A Planet for Rent

( Spanish - Se alquila un planeta - 2001 )

novel by Yoss

translated by David Frye

Published: Restless Books - trade paperback - 2015
ISBN: 1632060361 / 9781632060365

Restless Books - e-book - 2015
eISBN: 1632060086 / 9781632060082
ASIN: B00UKEGGMM


synopsis
Wracked by economic and environmental problems, the desperate Earth is rescued, for better or worse, by alien colonizers, who remake the planet as a tourist destination. Ruled over by a brutal interstellar bureaucracy, dispossessed humans seek better lives via the few routes available - working for the colonial police; eking out a living as black marketeers, drug dealers, or artists; prostituting themselves to exploitative extra-terrestrial visitors - or facing the cold void of space in rickety illegal ships.

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