Super Extra Grande
- Authors
- Yoss
- Publisher
- Restless Books
- Tags
- science fiction , fantasy , humour , science fiction;latin america;cuban science-fiction;cuban sci-fi;sci-fi;science-fiction;cuban writer;communism;dystopian;soviet union;fall of the soviet union;english language debut;controversial writer;critique;nineties;1990's;yoss;agustín de rojas;english translation;latin american science fiction;latin american sci-fi;havana book
- Date
- 2014-04-15T07:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.13 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 he’s a veterinarian who specializes in treating enormous alien animals. Mountain-sized amoebas, multisex species with bizarre reproductive processes, razor-nailed, carnivorous humanoid 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 the inimitable Yoss.