Ten Planets: Stories

ISBN: 1644452235

Author: Herrera, Yuri

Condition: Used

A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by one of Mexicos finest novelists (Vulture).The characters that populate Yuri Herreras surprising new story collection inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and instability of the present. Drawing on science fiction, noir, and the philosophical parables of Jorge Luis Borgess Fictions and Italo Calvinos Cosmicomics, these very short stories are an inspired extension of this significant writers work.In Ten Planets, objects can be sentient and might rebel against the unhappy human family to which they are attached. A detective of sorts finds clues to buried secrets by studying the noses of his clients, which he insists are covert maps. A meager bacterium in a human intestine gains consciousness when a psychotropic drug is ingested. Monsters and aliens abound, but in the fiction of Yuri Herrera, knowing who is the monster and who the alien is a tricky proposition.In Ten Planets, Herreras consistent themes-the mutability of borders, the wounds and legacy of colonial violence, and a deep love of storytelling in all its forms-are explored with evident brilliance and delight.