Welcome! I’m M.A. Álvarez, and this is one of my books.
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MEDIANICAL AGE:
Drifting through the tides of time
- Author: M.A. Álvarez (Mª Auxiliadora Álvarez).
- Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy.
- Year of publication: 2025
- Publisher: Lacuhe Ediciones (New York).
- Edition: Print and digital.
- Pages: 142.
- Novel with illustrations by the author.
- Hashtag: #medianicalage
- Spanish edition: 2023 (Lacuhe Ediciones).
SPANISH EDITION:
Synopsis
The title Medianical Age is a play on words composed of medieval, age and mechanical. This is because the story takes place in medieval times and in a distant mechanized future as follows:
One promising day, sometime in the Middle Ages, a deceitful and charlatan surgeon goes to a castle and assures the lord that he can cure his son’s madness by removing a stone from his head. Since childhood, he has claimed to see strange beings, which only he can perceive, and this has led to his confinement by his ashamed family.
In the distant future, a renowned visionary known as K-79 receives an important award for his work in the world of science: the construction of cyborgs from people who were about to die in the past, for different purposes.
Everything seems to be going according to his plans; however, K-79 detects an anomaly in the Middle Ages and discovers that its existence is in danger …
Author: M.A. Álvarez
Medianical Age (Spanish edition) presentation at LACUHE Book Fair, New York 2024.
M.A. Álvarez (Mª Auxiliadora Álvarez, Seville, Spain, 1984). Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Seville. Writer, illustrator and graphic designer.
Author of the books and novels: Medianical Age: Drifting through the tides of time / Medianical Age: A la deriva entre las mareas del tiempo, The Face Within the Lute / El Rostro en el Laúd (both novels, published in English and Spanish by Lacuhe Ediciones, New York, in 2025 and 2023, respectively), Casos Descartados (3rd ed. Ediciones Daimon, Argentina, 2024) and El Décimo Paciente y otras historias de terror (Ediciones Pangea, Seville, 2019, 2025).
Winner of two literary contests in the year 2011: the “XVI edition of the Carmen Conde Literary Contest, in its IX edition of short stories,” organized by Grupo Aldea (Literary Association of Andalusian Writers) and the “‘Becquerian Legends’ Contest,” organized by the Public Library of Gines (Seville). Subsequently, finalist in the “I International Contest of Fantasy and Horror Novel ‘Dagon’” organized by Ediciones Rubeo in the year 2015, with her novel El Rostro en el Laúd and finalist in the “Ignotus Awards 2023 of Pórtico” (Spanish Association of Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror) in the categories Short Story and Article.
Many of my stories have been published in anthologies and magazines and narrated or adapted to sound fiction in different programs and audio fiction channels.