Our Amplified Earth, Episode 1, Hijo De Xavier

By Patrick Francis Waters

Marco Zavala needed money. He made an oath to a witch on the bus. Then a 750-lb luchador bit off part of his skull. He should have died. He didn't. He can't. Episode 1 of Our Amplified Earth.

In 2115, the masked men of La Liga Grandiosa aren't just wrestlers - they're the muscle of Xavier El Burro's empire. Marco Zavala should never have stepped in the ring. But a blood oath sworn to a wandering telepath and a devastating debut match leave him neither dead nor alive - just different. Now the man with the burro has plans for him. And El Super Pobre has nothing left to lose. Lucha libre. Nanobots. Zombie science. The Serial begins.

Patrick Francis Waters opens his globe-trotting sci-fi serial in Mexico City's Los Volcanes district, where an ornate lucha libre economy operates under the iron authority of Xavier El Burro - a crime boss, impresario, and pioneer of what he calls Ciencia Negra. When down-on-his-luck Marco Zavala debuts in La Liga Grandiosa against a 750-pound monster named Gordo Loco, the outcome is catastrophic - and the beginning of something far stranger.

Hijo De Xavier is body horror, crime fiction, and pulp adventure in one. It introduces the masked criminal architecture, the narcobotanical world, and the interconnected web of characters that run through the entire Our Amplified Earth series.

For readers of William Gibson, George Saunders, and whoever wrote the craziest lucha libre fever dream you've ever read.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1957174099
• ISBN13: 9781957174099
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Coffin & Crown Ltd
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"