Tropical Time Machines Science Fiction in the Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean

the remarkable recent increase in works of science fiction originating in Spanish-speaking parts of the Caribbean and their diasporas, Tropical Time Machines shows how writers, filmmakers, musicians, and artists are using the language of the genre to how previous Caribbean literature and film has characterized places including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic as "out of sync" with Western time, occupying a repeating or static space, Emily Maguire argues that science fiction breaks these cycles and resituates the region temporally and spatially. In chapters on cyberpunk, zombies, post-apocalyptic narratives, and the ab-real, Maguire shows how recent cultural production analyzes and critiques the ways globalization and national leadership have reinforced the region's that employs the science fictional mode makes room for a new vision of the Caribbean, Maguire demonstrates--an alternate perspective in which the region has agency in shaping its own narratives and trajectories.