Bøger af Paul Di Filippo

Sinister tales, ghost stories, thrillers and vignettes that reach back as far as the Victorian era, all steeped in the essence of London's urban community, its industrial heritage, the docks, Victoriana, the Blitz and the War. Nine original stories and seven classic reprints that explore the capital's dark underbelly but also celebrate its character and charm.Sixteen stories, one city. Welcome to London as you've never seen her before.Contents:1. Introduction by Ian Whates2. Hunger - Bryony Pearce3. A Street - Arthur Morrison4. A Maze for the Minotaur - Reggie Oliver5. The Phantom Model (A Wapping Romance) - Hume Nisbet6. The Ghost of Cock Lane - Rose Biggin7. The Hand That Rocks The Cradle - Juliet E. McKenna8. Watercress Girl - Henry Mayhew9. Queen Rat - David Rix10. Christopherson - George Gissing11. From The Casebook of Master Wiggins, Esq. - Paul Di Filippo12. Albert And The Engine Of Albion - Terry Grimwood13. In the Tube - E.F. Benson14. A Romance of the Piccadilly Tube - T.G. Jackson15. Blood and Bone - Susan Boulton16. Behind the Shade - Arthur Morrison17. Southall Tantra - Paul StJohn Mackintosh About the Authors

This story collection ';showcases that lighter side of Paul Di Filippo ... with some memorable moments of brilliant wit and storytelling' (Infinity Plus). With twenty tales, a bold lack of restraint, and amazing stylistic diversity, Di Filippo makes strange bedfellows of a range of charactersfrom Jayne Mansfield to Pythagoras to Disney ';imagineers' to the Virgin Maryfit together inside a bountiful collection of surprises, humor, and the very, very strange. William Gibson has identified his writing as ';spooky, haunting, and hilarious,' and after you absorb all the shocks, you will inevitably agree.

An outrageous trio of novellas that twist the Victorian era out of shape, by a master of alternate history: ';Spooky, haunting, hilarious' (William Gibson). Welcome to the world of steampunk, a nineteenth century outrageously reconfigured through weird science. With his magnificent trilogy, acclaimed author Paul Di Filippo demonstrates how this unique subgenre of science fiction is done to perfectionreinventing a mannered age of corsets and industrial revolution with odd technologies born of a truly twisted imagination. In ';Victoria,' the inexplicable disappearance of the British monarch-to-be prompts a scientist to place a human-lizard hybrid clone on the throne during the search for the missing royal. But the doppelgnger queen comes with a most troubling flaw: an insatiable sexual appetite. The somewhat Lovecraftian ';Hottentots' chronicles the very unusual adventure of Swiss naturalist and confirmed bigot Louis Agassiz as his determined search for a rather grisly fetish plunges him into a world of black magic and monsters. Finally, in ';Walt and Emily,' the hitherto secret and quite steamy love affair between Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman is revealed in all its sensuous gloryas are their subsequent interdimensional travels aboard a singular ship that transcends the boundaries of time and reality. Ingenious, hilarious, ribald, and utterly remarkable, Di Filippo'sThe Steampunk Trilogyis a one-of-a-kind literary journey to destinations at once strangely familiar and profoundly strange.