Super Extra Grande

Super Extra Grande

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: heâ€™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 galaxyâ€™s seven intelligent species, he must embark on a daring mission through the insides of a gigantic creature and find two swallowed ambassadorsâ€”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.

Praise for Yoss

â€œOne of the most prestigious science fiction authors of the island.â€

â€”On Cuba Magazine

"A gifted and daring writer."

â€”David Iaconangelo

"JosÃ© Miguel SÃ¡nchez [Yoss] is Cubaâ€™s most decorated science fiction author, who has cultivated the most prestige for this genre in the mainstream, and the only person of all the Islandâ€™s residents who lives by his pen.â€

â€”Cuenta Regresiva

About the Author

Born JosÃ© Miguel SÃ¡nchez GÃ³mez, Yoss assumed his pen name in 1988, when he won the Premio David in the science fiction category for Timshel. Together with his peculiar pseudonym, the author's aesthetic of an impentinent rocker has allowed him to stand out amongst his fellow Cuban writers. Earning a degree in Biology in 1991, he went on to graduate from the first ever course on Narrative Techniques at the Onelio Jorge Cardoso Center of Literary Training, in the year 1999. Today, Yoss writes both realistic and science fiction works. Alongside these novels, the author produces essays, reviews, and compilations, and actively promotes the Cuban science fiction literary workshops, Espiral and Espacio Abierto.

About the Translator

When he isnâ€™t translating, David Frye teaches Latin American culture and society at the University of Michigan. Translations include First New Chronicle and Good Government by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Peru, 1615); The Mangy Parrot by JosÃ© JoaquÃn Fernandez de Lizardi (Mexico, 1816), for which he received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; Writing across Cultures: Narrative Transculturation in Latin America by Ãngel Rama (Uruguay, 1982), and several Cuban and Spanish novels and poems.
Country USA
Manufacturer Restless Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-06-05
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Restless Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-06-05
Format	Kindle eBook

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