Bibliograph

Ten planets, stories, Yuri Herrera ; translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman

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Ten planets, stories, Yuri Herrera ; translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Ten planets

Responsibility statement

Yuri Herrera ; translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman

Sub title

stories

Summary

Drawing on science fiction, noir, and the philosophical parables of Jorge Luis Borges's Fictions and Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics, this collection features fantastical stories in which monsters and aliens abound, but knowing who is the monster and who is the alien is a tricky proposition

Table Of Contents

The science of extinction -- Whole entero -- The obituarist -- The cosmonaut -- House taken over -- Consolidation of spirits -- The objects -- The objects -- Flat map -- The Earthling -- The monsters' art -- Obverse -- Inventory of human diversity -- Zorg, author of the Quixote -- The other theory -- The conspirators -- Appendix 15, number 2: The exploration of Agent Probii -- Living muscle -- The last ones -- Warning

Target audience

general

resource.variantTitle

10 planets

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Creator