Wicked Weeds

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Pedro Cabiya is a poet, screenwriter, and award-winning author of the bestselling novels Trance and The Head, as well as the seminal short-story collections Historias tremendas (Pen Club Book of the Year) and Historias atroces. His work has been featured in numerous international anthologies, and his open letters, opinion pieces, and essays on politics, religion, human rights, art, and science regularly become viral phenomena. He has lived in Spain, the United States, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. He currently resides in the Dominican Republic, where he is dean of Academic Affairs at the American School of Santo Domingo and senior producer at Heart of Gold Films. ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR: Jessica Ernst Powell holds a PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published numerous translations of Latin American authors, including Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Jorge Luis Borges, Cesar Vallejo, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Silvina Ocampo, Edgardo Rivera Martinez, Maria Moreno, Edmundo Paz-Soldan, Liliana Heer, Alan Pauls, and Anna Lidia Vega Serova

• Scrapbook Contents RecordsHeartless Brainless I Brainless II Brainless III Spineless Laboratory1. A Simulacrum / Qualia 2. A Diligent Executive / Laboratory No. 3 3. Eccentricities / The Only Answer 4. Heart-shaped / Centrifugal Force 5. Beast / A Natural Talent 6. Intellectual / Wicked Weeds 7. Zombie Dreams / Chamber of Miracles 8. Virus / Testa di Legno / HAL 9000 9. Soi Cowboy / Blind Mongoose 10. Spiral / Slippery Snake / Force of Habit 11. Parsimony 12. The Fleeting Miracle / The Obstinacy of Ignorance 13. Step by Step, Day by Day / Guilt / Happiness 14. Get Up and Get Out VacuusRed Alchemy and PhotosynthesisS c r a p b o o k C o n t e n t sP–Zed Ghost in the ShellField JournalBusiness Opportunities The Three Stages of Vindication The Promise Ruination of the Soul La Citadelle The Foreman Appendix

Wicked Weeds named to top ten forthcoming books in science fiction, fantasy and horror by Publishers Weekly, in the Spring 2016 Announcements Isra Isle named as one of the 15 Works to Watch Out For in 2016, Rachel Cordasco, Speculative Fiction in Translation "[A] Caribbean zombie novel navigates the uncertain pathways of the human heart in this cerebral take on the undead. ...Isadore is one of three complicated women in our protagonist's life, one of a triptych that includes the passionate and visceral Patricia Caceres and the naive and open-hearted Mathilde Alverez. If you asked for a Caribbean version of Shakespeare's Weird Sisters, you'd get a portrait of these three characters... "[A] culturally resonant tale of zombie woe" Kirkus Reviews "Threats of a zombie apocalypse seem to be around every corner, but what's rare is an intelligent, thoughtful, funny, sentimental, socially conscious, and, yes, gross at times zombie tale infused with Caribbean culture, piques, prejudices, and passions. Pedro Cabiya delivers all of this and more in Wicked Weeds, one gentleman zombie's quest to recapture his lost qualia, that indefinable, internal, sensory perception of self...Whether you consider yourself a lover of zombie fantasies or not, devour Wicked Weeds for its unique perspective, cultural insights, and charged humor." Foreword Reviews "You know what's been missing in your life? A work of Caribbean noir and science fiction! in Wicked Weeks, a smart and successful zombie desperately searches for the formula that would reverse his "zombie-hood" and turn him into a "real person." Rachel Cordasco, Tor.com, Speculative Fiction in Translation: 15 Works to Watch Out For in 2016