Cortez On Jupiter

By Ernest Hogan
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Published: Feb. 18, 2012
Words: 47,573 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781465960733

Short description

"All cultures have some acceptable form of human sacrifice. And if you really want to cause trouble, try taking it away." Mythoteching. Splatterpainting. Zapware. A wild young Chicano artist who covers Greater Los Angeles with fantastic graffiti and a beautiful African telepath who opens the door to communications with the deadly Sirens of Jupiter -- on a journey from the barrio to the stars.

Extended description

"All cultures have some acceptable form of human sacrifice. And if you really want to cause trouble, try taking it away."

Mythoteching. Splatterpainting. Zapware. A wild young Chicano artist who covers Greater Los Angeles with fantastic graffiti. A beautiful African telepath who opens the door to communications with the deadly Sirens of Jupiter.

Not since Ayn Rand's Howard Roarke has there been an artist as iconoclastic, as idealistic, and as splendidly spectacular as Pablo Cortez. Combining hard science fiction with pyrotechnics worthy of the young Alfred Bester, CORTEZ ON JUPITER, tells the story of the painter who founds the Guerrilla Muralists Of Los Angeles, goes on to make Mankind's first contact with the sentient life-forms of Jupiter, and ends as the Solar System's most revered -- and least reverent -- artist.

It's a roller-coaster ride from vulgarity to the transcendent, as the unforgettable Pablo Cortez struggles, selfishly and selflessly, to expand humanity's consciousn.. (Read more) "All cultures have some acceptable form of human sacrifice. And if you really want to cause trouble, try taking it away."

Mythoteching. Splatterpainting. Zapware. A wild young Chicano artist who covers Greater Los Angeles with fantastic graffiti. A beautiful African telepath who opens the door to communications with the deadly Sirens of Jupiter.

Not since Ayn Rand's Howard Roarke has there been an artist as iconoclastic, as idealistic, and as splendidly spectacular as Pablo Cortez. Combining hard science fiction with pyrotechnics worthy of the young Alfred Bester, CORTEZ ON JUPITER, tells the story of the painter who founds the Guerrilla Muralists Of Los Angeles, goes on to make Mankind's first contact with the sentient life-forms of Jupiter, and ends as the Solar System's most revered -- and least reverent -- artist.

It's a roller-coaster ride from vulgarity to the transcendent, as the unforgettable Pablo Cortez struggles, selfishly and selflessly, to expand humanity's consciousness on a journey from the barrio to the stars.
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multicultural, cyberpunk, dystopian, chicano, splatterpainting

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