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Bibliographic Information
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A planet for rent
- Author
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Yoss, 1969-
- Publisher:
- Restless Books,
- Pub date:
- 2015.
- Description:
- 277 pages ;
- ISBN:
- 1632060361
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Item info:
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2 copies currently available - North Park Library and Tuckahoe Library.
- Number of holds:
- 0
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A planet for rent
Yoss, 1969-
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Personal Author:
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Yoss, 1969-
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Uniform title:
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[Se alquila un planeta. English]
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Title:
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A planet for rent / Yoss ; translated from the Spanish by David Frye.
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Publication Info:
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Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, 2015.
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Physical descrip:
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277 pages ; 21 cm
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Contents:
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For rent, one planet -- Social worker -- Mestizos -- Performing death -- The world human parliament -- The champions -- The sacred tigers -- The rules of the game -- The majority shareholder -- Aptitude assessment -- Divers -- Escape tunnel -- Somewhere, tomorrow ... -- The platinum card.
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Summary:
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"From Cuba's most celebrated science fiction author, A Planet for Rent critiques life under Castro by conjuring a possible Earth of the not-so-distant future. Wracked by economic and environmental problems, the desperate planet is rescued, for better or worse, by alien colonizers, who remake it as a tourist destination. Ruled over by a brutal interstellar bureaucracy, dispossessed humans seek better lives through the few routes available--working for the colonial police; eking out a living as black marketeers, drug dealers, or artists; prostituting themselves to extraterrestrial visitors--or face the cold void of space in rickety illegal ships."--Back cover.
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Held by:
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NORTH-PARK TUCKAHOE
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Subject term:
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Human-alien encounters--Fiction.
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Genre index term:
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Science fiction. lcgft
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Added author:
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Frye, David L.,