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    <![CDATA[The Emperor of Gondwanaland: And Other Stories]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Paul Di Filippo&#8217;s fiction spans genres&#8212;from cyberpunk to alternative history to extravagantly funny tales involving talking beavers. As whimsical as they are intelligent, the eighteen stories gathered here, each introduced by the author, find strange characters in even stranger circumstances.<br/><br/>An all-access pass to Di Filippo&#8217;s whirlwind imagination, <em>The Emperor of Gondwanaland</em> makes clear why its author is one of the most respected science fiction writers around. The man who coined the word ribofunk (to describe science fiction with a biogenetic twist), Di Filippo sees into the heart of our times with a vision and creativity that simply won&#8217;t quit. <em>The Emperor of Gondwanaland</em> is more like a fluid Dalí dreamscape, painted with the deft brushstrokes; a wildly fantastic escape to alternate universes from one of the most imaginative writers around.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Paul Di Filippo]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I love di Filippo, I really, really love him.  And when he writes like this, I want to gouge my own eyes out.  He seems to write a lot of poorly crafted short fiction.  Then again, there are the stories in Ribofunk, Lost Pages and the Steampunk Trilogy.  Stunning stuff.  Ultimately forgivable c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8617230">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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