With the playfulness and ingenuity of Douglas Adams, the Cuban
science-fiction master Yoss delivers a space opera of intergalactic
proportions with Super Extra Grande, the winner of the 20th annual UPC
Science Fiction Award in 2011.
In a distant future in which Latin Americans have pioneered
faster-than-light space travel, Dr. Jan Amos Sangan Dongo has a job with
large and unusual responsibilities: He's a veterinarian who specializes
in treating enormous alien animals. Mountain-sized amoebas, multisex
species with bizarre reproductive processes, razor-nailed, carnivorous
humanoid hunters: Dr. Sangan has seen it all. When a colonial conflict
threatens the fragile peace between the galaxy's seven intelligent
species, he must embark on a daring mission through the insides of a
gigantic creature and find two swallowed ambassadors - who also happen
to be his competing love interests.
Funny, witty, raunchy, and irrepressibly vivacious, Super Extra Grande
is a rare specimen in the richly parodic tradition of Cuban science
fiction, and could only have been written by a Cuban heavy-metal rock
star with a biology degree: the inimitable Yoss.
