Wikiworld (one absolute knock-out story)

Description

"One absolute knock-out story… that is among the most exciting pieces of fiction I’ve read in years".
[Cory Doctorow]

"Lighter side of cyberpunk - Great read"
Amber Hansford

Wikiworld is a future with no line between real and virtual worlds, when technologies allow for a global direct democracy and when citizens' personal data are available through eye contact.
Wikiworld is a place where online transparency and web sharing can make you a world leader... with all pros and cons. Paul Di Filippo not only pictures a wonderful and futuristic universe, but he also highlights its paradoxes and contradictions:
“Russ Reynolds, that’s me. You probably remember my name from when I ran the country for three days. Wasn’t that a wild time? I’m sorry I started a trade war with several countries around the globe.”
Science Fiction meets Satire, between utopia and dystopia. Let's run for the presidency of the Wiki States of America!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

"Paul Di Filippo (born October 29, 1954 in Providence, Rhode Island) Paul Di Filippo is a science fiction novelist and short story writer of wide genrebending influence, as well as a journalist, a sometimes comics writer, a mail art fiend, and a bunch of other things that are probably very hard to describe.
Also, the first person to use the word “Steampunk” in a book title..."
[Warren Ellis]

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"One absolute knock-out story… that is among the most exciting pieces of fiction I’ve read in years".
[Cory Doctorow]

"Lighter side of cyberpunk - Great read"
Amber Hansford

Wikiworld is a future with no line between real and virtual worlds, when technologies allow for a global direct democracy and when citizens' personal data are available through eye contact.
Wikiworld is a place where online transparency and web sharing can make you a world leader... with all pros and cons. Paul Di Filippo not only pictures a wonderful and futuristic universe, but he also highlights its paradoxes and contradictions:
“Russ Reynolds, that’s me. You probably remember my name from when I ran the country for three days. Wasn’t that a wild time? I’m sorry I started a trade war with several countries around the globe.”
Science Fiction meets Satire, between utopia and dystopia. Let's run for the presidency of the Wiki States of America!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

"Paul Di Filippo (born October 29, 1954 in Providence, Rhode Island) Paul Di Filippo is a science fiction novelist and short story writer of wide genrebending influence, as well as a journalist, a sometimes comics writer, a mail art fiend, and a bunch of other things that are probably very hard to describe.
Also, the first person to use the word “Steampunk” in a book title..."
[Warren Ellis]

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Return to the Twentieth Century (an amazing novelette)

Description

ABOUT THE BOOK

Return to the Twentieth Century is a novelette published by 40kBooks. 40kBooks publishes a select number of titles by award-winning authors from across the globe.


Why novelettes? Novels can have pauses, faults: a long story wins by points. A novelette, as Julio Cortazar wrote, needs to win by knock-out.

REVIEW

"The war between the sexes, long thought to be extinguished, is heating up! It has been obvious to anyone who has bothered to look during the past year. But the cause has been more obscure. It is not a natural affair! The animosity is being stoked by agents provocateurs – fifth columnists from beyond our planet! This is the nature of the assault on our world. And if we do not stop it, our civilization will go down in a cataclysm of gender warfare."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Paul Di Filippo (born October 29, 1954 in Providence, Rhode Island) is a science fiction novelist and short story writer of wide genrebending influence, as well as a journalist, a sometimes comics writer, a mail art fiend, and a bunch of other things that are probably very hard to describe. Also, the first person to use the word “Steampunk” in a book title."
[Warren Ellis]

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

40kBooks is the first Italian digital publisher. Its eBooks are divided into two categories: Essays and Stories. Essays comprise a selection dealing with digital culture. Stories are novelettes by award-winning authors from different countries and cultures. All of the 40kBook titles are published in multiple languages including Italian, English, Portuguese, Spanish and French and are available all over the world.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Return to the Twentieth Century is a novelette published by 40kBooks. 40kBooks publishes a select number of titles by award-winning authors from across the globe.


Why novelettes? Novels can have pauses, faults: a long story wins by points. A novelette, as Julio Cortazar wrote, needs to win by knock-out.

REVIEW

"The war between the sexes, long thought to be extinguished, is heating up! It has been obvious to anyone who has bothered to look during the past year. But the cause has been more obscure. It is not a natural affair! The animosity is being stoked by agents provocateurs – fifth columnists from beyond our planet! This is the nature of the assault on our world. And if we do not stop it, our civilization will go down in a cataclysm of gender warfare."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Paul Di Filippo (born October 29, 1954 in Providence, Rhode Island) is a science fiction novelist and short story writer of wide genrebending influence, as well as a journalist, a sometimes comics writer, a mail art fiend, and a bunch of other things that are probably very hard to describe. Also, the first person to use the word “Steampunk” in a book title."
[Warren Ellis]

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

40kBooks is the first Italian digital publisher. Its eBooks are divided into two categories: Essays and Stories. Essays comprise a selection dealing with digital culture. Stories are novelettes by award-winning authors from different countries and cultures. All of the 40kBook titles are published in multiple languages including Italian, English, Portuguese, Spanish and French and are available all over the world.

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Waves and Smart Magma (a funny sci fi story)

Description

ABOUT THE BOOK

Waves and Smart Magma is a novelette published by 40kBooks. 40kBooks publishes a select number of titles by award-winning authors from across the globe.

Why novelettes? Novels can have pauses, faults: a long story wins by points. A novelette, as Julio Cortazar wrote, needs to win by knock-out.

REVIEW

Smart magma, new furry species, artificial intelligence, sorcerors... Paul Di Filippo rules, again!
Storm, the protagonist of the last Paul Di Filippo's story, is not human, as you can realize thanks to his furry appearance, but he has been created by humans.
When the same species that bring him to life destroyed his family during a bloody battle, he felt not only astonished and angry, but also confused about his identity and his origin.
In search of himself, Storm begins a long trip that leads him to explore the bioregion around a volcano - full of strange and smart creatures - and to deal with the globally distributed artificial intelligence, who appears like “a kindly sorceror from some old human epic”. This weird figure asks him to join a mission with other ten guardians that helps Storm to understand that it doesn't matter where you are from, the most important thing is where you are going.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

"Paul Di Filippo (born October 29, 1954 in Providence, Rhode Island) Paul Di Filippo is a science fiction novelist and short story writer of wide genrebending influence, as well as a journalist, a sometimes comics writer, a mail art fiend, and a bunch of other things that are probably very hard to describe.
Also, the first person to use the word “Steampunk” in a book title..."
[Warren Ellis]

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

40kBooks is the first Italian digital publisher. Its eBooks are divided into two categories: Essays and Stories. Essays comprise a selection dealing with digital culture. Stories are novelettes by award-winning authors from different countries and cultures. All of the 40kBook titles are published in multiple languages including Italian, English, Portuguese, Spanish and French and are available all over the world.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Waves and Smart Magma is a novelette published by 40kBooks. 40kBooks publishes a select number of titles by award-winning authors from across the globe.

Why novelettes? Novels can have pauses, faults: a long story wins by points. A novelette, as Julio Cortazar wrote, needs to win by knock-out.

REVIEW

Smart magma, new furry species, artificial intelligence, sorcerors... Paul Di Filippo rules, again!
Storm, the protagonist of the last Paul Di Filippo's story, is not human, as you can realize thanks to his furry appearance, but he has been created by humans.
When the same species that bring him to life destroyed his family during a bloody battle, he felt not only astonished and angry, but also confused about his identity and his origin.
In search of himself, Storm begins a long trip that leads him to explore the bioregion around a volcano - full of strange and smart creatures - and to deal with the globally distributed artificial intelligence, who appears like “a kindly sorceror from some old human epic”. This weird figure asks him to join a mission with other ten guardians that helps Storm to understand that it doesn't matter where you are from, the most important thing is where you are going.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

"Paul Di Filippo (born October 29, 1954 in Providence, Rhode Island) Paul Di Filippo is a science fiction novelist and short story writer of wide genrebending influence, as well as a journalist, a sometimes comics writer, a mail art fiend, and a bunch of other things that are probably very hard to describe.
Also, the first person to use the word “Steampunk” in a book title..."
[Warren Ellis]

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

40kBooks is the first Italian digital publisher. Its eBooks are divided into two categories: Essays and Stories. Essays comprise a selection dealing with digital culture. Stories are novelettes by award-winning authors from different countries and cultures. All of the 40kBook titles are published in multiple languages including Italian, English, Portuguese, Spanish and French and are available all over the world.

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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March/April 2011

Description

Amazon is thrilled to offer Kindle fantasy and science-fiction fans the magazine that Stephen King calls "the best fiction magazine in America."

Founded in 1949, Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine is the award-winning original publisher of such classics as Stephen King's Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon, and Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. Each bimonthly issue offers compelling short fiction by writers such as Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Terry Bisson, along with the science-fiction field's most respected and outspoken opinions on books, films and science--plus a dash of humor from our cartoonists and writers.

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Amazon is thrilled to offer Kindle fantasy and science-fiction fans the magazine that Stephen King calls "the best fiction magazine in America."

Founded in 1949, Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine is the award-winning original publisher of such classics as Stephen King's Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon, and Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. Each bimonthly issue offers compelling short fiction by writers such as Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Terry Bisson, along with the science-fiction field's most respected and outspoken opinions on books, films and science--plus a dash of humor from our cartoonists and writers.

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Harp, Pipe, and Symphony

Description

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?

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Lost Pages (Di Filippo, Paul)

Description

Imagine "Frank" Kafka as the scourge of Gotham's mean streets; Henry Miller as a messenger for Western Union; Philip K. Dick as a hardware store salesman married to Linda Ronstadt. Paul Di Filippo, one of the original cyberpunks, reimagines the lives of some of the superstars of literature. Nine unpredictable stories position famous writers in strange, alternate existences.

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In 1988, readers of Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine were treated to a collaboration between Paul Di Filippo and Rudy Rucker called "Instability," in which Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady were sent on a crash-course trajectory hurtling into John von Neumann and Richard Feynmann (a.k.a. "Doctor Miracle" and "Little Richard," portrayed as two wild and crazy "atomic wizards, quantum shamans, plutonium prophets, and be-boppin' A-bomb peeaitchdees"). Lost Pages brings "Instability" together with eight other Di Filippo stories that apply the what-if premise to writers' lives. You'll also find a hilarious introduction that credits a George Pal-produced Star Trek with the destruction of SF.

Di Filippo lets his imagination run wild, creating worlds in which Franz Kafka stalks the streets of nighttime Manhattan as a costumed avenger known as the Jackdaw, or in which Anne Frank, having been sent to live with relatives in America, becomes part of MGM's galaxy of stars. Science fiction writers such as Robert Heinlein, Alice (James Tiptree, Jr.) Sheldon, Alfred Bester, and Ted Sturgeon are given chances to save the world. In what turns out to be one of the most gimmicky and at the same time touching premises, Astounding Science Fiction is edited in its golden age by Joseph Campbell. Telling you any more would spoil the dozens of quirky surprises this collection has in store for you. --Ron Hogan

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