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    Red Dust
    Red Dust
    Red Dust
    Audiobook3 hours

    Red Dust

    Written by Yoss

    Narrated by Javier Vaszquez

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    About this audiobook

    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 outmaneuver his quarry.
    As he did in his brilliantly funny and sharp science-fiction satires 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.

    Editor's Note

    Galaxy-romping…

    Raymond, who’s somewhere between human and android, polices the intergalactic William S. Burroughs trading station, which is controlled by all-powerful aliens. When a dangerous humanoid called Makrow 34 escapes and begins to wreak havoc with his psychic powers, Raymond must harness his collective intelligence, experiences, and abilities to stop the madness. Yoss (“Super Extra Grande,” “Condomnauts”) takes readers on a thrilling, funny, galaxy-romping ride that expertly blends sci-fi and detective fiction.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEverand Productions
    Release dateApr 27, 2022
    ISBN9781094435664
    Author

    Yoss

    Born José Miguel Sánchez Gómez, Yoss assumed his pen name in 1988, when he won the Premio David in the science fiction category for Timshel. Together with his peculiar pseudonym, the author's aesthetic of an impentinent rocker has allowed him to stand out amongst his fellow Cuban writers. Earning a degree in Biology in 1991, he went on to graduate from the first ever course on Narrative Techniques at the Onelio Jorge Cardoso Center of Literary Training, in the year 1999. Today, Yoss writes both realistic and science fiction works. Alongside these novels, the author produces essays, reviews, and compilations, and actively promotes the Cuban science fiction literary workshops, Espiral and Espacio Abierto.

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    • 3/5
      The beginning and middle were very good. I liked the characters and understood them. The ending felt rushed and unfinished.
    • 3/5
      It was an OK, kinda lite sci-fi story. It didn’t remind me in style or plot of a Raymond Chandler book, as I expected from the description. The main character is simply fascinated by that author.
    • 1/5
      A flatter narrator, I've never heard. I lasted about 10 minutes.
    • 5/5
      An entertaining and well-written sci-fi novella. Perfect for a flight or long drive. Excellent narrative experience.
    • 3/5
      Great book by a sci-fi loving man who forgot women exist, for sci-fi loving men who forget women exist

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    • 5/5
      Stellar. Absolutely loved this novel. Its Raymond Chandler by way of great science fiction. Murder mystery set in space by a synthetic positronic android robot, think Data from Star Trek, in world ruled by aliens who keep humans out of the greater space and economy beyond their own galaxy. The story is an obvious tribute to Raymond Chandler and it is really really good. So good. Read a Raymond Chandler book before or immediately after Red Dust and you will get it. Its dang good. Murder mystery that in the end - the solving of the crime and the threads that the crime unravels will foretell humanities place in space - humanities very future. Themes of politics and friendship and noir abound in heaving spoonfuls. The Santa Ana winds are blowing hard tonight; what else are you gonna do? Pick up a knife maybe?