From the swarming, last-redoubt towers of the polar regions, where humanity huddles from the savage heat of Greenhouse Earth, to the dusty refugee camps of a shattered America; from the virtual reality landscape where teenagers seek to repair a wounded planet, to the post-human globe populated by wily transgenic heirs to mankind; and, lastly, across the ideology-splintered ruins of the U.S.A…a cast of dedicated survivors tries to make the best of what’s left behind, picking up the pieces of...
Paul Di Filippo is one of Science Fiction's finest short story writers, wild, witty, exuberantly imaginative; <i>Babylon Sisters and Other Posthumans</i> is a generous showcase of his strange, transformative, and powerful hard science fiction visions. <P> The fourteen stories collected here are glimpses into the most fantastic possibilities of human evolution-biological, social, and cultural. From a New York split into warring walled enclaves, to the destiny of our...
This volume contains twelve stories which, for one reason or another, have lain uncollected after their initial publication, an era spanning the years 1986 to 1999. Additionally, four never-sold stories of roughly the same vintage—pulled from Di Filippo's files, with the oldest dating from 1984—see print here for the first time. <P> THE MAN WHOM THINGS HATED<BR> FLASHERS <BR> BELOW THE WRACK<BR> THE GREAT JONES COOP TEN GIGASOUL PARTY<BR> CAMPION’S...
22 Tales of of the fantastic – science fiction, fantasy, fantastika, slipstream – by one of the most acclaimed modern masters of the genre! Includes a bonus interview with the author. Included are:<P> LIFE IN THE CARBYNE AGE<BR> GALAXY OF MIRRORS<BR> SPECTER-BOMBING THE BEER GOGGLES<BR> LIFE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE<BR> LITTLE WORKER<BR> FRACTAL PAISLEYS<BR> THE MILL<BR> THE GRANGE<BR> PHYLOGENESIS<BR> GRAVITONS<BR> REDSKINS...
