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03186aam a2200457Ii 4500 001 578181601DA411EBAAA0CA112BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201103011456 008 181015s2020 nyu 000 1 eng d 010 $a 2018956661 020 $a 1632062461 020 $a 9781632062468 (softcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1056733098 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d DPL $d SO$ $d OCLCF $d NZAUC $d IW5 $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h spa 050 4 $a PQ7390.S256 082 04 $a 863/.64 $2 23 100 0 $a Yoss, $d 1969- $e author. 240 10 $a Polvo rojo. $l English 245 10 $a Red dust : $b a novel / $c Yoss ; translated from the Spanish by David Frye. 250 $a First Restless Books paperback edition. 260 $a Brooklyn, New York : $b Restless Books, $c [2020] 300 $a 169 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a "First published as Polvo rojo in Premio UPC 2003 by Ediciones B, Barcelona, 2004"--Title page verso. 520 $a "From beloved Cuban science fiction author Yoss comes a bitingly funny space-opera homage to Raymond Chandler, about a positronic robot detective on the hunt for some extra-dangerous extraterrestrial criminals. On the intergalactic trading station William S. Burroughs, profit is king and aliens are the kingmakers. Earthlings have bowed to their superior power and weaponry, though the aliens, praying-mantis-like Grodos with pheromonal speech and gargantuan Collosaurs with a limited sense of humor, kindly allow them to do business through properly controlled channels. That's where our hero comes in, name of Raymond. As part of the android police force, this positronic robot detective navigates both worlds, human and alien, keeping order and evaporating wrongdoers. But nothing in his centuries of experience prepares him for Makrow 34, a fugitive Cetian perp with psi powers. Meaning he can alter the shape of the Gaussian bell curve of statistical probability--making it rain indoors, say, or causing a would-be captor to shoot himself in the face. Raymond will need all his training--and all his careful study of Chandler's hardbitten cops--to meet his match. As he did in his brilliantly funny and sharp science-fiction parables A Planet for Rent, Super Extra Grande, and Condomnauts, Yoss makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar in Red Dust, giving us an unforgettable half-human hero and a richly imagined universe where the bad guys are above the laws of physics."--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Androids $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Extraterrestrial beings $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Human-alien encounters $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Psychic ability $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Science fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Science fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Space operas (Fiction) $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Humorous fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Detective and mystery fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Cuban fiction $v Translations into English. $2 local 700 1 $a Frye, David L., $e translator. 941 $a 3 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20201215011249.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20201215010626.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20201103013019.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=578181601DA411EBAAA0CA112BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search