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Paul Di Filippo is one of Science Fiction's finest short story writers, wild, witty, exuberantly imaginative; Babylon Sisters and Other Posthumans is a generous showcase of his strange, transformative, and powerful hard science fiction visions.
The fourteen stories collected here are glimpses into the most fantastic possibilities of human evolution-biological, social, and cultural. From a New York split into warring walled enclaves, to the destiny...
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22 Tales of of the fantastic -- science fiction, fantasy, fantastika, slipstream -- by one of the most acclaimed modern masters of the genre! Includes a bonus interview with the author. Included are:
LIFE IN THE CARBYNE AGE
GALAXY OF MIRRORS
SPECTER-BOMBING THE BEER GOGGLES
LIFE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
LITTLE WORKER
FRACTAL PAISLEYS
THE MILL
THE GRANGE
PHYLOGENESIS
GRAVITONS
REDSKINS OF THE BADLANDS
FarmEarth
ANGELMAKERS
THE JONES CONTINUUM
ADVENTURES...
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From the swarming, last-redoubt towers of the polar regions, where humanity huddles from the savage heat of Greenhouse Earth, to the dusty refugee camps of a shattered America; from the virtual reality landscape where teenagers seek to repair a wounded planet, to the post-human globe populated by wily transgenic heirs to mankind; and, lastly, across the ideology-splintered ruins of the U.S.A...a cast of dedicated survivors tries to make the best of...
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This volume contains twelve stories which, for one reason or another, have lain uncollected after their initial publication, an era spanning the years 1986 to 1999. Additionally, four never-sold stories of roughly the same vintage-pulled from Di Filippo's files, with the oldest dating from 1984-see print here for the first time.
THE MAN WHOM THINGS HATED
FLASHERS
BELOW THE WRACK
THE GREAT JONES COOP TEN GIGASOUL PARTY
CAMPION'S TREE
WINTER IN...
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"Di Filippo clowns his way through this transdimensional travelogue cut from the same cloth as Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." -Publishers Weekly
At forty-five-years-old, Paul Girard is a self-loathing clerk at an independent bookstore, having finally killed his dream of being a writer by throwing out his rejected manuscripts. Drowning in existential angst, Paul can't envision much of a future for himself-until he meets...
6) Cosmocopia
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An insane, broken pulp-art painter gets chance at redemption in a phantasmagoric science fiction wonder from a true master of the weird Before his stroke and the onset of old age, Frank Lazorg was the king of the fantasy illustrators-with an ego to match. But he can paint no more. That is, until he starts taking a bizarre new drug that promises to restore his creative powers. Unfortunately, artistic reinvigoration comes with a steep price tag: addiction...
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"Nothing is sacred to Di Filippo, as shown in this hilarious collection of parodies and other satirical writings that affectionately send up the SF genre." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
No one has a finger on the pulse of the future quite like Paul Di Filippo, and here he sets his sights on humanity's path in the wake of social media, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality-all with tongue firmly in cheek.
In an age of poetry...
8) Little Doors
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You can try to escape from the mundane, or with the help of Paul Di Filippo, you can take a short, meaningful break from it. In the vein of George Saunders or Michael Chabon, Di Filippo uses the tools of science fiction and the surreal to take a deep, richly felt look at humanity. His brand of funny, quirky, thoughtful, fast-moving, heart-warming, brain-bending stories exist across the entire spectrum of the fantastic from hard science fiction to...
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You can try to escape from the mundane, or with the help of Paul Di Filippo, you can take a short, meaningful break from it. In the vein of George Saunders or Michael Chabon, Di Filippo uses the tools of science fiction and the surreal to take a deep, richly felt look at humanity. His brand of funny, quirky, thoughtful, fast-moving, heart-warming, brain-bending stories exist across the entire spectrum of the fantastic from hard science fiction to...
10) Harsh Oases
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Among the seventeen stories in this collection are two that are original to this volume, some favorites of the author, and older work not previously collected. As always, the themes and stories are odd yet disturbingly familiar and hauntingly relevant: "Femaville 29" explores love and salvation among the ruins of a devastated US East Coast; "The Singularity Needs Women" has human and post-human fighting for a woman's love; and "Harsh Oases" itself...
11) Lost Pages
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You can try to escape from the mundane, or with the help of Paul Di Filippo, you can take a brief, meaningful break from it. In the vein of George Saunders or Michael Chabon, Di Filippo uses the tools of science fiction and the surreal to take a deep, richly felt look at humanity. His brand of funny, quirky, thoughtful, fast-moving, heart-warming, brain-bending stories exists across the entire spectrum of the fantastic from hard science fiction to...
12) Fractal Paisleys
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You can try to escape from the mundane, or with the help of Paul Di Filippo, you can take a brief, meaningful break from it. In the vein of George Saunders or Michael Chabon, Di Filippo uses the tools of science fiction and the surreal to take a deep, richly felt look at humanity. His brand of funny, quirky, thoughtful, fast-moving, heart-warming, brain-bending stories exists across the entire spectrum of the fantastic from hard science fiction to...
13) Neutrino Drag
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With twenty tales, a bold lack of restraint, and amazing stylistic diversity, Di Filippo makes strange bedfellows of a range of characters-from Jayne Mansfield to Pythagoras to Disney "imagineers" to the Virgin Mary-fit together inside a bountiful collection of surprises, humor, and the very, very strange.
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An outrageous trio of novellas that bizarrely and brilliantly twists the Victorian era out of shape, by a master of steampunk alternate history Welcome to the world of steampunk, a nineteenth century outrageously reconfigured through weird science. With his magnificent trilogy, acclaimed author Paul Di Filippo demonstrates how this unique subgenre of science fiction is done to perfection-reinventing a mannered age of corsets and industrial revolution...
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Twelve short stories of speculative fiction from "an author who genuinely comes close to defying all attempts at description. A true original" (Infinity Plus).
Enter the boundless realms of science fiction, fantasy, horror, the weird, the surreal, and the absurd with a dozen stories from acclaimed author Paul Di Filippo. Watch as a man tries to adapt when his intense connection with instinct and nature vanishes in "Before and After Science,"...
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A genre-bending collection of speculative fiction from the acclaimed author of the Steampunk Trilogy-with an introduction by Robert Silverberg.
Horror, alternative history, science fiction, and fantasy-nothing is off limits when you possess an imagination as vast as Paul Di Filippo's. In this collection of stories featuring ancient goddesses, the new social media elite, and hermetic cities, he'll take you on a wild ride through plausible pasts...
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