Paul Di Filippo

(image credit: Patrick Woodroffe) "Afterschool Special" (RiboFunk) © Amazing, Jun 1993 Ribofunk, 1996 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award "Ailoura" © Once Upon A Galaxy, ed.W.McCarthy, 2002 --novelette : 2003 Locus /8 --/ cool sf story "Agents" © F&SF, Apr 1987 Strange Trades, 2001 --short story : 1987 Nebula --/ cool sf story --/ idea award "Big Eater" (RiboFunk) © Interzone, Jun 1995 Ribofunk, 1996 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award "Blankie" (RiboFunk) © Ribofunk, 1996 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award "The Boot" (RiboFunk) © F&SF, Dec 1990 Ribofunk,1996 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award "The Boredom Factory" © The Edge, Jan 1995 Non-Stop # 3, 1997 Strange Trades, 2001 --/ cool sf story --/ idea award "Brain Wars" (RiboFunk) © New Worlds # 2, ed. D.Garnett, 1992 Ribofunk, 1996 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award "Cockfight" (RiboFunk) © Journal Wired, Spr 1990 Ribofunk, 1996 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award "Conspiracy of Noise" © F&SF, Nov 1987 Strange Trades, 2001 --short story : 2002 Locus Poll --short story : 2003 Nebula --/ cool sf story --/ idea award "Distributed Mind" (RiboFunk) © Interzone, Apr 1995 Ribofunk, 1996 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award "Fleshflowers" © Back Brain Recluse #16, 1990 Strange Trades, 2001 --/ cool sf story "The Grange" © F&SF, Oct 1991 --/ fourth place f novella --/ wonder award --/ emotion award "Harlem Nova" © Amazing, Sep 1990 Strange Trades, 2001 --/ cool sf story --/ style award "Hottentots" (Steampunk Trilogy) © Steampunk Trilogy, 1995 --novella : 1996 Locus /9 --/ third place f novella --/ wonder award --/ idea award: victorian punk --/ shock value --/ humour award --/ adventure award --/ rare find "Karuna, Inc" © Fantastic Stories, 2001 Strange Trades, 2001 --novella : 2002 World Fantasy --novella : 2002 Locus /10 --/ fourth place sf story --/ idea award --/ humour award "Kid Charlemagne" © Amazing, Sep 1987 Strange Trades, 2001 --short story : 1988 Nebula --/ cool sf story "Little Worker" (RiboFunk) © F&SF, Dec 1989 Ribofunk, 1996 --short story : 1990 Locus /33 --/ third place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ style award --/ shock value "Mama Told Me Not To Come" © Amazing Stories, Jan 1993 Fractal Paisleys, 1997 --/ third place f story --/ humour award --/ style award --/ wonder award --/ rare find "A Martian Theodicy" (A Martian Oddyssey 2) © Mars Probes, ed. P. Crowther, 2002 --novellette: 2003 Locus /8 --/ third place sf story --/ wonder award --/ style award --/ adventure award "The Mill" © Amazing, Oct 1991 Strange Trades, 2001 --novella : 1992 Locus /12 --/ cool sf story "My Alphabet Starts Where Your Alphabet Ends" © Nebula Awards 24, ed. M. Bishop, 1990 --/ cool sf story --/ style award "Neutrino Drag" © Sci Fiction, Aug 2001 Neutrino Drag, 2004 --novelette : 2002 Locus /26 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award "One Night in Television City" © Universe 1, ed. R.Silverberg, 1990 Ribofunk, 1996 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award "The Reluctant Book" © Science Fiction Age, May 2000 --short story : 2001 Locus/25 --/ second place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ style award --/ humour award "Ribofunk" (coll) © 1996, Arbor House --collection : 1997 Locus/14 --/ third place sf collection --/ wonder award --/ style award "The Scab's Progress" (with Bruce Sterling) © Sci Fiction, Jan 2001 --novella: Hugo 2001 --novella: 2002 Locus Poll --/ second place sf novella --/ wonder award --/ style award --/ idea award --/ adventure award "Seeing is Believing" © F&SF, Apr 2003 --/ fourth place sf story --/ humour award "Shipbreaker" © Sci Fiction, Oct 2002 --short story: 2002 Locus Poll --/ third place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ adventure award "Skintwister" © F&SF, Mar 1986 Strange Trades, 2001 --/ cool sf story ---------------------------------------------- "Spondulix" © Science Fiction Age, Sep 1995 Strange Trades, 2000 --novella : 1996 SF Age Poll /2 --/ fourth place sf novella --/ idea award --/ humour award One of the most humorous novellas ever written. The humor is a little off-beat and may not be everybody's cup of tea, but certainly any spoof of the modern widely-established principles of capitalism and sales techniques is highly welcome. Here a small fast food enterprise has the guts to take on the big shots, and even invent its own money (coupons for sandwiches). Through its own close-knit chain of wacky customers, sheer audacity and spunk, it achieves the heights of success entirely undreamt of. In the meantime, the reader will be treated to a certain zoo of strange characters, which Di Filippo seems to relish describing in hilarious detail. This novella comes highly recommended as a modern tongue-in-cheek economics textbook. review: 24-Aug-06 (read in 2003) ---------------------------------------------- "SteamPunk Trilogy" (coll) © 1995, Four Walls Eight Windows --collection : 1996 Locus /5 --/ second place sf collection --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ style award --/ shock value --/ humour award --/ adventure award --/ rare find "Stone Lives" © F&SF, Aug 1985 --short story: Nebula 1985 --/ cool sf story "Strange Trades" (coll) © Golden Gryphon Press, 2000 --collection : 2002 Locus /9 --/ fourth place sf collection --/ idea award "SUITs" © Amazing, Aug 1993 Strange Trades, 2001 --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award "Take Me to the Pilot" © IASFM, Aug 1995 Destroy All Brains!, 1996 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ style award "Terminal Lunch" (nf) © 1998, Locus Magazine "Up the Lazy River" (RiboFunk) © Science Fiction Age, Sep 1993 Ribofunk, 1996 --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award ---------------------------------------------- Paul Di Filippo "Victoria" (Steampunk Trilogy) © Amazing Stories, Jun 1991 Steampunk Trilogy, 1995 --/ third place f novella --/ shock value --/ humour award --/ wonder award --/ style award Not only is the entertainment value of this novella is through-the-roof, the significance of its appearing as far back as 1991 is notable as well: it pushes the envelope in more ways than one, defining steampunk black comedy with its own brand of humour. Try not to grin as you read: naughty, improbable, grotesque, the tale bests itself at every turn, featuring such wildly bizarre concoctions as a homunculus/newt on the throne of England, nuclear train engines and "ideoplasm"-powered transdimensional prairie schooners, with inevitable Lovecraft monsters duly appearing in the "Hottentots" sequel. This is a highlight of any summer reading (for just like in the movies, there has to be a "Summer Blockbuster Reading Season"). You are not going to forget it, but some readers might think that Paul Di Filippo goes too far into the territory they can't follow. ---------------------------------------------- "Walt and Emily" (Steampunk Trilogy) © Interzone, Nov 1993 Steampunk Trilogy, 1995 --novella : 1994 Locus /16 --/ third place f novella --/ idea award: poetry punk --/ shock value --/ humour award --/ romance award --/ rare find "World Wars III" © Interzone, Jan 1992 --fiction : 1992 Interzone Poll /2 --/ cool sf story --/ idea award --/ humour award "A Year in the Linear City" © 2002, PS Publiching also - Sci Fiction, Apr 2003 --novella : 2003 Hugo --novella : 2003 World Fantasy --shortlist : 2003 Sturgeon --novella : 2003 Locus /3 --/ fourth place f novella --/ wonder award --/ idea award ------------------------------

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