Paul Di Filippo
The Steampunk Trilogy

"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

First there was cyberpunk, pioneered by the likes of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Now comes steampunk, the twisted offspring of science fiction and postmodernism, a sassy, unpredictable tongue-in-cheek style of which the incomparable Paul Di Filippo is master. Originally published to rave reviews in 1995, The Steampunk Trilogy is making its paperback debut.

Paul Di Filippo had long been an open secret in science fiction circles — a denizen of the science fiction netherworld of zines, a two-time finalist for the prestigious Nebula Award — when Four Walls Eight Windows released The Steampunk Trilogy. Science Fiction Chronicle's reaction was typical: "Buy a copy for all your friends. What the hell, buy a copy for your enemies as well."

Inside the wide realm of science fiction or out, there is nothing like the three short novels in The Steampunk Trilogy. All are set in a very alternative nineteenth century, and feature a mixture of historical and imaginary figures. In "Victoria," a young and lissome Queen Victoria disappears from her throne and is replaced by a sexy human/newt clone. The race is on to find the original Victoria and to hide the terrible secret from the nation. In "Hottentots," Massachusetts is threatened by monsters from the deep; in "Walt and Emily," Emily Dickinson hooks up with a robust and lusty Walt Whitman, loses her virginity, and travels to a dimension beyond time where she meets the future Allen Ginsberg.

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