El Libro de la Tierra Negra is a science-fiction novel by Carlos Gardini. It was digitally published in 1991 by the magazine, Axxón, in print in 1993 by Ediciones Letra Buena, and later by Equipo Sirius in 2001. It won the 1991 Axxón Prize, and the 1992 Más Allá Prize awarded by the Argentine Science Fiction and Fantasy Circle. The novel's plot creates parallels with the gospel of the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus.