In a chilling world in which biology has become the cutting-edge science, strange, part-human creatures make their home in Lake Superior and must deal with the deadly, toxic waste that threatens their very existence. Reprint.

Ribofunk

Literature & Fiction

Di Filippo, Paul

Short Stories & Anthologies

Visited by a dimension-hopping artificial intelligence named Hans, Paul Girard, a hapless middle-aged bookstore clerk, is given the ability to jump instantly to any world he can envision, and finds himself embarking on a zany, multi-dimensional odyssey in search of happiness, love, wealth, fame, and the mystery of the universe. Original.

Fuzzy Dice

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

UNKNO

The officers of Precinct 10 must band together to rid the city of a mysterious force that is terrorizing the residents of Neopolis.

Top Ten: Beyond the Farthest Precinct

Comics & Graphic Novels

Ordway, Jerry

Graphic Novels

Wildstorm

The Way You Came In May Not Be The Best Way Out

Wildside Press

"""A Palazzo in the Stars"" collects 17 great science fiction stories by a modern master! From the author's Introduction: ""This collection represents the output of about two-and-a-half years, and, while I might have filled such a book in one year's writing time circa 1990, there's nonetheless another collection's worth of newer stuff awaiting curation, beyond this volume. I guess by now I should realize that, for me at least, the process is inevitable, rather like another process I am all too familiar with: acquiring extra pounds. Pleasurable, stealthy and yet eventually noticeable to all. I hope you enjoy these stories of recent vintage."" PRAISE FOR PAUL DI FILIPPO: "Di Filippo is one of the most talented humorists in contemporary fantasy and science fiction." -Publishers Weekly ""[An] often genuinely funny mixture of Raymond Carver, Harry Harrison, and Douglas Adams."" -- Booklist ""Few SF writers are as imaginative, energetic, or idea rich as Paul Di Filippo, and fewer still have as broad a knowledge of science and culture. And there's no contemporary SF writer who's more fun to read. --Cynthia Ward"

A Palazzo in the Stars: Science Fiction Stories

United States

"Di Filippo is a joyful writer...insightful...skillful." -Washington Post This collection presents PAUL DI FILIPPO at his best and most creative-an astonishing, multiverse-spanning selection of 19 of his very best tales, from humorous to serious, from otherworldly to in-your-backyard (and in-your-face)! Here are: <ul> <li>Providence</li> <li>Argus Blinked</li> <li>Life in the Anthropocene</li> <li>Bombs Away!</li> <li>Cockroach Love</li> <li>Waves and Smart Magma</li> <li>To See Infinity Bare</li> <li>The End of the Great Continuity</li> <li>Fjaerland</li> <li>The HPL Commonplace Book</li> <li>Professor Fluvius's Palace of Many Waters</li> <li>Yes We Have No Bananas</li> <li>A Partial and Conjectural History of Dr. Mueller's Panoptical Cartoon Engine</li> <li>The New Cyberiad</li> <li>iCity</li> <li>Return to the 20th Century</li> <li>Murder in Geektopia</li> <li>The Omniplus Ultra!</li> <li>Wikiworld</li> </ul> Introduction by Rudy Rucker

Wikiworld and Other Stories

Audie Award Finalist, Original Work, 2013In Rip-Off!, 13 of today’s best and most honored writers of speculative fiction face a challenge even they would be hard-pressed to conceive: Pick your favorite opening line from a classic piece of fiction (or even non-fiction)—then use it as the first sentence of an entirely original short story.In the world of Rip-Off!, "Call me Ishmael" introduces a tough-as-nails private eye—who carries a harpoon; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz inspires the tale of an aging female astronaut who’s being treated by a doctor named Dorothy Gale; and Huckleberry Finn leads to a wild ride with a foul-mouthed riverboat captain who plies the waters of Hell.Once you listen to Rip-Off! you’ll agree: If Shakespeare or Dickens were alive today, they’d be ripping off the authors in this great collection.The stories included in Rip-Off! are:• "Fireborn" by Robert Charles Wilson• "The Evening Line" by Mike Resnick• "No Decent Patrimony" by Elizabeth Bear• "The Big Whale" by Allen M. Steele• "Begone" by Daryl Gregory• "The Red Menace" by Lavie Tidhar• "Muse of Fire" by John Scalzi• "Writer’s Block" by Nancy Kress• "Highland Reel" by Jack Campbell• "Karin Coxswain or Death as She Is Truly Lived" by Paul Di Filippo• "The Lady Astronaut of Mars" by Mary Robinette Kowal• "Every Fuzzy Beast of the Earth, Every Pink Fowl of the Air" by Tad Williams• "Declaration" by James Patrick KellyAs a bonus, the authors introduce their stories, explaining what they ripped-off—and why.Rip-Off! was produced in partnership with SFWA—Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. Gardner Dozois served as project editor.

Rip-Off!

Bear, Elizabeth

Kress, Nancy

Scalzi, John

Wilson, Robert Charles

KOWAL, MARY ROBINETTE

Gregory, Daryl

Williams, Tad

Campbell, Jack

Resnick, Mike

Tidhar, Lavie

STEELE, ALLEN

Kelly, James Patrick

BRILLIANCE AUDIO ^

An outrageous trio of novellas that twist the Victorian era out of shape, by a master of alternate history: “Spooky, haunting, hilarious” (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—reinventing a mannered age of corsets and industrial revolution with odd technologies born of a truly twisted imagination. In “Victoria,” 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 doppelgänger queen comes with a most troubling flaw: an insatiable sexual appetite. The somewhat Lovecraftian “Hottentots” 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 “Walt and Emily,” the hitherto secret and quite steamy love affair between Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman is revealed in all its sensuous glory—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’s The Steampunk Trilogy is a one-of-a-kind literary journey to destinations at once strangely familiar and profoundly strange.

The Steampunk Trilogy

Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy

[Read by Keith Szarabajka]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 discover along the way that getting to the big payoff might just be more scary fun than the monetary prize itself.

The Big Get-Even

Blackstone Audiobooks

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