Paul Di Filippo crée des histoires qui repoussent les limites du genre avec une sensibilité unique. Sa prose se caractérise par des caractérisations pleines d'âme et des dialogues spirituels et hilarants, créant une voix à la fois captivante et addictive. La production littéraire de Di Filippo, qu'il s'agisse de nouvelles ou de romans, offre aux lecteurs une expérience immersive et inoubliable.
An anthology of end-of-the-millennium fiction, capturing the atmosphere of the times from millennium madness to apocalypse culture. Writers such as Jeff Noon, Douglas Coupland, Nicholas Blincoe, Kathy Acker and Poppy Z. Brite have contributed exclusive stories.
Glen and Stan team up again in this exciting follow-up to The Big Get-Even. Two high-flying con men stumble upon a lone scientist and his half-genius, half-addlepated invention, which seems to promise a big payoff if they can dupe the right buyers. But infidelity, gangsters, foreign governments, and their own greed offer stumbling blocks galore.
Visited one morning by a dimension-hopping artificial intelligence named Hans, Paul Girard is given the ability to jump instantly to any world he can envision. But without truly knowing himself, Paul soon discovers that framing a wish that gets the expected results is not as easy as it first appears. Paul races across bizarre dimensions in search for happiness, love, wealth, status and the answer to the ontological pickle until the only exit is death. And then his adventures really begin--Cover p. [4].
In a strange, seriously funny and stunningly inventive collection of stories all set in the same disturbingly dystopian tomorrow, acclaimed sf innovator Paul DiFilippo demonstrates that the future isn't electronic, nuclear, or cyber...it's organic. Here is an Earth where bodies and brains are routinely genetically/chemically modified; where laboratory-created Splices do the dirty work -- as long as their genetic makeup is less than haft human -- and, sometimes, go renegade, forcing the Protein Police to hunt them down like dogs. In this world, potentially apocalyptic threats -- viral, mental, virtual, physical, and brain-fryingly toxic -- are everywhere, inside and out, the outrageous end-products of unchecked biological tinkering with our surroundings and ourselves. You will never forget this brave new world: it's a future that will swallow you whole.
Far in the glorious interstellar future, a time of riches and complex technologies, the stern but utilitarian Quinary guards and regulates the flourishing human-colonized galaxy. Under their business-like rule, a family may own a whole planet. And so two bloodlines--the Corvivios clan and the Soldavere clan--are in full possession of the lush and benign world of Verano. All looks rosy for the families, but then the happy future is dramatically and tragically overturned!
Three tales set in the 19th century. In Victoria, a scientist breeds a replica of Queen Victoria and when the real queen disappears, the government uses her as a replacement. In Hottentots, Massachusetts is threatened by H.P. Lovecraft-style monsters and, of course, Hottentots. In Walt and Emily, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson travel to the world of spirits to meet future writers.
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 discovers along the way that getting to the big payoff might just be more scary fun than the monetary prize itself.
Jede Seite, jeder Satz dieses Buches ist die Gestaltwerdung eines fiebrigen Traums. Plastisch und tabulos beschreibt Paul Di Filippo eine neue Dimension körperlicher Freuden. Ein sprachgewaltiges Buch der Offenbarung und der Erlösung, das zu den Wurzeln unseres Menschseins vordringt. Amerika im Jahr 2015. Kerry Hackett unterzieht sich einer unheimlichen Transformation. Sie verschmilzt mit einem parabiologisch erschaffenen Wesen und wird zu einer Art alchemistischer Gottheit: übermenschlich, übersexualisiert und fähig, ihrer Gestalt jede nur erdenkliche Form zu verleihen. Sie verläßt die von einem totalitären Regime beherrschten USA und zieht in den Dschungel Brasiliens. Dort erprobt sie ihre neuen Fähigkeiten an jenen, die sich ihrer für würdig erweisen, und strebt auf eine neue Daseinsstufe zu.
