Super Extra Grande
- Authors
- Yoss
- Publisher
- Restless Books
- Tags
- cuban writer , soviet union , cuban science-fiction , latin america , cuban sci-fi , 1990's , nineties , critique , latin american science fiction , english translation , humour , controversial writer , dystopian , agustín de rojas , communism , sci-fi , fantasy , english language debut , fall of the soviet union , latin american sci-fi , science fiction , yoss , havana book , science-fiction
- ISBN
- 9781632060563
- Date
- 2014-04-15T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.25 MB
- Lang
- en
***Kirkus Reviews* Best Fiction of 2016 **
**Barnes and Noble Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2016**
**“Intergalactic space travel meets outrageous, biting satire in *Super Extra Grande*…. Its author [Yoss] is one of the most celebrated—and controversial—Cuban writers of science fiction…. Reminiscent of Douglas Adams—but even more so, the satire of Rabelais and Swift.”**** —*The Washington Post***
With the playfulness and ingenuity of Douglas Adams, the Cuban science-fiction master Yoss delivers a space opera of intergalactic proportions with *Super Extra Grande*, the winner of the twentieth annual UPC Science Fiction Award in 2011.
In a distant future in which Latin Americans have pioneered faster-than-light space travel, Dr. Jan Amos Sangan Dongo has a job with large and unusual responsibilities: he’s a veterinarian who specializes in treating enormous alien animals. Mountain-sized amoebas, multisex species with bizarre reproductive processes, razor-nailed, carnivorous humanoid hunters: Dr. Sangan has seen it all. When a colonial conflict threatens the fragile peace between the galaxy’s seven intelligent species, he must embark on a daring mission through the insides of a gigantic creature and find two swallowed ambassadors—who also happen to be his competing love interests.
Funny, witty, raunchy, and irrepressibly vivacious, *Super Extra Grande* is a rare specimen in the richly parodic tradition of Cuban science fiction, and could only have been written by a Cuban heavy-metal rock star with a biology degree: the inimitable Yoss.