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Translator Andrew Driver Publication date September 2006 Pages 252 pp OCLC 68772629 | 3.6/5 Goodreads Publisher Alma Books Media type Print (Paperback) Originally published September 2006 Genre Short story | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language English translation of Japanese Similar Works by Yasutaka Tsutsui, Short Stories | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Salmonella Men on Planet Porno (2006) is a collection of short stories by Japanese science fiction 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
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 20 February 2009.
A radio dramatisation of the title story, "Salmonella Men on Planet Porno", was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 28 February 2009.[1]