VERTIGO: Science Fiction

VERTIGO

SCIENCE FICTION

BY ADELA ZAMUDIO

Translated from the Spanish by

LYNETTE YETTER

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Spanish-language Editor: Tania Cano

English-language Editor: Michael Favala Goldman

Author: Zamudio, Adela (1854-1928), Bolivia

Translator from the Spanish: Lynette Yetter

Title: Vertigo: Science Fiction

ISBN-10 0-9843756-9-4 (pbk : alk. paper)

ISBN-13 978-0-9843756-9-1

ebook ISBN 979-8-9912634-1-2

1. Literature -Women -Latin America -Bolivia -Science Fiction.

2. Title.

First edition, printed in the United States of America, 2025

Cover art by Lynette Yetter, based on altering a graphic purchased from VectorStock.com.

CONTENTS

Introduction

by William Gillard, PhD

Vertigo

El vértigo

Afterword by the Translator

by Lynette Yetter

Acknowledgments

About the Author, Adela Zamudio (1854-1928), Bolivia

About the Translator, Lynette Yetter

About Fuente Fountain Books

INTRODUCTION

BY WILLIAM GILLARD, PHD

Adela Zamudio (1854-1928) is considered among Bolivia’s most famous poets and was a force in the birth of feminism in that country and region. She was born to upper-class parents, but their favorable position in society did not last. When her wealthy grandfather died, her father lost his job, then lost his investments. She was taken from an elite private school and sent to a charity school for orphans and the impoverished. As was government policy then, girls were removed from school after third grade (Yetter 8). Her parents believed in their daughter, however, and continued an informal education for her, filling their house with books from Bolivia and beyond. She began publishing her poetry at the age of fifteen and released her first book in 1887. She was involved in the intellectual and art scene, wrote and directed plays, established literacy programs in Quechua for poor Indigenous people, edited a variety of publications, and continued publishing her essays, poetry and short fiction in newspapers, magazines, international anthologies, and in her final poetry collection in 1914, Ráfagas. In 1901,