Classic Ragtime Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of ragtime music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students the world over.

"e;Hard SF, satire, adventure, and some very strange humor combine in this intriguing, inventive, and sometimes disconcerting SF story."e; -Science Fiction Chronicle 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. "e;An alien first contact story featuring a hyperactive, irreverent, and self-absorbed Chicano artist from East LA. Cortez is recruited to make contact with creatures discovered on Jupiter who "e;speak"e; in projected images. It's a dangerous assignment; previous attempts to communicate have ended in insanity and death, but Pablo is always up for a little bit of craziness."e; - Michael Lichter, Amazon "e;It grabs you and won't let you go. The best [first novel] I've read in science fiction since Neuromancer."e; - Tom Witmore, Locus Not since Ayn Rand's Howard Roarke has there been an artist as iconoclastic, as idealistic, and as splendidly spectacular as Pablo Cortez. And look out, he's twice as radical! Energetic, fast-paced, funny, and thoroughly enjoyable."e; -Analog Combining hard science fiction with pyrotechnics worthy of "e;The Stars, My Destination,"e; Ernest Hogan 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. "e;If Hunter S Thompson and Alfred Bester had a Chicano child, it would be this."e; Dave Hutchinson 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. "e;Ernest Hogan is the creator of a Xicano science fiction genre with a crossover readership. …raw creativity."e; - Frank S Lechuga *** "e;All cultures have some acceptable form of human sacrifice. And if you really want to cause trouble, try taking it away."e; –Pablo Cortez

By the Father of Chicano Science Fiction!"e;Energetic, fast-paced, funny, and thoroughly enjoyable."e; -Analog"e;Ernest Hogan is the creator of a Xicano science fiction genre with a crossover readership. …raw creativity."e; - Frank S Lechuga Here Is What Ernest Hogan Has To Say About Some Of The 15 Gonzo* Stories In This Book...Part of the reason why a lot of what I do turns out science fiction is because it's so easy for me to identify with aliens and mutants. Being a Chicanoid polluted with Black Irish genes, I'm more Mutant Mex than Futuro-Africoid, and look like that brown, mongrelized Third World nightmare that ruins the sleep of so many Klansmen. This all leaves me with no culture that I can really call my own.THE YENAGLOSHI EXPRESSThe idea for this one came from a Kerouac-ian road trip through Arizona I took with my high school buddy, Dennis. I'm not sure if my comedic depiction of werewolves jibes with the horror that people have of them. But I'm an outsider from another culture.REXITOSI read an item about how on an island near Siberia, mammoths adapted to the post-Ice Age environment by becoming smaller. In reality, millions of years have gone by. Wouldn't some kind of evolution have gone on? I was following how South America was changing, with the drug trade and other developments, and had all these silly ideas from my fascination with sleazy jungle tales.PANCHO VILLA'S FLYING CIRCUSSteampunk started becoming popular, and the centennial of the 1910 Mexican Revolution came along. Then I decided to visualize it as a spaghetti western.The story was suddenly more focused and had a bad attitude that was perfect for the alternative universe social commentary.LUPITA'S HANDThe Western is the mythology of Norteamerica. The tropes of the western are loosening. The good guys don't have to be white or speak English. With different viewpoints, come different stories. Which is okay by me. I've always preferred my westerns weird. Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo is my all-time favorite.UNO! … DOS! ONE-TWO! TRES! CUATRO!They call me the Father of Chicano Science Fiction. I decided to run wild with the idea of what would happen if Chicanos had access to the technology of their mighty, rasquache imaginations, and to do some vicious what-if riffs on current political developments. When the story spun out of control, I let it.FRANK'S TRICER RUNOf course my bullfighting fascination overlaps into the running of the bulls at the Fiesta de San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain. Back in the Nineteen-Nineties, after Jurassic Park dinosaurs were all the rage. Could I come up with a story with dinosaurs and bullfighting? THE GREAT MARS-A-GO-GO MEXICAN STANDOFFCould I get away with using the word "e;Mexican"e; in the title of a science fiction story... Why not a space opera? With a private eye? And gangsters in a colonized solar system. Then I got my twisted mind working on it ... FLYING UNDER THE RADAR WITH PACO AND LOS FREETAILSThis is the origin story of my character, Paco Cohen, Mariachi of Mars. I was depressed, still observing, learning. I learned a lot from the Chicanas I worked with, their lives fascinated and inspired me. I imagined my situation on a colonized Mars.COYOTE GOES HOLLYWOODThis is inspired by my travels in the Southwest/Aztlán, and love of cartoons. All I had to do was plug Native American mythology into the modern media environment, and KER-BLAMMO!*The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Classic Ragtime Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of ragtime music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students the world over.

"e;Hard SF, satire, adventure, and some very strange humor combine in this intriguing, inventive, and sometimes disconcerting SF story."e; -Science Fiction Chronicle 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. "e;An alien first contact story featuring a hyperactive, irreverent, and self-absorbed Chicano artist from East LA. Cortez is recruited to make contact with creatures discovered on Jupiter who "e;speak"e; in projected images. It's a dangerous assignment; previous attempts to communicate have ended in insanity and death, but Pablo is always up for a little bit of craziness."e; - Michael Lichter, Amazon "e;It grabs you and won't let you go. The best [first novel] I've read in science fiction since Neuromancer."e; - Tom Witmore, Locus Not since Ayn Rand's Howard Roarke has there been an artist as iconoclastic, as idealistic, and as splendidly spectacular as Pablo Cortez. And look out, he's twice as radical! Energetic, fast-paced, funny, and thoroughly enjoyable."e; -Analog Combining hard science fiction with pyrotechnics worthy of "e;The Stars, My Destination,"e; Ernest Hogan 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. "e;If Hunter S Thompson and Alfred Bester had a Chicano child, it would be this."e; Dave Hutchinson 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. "e;Ernest Hogan is the creator of a Xicano science fiction genre with a crossover readership. …raw creativity."e; - Frank S Lechuga *** "e;All cultures have some acceptable form of human sacrifice. And if you really want to cause trouble, try taking it away."e; –Pablo Cortez

By the Father of Chicano Science Fiction!"e;Energetic, fast-paced, funny, and thoroughly enjoyable."e; -Analog"e;Ernest Hogan is the creator of a Xicano science fiction genre with a crossover readership. …raw creativity."e; - Frank S Lechuga Here Is What Ernest Hogan Has To Say About Some Of The 15 Gonzo* Stories In This Book...Part of the reason why a lot of what I do turns out science fiction is because it's so easy for me to identify with aliens and mutants. Being a Chicanoid polluted with Black Irish genes, I'm more Mutant Mex than Futuro-Africoid, and look like that brown, mongrelized Third World nightmare that ruins the sleep of so many Klansmen. This all leaves me with no culture that I can really call my own.THE YENAGLOSHI EXPRESSThe idea for this one came from a Kerouac-ian road trip through Arizona I took with my high school buddy, Dennis. I'm not sure if my comedic depiction of werewolves jibes with the horror that people have of them. But I'm an outsider from another culture.REXITOSI read an item about how on an island near Siberia, mammoths adapted to the post-Ice Age environment by becoming smaller. In reality, millions of years have gone by. Wouldn't some kind of evolution have gone on? I was following how South America was changing, with the drug trade and other developments, and had all these silly ideas from my fascination with sleazy jungle tales.PANCHO VILLA'S FLYING CIRCUSSteampunk started becoming popular, and the centennial of the 1910 Mexican Revolution came along. Then I decided to visualize it as a spaghetti western.The story was suddenly more focused and had a bad attitude that was perfect for the alternative universe social commentary.LUPITA'S HANDThe Western is the mythology of Norteamerica. The tropes of the western are loosening. The good guys don't have to be white or speak English. With different viewpoints, come different stories. Which is okay by me. I've always preferred my westerns weird. Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo is my all-time favorite.UNO! … DOS! ONE-TWO! TRES! CUATRO!They call me the Father of Chicano Science Fiction. I decided to run wild with the idea of what would happen if Chicanos had access to the technology of their mighty, rasquache imaginations, and to do some vicious what-if riffs on current political developments. When the story spun out of control, I let it.FRANK'S TRICER RUNOf course my bullfighting fascination overlaps into the running of the bulls at the Fiesta de San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain. Back in the Nineteen-Nineties, after Jurassic Park dinosaurs were all the rage. Could I come up with a story with dinosaurs and bullfighting? THE GREAT MARS-A-GO-GO MEXICAN STANDOFFCould I get away with using the word "e;Mexican"e; in the title of a science fiction story... Why not a space opera? With a private eye? And gangsters in a colonized solar system. Then I got my twisted mind working on it ... FLYING UNDER THE RADAR WITH PACO AND LOS FREETAILSThis is the origin story of my character, Paco Cohen, Mariachi of Mars. I was depressed, still observing, learning. I learned a lot from the Chicanas I worked with, their lives fascinated and inspired me. I imagined my situation on a colonized Mars.COYOTE GOES HOLLYWOODThis is inspired by my travels in the Southwest/Aztlán, and love of cartoons. All I had to do was plug Native American mythology into the modern media environment, and KER-BLAMMO!*The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction