Salmonella Men on Planet Porno

A new work by Yasutaka Tsutsui has a great title, Salmonella Men on Planet Porno, that is inspiring some interesting review titles. Miami Herald: Naked fantasies with edge  and Harvard Crimson, 'Porno' Goes Absurdist.

The San Francisco Chronicle points out, surprisingly it notes, that this only the second work by Tsutsui to get translated. He has written more than 30 novels.


Of this collection of short stories, SFGates' Abby Pollak, who wrote the review,  says the work is uneven but completes her review with a strong recommendation :

Nonetheless, Tsutsui's fabulously morbid sense of humor, his obsessiveness and his wit make this collection sufficiently entertaining and disturbing to warrant our attention, especially today when the world as we know it has indeed tilted into the fantastical.

Christine Thomas, writing for The Miami Herald, also endorses this work and writes:

... each and every story sizzles with energy, teems with issues and sweeps you happily along into the fantasy. This collection is not for the faint of heart. Instead, like those admitted to Newdopia, you must be open and truly progressive to receive its infinite joys.

This collection was written in the late 1970s. Harvard's Rebecca Schuetz writes: Japan was nearly 30 years ahead of us, as usual.