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Exclusive Interview: Red Dust Author Yoss

 

Originally published in 2003, under the name Polvo, Yoss’ comedic sci-fi noir detective novel Red Dust (paperback, Kindle) is finally coming to the English-speaking part of the world, courtesy of Restless Books. In the following email interview — which had Spanish translation help from Jenna Tang — the Cuban-born author discusses what inspired and influenced this novel, as well as the new English language version of Miguel Collazo’s The Journey (Kindle), another classic of Cuban science fiction, for which Yoss wrote a new intro.

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Exclusive Interview: Condomnauts Author Yoss

 

It’s always interesting to see how science fiction writers put their own unique spins on stories of first contact between humanity and aliens. Take, for example, Condomnauts (paperback, Kindle), the sci-fi space opera by Yoss, who — in the following email interview that was translated from Spanish by Lily Seibert — explains how his story of first contact is, well, rather intimate.