The most successful and controversial Cuban science fiction writer of
all time, Yoss (aka José Miguel Sánchez Gómez) is known for his acerbic
portraits of the island under Communism. In his best-selling A Planet
for Rent, Yoss pays homage to Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles
and 334 by Thomas M. Disch. A critique of Cuba in the 90s, after the
fall of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, A
Planet for Rent marks the debut in English of an astonishingly brave
and imaginative Latin American voice.