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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 OF THE BADLANDS<BR> FarmEarth<BR> ANGELMAKERS<BR> THE JONES CONTINUUM<BR> ADVENTURES IN COGNITIVE HOMOGAMY: A LOVE STORY<BR> KAREN COXSWAIN<BR> A NIGHT IN THE THIRTEENTH AVENUE MISSION<BR> I KANT CUZ I’M TOO JUNG<BR> THE NEW CYBERIAD<BR> YES WE HAVE NO BANANAS<BR> FEMAVILLE 29<BR> SHUTEYE FOR THE TIMEBROKER<P> If you enjoy this book, search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see the 160+ entries in the MEGAPACK™ series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, classics, adventure stories, and much, much more!

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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 TREE<BR> WINTER IN AMERICA<BR> ROYAUME DU RÊVE<BR> TRIPLETS<BR> THE JONES CONTINUUM<BR> WATERLOO SUNSET<BR> MODERN CONVENIENCES<BR> I KANT CUZ I’M TOO JUNG<BR> HEAVEN SENT ME AN ANGEL, C.O.D. <BR> A NIGHT IN THE THIRTEENTH AVENUE MISSION<BR> STRANGE BREW<BR> FAX

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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 species as a strain of virus, to an Africa made over by nanotech messiahs, to a future Earth protected by half-alien angels, to wars of liberation from what we have always so tragically been: these are only some of the awe-inspiring transitions to be found in Babylon Sisters. Read here of rebellion by books against their librarian, of cosmic destiny remade by stellar lunatics, of disorienting ventures beyond the boundaries of the human; discover here the perverse and terrible dangers of the age of posthumanity.

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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 their lives and arranging them in new patterns of hope and dreaming. Here are six riveting tales of life during the hard-luck times of a post-holocaust planet.