Alex Hernandez (writer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Alex Hernandez (writer)

American comics writer

Date of Birth: 27-Sep-1978

Place of Birth: Miami, Florida, United States

Profession: writer, science fiction writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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About Alex Hernandez (writer)

  • Alex Hernandez (born 27 September 1978) is a Cuban-American science fiction writer based in South Florida.
  • The first of his extensive Cuban family to be born in the United States, Hernandez writes in a genre of his own making, which he calls Transhuman Mambo (also the title of his 2013 short story collection).
  • According to Hernandez this neologism is based on the popular coupling of a scientific term with a musical form (e.g.
  • space opera), which accurately describes the combination of his love of science fiction with the Cuban culture of his upbringing.
  • Deeply influenced as a child by the work of Isaac Asimov, Hernandez connected in a personal way to this immigrant whose first language was also not English.
  • Discovering the novels of Octavia E.
  • Butler while in college had an equally profound impact on his writing. Hernandez got his start writing indie webcomics in the early 2000s.
  • He is known for his work on the open source character, Jenny Everywhere.
  • He also has an extensive list of creator-owned work such as Eleggua, Thoth Boy, Kobuta, Children of Mars. Whilst working as an administrator of the Miami Dade College Library, Hernandez has published a number of short stories in science fiction publications, including “A Thing with Soft Bonds”, which was included in Near Kin: A Collection of Words and Art Inspired by Octavia E.
  • Butler (2014) and which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
  • Most recently, his story “Caridad” was included in Latin@ Rising An Anthology of Latin@ Science Fiction and Fantasy, Wings Press, 2017.
  • Hernandez's short stories have also appeared in the popular and long-running Man-Kzin Wars series created by Larry Niven published by Baen Books.
  • Others of his stories have been published at Baen.com, The Colored Lens, and Interstellar Fiction. Hernandez is a third cousin of Orlando Ortega-Medina, the author of Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions.

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