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Paperback When a Robot Decides to Die and Other Stories Book

ISBN: 0826502229

ISBN13: 9780826502223

When a Robot Decides to Die and Other Stories

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A manufactured and pre-programmed serial killer; a suicidal robot; a romantic necrophiliac; and an archaeologist who feeds the perverse desires of aficionados of the apocalypse--Francisco Garc a Gonzalez's stories map out literary and metafictional approaches to the sci-fi universe in ways that echo the humor and violence of Miguel de Cervantes, Mar a de Zayas, Jorge Luis Borges, Rosa Montero, and Roberto Bola o.

With a scholarly introduction by translator Bradley J. Nelson that introduces Garc a Gonz lez's oeuvre to contemporary readers and scholars of Spanish-language literature, this science fiction collection introduces Anglophones to this unique author.

Garc a Gonz lez turns a black mirror on contemporary society and its relation both to history and to the future. His insightfulness and relevance draw comparisons with Margaret Atwood, Neal Stephenson, and China Mi ville, though his verbal economy and elegance are more akin to Cormac McCarthy, producing both disturbingly uncanny violence and unexpected comedy.
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