Daína Chaviano (Author)

What would happen if we were suddenly to discover that dinosaurs -- those creatures whose sudden extinction has always fascinated humankind -- never really vanished? What would happen if it could be proved that dinosaurs really possessed their own civilization with a very special culture? How would an encounter with another intelligent species, one whose way of life and thought processes plunge our most deeply rooted values into crisis, affect humankind? 

The stories in this collection have been constructed with these notions as their point of departure, while using the common denominators of humor, the absurd, poetry, and eroticism. Taboos pertaining to art, society, and sex are all viewed through the lens of this encounter between two cultures. Humans and dinosaurs attempt to live together, but...

This book by Daína Chaviano, the last to be published in Cuba before the author left the island, has become a cult favorite for an entire generation.