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Häftad, Spanska, 2023
237 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 2015264 kr
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“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 2015Out of the modern-day dystopia of Cuba comes an instant classic from the island’s most celebrated science fiction author: a raucous tale of a future in which a failing Earth is at the mercy of powerful capitalist alien colonizers. In A Planet for Rent, Yoss critiques life under Castro in the ‘90s by drawing parallels with a possible Earth of the not-so-distant future. Wracked by economic and environmental problems, the desperate planet is rescued, for better or worse, by alien colonizers, who remake the planet as a tourist destination. Ruled over by a brutal interstellar bureaucracy, dispossessed humans seek better lives via the few routes available—working for the colonial police; eking out a living as black marketeers, drug dealers, or artists; prostituting themselves to exploitative extraterrestrial visitors—or they face the cold void of space in rickety illegal ships. This inventive book marks the English-language debut of an astonishingly brave and imaginative Latin American voice.
E-bok
Engelska, 2016273 kr
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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 PostWith 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.
E-bok
Engelska, 2014176 kr
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YOSS (José Miguel Sánchez Gómez) es sin duda el autor más renombrado y controversial de la ciencia ficción cubana. En su best-seller Se alquila un planeta, nos ofrece la visión desgarradora de un porvenir en la Tierra que le sirve de espejo para reflexionar sobre la Cuba de los años noventa bajo el régimen de Fidel Castro. En este futuro mordaz, nuestro planeta es rescatado de sus problemas económicos y ambientales por la invasión de extraterrestres que lo transforman en un resort turístico interestelar. Consignados a una burocracia interestelar brutal, los desposeídos de la Tierra se empeñan en mejorar sus vidas a través de las pocas vías disponibles que tienen a su alcance, como son el trabajar para la policía colonial, ganarse la vida en el mercado negro, invertir en el narcotráfico, gozar del mundo galáctico del arte y la prostitución, y extraviarse en vacío en naves espaciales de fabricación casera en busca de una vida mejor. Yoss es conocido tanto por su estética de rockero impenitente como por sus retratos mordaces de la actualidad cubana. Este libro ingenioso y fascinante marca el debut en inglés de una de las voces literarias latinoamericana más intrépidas e imaginativas.
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
167 kr
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In his bestselling A Planet For Rent, Yoss critiques '90s Cuba by drawing parallels with a possible Earth of the not-so-distant future. Wrecked by economic and environmental problems, the desperate planet is rescued, for better or worse, by alien colonizers, who remake the planet as a tourist destination. Ruled over by a brutal interstellar bureaucracy, dispossessed humans seek better lives via the few routes available, or facing the cold void of space in rickety illegal ships.
E-bok
Engelska, 2018273 kr
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“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 ReviewIn the 24th century, Josué Valdés’ rise from an orphan in the slums of Rubble City, Cuba to one of the galaxy’s most accomplished explorers was nothing short of meteoric. On the streets, Josue raced cockroaches for cash—until he discovered his true-calling: as a sexual ambassador for humanity and the Nu Barsa colony. Every so-called “condomnaut” knows that diplomacy and trade deals depend on sexual pacts in the galactic community—and every encounter becomes a close encounter. While some condomnauts have been raised and genetically enhanced to meet the needs of any tentacled insectoid in the galaxy, Josué is a natural whose ego could eclipse the big dipper. Our intrepid condomnauts travel light years across the galaxy and discover that old rivalries—and prejudices—are never far behind. When the first extragalactic beings arrive in the Milky Way, and with them the potential to negotiate for extraordinary new technologies, Josué must call upon every ounce of his talent to seal the deal for his colony and all of humanity. Indirectly investigating current sexual mores, Cuban science fiction rock star Yoss plays upon stereotypes while making it clear that under Communist Cuba what is daring is not always funny and vice versa. Following the success of Super Extra Grande and A Planet for Rent, Yoss brings us another uproarious space adventure with Condomnauts, a wildly inventive and unapologetic tale that would make even Barbarella blush.
Häftad, Engelska, 2020, 12-15 år
180 kr
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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. On the intergalactic trading station William S. Burroughs, profit is king and aliens are the kingmakers. Earthlings have bowed to their superior power and weaponry, though the aliens—praying-mantis-like Grodos with pheromonal speech and gargantuan Collosaurs with a limited sense of humor—kindly allow them to do business through properly controlled channels.That’s where our hero comes in, name of Raymond. As part of the android police force, this positronic robot detective navigates both worlds, human and alien, keeping order and evaporating wrongdoers. But nothing in his centuries of experience prepares him for Makrow 34, a fugitive Cetian perp with psi powers. Meaning he can alter the shape of the Gaussian bell curve of statistical probability—making it rain indoors, say, or causing a would-be captor to shoot himself in the face. Raymond will need all his training—and all his careful study of Chandler’s hardbitten cops—to outmaneuver his quarry.As he did in his brilliantly funny and sharp science-fiction satires A Planet for Rent, Super Extra Grande, and Condomnauts, Yoss makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar in Red Dust, giving us an unforgettable half-human hero and a richly imagined universe where the bad guys are above the laws of physics.
E-bok
Engelska, 2020273 kr
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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.
On the intergalactic trading station William S. Burroughs, profit is king and aliens are the kingmakers. Earthlings have bowed to their superior power and weaponry, though the aliens—praying-mantis-like Grodos with pheromonal speech and gargantuan Collosaurs with a limited sense of humor—kindly allow them to do business through properly controlled channels.
That’s where our hero comes in, name of Raymond. As part of the android police force, this positronic robot detective navigates both worlds, human and alien, keeping order and evaporating wrongdoers. But nothing in his centuries of experience prepares him for Makrow 34, a fugitive Cetian perp with psi powers. Meaning he can alter the shape of the Gaussian bell curve of statistical probability—making it rain indoors, say, or causing a would-be captor to shoot himself in the face. Raymond will need all his training—and all his careful study of Chandler’s hardbitten cops—to outmaneuver his quarry.
As he did in his brilliantly funny and sharp science-fiction satires A Planet for Rent, Super Extra Grande, and Condomnauts, Yoss makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar in Red Dust, giving us an unforgettable half-human hero and a richly imagined universe where the bad guys are above the laws of physics.
E-bok
Spanska, 2021116 kr
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Obdulio Casamayor es un importante babalao muy respetado entre los fieles de La Regla de Ochá. Ya anciano, a Obdulio se le presenta una situación terrible: Daymarita, su bisnieta preferida, se ha fugado con Saúl Acosta, un cantante de heavy metal al cual Obdulio conoce desde hace años y cuya prodigiosa voz enamora a las masas. Pero Obdulio sabe que tras esa voz prodigiosa se esconde un mal de dimensiones incalculables y deberá unir fuerzas con un sacerdote católico, un rabino, un mago taoísta y bocoy vudú para salvar a Daymarita y a Cuba al completo.
Ljudbok
Spanska, 2021101 kr
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Obdulio Casamayor es un importante babalao muy respetado entre los fieles de La Regla de Ochá. Ya anciano, a Obdulio se le presenta una situación terrible: Daymarita, su bisnieta preferida, se ha fugado con Saúl Acosta, un cantante de heavy metal al cual Obdulio conoce desde hace años y cuya prodigiosa voz enamora a las masas. Pero Obdulio sabe que tras esa voz prodigiosa se esconde un mal de dimensiones incalculables y deberá unir fuerzas con un sacerdote católico, un rabino, un mago taoísta y bocoy vudú para salvar a Daymarita y a Cuba al completo.Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.José Miguel Sánchez Gómez, conocido como Yoss, es un autor cubano especializado en ciencia ficción. Es licenciado en Ciencias Biológicas por la Universidad de la Habana y graduado en Técnicas Narrativas por el Centro de Formación Literaria Onelio Jorge Cardoso. Se dedica profesionalmente a la escritura tanto como redactor periodístico como creador de ficción. Ha impartido talleres de narrativa en Chile, España, Italia, Andorra y Cuba y desde 1994 es miembro de la Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba. Cuenta con una quincena de novelas publicadas, las cuales le han valido galardones como el Premio Universidad Carlos III de Ciencia Ficción y el Premio Domingo Santos de Cuento de Ciencia Ficción.
E-bok
Spanska, 2021139 kr
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En un futuro muy lejano, los latinoamericanos han desarrollado el «Impulso González», la única manera conocida de viajar mucho más rápido que la velocidad de la luz. El «Impulso González» ha llevado a la humanidad a contactar con las únicas siete especies alienígenas inteligentes de todo el universo. Sin embargo, cuando el doctor Jan Amos Sangan Dongo, veterinario especializado en criaturas de tamaño súper extra grande, recibe un particular encargo, se verá involucrado en un conflicto que podría dar al traste con el precario equilibrio de fuerzas de todo el universo.Una desternillante y afiladísima obra de ciencia ficción que utiliza la hipérbole y el humor para hablarnos de nosotros mismos.
Ljudbok
Spanska, 2021106 kr
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En un futuro muy lejano, los latinoamericanos han desarrollado el «Impulso González», la única manera conocida de viajar mucho más rápido que la velocidad de la luz. El «Impulso González» ha llevado a la humanidad a contactar con las únicas siete especies alienígenas inteligentes de todo el universo. Sin embargo, cuando el doctor Jan Amos Sangan Dongo, veterinario especializado en criaturas de tamaño súper extra grande, recibe un particular encargo, se verá involucrado en un conflicto que podría dar al traste con el precario equilibrio de fuerzas de todo el universo. Una desternillante y afiladísima obra de ciencia ficción que utiliza la hipérbole y el humor para hablarnos de nosotros mismos.Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.Yoss, pseudónimo de José Miguel Sánchez Gómez, es un autor cubano nacido en La Habana en 1969. Biólogo de formación, se dedica desde hace años de pleno a la literatura de género, en especial de ciencia ficción. Se le reconoce como uno de los autores destacados del género en Latinoamérica. Asimismo, ha sido docente de narrativa en países como Chile, España, Italia, Andorra y Cuba. Su obra le ha valido premios como el UPC de ciencia ficción, el Domingo Santos, el Premio Ernest Hemingway y el UNEAC de novela.
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
167 kr
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With playfulness and ingenuity in the tradition of Douglas Adams, the Cuban science fiction master Yoss delivers a space opera of intergalactic proportions with Super Extra Grande, the winner of the 20th annual UPC Science Fiction Award in 2011. Set in a distant future, after the invention of faster-than-light space travel has propelled a still-immature mankind into the far corners of the Milky Way, the novel features creatures of immense variety. With his vast curiosity and wild imagination, Yoss brings us a rare specimen in the richly parodic tradition of Cuban science fiction.
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
174 kr
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In the 24th century, Josue Valdes' rise from the slums Rubble City, Cuba to one of the galaxy's most accomplished explorers was nothing short of meteoric. Once an orphan who spent his childhood on the street racing cockroaches for cash, Josue found his true-calling: a sexual ambassador for humanity and the Nu Barsa colony. Following the success of Super Extra Grande and A Planet for Rent, the wildly inventive and sexually progressive Condomnauts is a raucous and uproarious adventure that would make even Barbarella blush.