Babylon Sisters Book

Paul Di Filippo is one of Science Fiction's finest short story writers, wild, witty, exuberantly imaginative; Babylon Sisters and Other Posthumans is a generous showcase of his strange, transformative, and powerful Hard SF visions.

The fourteen stories collected here are glimpses into the most fantastic possibilities of human evolution-biological, social, and cultural. From a New York split into warring walled enclaves, to the destiny of our species as a strain of virus, to an Africa made over by nanotech messiahs, to a future Earth protected by half-alien angels, to wars of liberation from what we have always so tragically been: these are only some of the awe-inspiring transitions to be found in Babylon Sisters. Read here of rebellion by books against their librarian, of cosmic destiny remade by stellar lunatics, of disorienting ventures beyond the boundaries of the human; discover here the perverse and terrible dangers of the age of posthumanity.

Publishers Weekly

Paul di Filippo's Babylon Sisters and Other Posthumans gathers 14 fantastical tales by the acclaimed author of Strange Trades, Ribofunk and A Mouthful of Tongues: Her Totipotent Tropicanalia. The same publisher also offers Nowhere Near Milkwood, a collection of 34 stories and vignettes by absurdist Welsh author Rhys Hughes, who's garnered praise from the likes of Michael Moorcock, T.E.D. Klein and Jeff VanderMeer. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.