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Cuban Science Fiction Rock Star Yoss's Live Events

July 28, 2016 in Science Fiction, Events

Cuban science fiction master Yoss has been world-making for decades, but for most U.S. readers, he may as well have inhabited one of the remote planets he writes about—until now. Yoss will be visiting the United States to participate in several festivals and talks to present his books A Planet for Rent, a colonial allegory that speaks to contemporary Cuban-American relations, and Super Extra Grande, a romping space opera following the adventures of a gigantic veterinarian who specializes in treating gigantic aliens—and saving the universe of course.

Yoss is more than just a sci-fi rockstar with a degree in biology; he has also been a real rockstar frontman in a Havana metal band and will be playing at Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends event co-hosted by BOMB Magazine at Issue Project Room. Read on for more out-of-this-world Yoss sightings.

AUTHOR EVENTS:

• September 15 : Restless and BOMB Present an evening of Cuban Heavy Metal and Sci-Fi (Brooklyn, NY)

• September 18 : Tash Aw, Yoss, and Restless at the Brooklyn Book Festival (Brooklyn, NY)

September 28: Boston University (Boston, MA)

September 30: Brookline Booksmith (Brookline, MA)

October 6: UIC's Latino Cultural Center (Chicago, IL)

• October 8: Chicago Public Library's Indie Author Day (Chicago, IL)

• October 11: Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI)

• October 12: With Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo at Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI)

• October 14: City Lit Books (Chicago, IL) (Chicago, IL)

• October 18: Diesel, A Book Store (Oakland, CA)

• October 27: UCLA (Los Angeles, CA)

• October 28: NYU's King Juan Carlos Center (New York, NY)

• October 31: New York University Bookstore (New York, NY)

• November 2: Brown University (Providence, RI)

• November 3: University of Connecticut Barnes & Noble (Storrs, CT) (Storrs, CT)

• November 14: With Ilan Stavans for the Philip K. Dick Film Festival (New York, NY)

• November 19: Yoss at the Miami Book Fair International (Miami, FL)


Get the books: 

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And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic
And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic
$22.00

Edited by Ilan Stavans

In this rich, eye-opening, and uplifting anthology, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, artists, and translators from more than thirty countries send literary dispatches from life during the pandemic. A portion of proceeds benefit booksellers in need.

World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translation of 2020

Paperback • ISBN: 9781632063021
Publication date: Aug 25, 2020

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A Planet for Rent
$15.99

by Yoss

Translated from the Spanish by David Frye

Cuban Science Fiction

“A Planet for Rent is the English-language debut of Yoss, one of Cuba's most lauded writers of science fiction. Translated by David Frye, these linked stories craft a picture of a dystopian future: Aliens called xenoids have invaded planet Earth, and people are looking to flee the economically and socially bankrupt remains of human civilization. Yoss' smart and entertaining novel tackles themes like prostitution, immigration and political corruption. Ultimately, it serves as an empathetic yet impassioned metaphor for modern-day Cuba, where the struggle for power has complicated every facet of society”

—NPR, Best Books of 2015

Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060365
Publication date: Jun 23, 2015

Super Extra Grande
Super Extra Grande
$15.99

By Yoss

Translated from the Spanish by David Frye

Cuban Science Fiction

Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of 2016 • 2017 Philip K. Dick Award Finalist • Best Translated Book Award Longlist • 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

Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060563
Publication date: Jun 7, 2016

Condomnauts
Condomnauts
$16.99

By Yoss

Translated from the Spanish by David Frye

Cuban Science Fiction

“Yoss (Super Extra Grande) is an eminent Cuban SF writer who also fronts a heavy metal band; his iconoclastic spirit and rock-and-roll aesthetic are on full ingenious display in this daring, rollicking, and joyous novel…. This extended dirty joke is also an impressive science fiction novel with much to say about sex, culture, and what it means to be alien.”  —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Paperback • ISBN: 9781632061867
Publication date: Jul 17, 2018

Red Dust
Red Dust
$17.00

By Yoss

Translated from the Spanish by David Frye

Cuban Science Fiction

The 2021 Science Fiction and Fantasy Rosetta Awards Shortlist

From beloved Cuban science fiction author Yoss comes a bitingly funny space-opera homage to Raymond Chandler, about a positronic robot detective on the hunt for some extra-dangerous extraterrestrial criminals. 

Paperback • ISBN: 9781632062468 
Publication date: Jul 7, 2020

The Journey
The Journey
$14.99

By Miguel Collazo

Translated from the Spanish by David Frye

Introduction by Yoss

Cuban Science Fiction

eBook • ISBN: 9781632060204
Publication date: Jul 7, 2020

eBook available from: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes | Kobo

El Viaje (Spanish)
El Viaje (Spanish)
$14.99

de Miguel Collazo

introducción por Yoss

Cuban Science Fiction

eBook • ISBN: 9781632060402
Publication date: July 7, 2020

eBook available from: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Google | iTunes | Kobo

Se alquila un planeta
Se alquila un planeta
$9.99

de Yoss

Cuban Science Fiction

«José Miguel Sánchez es el autor cubano de ciencia ficción más premiado, el que más prestigio tiene en el mainstream sin dejar de cultivar este género y el único que vive de su pluma entre los residentes en la Isla».

—Cuenta Regresiva

Reseñado en The New York Times Magazine

eBook • ISBN: 9781632060297
Fecha de publicación: 30 Sep 2014

eBook disponible de: Amazon  |  iTunes | Kobo
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Get all four books by Cuba’s greatest science fiction rock star—Yoss!—for just $45:

  • A Planet for Rent

  • Super Extra Grande

  • Condomnauts

  • Red Dust

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