As genres, science fiction and crime have always had things in common, such as social criticism and the ability to make their readers reflect on themes that affect us directly as a community. Therefore, the appearance of stories that experiment with these two genres and combine them has been a constant, and it is now undergoing a revival. In the last year alone, we can find four magnificent examples of this trend, executed with great skill by prestigious authors. One of them is Anna Maria Villalonga, with Encara maten els cavalls, a futuristic tribute to the great novel by Horace McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (La Campana). But that is not the only hybrid novel of the season: In Sota el fang (La Magrana), Joan Roca Navarro offers a dark mystery where the landscapes of the Ebro delta become the protagonists of the story. Along the same lines, in La cepa afgana en Barcelona (Pez de Plata), Sergi Puertas opts for a dystopian plague, set in a Barcelona under quarantine and facing the breakdown of civilisation as a whole. And lastly, Jordi de Manuel, a usual suspect in the interplay between  crime and dystopia, has reached a new high with Caront (Clandestina), as well as coordinating the above-mentioned steampunk anthology Vapor negre. Barcelona steampunk 1911.