 70's or so...) is a masterpiece. While there are only three stories, they are all good... and the title story is simply amazing. All of them deal with the mystical nature of the state of Quintana Roo, in Mexico (Cancun resides in it, for reference), and the mystical things that happen to those who venture there. While I don't want to give away plot, I'll take a moment to quote (from memory: hope I get it right) a poem from the beginning, which really sets the tone:

Tourists throw spent Polaroid
Where Spaniards threw spent slaves;
And now and then a tourist joins
Four thousand years of graves.
For loves it's wiser to avoid
Smiles from those brilliant waves.

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5.0 out of 5 stars magical, Oct 31 2002
By Gabriel M. Deal (seattle, wa United States) - See all my reviews
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This is one of the most striking books I have read in the last year. It contains three short stories, all set in the Yucatan with the same main character. All three deal with ambiguous, mysterious, and "magical" events that were told to the main character. The stories are told in a way that leaves you wondering if the events they tell of happened or if they came from the fevered minds and imaginations of the tellers. I read a lot and buy very few books, but this is a book that I will keep and lend to anyone who will accept it. The closest genre I can think of to Tales of the Quintana Roo is "urban fantasy", it has the same "maybe it could happen" feeling to it, but the setting, the Yucatan Peninsula, is much more romantic and evocative than the settings of the urban fanatasies I've read.
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