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Miguel Angel Fernández Delgado (Mexico City, 1967). Lawyer with an M.A. in the History of Mexico, a Ph.D. in History, and, at present, chronicler of the Mexican Association of SF and Fantasy (AMCyF). Gabriel Trujillo, one of the most important historians and critics of Mexican SF, has told about him that he is « the keenest and most methodic researcher of the genre » of his country. Fernández's works had been translated into English, French and German, and published in six countries. He is the coauthor of the first Mexican Encyclopedia in CD ROM ; winner of the Goliardos 2000 award for his contributions to the knowledge of the genre, and author, among many titles, of Visiones Periféricas (Lumen, 2001), an anthology of Mexican SF, and of a critical edition of the first Mexican SF short story of his country, which was written by a Franciscan friar prosecuted by the Holy Inquisition in 1775. He is a member of the Planetary Society, The Science Fiction Foundation, The Mexican Association of History of Science and Technology, and also contributed to the Innovative Technologies from SF for Space Applications Project (ITSF Project) with a study of Mexican SF.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Amado Nervo : La última guerra, cuentos y poemas de ciencia ficción (antología, México, Goliardos, 2000).
Sizigias y cuadraturas lunares (edición anotada, México, Goliardos, 2001).
Visiones Periféricas : Antología de la ciencia ficción mexicana (Buenos Aires, Lumen, 2001).
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