Stink Lines

From the author of THE STEAMPUNK TRILOGY You can try to escape from the mundane, or with the help of Paul Di Filippo, you can take a brief, meaningful break from it. In the vein of George Saunders or Michael Chabon, Di Filippo uses the tools of science fiction and the surreal to take a deep, richly felt look at humanity. His brand of funny, quirky, thoughtful, fast-moving, heart-warming, brain-bending stories exist across the entire spectrum of the fantastic from hard science fiction to satire to fantasy and on to horror, delivering a riotously entertaining string of modern fables and stories from tomorrow, now and anytime. After you read Paul Di Filippo, you & rsquo;ll no longer see everyday life quite the same. With twenty tales, a bold lack of restraint and amazing stylistic diversity Di Filippo makes strange bedfellows of a range of characters from Jayne Mansfield to Pythagoras to Disney & ldquo;imagineers & rdquo; to the Virgin Mary fit together inside a bountiful collection of surprises, humor and the very, very strange. William Gibson has identified his writing as, & ldquo;spooky, haunting, and hilarious, & rdquo; and after you absorb all the shocks, you will inevitably agree. Originally published: 2004.;Introduction; Rescuing Andy; Yellowing Bowers; The Moon-Bonham Effect; Living with the Giants; Destroy All Brains!; The Ballad of Sally NutraSweetTM; Take Me to the Pilot; And Them, Too, I Hope; The Man Who Stole the Moon; The Square Root of Pythagoras; Stink Lines; Working for the U; Doing The Unstuck; Math Takes a Holiday; Neutrino Drag; What Goes up a Chimney? Smoke!; A Martian Theodicy; Weeping Walls; Seeing Is Believing; What's up Tiger Lily?; Credits.