Product Description: Exploring the theory that media is the real opium of the masses, this collection of timely and provocative speculative fiction brings together some of the most talented contemporary fantasy, horror, and science fiction writers. Stories by J...read more

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.

Product Description: What happens when the tools and themes of science fiction are applied to the genre of science fiction itself-and to publishing in general? Surprisingly, the result is not a black hole of dreary self-referentiality but a supernova of literary comedy, in the manner of classicists such as S...read more

Product Description: What happens when the tools and themes of science fiction are applied to the genre of science fiction itself-and to publishing in general? Surprisingly, the result is not a black hole of dreary self-referentiality but a supernova of literary comedy, in the manner of classicists such as S...read more

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

In this, Di Filippo's first fantasy novel ever, Thomas the Rhymer confronts humans and faery and monsters, in a quest through lands known and unknown . . . but can he survive the machinations of the Faery Queen?

Product Description: Hidden in CIA agent Denis Slater's safe is an ancient reliquary found in the ruins of an old English abbey. In a secret compartment, embedded in a thousand years of rust, lies the definitive proof of the Lowenstein experiment, the astounding evidence of the CIA's greatest secret...read more

Product Description: The Unitied States is divided, blue states against red states. In the wake of the 2004 Presidential election the citizens of America take matters into their own hands, and secession becomes reality. In this volume of fiction, you will find tales that address the question: what if the blue states left the republic? What if the greatest country in the world split-up? What would this mean for the rest of the world? How would the parts of the former USA fair in a new world where theyʼre no longer the single superpower? What would this startling future hold? Read stories by Paul Di Filippo, Robert Lopresti, Tara Kolden, Douglas Lain, Carole McDonnell, Gene Stewart, C...read more

A collection of science fiction and fantasy short works that are representative of the author's concerns, themes, and styles includes such pieces as 'The Secret Sutras of Sally Strumpet,' 'Captain Jill,' and 'Walking the Great Road.' Original.

In a bizarre 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 and the Protein Police patrol for renegade gene splicers. Reprint

An inventive collection of eighteen science fiction stories, each accompanied by an incisive introduction by the author, presents a startling series of visions of the future. By the author of Fractal Paisleys and Ribofunk. Original.

Product Description: Would it Kill You to Smile? When second-rate ventriloquist Skipper Keats dies of a heart attack at his comedy club, Skipper's son Will learns of the bizarre codicil to his father's will: Skipper has requested that he be buried with Dapper O'Dell, his favorite dummy...read more

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.

The author of The Steampunk Trilogy roars back onto the scene with a new set of twenty stories that include tales of teen witchcraft, Pythagoras, Jane Mansfield, the Virgin Mary, and aliens, among other outrageous and unlikely subjects. Original.

Product Description: China Miéville, Michael Moorcock, Paul Di Filippo, and Geoff Ryman: These award winners are on any list of the most inventive, popular, and critically acclaimed talents writing in the realms of fantasy and science fiction today. Their four original creations for this collection range from surreal visions of the infinite to high-tech nightmare; from apocalyptic ruins stalked by heroes and vampires to a near future where the aged terrorize the young...read more

Product Description: In his new novel, A Mouthful of Tongues, Paul Di Filippo, cult author of Ciphers, The Steampunk Trilogy, and Ribofunk, makes his boldest fictional statement yet. Writing in the tradition of Kathy Acker and Samuel R. Delany, but with a subversive brio all his own, Di Filippo here imagines a true erotic revolution, a crusade of the libido that will topple a corrupt and jaded future world order, and possibly much besides ...read more

Seventeen new stories from the master of 'trailer park science fiction' drags readers across a strange but also familiar American landscape. By the author of Lost Pages, Ribofunk, and The Steampunk Trilogy.

Product Description: Paul Di Filippo is one of Science Fiction's finest short story writers, wild, witty, exuberantly imaginative; Babylon Sisters and Other Posthumans is a generous showcase of his strange, transformative, and powerful Hard SF visions...read more

Presents a collection of fantasy stories which focus on the theme of work. (view table of contents)

A collection of nine stories transplants famous writers to strange new worlds, as 'Frank' Kafka becomes another Superman, Henry Miller becomes a messenger, and Anne Frank a stand-in for Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz. Original. IP. (view table of contents)

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. (view table of contents)