{"product_id":"9781913505608-ten-planets","title":"Ten Planets","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on science fiction, noir, and the philosophical fiction of Borges\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand Calvino, these stories signal a new dimension in the work of this significant writer. Monsters and aliens abound, but who is the monster and who the alien? \u003ci\u003eTen Planets\u003c\/i\u003e leaves us with a sense of awe at our world and the worlds beyond our ken as Herrera takes a giant leap.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe characters that populate Yuri Herrera’s first collection of stories inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and instability of the present. Drawing on science fiction, noir, and the philosophical parables of Borges’s \u003ci\u003eFictions \u003c\/i\u003eand Calvino’s \u003ci\u003eCosmicomics\u003c\/i\u003e, these very short stories signal a new dimension in the work of this significant writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTen Planets\u003c\/i\u003e, objects can be sentient and might rebel against the unhappy human family to which they are attached. A detective of sorts finds clues to buried secrets by studying the noses of his clients, which he insists are covert maps. A meagre bacterium in a human intestine gains consciousness when a psychotropic drug is ingested. Monsters and aliens abound, but in the fiction of Herrera, knowing who is the monster and who the alien is a tricky proposition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection of stories, with a breadth that ranges from \u003cbr\u003ephilosophical flights of fancy to the gritty detective story, leaves us with a \u003cbr\u003esense of awe at our world and the worlds beyond our ken, while Herrera \u003cbr\u003econtinues to develop his exploration of the mutability of borders, the wounds \u003cbr\u003eand legacy of colonial violence, and a deep love of storytelling in all its \u003cbr\u003eforms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Brilliant, ecstatic and playful, \u003ci\u003eTen Planets\u003c\/i\u003e is the work of one of the most original and prodigiously gifted writers at work today. The grammar of a nose, a skeleton in a shoebox, a consciousness acquiring bacterium and a sentient house – the infinite worlds of this story collection are further proof that Herrera is a writer of boundless talent.’ Katie Kitamura\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40686760394849,"sku":"9781913505608","price":10.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28313422.jpg?v=1722498846","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781913505608-ten-planets","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}