Salmonella Men on Planet Porno
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Salmonella Men on Planet Porno (2006) is a collection of short stories by Japanese sci-fi and metafiction
writer Yasutaka Tsutsui
in English translation by Andrew Driver. Not to be confused with the original Japanese collection ポルノ惑星のサルモネラ人間 (Poruno Wakusei no Sarumonera Ningen), these stories have been selected from a number of works written by Yasutaka Tsutsui.
First published by Alma Books in the UK, a US edition was produced by Pantheon Books (Random House) in November 2008.
Stories in the collection
The Dabba Dabba Tree / Rumours About Me / Don't Laugh / Farmer Airlines / Bear's Wood Main Line / The Very Edge of Happiness / Commuter Army / Hello, Hello, Hello! / The World is Tilting / Bravo Herr Mozart! / The Last Smoker / Bad for the Heart / Salmonella Men on Planet Porno
Rumours About Me was reproduced in the US literary magazine Zoetrope in its Summer 2008 issue.
A radio dramatisation of The Last Smoker
was broadcast on the UK's BBC Radio 4 on Friday 20th February 2009.
A radio dramatisation of the title story, "Salmonella Men on Planet Porno", was broadcast on BBC Radio 3
on Saturday 28th February 2009.http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hxkyr
Metafiction
Metafiction, also known as Romantic irony in the context of Romantic works of literature, is a type of fiction that self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction, exposing the fictional illusion...
writer Yasutaka Tsutsui
Yasutaka Tsutsui
is a Japanese novelist, science fiction author, and actor. Along with Shinichi Hoshi and Sakyo Komatsu, he is one of the most famous science fiction writers in Japan. His Yumenokizaka bunkiten won the Tanizaki Prize in 1987. He has also won the 1981 Izumi Kyoka award, the 1989 Kawabata Yasunari...
in English translation by Andrew Driver. Not to be confused with the original Japanese collection ポルノ惑星のサルモネラ人間 (Poruno Wakusei no Sarumonera Ningen), these stories have been selected from a number of works written by Yasutaka Tsutsui.
First published by Alma Books in the UK, a US edition was produced by Pantheon Books (Random House) in November 2008.
Stories in the collection
The Dabba Dabba Tree / Rumours About Me / Don't Laugh / Farmer Airlines / Bear's Wood Main Line / The Very Edge of Happiness / Commuter Army / Hello, Hello, Hello! / The World is Tilting / Bravo Herr Mozart! / The Last Smoker / Bad for the Heart / Salmonella Men on Planet Porno
Rumours About Me was reproduced in the US literary magazine Zoetrope in its Summer 2008 issue.
A radio dramatisation of The Last Smoker
The Last Smoker
The Last Smoker is a 1987 short story by Yasutaka Tsutsui that has been adapted for both television and radio. An English translation by Andrew Driver was published in the collection Salmonella Men on Planet Porno in 2008....
was broadcast on the UK's BBC Radio 4 on Friday 20th February 2009.
A radio dramatisation of the title story, "Salmonella Men on Planet Porno", was broadcast on BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3 is a national radio station operated by the BBC within the United Kingdom. Its output centres on classical music and opera, but jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also feature. The station is the world’s most significant commissioner of new music, and its New Generation...
on Saturday 28th February 2009.http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hxkyr