by Santiago Ramon y Cajal · University of Illinois Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780252073557
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«Vacation Stories» is the science fiction short story collection by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, published by University of Illinois Press in paperback.
The collection brings together five speculative stories in which scientific curiosity proves both fascinating and dangerous; under the pretext of science, religion or the state, human ambition and greed prey on the most vulnerable.
English edition of 272 pages with translation by Laura Otis, published in 2006. The original work, «Cuentos de vacaciones: (narraciones seudocientíficas)», was published in Spanish in 1905.
For those interested in early 20th-century science fiction and the literary side of Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specialising in neuroanatomy, and the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906. Ramón y Cajal was the first Spaniard to win a scientific Nobel Prize. His original investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain made him a pioneer of modern neuroscience.
