Following the shock wave of cyberpunk writing in the late 1980s, Paul Di Filippo's first book, The Steampunk Trilogy, burst on the scene in 1995, l...
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Oct 25, 2007
Monk
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If you were looking for people genetically engineering themselves into insects, the post-human condition, and hardboiled detectives having illicit affairs with semi-intelligent, bipedal hamsters, you have come to the right (?!) place.
I don't remember a lot about this book other than the fact that it was so out there that I simply could NOT put it down. It left an impression on me and I've meant to read it again, but this book is very hard to find. It's an anthology of short stories t More...
I don't remember a lot about this book other than the fact that it was so out there that I simply could NOT put it down. It left an impression on me and I've meant to read it again, but this book is very hard to find. It's an anthology of short stories t More...
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Aug 26, 2008
Adam
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Ribofunk is a comic and bizarre collection of stories describing a bioengineered future that reads like a combination of Bruce Sterling’s Schismatrix, Warner Brother’s Cartoons, W.S. Burrough’s fever dream, Chandler noir, Cordwainer Smith, Disney talking animal tales, and fairy tales. Disgusting, funny, confusing, and filled with style and word games. A future that is neither utopian or dystopian and pokes fun at the present and many sci fi tropes. For its mad cap humor and imagination it remind
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Nov 24, 2009
Jay
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It's a crazy mixed up, Panplasmodemonium world, ain't it? Well maybe.
Riofunk, a baker's dozen of sf stories, collectively takes you into a future world transformed by a bio-technical revolution and slowly builds it up and up, with slang and tropes and splices and kibes, gets you deep inside, makes you a citizen and then... well, don't hold onto your passport too hard.
Riofunk, a baker's dozen of sf stories, collectively takes you into a future world transformed by a bio-technical revolution and slowly builds it up and up, with slang and tropes and splices and kibes, gets you deep inside, makes you a citizen and then... well, don't hold onto your passport too hard.
Nov 07, 2010
Petabyte
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Best scifi I've read in some time. Need to scour local pl for all of Di Filippo's work.
ETA. That was some ride! Excellent scifi+noir.
ETA. That was some ride! Excellent scifi+noir.
Jun 21, 2011
Donald
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5 outta 13 stories not a bad collection. Some of the stories i could not get into.
One Night in TV City 5 stars
Cockfight 4 stars
Blankie 4 stars
Mc Gregor 3 stars
Afterschool Special 3 stars
One Night in TV City 5 stars
Cockfight 4 stars
Blankie 4 stars
Mc Gregor 3 stars
Afterschool Special 3 stars
Jun 24, 2008
Mike
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Delightful. I know that sounds like the worst kind of schmaltz but it literally filled me with delight.
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