PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksThe collection employs many of the fantastic tropes that have become part of our shared culture... except even these tropes are confused, short-circuited ... It is hard to overstate how central this feeling of disorientation is to the experience of reading Ten Planets. It is at once the book’s most infuriating feature and its most alluring ... [Herrera\'s] prose reminds me of postmodernism’s playful fascination with language ... Herrera’s fiction is most satisfying when it is most frustrating. It is the more opaque stories in the collection that I find myself pulled back toward, revisiting them in a spirit of curiosity rather than confusion ... That Ten Planets can be so hazy and engrossing is just one of its many paradoxes—and I take a certain familiarity with paradox to be the mark of great fiction.
