In Sesshu Foster’s explosive new novel Atomik Aztex, we get two narratives for the price of one. In the first (or maybe it’s the second, part of the delight of Foster’s book is that it’s impossible to ...

Hernan Cortes landed in Mexico in 1519; two years later, history tells us, the Aztec civilization fell to the Spanish invaders and was wiped out. "Atomik Aztex," the hallucinatory first novel by poet ...

Punk sci-fi and kitchen-sink realism create a startling, morally fraught vision in Foster's genre-straddling tour de force. In this codex of simultaneously existing alternate histories, the "Azteks," ...