sal and gabi break the universe by carlos hernandez

He plays with the multiverse in several stories, giving a wounded vet a chance to walk on legs as long as he’s within a lab where parts of the multiverse can be borrowed and replicated, or having multiverse-hopping extraterrestrials encounter an overly-enthusiastic border guard patrolling for illegal aliens. If that kind of surprise doesn’t keep readers turning pages, then Hernandez’s quirky way of looking at the world certainly will. The short stories in the collection don’t always end happy, and they frequently surprised me before they concluded, taking a left turn just before the end when I thought I’d known where they were going. Salvador is a physics professor who posits that time is multiple dimensions-and who, with the help of practicing Santeria, has broken through the multiverse. There, Gabby is a reporter for a newspaper that covers the weird and wacky, including panda robots that help real pandas procreate, multiverse hopping unicorns, and a piano that may be carrying the soul of the world-class pianist who performed on it. Both characters, in adult incarnations, from another part of the multiverse, appear in the collection The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria. Sal and Gabi didn’t originate as middle school characters. If you’ve yet to pick up any of those, “Phew, Baby,” as one of Hernandez’s characters would say, you’re in for a ride… Quantum Santeria You can find him in Uncanny, The Years Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017, and in his multiverse bending collection, The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria. Hernandez has written more than 30 works of fiction, poetry, and drama, not to mention game design-he served as one of the lead writers in the historical role playing game Meriwether: An American Epic. But even if you don’t read middle grade novels, Hernandez is an author to watch. His second middle-grade novel, Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe, sequel to last year’s Sal and Gabi Break the Universe(which was one of Den of Geek’s Best Books of 2019), has just been released through the Rick Riordan Presents imprint.

If you don’t read middle-grade fantasy, you may have missed out on reading the excellent fiction of Carlos Hernandez.

Sal and gabi break the universe by carlos hernandez