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6 reviews
Paul Di Filippo

Running Press, 1997

An Afternoon of Summer's Wane
I had read Ribofunk 5 years or so ago and enjoyed it and reread it this summer and enjoyed it even more. When it was finished I wanted more so I sought out The Steampunk Trilogy. The book was engaging and funny from the very start. Very, very clever language and style and very funny. I was particularly impressed with the life the author bestowed upon the many historical people who were ...

Strange Trades

4 reviews
Paul Di Filippo

Golden Gryphon Press, 2001

Highly recommended collection of SF stories about work
Strange Trades, Paul Di Filippo's fifth collection of short fiction, is one of the most satisfying SF single-author collections I have read in some time. As the title announces, the stories are concerned with people at work. Di Filippo explores a variety of science-fictional jobs, some strange due to technological advances, others due to marginal or experimental economics, others because they're ...

Top Ten: Beyond the Farthest Precinct (Top Ten)

8 reviews
Paul Di Filippo

Wildstorm, 2006

Moore or less?
I loved Alan Moore's Top Ten and Smax stories. This collection is very nearly as good. Di Filippo was a great choice to continue the characters, and the art is as complex and giggle-provoking as the first volumes (we think we got most of the comix references but we're still working on a few). Take note that this collection takes up after the standalone Smax story, so there has been total respect ...

Harp, Pipe, and Symphony

2 reviews
Paul Di Filippo

Prime Books, 2004

ROBERT E. HOWARD = THE BEST OF THE BEST!
Beyond The Black River is a gutsy and barbaric struggle of everyday people trying to survive the attacking Picts which are small animalistic men bent on killing innocent men, women, and children. REH Scholars say this is one or if not his best story. I believe Beyond The Black River will make an excellent movie. Mel Gibson or Clint Eastwood would be perfect as they are the best directors/actors ...

Creature From The Black Lagoon: Time's Black Lagoon (Universal Monsters (Dh Press))

9 reviews
Paul Di Filippo

Dark Horse, 2006

Good time travel, good Gill creatures
It's 2015, and seeking a way to adapt humans to the new environment caused by global warming, two marine scientists go back in time to find and study the Gill-man. The book respects and pays homage to the original 1950s films, while bringing the concerns and themes right up to date in the 21st century. There are just so many good ideas in here: beginning with the fact that time travel is ...

Ribofunk (Di Filippo, Paul)

10 reviews
Paul Di Filippo

Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996

One of the Best Sci Fi Books of the Past 10 Years
This is a very entertaining, very engaging book. Fantastic, creative use of language combined with amazing insight into the possibilities of nanotechnology, cloning, genetic manipulation and better living through chemistry. The book and stories are fun but have depth and emotion. I reread this in 2001 after reading it 5 years ago and I was amazed at the perceptive forward vision that the ...

Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge

5 reviews

Pyr, 2007

Great Anthology...a must for SF readers and writers...
I was able to read the ARC of this book prior to its release, and I was very, very pleased with the selections. I enjoyed 14/21 stories in this, with Robert Charles Wilson's, Paolo Bacigalupi's, Elizabeth Bear's, Louise Marley's, and the Mike Resnick/Nancy Kress piece being my personal faves for their "wow" factor. I recognized some of the stories in this anthology were not to my particular SF ...

Cities: The Very Best of Fantasy Comes to Town

10 reviews
China Mieville, Michael Moorcock, ...

Thunder's Mouth Press, 2004

Strange new places and odd new themes to tease the brain
Cities is a compilation of four stories by authors who are all masters of their craft; Paul Di Filippo, China Mieville, Michael Moorcock, and Geoff Ryman. Beginning with Paul Di Filippo's `A Year In The Linear City', the book takes off like a bullet from a gun. Di Filippo's envisioned city is hundreds of thousands of blocks long, but bordered on one side by a river and on the other side by ...

The Emperor of Gondwanaland and Other Stories

2 reviews
Paul Di Filippo

Running Press, 2005

Good Stuff.
I bought this a year or so ago when it came out and devoured it. I cannot believe no one has reviewed it. There's not a bad story in it. If you like Paul Di Filippo and don't have this book, what are you waiting for??? If you're a Di Filippo novice, this is a great starting place. Unlike his other books, which stick to a theme (renegade biology, steampunkery, odd jobs, etc...) this is a grab ...

Shuteye for the Timebroker: Stories

1 review
Paul Di Filippo

Running Press, 2006

Dream-like Science Fiction and Fantasy
Paul Di Filippo is certainly a talented fantasy and SF writer. His short stories in "Shuteye for the Timebroker" are gems of the trade and remind me of the days a friend used to send me copies of "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction." In fact one of the stories was published in this old standard. From the lusty "Captain Jill" to the surrealistic "The Farthest Schorr" (the latter ...

Neutrino Drag

1 review
Paul Di Filippo

Running Press, 2004

Twenty impossible-to-catalog tales
Fans of Paul DiFilippo will readily acknowledge his penchant for sexy, funky tales: he was the author of the Steampunk Trilogy which offered a whole new twist on the genre of science fiction, he's been nominated for a Sturgeon Award, a Hugo and a World Fantasy Award, and he specializes in unusual settings and plots. One would expect the same of his latest Neutrino Drag: Stories - and he doesn't ...

Fractal Paisleys (Di Filippo, Paul)

3 reviews
Paul Di Filippo

Four Walls Eight Windows, 1997

A collection of popcorn for the brain sci-fi short stories
Paul Di Filippo has collected several of his sci-fi short stories with rock and roll undertones. Combining music, hard sci-fi concepts, and everyday average or below average people (some of which do live in a trailer park, hense trailer park sci-fi)is not an easy task, but Di Filipo pulls it off nicely. The stories are fast pased, light, and whimsical. Perfect for a lunch break.

Universe 3 (The Universe Anthology series)
Karen Haber, Brian Aldiss, ...

Spectra, 1994

Tales of the Shadowmen 3: Danse Macabre (Tales of the Shadowmen)

2 reviews
Jean-Marc Lofficier, Randy Lofficier, ...

Hollywood Comics, 2006

A Good Year for Shadowmen
This series is getting better and better. It thrives on the funny, adventurous, or uncanny parings of pop culture characters and the crossovers are getting more entertaining as they get more audacious! It is interesting to see how many of the stories are now showing the shadowy influence of the Black Coats, (a vast criminal conspiracy from the stories of Paul Feval.) There are also several nods ...

Lost Pages (Di Filippo, Paul)

3 reviews
Paul Di Filippo

Four Walls Eight Windows, 1998

A superb collection by one of SF's brightest lights
Paul Di Filippo is one of the best writers working in the genre today, and this collection proves it again. Highly recommended.

Fuzzy Dice

3 reviews
Paul Di Filippo

I Books, 2004

All Across the Multiverse
First off, this isn't a typical Amazon title, rather it is the product of PS Publishing, which puts out limited, signed editions by various science fiction and fantasy authors. Specifically, "Fuzzy Dice" by Paul Di Filippo was limited to 200 slip-cased hardcovers and another 500 regular hardcover copies, and at the time of this writing, some copies were still available from the publisher. ...

A Mouthful of Tongues: Her Totipotent Tropicanalia

2 reviews
Paul Di Filippo

Cosmos Books (PA), 2003

A Grand Erotic Science Fiction Tale From Di Filippo
Paul Di Filippo is highly regarded by his fellow science fiction writers; one of the finest practitioners of the subgenre popularly known as "steampunk". Here he steals a few pages from Delaney and Dick, crafting a splendidly well written erotic near future fantasy that is as well told as any from these other great science fiction writers. It is one of the finest erotic tales in science fiction I ...

Marvel Romance Redux (Marvel Comics)
Jeff Parker, John Lustig, ...

Marvel Comics, 2007

Continuing the noble pursuit of taking funny old pictures and putting funny words on top of them! We've asked some of the funniest writers in comics today to look at the romance comics of yesteryear and put in some new dialogue that'll make us laugh! Unfortunately, the funniest writers were busy, so we had to settle on these guys. Hey, you get what you pay for! Collects Marvel Romance Redux: But He Said He Loved Me!, I Should Have Been a Blonde, ...

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