“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

The Way You Came In May Not Be the Best Way Out