“Di Filippo is a joyful writer…insightful…skillful.” —Washington Post

This collection presents PAUL DI FILIPPO at his best and most creative—an astonishing, multiverse-spanning selection of 19 of his very best tales, from humorous to serious, from otherworldly to in-your-backyard (and in-your-face)! Here are:

Providence

Argus Blinked

Life in the Anthropocene

Bombs Away!

Cockroach Love

Waves and Smart Magma

To See Infinity Bare

The End of the Great Continuity

Fjaerland

The HPL Commonplace Book

Professor Fluvius’s Palace of Many Waters

Yes We Have No Bananas

A Partial and Conjectural History of Dr. Mueller’s Panoptical Cartoon Engine

The New Cyberiad

iCity

Return to the 20th Century

Murder in Geektopia

The Omniplus Ultra!

Wikiworld

Introduction by Rudy Rucker