Praise for
Super Extra Grande
“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.”
“A lighthearted space-opera adventure by Cuban author Yoss…. This novel’s madcap tone is very similar to Douglas Adams’…. An exceptionally enjoyable comic tale set in a fully realized, firmly science-fictional universe.”
“Science fiction is a place where minority authors have brilliantly mixed the possibilities of the future with the sociopolitical problems of their time. Everything from politics and sexism to racism and the silence of the subaltern (the one Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak wrote about) have been explored within the context of a narrative that takes place in a fictional future. Cuban science fiction author Yoss’ Super Extra Grande does all these things…. [Yoss] marries hard science with wild invention and throws that mix into a hilarious, politically and sexually charged universe where all alien races have stopped being unknown to each other.”
Copyright
Copyright © 2013 José Miguel Sánchez Gómez
Translation copyright © 2018 David Frye
First published as Condonautas by Casa Editora, Havana 2013
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This work is published with the support of Charles Dee Mitchell.
First Restless Books paperback edition July 2018
ISBN: 9781632061867
eISBN: 9781632061874
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017963941
Cover design by Edel Rodriguez
Text design, typesetting and eBook by Tetragon, London
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