Paul Di Filippo

Steampunk is the twisted offspring of science fiction and postmodernism, a sassy, unpredictable tongue-in-cheek style of which the incomparable Paul Di Filippo is master. The three short novels in The Steampunk Trilogy are all set in a very alternative nineteenth century, and feature a mixture of historical and imaginary figures. In "Victoria," a young and lissome Queen Victoria disappears from her throne and is replaced by a sexy human/newt clone. The race is on to find the original Victoria and to hide the terrible secret from the nation. In "Hottentots," Massachusetts is threatened by monsters from the deep; in "Walt and Emily," Emily Dickinson hooks up with a robust and lusty Walt Whitman, loses her virginity, and travels to a dimension beyond time where she meets the future Allen Ginsberg.

The Steampunk Trilogy

Mike Ashley

Collects fourteen original Victorian and Edwardian steampunk stories, including tales of steam-powered automobiles, submarines, and robots in futuristic worlds.

Steampunk Prime

Thirteen stories on a world of designer-drugs and human-animal hybrids serving as slaves. The story, The Bad Splice, is on a showdown between a policeman and Krazy Kat, a human-feline outlaw.

Ribofunk

Vangie's Ghosts

Babylon Sisters

Beyond the Farthest Precinct (Top Ten)

Top Ten

“La guerra tra i sessi, a lungo ritenuta spenta, si sta surriscaldando di nuovo! Non è un fenomeno naturale; e se non lo fermiamo, la nostra civiltà verrà spazzata via da un catastrofico scontro tra uomini e donne.”Se foste il Presidente Ponto, alle prese con la cerimonia inaugurale del nuovo continente artificiale ribattezzato Helenia, come reagireste a questo inatteso e disperato grido d'allarme, tanto più se a lanciarvelo fosse la leggendaria e conturbante Jungle Alli?Allacciatevi le cinture! Paul Di Filippo ha mescolato la fantascienza ottocentesca di Albert Robida con i classici B-movie americani degli anni Cinquanta (alla Ed Wood, per intenderci) e realizza con “Ritorno al XX secolo” (ma quale, XX secolo?) il perfetto cocktail steampunk: una sarabanda scanzonata e velocissima che shakera – e non mescola, ovviamente – malvagie “Cat Women on the Moon”, geografie e invenzioni immaginarie, poteri telepatici, la costruzione di un ponte con la Luna e di un casino spaziale e molto altro ancora.

Ritorno al ventesimo secolo

David Pringle

Damien Broderick

Includes cover images, plot summaries, and critical analyses of the genre's most significant novels during the past twenty-five years.

One Hundred and One Best Novels 1985-2010

Presents a collection of fantasy stories which focus on the theme of work.

Strange Trades

Her Totipotent Tropicanalia

A Mouthful of Tongues

A Romance of Hoboken

Spondulix

Year in the Linear City

Contains a choice assortment of Di Filippo's best and most recent work. The title story, a radical envisioning of near-future sociopolitical modes, received accolades from both Cory Doctorow and Warren Ellis. In addition, there are alternate history adventures such as “Yes We Have No Bananas” (which critic Gary Wolfe called “a new kind of science fiction”); homages to icons such as Stanislaw Lem (“The New Cyberiad”); collaborations with Rudy Rucker and Damien Broderick; and a posthuman odyssey (“Waves and Smart Magma”).

Short Story

Wikiworld

This “audacious collection” of genre-bending short stories “is the most riotous work of this kind since Nabokov’s Ada or Ardor” (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.

Stories

Lost Pages

In this collection of short, sharp, satirical gems, Paul Di Filippo-noted for his own fiction and criticism, which gives him an insider's perspective-turns a keen eye on the foibles, fallacies, fads and failures of science fiction the industry, mining comedic gold from the gaffes, pomposities and pretensions of authors, publicists, reviewers, publishers, editors, fans, librarians and bookstore owners.

Plumage from Pegasus

Mary Ruefle

Hollis Seamon

John Crowley

Jim Shepard

Jeffrey Ford

Kij Johnson

Sofia Samatar

Akiko Busch

John Seven

Sonia Sanchez

Karin Lowachee

Paul Park

Sarena Ulibarri

Gregory Scheckler

Izzy Wasserstein

Renee Simms

Safia Elhillo

Simone Muench

Tina Connolly

Jorie Graham

Kirsten Imani Kasai

Sara St. Antoine

Karen Shepard

Unoma Azuah

Andrea Martinez Corbin

Shawn Frazier

Christine Poreba

Jennifer Rapaport

Erin Roberts

Marjorie Thomsen

anthology of fine art images from Laura Christensen, and fiction and poetry from numerous authors

Vintage Photography Reimagined by One Artist and Thirty Writers

Then Again

Six decades after a powerful amphibian creature escapes from captors who conducted cruel experiments on it, a determined scientist journeys into the past with a time machine in the hopes of identifying the creature's true nature. Original. 40,000 first printing.

Time's Black Lagoon

Creature from the Black Lagoon

A disbarred lawyer and an ex-arsonist cross paths and find themselves organizing an elaborate real estate scam to bilk a shady rich speculator out of twenty million dollars. The sting is personal for ex-arsonist Stan and for a woman named Vee, who plays an essential role in the caper. Glen, the narrator and former lawyer, finds himself at first just along for the money. Eventually, as bonds deepen among the conspirators, Glen too discovers he has a lot more at stake than simply the loot. This cast of lively eccentrics discovers along the way that getting to the big payoff might just be more scary fun than the monetary prize itself.

The Big Get-Even

Tackling genetic engineering, “Di Filippo’s effervescent prose can provoke both hilarity and haunting reflections on our species’ possible fate” (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.

A masterful, witty, picaresque science fiction adventure story evoking the styles of Gene Wolfe and Jack Vance, The Summer Thieves is the first novel in the new Quinary series by noted author and reviewer Paul Di Filippo. He chased his dreams of the ideal summer across a galaxy of thieves . . . Far in the glorious interstellar future, a time of riches and complex technologies, the stern but utilitarian Quinary guards and regulates the flourishing human-colonized galaxy. Under their business-like rule, a family may own a whole planet. And so two bloodlines—the Corvivios clan and the Soldavere clan—are in full possession of the lush and benign world of Verano. The youngest members of each family—Johrun Corvivios and Minka Soldavere—are slated to wed. All looks rosy for the joint family enterprises. But then the happy future is dramatically and tragically overturned! Circumstances separate the lovers and rob them of their places in the galaxy, and Johrun must undertake a desperate quest across the stars to reclaim his birthright. At first aided only by his devoted chimeric helper, the canny Lutramella, Johrun will face a thousand deadly challenges, from malign magicians to haughty outlaws. As his character is matured in fire, his dedication to Verano and his determination to return increase, and his group of friends and allies becomes stronger . . . but will the precious Summer Planet, and his bride-to-be, even be the same when—and if—he returns?

A Novel of the Quinary

The Summer Thieves

Paul Di Filippo

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