Ten Planets: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781644452233)

A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by "one of Mexico's finest novelists" (Vulture).

The characters that populate Yuri Herrera's surprising new story collection inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and instability of the present. Drawing on science fiction, noir, and the philosophical parables of Jorge Luis Borges's Fictions and Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics, these very short stories are an inspired extension of this significant writer's work.

In Ten Planets, 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 meager bacterium in a human intestine gains consciousness when a psychotropic drug is ingested. Monsters and aliens abound, but in the fiction of Yuri Herrera, knowing who is the monster and who the alien is a tricky proposition.

In Ten Planets, Herrera's consistent themes--the mutability of borders, the wounds and legacy of colonial violence, and a deep love of storytelling in all its forms--are explored with evident brilliance and delight.

Author: Yuri Herrera
ISBN-10: 1644452235
ISBN-13: 9781644452233
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Language: English
Published: 03/21/2023
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.51w x 0.47d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2022 pg. 5
Publishers Weekly 11/14/2022
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2023
Shelf Awareness 04/07/2023