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Paul Di Filippo

(b.1954)

aka Philip Lawson

Paul Di Filippo is the author of Ribofunk, Fractal Paisleys, and The Steampunk Trilogy. He was a two-time finalist for the Nebula Award and a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Genres: Science Fiction, Mystery

Series

Steampunk
The Steampunk Trilogy (omnibus) (1995)

Will Keats (as by Philip Lawson)
1. Would It Kill You to Smile? (1998)
2. Muskrat Courage (2000)

Linear
A Year in the Linear City (2002)
A Princess of The Linear Jungle (2010)

Top Ten
Beyond the Farthest Precinct (2006)

Glen and Stan
1. The Big Get-Even (2018)
2. The Deadly Kiss-Off (2019)

Novels

   Ribofunk (1996)
   Ciphers (1997)
   Joe's Liver (2000)
   A Mouthful of Tongues (2002)
   Little Doors (2002)
   Fuzzy Dice (2003)
   Spondulix (2004)
   Harp, Pipe, and Symphony (2006)
   Creature from the Black Lagoon (2006)
   Roadside Bodhisattva (2010)
   Cosmocopia (2014)
   Aeota (2019)

Collections

   Fractal Paisleys (1992)
   Lost Pages (1998)
   Strange Trades (2001)
   Babylon Sisters (2002)
   Cities (2003) (with Peter Crowther, China Miéville, Michael Moorcock and Geoff Ryman)
   Neutrino Drag (2004)
   The Emperor of Gondwanaland (2005)
   Shuteye for the Timebroker (2006)
   Triquorum One (2006) (with Allen Ashley, John Grant, Christopher Teague and Lavie Tidhar)
   Plumage from Pegasus (2006)
   Harsh Oases (2008)
   After the Collapse (2011)
   The Wildside Book of Fantasy (2012) (with Lin Carter, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Robert E Howard, Clive Jackson, Tanith Lee, Fritz Leiber, E Hoffmann Price, Thomas Burnett Swann, Lawrence Watt-Evans and Gene Wolfe)
   The Great Jones Coop Ten Gigasoul Party (2014)
   A Palazzo in the Stars (2015)
   Lost Among the Stars (2017)
   Infinite Fantastika (2018)

Novellas

   Wikiworld (2010)
   Return to the Twentieth Century (2011)
   Waves and Smart Magma (2011)

Anthologies edited

Freaks in a Box (2012)

Non fiction

How To Write Science Fiction (2011)
Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 (2012) (with Damien Broderick)

Anthologies containing stories by Paul Di Filippo

The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology (1994)
Universe 3 (1994)
Nebula Awards 28 (1994)
The Best of Interzone (1996)
Disco 2000 (1998)
Nanotech (1998)

Short stories

	Rescuing Andy (1985)
	Kid Charlemagne (1987)		Nebula Awards (nominee)
	Any Major Dude (1991)
	Lennon Spex (1992)		Nebula Awards (nominee)
	World Wars III (1992)
	Mama Told Me Not to Come (1993)
	McGregor (1994)
	Plumage from Pegasus: Have Gun, Will Edit (1996)
	Singing Each to Each (2000)

Awards

	Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1988) : Kid Charlemagne
	Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1993) : Lennon Spex
	Philip K Dick Award Best Book nominee (1998) : Lost Pages
	World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1998) : Fractal Paisleys

Paul Di Filippo recommends

Old House of Fear (1961)
Russell Kirk
"Plainly modelled on the thrillers of John Buchan... no paranormal events actually occur."

Masque of Dreams (2001)
Bruce Boston
"...turns out short meticulously assembled stories informed by a poet's precision and clarity of image"

Precious Dragon (2007)
(Detective Inspector Chen, book 3)
Liz Williams
"Williams joins A.A. Attanasio and China Miéville as one of the best contemporary practitioners of a kind of imaginative literature that fuses the intellect of SF with the heart of fantasy."

Flats / Quake (2009)
Rudolph Wurlitzer
"If you can legitimately judge a writer by fellow scribes who honestly extol his work, and count on his inhabiting a plane of popularity and celebrity similar to the one where his endorsers dwell, then Rudolph Wurlitzer should be a name on the lips of sage critics and fans of zesty, transgressive postmodernist fiction everywhere. Wurlitzer might be the closest thing we have to an actual cult author, a highly talented fiction writer."

Artifacts (2018)
Darren Speegle
"...tinged with loss, flecked with sadness-yet undeniably inspiring."

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