Solaris is pleased to announce that it has acquired a new novel by
Mexican and Canadian author Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
Signal to Noise is a literary fantasy novel set against the
background of Mexico City, ones of the world’s biggest cities and a unique
setting for a story about the very real magic of music.
This latest acquisition by the award-winning publisher of
science-fiction, fantasy, horror, and anthologies will be published in February 2015.
Solaris editor-in-chief Jonathan Oliver said: "I read Signal
to Noise on a beautiful summer day, sitting in my back garden. Silvia's
book utterly transported me and by the end I was left in pieces. This is a
beautiful, powerful novel, quite unlike anything else I have read. I'm truly
proud to be bringing this to Solaris."
Mexico City, 1988: Long before
iTunes or MP3s, you said “I love you” with a mixtape. Meche, awkward and
fifteen, has two equally unhip friends -- Sebastian and Daniela -- and a whole
lot of vinyl records to keep her company. When she discovers how to cast spells
using music, the future looks brighter for the trio. With help from this
newfound magic, the three friends will piece together their broken families,
change their status as non-entities, and maybe even find love...
Mexico City, 2009: Two decades
after abandoning the metropolis, Meche returns for her estranged father’s
funeral. It’s hard enough to cope with her family, but then she runs into
Sebastian, and it revives memories from her childhood she thought she buried a
long time ago. What really happened back then? What precipitated the bitter
falling out with her father? And, is there any magic left?
Silvia said of the genesis of Signal
to Noise: “Both my parents were radio announcers. So was my grandfather. I
even had a brief stint in radio as a child and my mother used to take me to the
radio station since I was a baby. Signal
to Noise was an attempt to understand our fascination with music and sound.”
About the author:
Mexican by birth, Canadian by
inclination, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
lives in beautiful British Columbia with her family and two cats. Her
speculative fiction has been collected in This
Strange Way of Dying and has appeared in a number of anthologies,
including Imaginarium: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing. She is the
winner of the Carter V. Cooper/Exile Short Fiction Competition and a finalist
for the Manchester Fiction Prize. She tweets @silviamg and blogs at
silviamoreno-garcia.com
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