When a Robot Decides to Die and Other Stories - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Vanderbilt University PressISBN-13:9780826502223ISBN-10:826502229UPC:9780826502223Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Science Fiction, Dystopian, Hispanic & LatinoSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.41 inchesWeight:0.52Product ID:SCG71PV3ZT
A manufactured and pre-programmed serial killer; a suicidal robot; a romantic necrophiliac; and an archaeologist who feeds the perverse desires of aficionados of the apocalypse--Francisco García Gonzalez's stories map out literary and metafictional approaches to the sci-fi universe in ways that echo the humor and violence of Miguel de Cervantes, María de Zayas, Jorge Luis Borges, Rosa Montero, and Roberto Bolaño. With a scholarly introduction by translator Bradley J. Nelson that introduces García González's oeuvre to contemporary readers and scholars of Spanish-language literature, this science fiction collection introduces Anglophones to this unique author. García González turns a black mirror on contemporary society and its relation both to history and to the future. His insightfulness and relevance draw comparisons with Margaret Atwood, Neal Stephenson, and China Miéville, though his verbal economy and elegance are more akin to Cormac McCarthy, producing both disturbingly uncanny violence and unexpected comedy.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Vanderbilt University PressISBN-13:9780826502223ISBN-10:826502229UPC:9780826502223Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Science Fiction, Dystopian, Hispanic & LatinoSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.41 inchesWeight:0.52Product ID:SCG71PV3ZT
Francisco García González is a writer, editor, and screenwriter. He was born in Havana in 1963. He won Cuba's Hemingway Short Story Prize in 1999. Bradley J. Nelson is a professor of Spanish at Concordia University.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
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