Paul Di Filippo
Lost Pages

"Di Filippo can lay claim to being cyberpunk's supreme practitioner." — Booklist

"Frank" Kafka as the scourge of Gotham's mean streets — by night, terrifying evildoers in the guise of "the Jackdaw," by day, the mild-mannered advice columnist behind "Ask Josephine." Anne Frank, having escaped by a matter of days the German invasion of Holland, as the Hollywood stand-in for Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz and subsequently the drug-addled ex-wife of Mickey Rooney. Antoine de St. Exupéry — "Tonio de Saint-Ex" to his many admirers, as dashing in Di Filippo's world as he was in ours — as the pilot who will save the remnants of Western civilization in the aftermath of a devastating plague. And who, along the way, has a passionate affair with Beryl Markham.

Henry Miller: messenger for Western Union. Philip K. Dick: hardware store salesman. Robert Heinlein: President of the United States.

When Paul Di Filippo unleashes his imagination, watch out. The result is sometimes shocking, sometimes hilarious, always unlooked-for. In Lost Pages, Di Filippo has deliberately selected as protagonists for his nine "alternate worlds" men and women who became known for their work as writers — people of strong character who, whatever their situation, would have proved extraordinary.

Paul Di Filippo, a two-time finalist for the Nebula Award, is the author of The Steampunk Trilogy, Fractal Paisleys and Ribofunk (all Four Walls Eight Windows). He lives in Providence, R.I.

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