Reading Cosmos Latinos started off as an attempt by me to expand my reading repertoire and hopefully get exposed to interesting science fiction that I’d never read. By the end though, the reading experience became like eating my vegetables. Clean your plate and they are good for you. For the most part the stories selected for this anthology were ones I did not like much. A few were good. Overall the mood set by the selections was quite depressing. The best of the stories ended on hopeful notes. None except the Utopian screed that opened the volume were out and out positive experiences. One or two were ironically positive types though.

Full review at my blog: http://reading.kingrat.biz/reviews/cosmos-latinos-andrea-bell ( )

Cosmos Latinos is an sf/f short story collection by Latino writers. It's got essays, and short stories from a few hundred years ago to roughly present day. The works were originally in Spanish and translated into English.

I generally hate short stories, but with this collection, I felt like I was finally reading something that someone like me wrote, someone who knew what it was like to grow up like me, someone who had the same expectations as me.