WHEN A ROBOT DECIDES TO DIE AND OTHER STORIES IBD

Sinopse

A manufactured and pre-programmed serial killer, a suicidalárobot, a romantic necrophiliac, and an archaeologist who feeds the perverse desires of aficionados of the apocalypse-Francisco Garc¡a GonzalezâÇÖs stories map out literary and metafictional approaches to the sci-fi universe in ways that echo the humor and violence of Miguel de Cervantes,áMar¡a de Zayas, Jorge Luis Borges, Rosa Montero, and Roberto Bolaño.With aáscholarly introduction by translator Bradley J. Nelson thatáintroduces Garc¡a GonzálezâÇÖs oeuvre to contemporary readers and scholars of Spanish-language literature, this science fiction collectionáintroduces Anglophones to this unique author.Garc¡a Gonzálezáturns a black mirroráon 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 Miéville, though his verbal economy and elegance are more akin to Cormac McCarthy, producing both disturbingly uncanny violence and unexpected comedy.