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

Wikiworld contains a wild assortment of Di Filippo's best and most recent work. The title story, a radical envisioning of nearfuture sociopolitical modes, received accolades from both Cory Doctorow and Warren Ellis. In addition, there are alternate history adventures, homages to icons such as Stanislaw Lem; collaborations with Rudy Rucker and Damien Broderick; and a posthuman odyssey.

Wikiworld

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

Strange Trades

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

Mary A. Turzillo

Brian W. Aldiss

Joe Haldeman

Karen Haber

Alex Jeffers

Phillip Jennings

Terry Boren

David Ira Cleary

Nicholas Dichario

E. Michael Blake

Universe 3 (The Universe Anthology series)

Ten funny, off-the-wall tales--examples of what the author calls his "trailer park science fiction"--reveal the real reason for the dinosaurs' disappearance and explain the appearance of a talking moosehead in Providence, Rhode Island. IP.

Fractal Paisleys

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

Her Totipotent Tropicanalia

A Mouthful of Tongues

A Romance of Hoboken

Spondulix

Year in the Linear City

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

Paul Di Filippo

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