Paul Di Filippo
Fractal Paisleys

"Funny, offbeat and ever-so-funky tales of losers and working-class people who come into contact with the decidedly weird. . . Although he has yet to achieve the popularity of a Terry Pratchett or a Douglas Adams, perhaps because he works almost entirely in the short story form, Di Filippo is one of the most talented humorists in contemporary fantasy and SF." -- Publishers Weekly

Ten funky science fiction stories by the widely acclaimed author of The Steampunk Trilogy and Ribofunk. Irreverent, funny and sexy — samples of what Di Filippo terms "trailer park science fiction" — Fractal Paisleys explains the real reason for the disappearance of the dinosaurs, how John Lennon found inspiration, how the L'il Bear Bar in Providence, Rhode Island, ended up with a talking moose head on its wall, why Republicans ruled the U.S. for an unbroken twelve years, and many more secrets of life.

The stories are united by Di Filippo's fascination with the infinite variety of alternate worlds: "what-if" scenarios that place an ordinary Joe or Jane in command of the forces that power the universe. Invariably, the results are … unexpected, to say the least. Combining Philip K. Dick's paranoia and Douglas Adams's whimsy, Di Filippo both parodies conventions of the SF genre and takes readers on an exhilarating ride to a fantasy realm where literally anything is possible.

Fractal Paisleys includes two never-before-published tales: the other stories were published in such science fiction standbys as Amazing Stories, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Interzone.

Paul Di Filippo is known throughout the world of science fiction as one of the funniest, most original — most off-beat — writers published today. A two-time finalist for the Nebula Award, Di Filippo is the author of The Steampunk Trilogy (Four Walls Eight Windows) and Ribofunk (Four Walls Eight Windows; paperback to Avon).

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