“In short poetic chapters in which layers of meaning and emotion are compressed into each sentence, Fernandez illustrates one more devastating way autocracy robs people, when it steals their ability to ever know for sure what reality is, or was.”?Salon.com

“Taut and evocative, award-winning Chilean author Fernandez’s [Space Invaders] shows how a dictatorship works from within to shape lives.”?BBC Culture

“There is a wonderful fogginess to Fernandez’s gorgeous prose, in this novella translated faultlessly by Natasha Wimmer, whose experience translating the works of Roberto Bolano and understanding of Latin America’s traumatic history with dictatorships aid her in rendering clarity without removing the elements that help Space Invaders do so much, so quickly.”?New York Journal of Books

“Like compatriot Alia Trabucco Zeran's recently published novel The Remainder, Fernandez takes a sidelong, subtle approach to the grim realities of life in the Chile of her youth, episodes of which, she suggests, figure in her story. A slender story, impressively economical, that speaks volumes about lives torn by repression.”?Kirkus Reviews

“Fernandez’s outstanding novel explores the nature of memory and dreams, and how after a certain point, they become indistinguishable.”?Publishers Weekly

“Space Invaders is an absolute gem?a book of uncommon depth, precise in its language, unsparing in its emotion, unflinching as it evokes a past many would prefer to forget. Within the canon of literature chronicling Pinochet’s Chile, Nona Fernandez’s Space Invaders is truly unique.”?Daniel Alarcon

“A dark and deceptively playful novel about a generation of Chilean kids who try to understand the terrible country they live in.”?Alejandro Zambra