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Title Red dust / Yoss ; translated from the Spanish by David Frye.
Publisher Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, [2020]
Copyright ©2020
Description 169 pages ; 21 cm
Edition First Restless Books paperback edition.


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 NS-Adult Collection  SCIENCE FICTION YOSS Nearby on shelf  30651003898222 (none)  AVAILABLE
Note "First published as Polvo rojo in Premio UPC 2003 by Ediciones B, Barcelona, 2004"--Title page verso.
NOTE Translated from the Spanish.
Summary "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."--Provided by publisher.
"On the intergalactic trading station William S. Burroughs, profit is king and aliens are the kingmakers. Earthlings have bowed to their superior power and weaponry, though the aliens--praying-mantis-like Grodos with pheromonal speech and gargantuan Collosaurs with a limited sense of humor--kindly allow them to do business through properly controlled channels. Thats where our hero comes in, name of Raymond. As part of the android police force, this positronic robot detective navigates both worlds, human and alien, keeping order and evaporating wrongdoers. But nothing in his centuries of experience prepares him for Makrow 34, a fugitive Cetian perp with psi powers. Meaning he can alter the shape of the Gaussian bell curve of statistical probabilitymaking it rain indoors, say, or causing a would-be captor to shoot himself in the face. Raymond will need all his trainingand all his careful study of Chandler's hardbitten copsto outmaneuver his quarry. As he did in his brilliantly funny and sharp science-fiction satires A Planet for Rent, Super Extra Grande, and Condomnauts, Yoss makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar in Red Dust, giving us an unforgettable half-human hero and a richly imagined universe where the bad guys are above the laws of physics."-- Amazon.com.
Subject Androids -- Fiction.
Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction.
Human-alien encounters -- Fiction.
Psychic ability -- Fiction.
Outer space -- Fiction.
Genre Science fiction.
Space operas (Fiction)
Humorous fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Add'l Names Frye, David L., translator.
ADD'L TITLE Polvo rojo. English
ISBN 9781632062468
1632062461
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