Praise for Lost Among the Stars
“Out of a rich impasto of language, a story that is sensual, sexual, and hot takes shape around one of the most engaging heroines since Southern and Hoffenberg’s Candy.”
—Samuel Delany on A Mouthful of Tongues
“A ruthless fantasy of aggressive sexuality and archaic intentions.”
—A. A. Attanasio on A Mouthful of Tongues
“Fluid, fantastic, rich with menace and heat, A Mouthful of Tongues is a run amok past the limits of the human, Eros the Jaguar with claws intact.”
—Kathe Koja on A Mouthful of Tongues
“This collection, Ribofunk, stands as the field’s madcap Dubliners of the biogenetic revolution.”
—Michael Bishop on Ribofunk
“Ribofunk is great science fiction: wildly inventive, warmly human, culturally relevant, and deeply funny. Paul Di Filippo does dazzling new tricks with English. And then he puts the wonderful language and the wild science together … and the whole fractal exfoliation leads to the utterly wonderful Ribofunk. The book of the year.”
—Rudy Rucker on Ribofunk
“I swear on the grave of my sainted mother that Lost Pages by Paul Di Filippo is nothing less than an imperial read. An excellent book of genuinely memorable stories of which one, ‘Anne,’ is worth alone the price of the volume: you’ll not forget it.”
—Harlan Ellison on Lost Pages
“Lost Pages proves that one wild polymath, granted vast satirical range and afraid of no No Man’s Land can all alone produce a simulacrum of a world which is both synchronous and fetching in ways which our disorderly, old unpolymathed world can never be.…[the] most riotous work of this kind since Nabokov’s Ada …”
—Barry Malzberg on Lost Pages
“Fractal Paisleys channel surfs postmodern apocalypse brilliantly.”
—Jonathan Lethem
“An often genuinely funny mixture of Raymond Carver, Harry Harrison, and Douglas Adams.”
—Booklist on Fractal Paisleys
“Di Filippo is the spin doctor of SF—and it is a powerful medicine he brews.”
—Brian Aldiss
“Paul Di Filippo’s The Steampunk Trilogy is the literary equivalent of Max Ernst’s collages of 19th-century steel-engravings, spooky, haunting, hilarious.”
—William Gibson
“Strange Trades is a splendid collection … witty, thoughtful, accessible … the book’s finest story … has a humanity worthy of Dickens or Hardy.”
—Publisher’s Weekly
“Vibrant, nervy, and full of gloriously wiggy language, Ribofunk is anything but the same old stuff.”
—Philadelphia Inquirer
“It’s like Tom Robbins’ classic Even Cowgirls Get the Blues recast in the hands of gonzo mathematician Rudy Rucker as a kind of ontological daytrip.”
—Locus on Fuzzy Dice
“Di Filippo keeps the proceedings lively with satiric winks at our own world and a profusion of comically apt pop culture references ranging from Charles Dickens to Yellow Submarine.”
—Publisher’s Weekly on Fuzzy Dice
“An author who genuinely comes close to defying all attempts at description. A true original.”
—Infinity Plus
“This is some spectacular writing, reminiscent of Mervyn Peake if anything.”
—The Agony Column on A Year in the Linear City
“Imagine Bob Heinlein wearing a box-fresh leather jacket at a smart-drinks concession, speed-reading Wired from behind a pair of dime-store mirrorshades, and you’re in the right neck of the woods.”
—Paul Graham Raven on Wikiworld
“Di Filippo is like gourmet potato chips to me. I can never eat just one of his stories.”
—Harlan Ellison
“With Ciphers, Paul Di Filippo has deconstructed three riotous decades with momentous self-referentiality and wit. He’s a remarkable writer.”
—Barry Malzberg
“In terms of composition, narrative description and voice, Di Filippo is well nigh masterful.”
—SF Site on A Year in the Linear City
“Like Alan Moore, Di Filippo is capable of juggling multiple storylines in an effective and engaging manner.”
—Dirk Deppey on Top 10: Beyond the Farthest Precinct
“The Emperor of Gondwanaland keeps punching with big ideas about how things should be, could be, will be, or could have been.”
—City Paper
“Engaging, and at once affecting and hilarious, Harp, Pipe and Symphony points clearly to Di Filippo’s later bent for fine metaphysical comedy … The full scope of his literary achievement is becoming clear; and it’s an impressive spectacle.”
—Nick Gevers
“One absolute knock-out story … that is among the most exciting pieces of fiction I’ve read in years.”
—Cory Doctorow on Wikiworld
“A Year in the Linear City is one of the best novellas of this year.”
—Rich Horton
“Even when Di Filippo does make use of more common images or tropes, it’s with a disturbingly original spin.”
—Gary Wolfe on Little Doors
“His truly wondrous wordcraft—a lush and sometimes playful use of language—is reason enough to admire this short, possibly satiric novel.”
—Publisher’s Weekly on A Mouthful of Tongues
“Paul Di Filippo’s short fiction has almost always been right there on the edge, pushing at the borders of SF, combining some pretty wild speculation with biting satire, sharply crafted prose, a seriously disturbed sense of humor, and consistently good writing.”
—Don D’Ammassa on Babylon Sisters
“Every one of the 17 idiosyncratic short fantasies in this superior collection … is immaculately told.”
—Publisher’s Weekly on Little Doors
“Extraordinary wit and free-roaming imagination … are pandemic in the writer who has kickstarted steampunk in his eponymous collection, joked about biotechnologies in Ribofunk, gone on an obsessive tour-de-force of musical trivia in Ciphers, and improvised wildly on American culture and the history of SF in Lost Pages.”
—Pawel Frelik on A Year in the Linear City
“Di Filippo’s uninhibitedly effervescent style, his talent for verbal cartoons, his eclectic knowledge of fads and philosophies and of their weakest points: all come together in the most exhilaratingly funny genre collection in some time.”
—Nick Gevers on Neutrino Drag
“Strange Trades makes G. K. Chesterton’s revolutionary-for-its-time collection The Club of Queer Trades seem timid and quaint.”
—Fiona Kelleghan
“His best stories upend the banal by explicating surprisingly serious subtexts.”
—Chris Nakashima-Brown
“Author Paul Di Filippo leaves few taboos unexplored.”
—Alyx Dellamonica on A Mouthful of Tongues
“A formidable new collection … the clear product of a gifted writer with a powerful—and deeply empathetic—imagination.”
—Bill Sheehan on Strange Trades
“After the Collapse is a collection you won’t want to miss if you love the high-bit invention evident in the works of Doctorow or Stross.”
—Trent Walters
“The Steampunk Trilogy is a magnificent specimen of that rare bird, intelligent humour. Di Filippo stirs up a funky stew of puns, literature, natural history and sex, and serves it up in an elaborate Victorian dish—300-odd pages of juicy reading pleasure.”
—Katharine Mills