Super Extra Grande (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781632060563)

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 Post

With 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.

Author: Yoss
ISBN-10: 1632060566
ISBN-13: 9781632060563
Publisher: Restless Books
Language: English
Published: 06/07/2016
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2016
Foreword 08/25/2016