Paul Di Filippo, Author . PS Publishing $40 (319p) ISBN 978-1-905834-34-1
Di Filippo's 13th collection shows off his knack for intelligently developing imaginative concepts. The previously unpublished “A Game of Go,” which shares the universe of his Nebula-nominated “Kid Charlemagne,” offers a
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Paul Di Filippo. Wildside (wildsidepress.com), $14.99 trade paper (262p) ISBN 978-1-4794-0714-9
The many literary gifts of longtime SF author Di Filippo (Neutrino Drag) shine brightly in these 17 stories, most written between 2010 and 2013. Each is headed by Di Filippo’s brief explanation of the story’s significance to the vision of the genre...
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Paul Di Filippo, Author Four Walls Eight Windows $20 (352p) ISBN 978-1-56858-028-9
The term ``steampunk'' has come to intimate a subgenre of work set in a fantastic 19th century characterized by the inhumanity wrought by bogus science and a fanatical embrace of scientific method. Di Filippo's first book is a collection of three...
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Paul Di Filippo, Author Four Walls Eight Windows $20 (300p) ISBN 978-1-56858-032-6
""Trailer park science fiction""--that's what Di Filippo (Ribofunk) calls these funny, offbeat and ever so funky tales of losers and working-class people who come in contact with the decidedly weird. Typical of the collection is the title story,...
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Paul Di Filippo, Author Prime Books $17.95 (324p) ISBN 978-1-894815-81-9
Paul di Filippo's Babylon Sisters and Other Posthumans gathers 14 fantastical tales by the acclaimed author of Strange Trades, Ribofunk and A Mouthful of Tongues: Her Totipotent Tropicanalia. The same publisher also offers Nowhere Near Milkwood,...
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Paul Di Filippo, Author Prime Books $29.95 (324p) ISBN 978-1-894815-80-2
Paul di Filippo's Babylon Sisters and Other Posthumans gathers 14 fantastical tales by the acclaimed author of Strange Trades, Ribofunk and A Mouthful of Tongues: Her Totipotent Tropicanalia. The same publisher also offers Nowhere Near Milkwood,...
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Paul Di Filippo, Author Running Press Book Publishers $20 (295p) ISBN 978-1-56858-062-3
Shifting his focus from Victorian pseudoscience to genetic engineering, two-time Nebula finalist Di Filippo follows Steampunk Trilogy (1995) with a story collection that presents a mid-21st century dominated by an awareness of the primacy of protein
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Paul Di Filippo, Author PS Publishing (www.pspublishing.co.uk) 24 (192p) ISBN 978-1-906301-75-0
A few months after 16-year-old Kid A runs away from home, fed up with his Buddhist slacker parents’ lifestyle, he teams with Sid, a veteran knight of the road, on the outskirts of remote Deer Park, Mass., in Di Filippo’s lightweight coming-of-age...
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Paul Di Filippo, Author . Golden Gryphon $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-930846-05-0
This splendid collection of 11 SF and fantasy stories, most of novelette length and loosely predicated on the theme of work, showcases some excellent writing from the underrated Di Filippo (The Steampunk Trilogy; Ciphers; Ribofunk; etc.). An...
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Paul Di Filippo, Author . Cosmos $32.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-8095-5609-0
Nothing is sacred to Di Filippo (Ribofunk
), as shown in this hilarious collection of parodies and other satirical writings that affectionately send up the SF genre as well as the publishing world. The opener, "Falling Expectations," spoofs...
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Paul Di Filippo, Author . Thunder's Mouth $14.95 (312p) ISBN 978-1-56025-817-9
The 15 stories in Di Filippo's latest collection (after 2005's The Emperor of Gondwanaland
) show his command of a colorful palette of ideas and approaches. The title tale is an amusing satire of a sleepless 24/7 near-future in which time is
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Paul Di Filippo, Author . Thunder's Mouth $16.95 (370p) ISBN 978-1-56025-665-6
The best of the 18 stories in Di Filippo's first nonthemed collection are both fun and unpredictable. Typically they pay homage to other authors, as in "Anselmo Merino," which puts a science-fictional spin on Herman Melville's Benito
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Paul Di Filippo, Author . PS Publishing $50 (294p) ISBN 978-1-902880-66-2
With tongue firmly in cheek, the prolific and dependably daffy Di Filippo (Little Doors; Babylon Sister
s; etc.) clowns his way through this transdimensional travelogue cut from the same cloth as Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the...
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Paul Di Filippo, Author . Four Walls Eight Windows $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56858-241-2
Every one of the 17 idiosyncratic short fantasies in this superior collection from Nebula and Philip K. Dick finalist Di Filippo (Ribofunk, etc.) is immaculately told. The writing, however, verges on the self-consciously clever and is slightly...
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Paul Di Filippo, Author . Cosmos $29.95 (184p) ISBN 978-1-58715-506-2
It's 2015 and armed National Guard patrols stalk the urban jungles of a North America dominated by a security-obsessed, corporate-governmental complex in this apparently sincere effort to prove that the phrase "erotic SF" is not an...
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Paul Di Filippo, Author, Paul Di Filippo, Author . Prime $29.95 (152p) ISBN 978-1-930997-80-6
Di Filippo's lyrical debut fantasy novel, conceived when he was 18 and written a decade later, features an innocent young hero much in the mold of Voltaire's Candide. After a brief, unexpected meeting with his doppelgänger, perhaps the...
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Paul Di Filippo. Blackstone, $26.99 (302p) ISBN 978-1-5047-8391-0
Set somewhere in the American west, this clever thriller from Di Filippo (A Palazzo in the Stars) boasts a sophisticated scam story line. Glen McClinton, who used to be a “young, high-flying legal eagle,” landed behind bars after bilking clients of...
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Paul Di Filippo. Blackstone, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5384-5029-1
Set in an unspecified part of the American West, Di Filippo’s disappointing second caper thriller featuring disbarred attorney Glen McClinton and former arsonist Stan Hasso involves a far less ingenious get-rich-quick scheme than the one in its...
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Paul Di Filippo. Blackstone, $26.99 (280p) ISBN 978-1-5384-5030-7
Di Filippo (the Steampunk Trilogy) delivers a witty novel of the multiverse and its abundant possibilities. Evangeline “Vangie” Everett, for most of the first decade of her life, presents to her loving foster siblings and the rest of the world as a...
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Paul Di Filippo, read by Keith Szarabajka. Blackstone Audio, , unabridged, 7 CDs, 7.5 hrs., $34.95 ISBN 978-1-5384-0461-4
Actor Szarabajka’s husky, educated voice is a perfect match for con man and disbarred-lawyer Glen McClinton, the charming narrator of Di Filippo’s witty caper. The scam, devised by Stan Hasso, an ex-con Glen saved from a drug overdose, is an act of...
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