The 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 Fictions and Calvino's
Cosmicomics, these very short stories signal a new dimension in the
work of this significant writer. 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 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. This collection
of stories, with a breadth that ranges from philosophical flights
of fancy to the gritty detective story, leaves us with a sense of
awe at our world and the worlds beyond our ken, while Herrera
continues to develop his exploration of the mutability of borders,
the wounds and legacy of colonial violence, and a deep love of
storytelling in all its forms.
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