On Wednesday October 12, Yoss, author of Super Extra Grande, and Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, author of Abandoned Havana, will join at Marquette University for a public Spanish-language conversation on Cuban literature and politics.
When: Wednesday, October 12 at 3:30 pm
Where: Lalumiere 272, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
“A Planet for Rent is the English-language debut of Yoss, one of Cuba's most lauded writers of science fiction. Translated by David Frye, these linked stories craft a picture of a dystopian future: Aliens called xenoids have invaded planet Earth, and people are looking to flee the economically and socially bankrupt remains of human civilization. Yoss' smart and entertaining novel tackles themes like prostitution, immigration and political corruption. Ultimately, it serves as an empathetic yet impassioned metaphor for modern-day Cuba, where the struggle for power has complicated every facet of society”
—NPR, Best Books of 2015
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060365
Publication date: Jun 23, 2015
Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of 2016 • 2017 Philip K. Dick Award Finalist • Best Translated Book Award Longlist • 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
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060563
Publication date: Jun 7, 2016
“Yoss (Super Extra Grande) is an eminent Cuban SF writer who also fronts a heavy metal band; his iconoclastic spirit and rock-and-roll aesthetic are on full ingenious display in this daring, rollicking, and joyous novel…. This extended dirty joke is also an impressive science fiction novel with much to say about sex, culture, and what it means to be alien.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632061867
Publication date: Jul 17, 2018
The 2021 Science Fiction and Fantasy Rosetta Awards Shortlist
From beloved Cuban science fiction author Yoss comes a bitingly funny space-opera homage to Raymond Chandler, about a positronic robot detective on the hunt for some extra-dangerous extraterrestrial criminals.
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632062468
Publication date: Jul 7, 2020
eBook • ISBN: 9781632060204
Publication date: Jul 7, 2020
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eBook • ISBN: 9781632060402
Publication date: July 7, 2020
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«José Miguel Sánchez es el autor cubano de ciencia ficción más premiado, el que más prestigio tiene en el mainstream sin dejar de cultivar este género y el único que vive de su pluma entre los residentes en la Isla».
—Cuenta Regresiva
Reseñado en The New York Times Magazine
eBook • ISBN: 9781632060297
Fecha de publicación: 30 Sep 2014
eBook disponible de: Amazon | iTunes | Kobo
Audio libre disponible de: Audible
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“It is difficult to capture in images the soul of a landscape or a city.... Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo’s photographs, and the commentaries they are accompanied with, capture whirlwinds of souls and offer them to us in such way that our own soul is transformed."
—Fernando Savater
eBook • ISBN: 9781632060099
Publication date: Oct 14, 2014
«Es difícil capturar en imágenes el alma de un paisaje o una ciudad, quizá porque no tiene una sola sino muchas. Las fotografías de Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo y los comentarios que las prolongan atrapan torbellinos de almas y nos las ofrecen de tal modo que conmueven la nuestra. Nos enseñan a ver desde dentro y hacia dentro, sin resbalar sobre la superficie de las cosas».
—Fernando Savater
eBook • ISBN: 9781632060310
Publication date: Oct 14, 2014
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Edited by Ilan Stavans
In this rich, eye-opening, and uplifting anthology, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, artists, and translators from more than thirty countries send literary dispatches from life during the pandemic. A portion of proceeds benefit booksellers in need.
World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translation of 2020
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632063021
Publication date: Aug 25, 2020