About the author
Simon Jimenez is a Filipino American novelist whose speculative fiction combines mythic scale with intimate questions about family, violence, memory, and the stories used to legitimize power.
The Vanished Birds moves across space and centuries, while The Spear Cuts Through Water uses a theatre frame and nested voices to tell an epic about two warriors carrying a dying god.
Where to start
Start with The Spear Cuts Through Water for Jimenez’s formally adventurous fantasy epic, or The Vanished Birds for his science-fiction debut.
