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See that flock of birds over there? Looks pretty normal, right? But Nina sees right through their mangy feathers and divines their plot to end the world in a nuclear ball of white noise. What to do? Save the world armed only with a box of cereal? Perhaps.Karen Chacek lives in Mexico City. She writes science fiction, graphic novels, and stories for children. A story of hers appears in Three Messages and a Warning, a science fiction anthology from Small Beer Press.Abraham Balcazar is an illustrator based in Mexico City. He posts new work regularly at abrahambalcazar.blogspot.com.

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Clearly, the author and illustrator are co-conspirators in this wacky endeavor... Read Conspiracy Girl! Its true-to-life antics of a world gone crazy with noise will entertain and inspire. --Compass Book Ratings

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Karen Chacek is an inhabitant of parallel worlds and mind-stories. Born in Mexico City on a Saturday in June, she spent her childhood devouring comics, watching television, and reading books of fables. As a teenager, she discovered science fiction, music videos, and movies. Her fascination with the written image led her to study film. She now works as a screenwriter and author and was a fellow of the Sundance Film Institute in 2001 in Mexico and Barcelona. She has published the collection of short stories Parallel Days (2006) and two children s books, including Conspiracy Girl, originally published in Spanish in 2009, and has several pieces published in anthologies. She loves long walks in public parks, cloudy skies, insects, cats, underground passages and dystopias. Abraham Balcazar has been an illustrator since 2001. He is also the illustrator for the children's book Cuando las Panteras No Eran Negras/When Panthers Were Not Black (2010). He lives in Mexico City and keeps a blog at abrahambalcazar.blogspot.com.

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