Ten planets : stories / Yuri Herrera ; translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herrera, Yuri, 1970- author.

Contributor:

Dillman, Lisa, translator.

Standardized Title:

Diez planetas. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Monsters--Fiction.

Monsters.

Extraterrestrial beings--Fiction.

Extraterrestrial beings.

Science fiction.

Short stories.

Genre:

Short stories.

Physical Description:

108 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2023]

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.

Contents:

The science of extinction

Whole entero

The obituarist

The cosmonaut

House taken over

Consolidation of spirits

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.

Contains:

Herrera, Yuri, 1970- Ciencia de la extinción. English.

Herrera, Yuri, 1970- Entera. English.

Herrera, Yuri, 1970- Obituarita. English.

Herrera, Yuri, 1970- Cosmonauta. English.

Herrera, Yuri, 1970- Casa Tomada. English.

Herrera, Yuri, 1970- Consolidación anímica. English.

Herrera, Yuri, 1970- Objetos. English.

Herrera, Yuri, 1970- Plano. English.

Herrera, Yuri, 1970- Terrícola. English.

Herrera, Yuri, 1970- Arte de los monstruos. English.

ISBN:

9781644452233

1644452235

OCLC:

1374578283