<div>An outrageous trio of novellas that twist the Victorian era out of shape, by a master of alternate history: &ldquo;Spooky, haunting, hilarious&rdquo; (William Gibson). 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&mdash;reinventing a mannered age of corsets and industrial revolution with odd technologies born of a truly twisted imagination. In &ldquo;Victoria,&rdquo; the inexplicable disappearance of the British monarch-to-be prompts a scientist to place a human-lizard hybrid clone on the throne during the search for the missing royal. But the doppelg&auml;nger queen comes with a most troubling flaw: an insatiable sexual appetite. The somewhat Lovecraftian &ldquo;Hottentots&rdquo; chronicles the very unusual adventure of Swiss naturalist and confirmed bigot Louis Agassiz as his determined search for a rather grisly fetish plunges him into a world of black magic and monsters. Finally, in &ldquo;Walt and Emily,&rdquo; the hitherto secret and quite steamy love affair between Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman is revealed in all its sensuous glory&mdash;as are their subsequent interdimensional travels aboard a singular ship that transcends the boundaries of time and reality. Ingenious, hilarious, ribald, and utterly remarkable, Di Filippo&rsquo;s The Steampunk Trilogy is a one-of-a-kind literary journey to destinations at once strangely familiar and profoundly strange.</div>

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The Steampunk Trilogy

<div>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&mdash;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 and madness. With his rage and jealousy unleashed and his grasp of reality severely compromised, Lazorg is led to commit an unspeakable act, and, in turn, is led . . . somewhere else. Suddenly naked and helpless, the artist finds himself in a world of abiding strangeness, filled with monstrous things that seem to mock, yet oddly mirror, Lazorg&rsquo;s previous reality. And here is Crutchsump, a remarkable creature possessing great love and rare compassion, who could possibly aid in Lazorg&rsquo;s ultimate salvation as he spirals downward through the Cosmocopia and ever-closer to the Conceptus. Arguably the most inventive force in science fiction since Philip K. Dick in his heyday, Paul Di Filippo outdoes even Paul Di Filippo with his remarkable Cosmocopia. Outrageous, ingenious, nightmarish, funny, provocative, and utterly unforgettable, this is a glittering testament to the towering heights science fiction can achieve. </div>

Cosmocopia

<div>This story collection &ldquo;showcases that lighter side of Paul Di Filippo . . . with some memorable moments of brilliant wit and storytelling&rdquo; (Infinity Plus). With twenty tales, a bold lack of restraint, and amazing stylistic diversity, Di Filippo makes strange bedfellows of a range of characters&mdash;from Jayne Mansfield to Pythagoras to Disney &ldquo;imagineers&rdquo; to the Virgin Mary&mdash;fit together inside a bountiful collection of surprises, humor, and the very, very strange. William Gibson has identified his writing as &ldquo;spooky, haunting, and hilarious,&rdquo; and after you absorb all the shocks, you will inevitably agree.</div>

Overdrive

Neutrino Drag

<div>&ldquo;Full of storytelling that is untamed, writing that is superb, and tales that are expansive and suggestive . . . a wry romp worthy of your attention&rdquo; (Strange Horizons). In these eleven stories, including Nebula Award finalist &ldquo;Kid Charlemagne,&rdquo; Paul Di Filippo applies his armamentarium of vastly varied literary skills to an examination and definition of the outer limits of an almost unbearably mundane-sounding subject: daily toil or, in a word, jobs. In &ldquo;Spondulix,&rdquo; Rory Honeyman, desperate to preserve the meager cash flow in his sandwich shop, starts offering store coupons that somehow take on a life of their own. &ldquo;The Mill&rdquo; is the only place in the universe where Luxcloth, treasured and worn by many, can be manufactured and only at the direction of one man. &ldquo;The Boredom Factory&rdquo; gives meaning to the phrase &ldquo;living to work.&rdquo; Keep reading&mdash;it will be the easiest job you&rsquo;ve ever had. 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 exist across the entire spectrum of the fantastic from hard science fiction to satire to fantasy and on to horror, delivering a riotously entertaining string of modern fables and stories from tomorrow, now, and anytime. After you read Paul Di Filippo, you will no longer see everyday life quite the same. Strange Trades includes an introduction by Bruce Sterling. </div>

Strange Trades

<div>A young boy journeys into America&rsquo;s abridged heart. &ldquo;Di Filippo is the spin doctor of SF&mdash;and it&rsquo;s a powerful medicine he brews&rdquo; (Brian Aldiss). An orphaned boy in the Caribbean named Readers Digest (after the magazine) but referred to mainly as &ldquo;Ardy&rdquo; is deeply inspired by his readings of the stories that appear in his namesake magazine and conceives of a plan to make a pilgrimage to the Digest HQ in Pleasantville, New York. He embarks on an odyssey to what he envisions as the most important symbolic beacon of the wonderfulness that is America. A simple trip turns complicated and Ardy meets an endless stream of very odd and unusual characters as his journey progresses to an unexpected finish.</div>

Joe's Liver

<div>A collection of seventeen stories from the Nebula Award finalist. &ldquo;Di Filippo is an inspired original and this volume is a delight&rdquo; (The Guardian). 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: &ldquo;Femaville 29&rdquo; explores love and salvation among the ruins of a devastated US East Coast; &ldquo;The Singularity Needs Women&rdquo; has human and post-human fighting for a woman&rsquo;s love; and &ldquo;Harsh Oases&rdquo; itself is the first addition to the Ribofunk universe since the release of that collection some years ago. This ebook features an Introduction by Cory Doctorow.</div>

Harsh Oases

<div>Tackling genetic engineering, &ldquo;Di Filippo&rsquo;s effervescent prose can provoke both hilarity and haunting reflections on our species&rsquo; possible fate&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). Ribofunk contains eleven masterful and surprising works of imagination. In all of them, biology is the science that drives the engine of life and of story: the Protein Police patrol for renegade gene-splicers; part-human sea creatures live in the Great Lakes and clean up toxic spills; a river has become sentient; there is a bodyguard who is part wolverine and a thrill-seeker climbs a skyscraper and gets stuck, literally.</div>

Ribofunk

<div>This &ldquo;audacious collection&rdquo; of genre-bending short stories &ldquo;is the most riotous work of this kind since Nabokov&rsquo;s Ada or Ardor&rdquo; (Barry N. Malzberg, author of Final War). 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 satire to fantasy and on to horror, delivering a riotously entertaining string of modern fables and stories from tomorrow, now and anytime. After you read Paul Di Filippo, you will no longer see everyday life quite the same.</div>

Lost Pages

<div>&ldquo;A colorful palette of ideas and approaches . . . Most of the stories percolate with the author&#39;s trademark gushes of wit and humor&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). 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 satire to fantasy and on to horror, delivering a riotously entertaining string of modern fables and stories from tomorrow, now and anytime. After you read Paul Di Filippo, you&rsquo;ll no longer see everyday life quite the same. If you&rsquo;re allergic to surprises, Paul Di Filippo is not the writer for you. With a total of fifteen stories including two original to this volume, Di Filippo delivers conventional stories unconventionally and unconventional ones straightforwardly. With a magic imagination he transforms traditional science fiction formulas into strange coruscating gems. Many of the tales in Shuteye for the Timebroker mix scientific rigor with wild and hilariously weird fantasy, producing delightful alloys of the surreal and the mundane. </div>

Shuteye for the Timebroker

<div>The author with &ldquo;a humanity worthy of Dickens or Hardy&rdquo; delivers a novel of alternative currency and the price of wealth (Publishers Weekly). 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 exist across the entire spectrum of the fantastic from hard science fiction to satire to fantasy and on to horror, delivering a riotously entertaining string of modern fables and stories from tomorrow, now and anytime. After you read Paul Di Filippo, you&rsquo;ll no longer see everyday life quite the same. For most people, as they say, money makes the world go &lsquo;round. For Rory Honeyman, it&rsquo;s a different story. Having inadvertently and, almost without noticing, invented a new form of cash cow, money makes Rory&rsquo;s world go strangely pear-shaped and out-of-control. He has an endless supply of blank checks that never bounce but he&rsquo;s being guided by an albino, hustled by a saline-snorting sandwich-obsessed gourmet, manipulated by a devious banker and befuddled and bemused by a never-ending assortment of attractive and baffling women. And, for reasons unknown and unknowable, after racing from the Great Plains to Mexico City to Canada to Europe, he&rsquo;s stuck in Hoboken and there appears to be no way out. Originally published: 2004 </div>

Spondulix

<div>&ldquo;&lsquo;Trailer park science fiction&rsquo; . . . [An] often genuinely funny mixture of Raymond Carver, Harry Harrison, and Douglas Adams&rdquo; (Booklist). Fractal Paisleys contains ten funny, irreverent, and sexy stories, including two previously published works. The Nebula Award finalist &ldquo;Lennon Spex&rdquo; explores how John Lennon found inspiration for his songs. Also included in this collection: the real reason for the disappearance of the dinosaurs, how the L&rsquo;il Bear Bar in Providence, Rhode Island (the author&rsquo;s hometown, by the way&mdash;not a coincidence) ended up with a talking moose head on its wall, and more of Di Filippo&rsquo;s fascinating writing. 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 satire to fantasy and on to horror, delivering a riotously entertaining string of modern fables and stories from tomorrow, now, and anytime. After you read Paul Di Filippo, you will no longer see everyday life quite the same. </div>

Fractal Paisleys

<div>&ldquo;The only thread connecting the 18 stories that make up this witches&rsquo; brew . . . seems to be the author&rsquo;s bright imagination and a spark of dark humor&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). Literary allusions abound in this volume as Di Filippo recasts a classic Melville story of slave rebellion at sea&mdash;with aliens; &ldquo;Ailoura&rdquo; tells the Puss in Boots fairy tale as a space opera romp; &ldquo;Observable Things&rdquo; has Cotton Mather encountering with Robert E. Howard&rsquo;s Solomon Kane; and &ldquo;A Monument to After-Thought Unveiled&rdquo; has poet Robert Frost starting his career writing horror fiction for Weird Tales magazine, edited by H. P. Lovecraft. Emperor of Gondwanaland contains eighteen stories, including one published only in this collection.</div>

Emperor of Gondwanaland

<div>&ldquo;Every one of the 17 idiosyncratic short fantasies in this superior collection from Nebula and Philip K. Dick finalist Di Filippo is immaculately told&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). &ldquo;Di Filippo is like gourmet potato chips to me. I can never eat just one of his stories.&rdquo; &mdash;Harlan Ellison 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 satire to fantasy and on to horror, delivering a riotously entertaining string of modern fables and stories from tomorrow, now and anytime. After you read Paul Di Filippo, you&rsquo;ll no longer see everyday life quite the same. The 17 stories in this collection allow us to encounter Salvador Dali stumbling through his own personalized afterlife; experience the hilariously odd life of Hiram P. Dottle from birth through death and on into several reincarnations; gaze in wonder as a boy is born without a brain and his skull is invaded by wild animals; and, in the title story, a professor of children&rsquo;s literature discovers a bizarre set of similarities between a lost text and his illicit relationship with one of his students. Originally published: 2002</div>

Little Doors

<div>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&#8209;moving, heart&#8209;warming, brain&#8209;bending stories exists across the entire spectrum of the fantastic, from hard science fiction to satire to fantasy and on to horror, delivering a riotously entertaining string of modern fables and stories from tomorrow, now and anytime. After you read Paul Di Filippo, you will no longer see everyday life quite the same. Di Filippo&rsquo;s Roadside Bodhisattva follows Kid A, a sixteen&#8209;year&#8209;old runaway, as he wanders a path laid out for him by the books of Jack Kerouac and Khalil Gibran. Searching for existential wisdom and something greater than himself, Kid A meets Sid, a veteran of life along the highway, and the two soon land at the Deer Park Kitchen motor lodge. What unfolds in Kid and Sid&rsquo;s interaction with Deer Park&rsquo;s colorful locals is an overwhelming mix of epiphanies and misunderstandings, insights and convictions, hope and betrayal. For Kid A and for all of us, enlightenment can be a rocky road to travel.</div>

Roadside Bodhisattva

<div>A statistician attempts to make sense of a world gone mad in an apocalyptic sci-fi scenario from the Hugo Award&ndash;winning author of Starship Troopers. Multiple Hugo Award winner Robert Heinlein earned countless fans, accolades, and honors with groundbreaking novels such as Starship Troopers and Stranger in a Strange Land. But it was shorter works like his brilliant novella, The Year of the Jackpot, that solidified Heinlein&rsquo;s position among sci-fi&rsquo;s greatest. Potiphar Breen puts his trust in numbers to make sense of the world. An unassuming, middle-aged bachelor, he has been carefully noting a rise in odd behaviors all around him in order to determine some pattern or meaning in these bizarre recent events. Then one day, he comes upon a beautiful young woman at a bus stop who is taking off all her clothes. Meade Barstow has no idea what compelled her to disrobe in public, and she is grateful when Potiphar comes along to save her from herself. Needing some time and a place to recuperate, she accompanies him home. Soon, a relationship develops that is warm, mutually supportive, and sane&mdash;in dramatic contrast to the growing madness of the world outside. But &ldquo;Potty&rsquo;s&rdquo; house won&rsquo;t be a refuge forever. Because once Breen clearly identifies the cycle that humanity is undergoing, he and his newfound friend will have to run for their lives. Originally published in the early 1950s, Heinlein&rsquo;s The Year of the Jackpot is a story of love, trust, and volatile human nature that still retains its wonder and unique philosophical edge.</div>

The Year of the Jackpot

<div>A groundbreaking science fiction novelette from the early days of Galaxy magazine&mdash;plus a new foreword by Paul Di Filippo. Appearing in the second issue of Galaxy dated November 1950, Honeymoon in Hell showcased the magazine&rsquo;s distinctive identity as opposed to other publications of its time&mdash;darker, more socially aware, sometimes sexually frank in ways that were shocking for the era. Dealing with copulation and its desired consequences, Honeymoon in Hell avoided euphemisms&mdash;and used a satirical attack that parodied magazine taboos. The covers of pulp magazines depicted monsters putting near-naked females in peril, but the narratives under the cover offered no equivalent. Brown&rsquo;s hastily married couple, sent to the moon to see if they can breed a male child&mdash;all births on Earth over recent months having been female&mdash;encounter problems emotional as well as practical. This book includes both the landmark novelette and a new foreword by Paul Di Filippo. About the series: Debuting in 1950, Galaxy was science fiction&rsquo;s most admired, widely circulated, and influential magazine, known for publication of full-length novels, novellas, and novelettes by giants in the field. The Galaxy Project is a selection of the best of Galaxy, with new forewords by some of today&rsquo;s top writers. Initial selections include work by Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, Lester del Rey, Robert A. Heinlein, Damon Knight, C. M. Kornbluth, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Frederik Pohl, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, William Tenn (Philip Klass), and Kurt Vonnegut. Foreword contributors include Paul Di Filippo, David Drake, John Lutz, Barry N. Malzberg, and Robert Silverberg. The Galaxy Project is committed to publishing new work in the spirit of Galaxy magazine and its founding editor, H. L. Gold </div>

Honeymoon in Hell

<div>A collection of short fiction set in the Lovecraftian cosmic horror universe from &ldquo;a masterful storyteller&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). In the early twentieth-century, in the pages of Weird Tales and other pulp magazines, H. P. Lovecraft created the Cthulhu Mythos and offered it to his friends, creating a shared mythology for much of their weird fiction. Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian, was one of those good friends. Fresh from dusty libraries dark with forbidden knowledge, these twelve Howard tales, bring Kull of Atlantis, Bran Mak Morn, and a steady band of warriors, adventurers, and scholars into the dark to face the Nameless and that which they left behind: Elder gods, nameless cosmic horrors greater and older than the gods themselves, ancient forms of life and worship from before the dawn of humanity. These are the Cthulhu Stories of Robert. E. Howard. </div>

The Cthulhu Stories of Robert E. Howard

<div>Expand your vision of what a fantasy story can be with tales by Peter S. Beagle, Lucius Shepard, Catherynne M. Valente, Paul Di Filippo, and others. Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology Inspired by the literary salons of eighteenth-century France, Salon Fantastique brings together renowned authors to create and share new tales that show the fantasy form at its best. The resulting stories form a conversation between established and emerging writers, historical and contemporary fiction, timeless folklore themes and the immediacy of modern politics, traditional linear narratives, and more experimental storytelling. Kicking off the collection is Delia Sherman&rsquo;s &ldquo;La F&eacute;e Verte,&rdquo; in which a nineteenth-century prostitute takes a lover among the other women in a Parisian bordello, a mysterious wraith who sees the past, present, and future. In Catherynne M. Valente&rsquo;s &ldquo;A Gray and Soundless Tide,&rdquo; a woman shelters a selkie and learns her tragic story, while in Paul Di Filippo&rsquo;s &ldquo;Femaville 29,&rdquo; a tsunami gives birth to a glorious new city rising from the imagination of children. In the intimate company of today&rsquo;s master fantasists, you&rsquo;ll be gifted with stories that will take the genre in directions you never could have imagined . . . &ldquo;Bring[s] together mostly new fantasy writers, most of them contributors to previous Datlow/Windling books and perhaps forming a distinct &lsquo;school.&rsquo; Call it American magic realism.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;A roster of fifteen contributors to make any lover of literary fantasy go weak at the knees. . . . an anthology that rewards reflection.&rdquo; &mdash;Strange Horizons</div>

Salon Fantastique

<div>From &ldquo;one of the greatest writers of this century,&rdquo; a fantasy masterpiece about the aftermath of a marriage between a mortal prince and an elfin princess. &mdash;Arthur C. Clarke Before the fellowships and wardrobes and dire wolves . . . . . . there was the village of Erl and the Kingdom of Elfland. Considered formative to the development of the fairy tale and high fantasy subgenres, The King of Elfland&#39;s Daughter follows Alveric, who leaves home on a quest with a few basic instructions: locate the Princess Lirazel in Elfland, convince her to return to Erl and marry him, and together produce the first magical Lord of Erl. But what happens when a village gets exactly what it asked for? How does an elf learn to live as a human? Is love lost once, lost forever? The people of Erl are about to find out. Take a walk through the fields we know and see if you can spot the pale-blue peaks of the Elfland Mountains. Fans of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Neil Gaiman will adore Lord Dunsany&rsquo;s influential 1924 classic as much as those authors themselves did. &ldquo;No amount of mere description can convey more than a fraction of Lord Dunsany&#39;s pervasive charm.&rdquo; &mdash;H. P. Lovecraft &ldquo;We find that he has but tranfigured with beauty the common sights of the world.&rdquo; &mdash;William Butler Yeats &ldquo;No one can understand modern fantasy without understanding its roots, and Lord Dunsany&#39;s work is immediately significant as well as enjoyable even today.&rdquo; &mdash;Katharine Kerr &ldquo;A fantasy novel in a class with the Tolkien books.&rdquo;&mdash;L. Sprague de Camp </div>

The King of Elfland's Daughter

<div>Twelve short stories of speculative fiction from &ldquo;an author who genuinely comes close to defying all attempts at description. A true original&rdquo; (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 &ldquo;Before and After Science,&rdquo; a long-lost story that appeared in a fanzine decades ago. Enjoy the flash fiction of &ldquo;Domotica Berserker!&rdquo; in which massive house printers get hacked and go on a rampage&mdash;painting the town pink. Get a glimpse of how LARPing and nowts (aka now-tweakers) don&rsquo;t mix in &ldquo;A Faster, Deeper Now.&rdquo; And delve into the Lovecraftian mythos with &ldquo;The Horror at Gancio Rosso,&rdquo; in which retired New York City crimefighter Joseph Petrosino travels to Sicily to investigate new bodies appearing in a catacomb filled with ancient mummies. This mind-blowing collection is &ldquo;an example of what makes Di Filippo, Di Filippo. Best part: it throws the taxonomy of genre out the window to be creative in a number of ways&rdquo; (Speculiction). Praise for Paul Di Filippo &ldquo;Di Filippo is like gourmet potato chips to me. I can never eat just one of his stories.&rdquo; &mdash;Harlan Ellison &ldquo;Di Filippo is the spin doctor of SF&mdash;and it is a powerful medicine he brews.&rdquo; &mdash;Brian Aldiss, Hugo Award&ndash;winning author of Hothouse &ldquo;Vibrant, nervy, and full of gloriously wiggy language, Ribofunk is anything but the same old stuff.&rdquo; &mdash;The Philadelphia Inquirer </div>

Infinite Fantastika

<div>A genre-bending collection of speculative fiction from the acclaimed author of the Steampunk Trilogy&mdash;with an introduction by Robert Silverberg. Horror, alternative history, science fiction, and fantasy&mdash;nothing is off limits when you possess an imagination as vast as Paul Di Filippo&rsquo;s. In this collection of stories featuring ancient goddesses, the new social media elite, and hermetic cities, he&rsquo;ll take you on a wild ride through plausible pasts and far-flung futures. In &ldquo;Ghostless,&rdquo; a medium learns that ghosts are drawn to&mdash;and can alleviate&mdash;sadness, so she becomes a matchmaker to both spirts and mortals in need. Flash fiction published in Nature magazine, &ldquo;Wavehitcher&rdquo; shows how surfing goes high-tech&mdash;and long-distance&mdash;with smartsuits that desalinate water, pulsed magnets to repel sharks, and seines that catch and processes krill into a nutritious paste. An expert in industrial metabolics focuses on blending his superior genepool with that of his fianc&eacute;e&rsquo;s to save the human race from idiocracy, until a kidnapping in Colombia shows him the folly of his arrogance in &ldquo;Adventures in Cognitive Homogamy.&rdquo; These stories will whet your appetite for more fantastical Di Filippo, and thankfully, Lost Among the Stars delivers. Praise for Paul Di Filippo &ldquo;Di Filippo is like gourmet potato chips to me. I can never eat just one of his stories.&rdquo; &mdash;Harlan Ellison &ldquo;Di Filippo is the spin doctor of SF&mdash;and it is a powerful medicine he brews.&rdquo; &mdash;Brian Aldiss, Hugo Award&ndash;winning author of Hothouse &ldquo;Vibrant, nervy, and full of gloriously wiggy language, Ribofunk is anything but the same old stuff.&rdquo; &mdash;The Philadelphia Inquirer </div>

Lost Among the Stars

<div>&ldquo;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.&rdquo; &mdash;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&rsquo;s path in the wake of social media, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality&mdash;all with tongue firmly in cheek. In an age of poetry slams and publicity stunts, an author struggles to upgrade his stale live appearances in &ldquo;Pimp My Read.&rdquo; Let &ldquo;Kozmic Kickstarter&rdquo; put you on the ground floor of such futuristic projects as a chorus of doppelg&auml;ngers, a live-role-playing simulation of the entire canon of ancient Star Wars movies, and more! In &ldquo;The Very Last Miserabilist in Paradise,&rdquo; a science fiction writer&mdash;used to delivering bad news about the future&mdash;searches for meaning in an era of unprecedented sanity, in which war and inequality, hatred and prejudice have vanished. Take &ldquo;A Walk on the Mild Side&rdquo; with a new production company that seeks to soothe an overstimulated populace with cozy new translations of old classics, such as Game of Thrones which features nothing but direwolf puppies being bathed by the Stark family. Head into the future with your sense of humor intact thanks to the thirty stories in this remarkable collection from a master of satirical science fiction. </div>

Plumage from Pegasus

<div>&ldquo;Di Filippo clowns his way through this transdimensional travelogue cut from the same cloth as Douglas Adams&rsquo;s Hitchhiker&rsquo;s Guide to the Galaxy.&rdquo; &mdash;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&rsquo;t envision much of a future for himself&mdash;until he meets Hans. Hans is one of the Mind Children, an artificial race that has succeeded humanity. If Paul allows Hans to copy his human essence, the key to Superspace and its infinite number of universes will be his. And even though said key is a yo-yo, Paul agrees. Desperate to escape his banal reality, Paul flings the yo-yo and winds up in the singularity that preceded the Big Bang . . . a matriarchal society of women warriors . . . a realm populated by TV characters from his childhood. But Paul&rsquo;s frantic travels only prove one thing: wherever he goes in the multiverse, there he is. Now how does he get home? &ldquo;It&rsquo;s like Tom Robbins&rsquo;s classic Even Cowgirls Get the Blues recast in the hands of gonzo mathematician Rudy Rucker as a kind of ontological day trip.&rdquo; &mdash;Locus &ldquo;Frothing with ideas, Fuzzy Dice is one more reason Di Filippo is one of the most imaginative (and underappreciated) writers working today. . . . If humorously intelligent science fiction far beyond the madding crowd is your cup of tea, then this novel (and Di Filippo in general) cannot disappoint. . . . Great fun, great read&mdash;almost as much as Sheckley&rsquo;s <a href="http://speculiction.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/review-of-dimension-of-miracles-by.html">Dimension of Miracles</a>.&rdquo; &mdash;Speculiction </div>

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