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Glen and Stan, the Odd Couple of scamdom, are back from their Big Get-Even adventure with another get-rich-quick-or-go-down-in-flames scheme. As part of their trafficking in counterfeit merch, they are looking to turn a few pallets of Grade Z computer chips into some military hardware sure to interest dictators and despots and drug lords around the globe. Bankrolled by a greedy local crime boss, they hope to promote a half-genius, half-addlepated invention from a naive and principled inventor into a bonanza. But no one ever counts on complications arising from a wayward wife, some sexy Eurotrash go-betweens, and a lonely entrepreneurial girlfriend who finds her native tropical isle conducive to a troublesome loosening of morals. Add in a most unconventional explosives expert, and you have a caper half hilarious, half deadly, and 100 percent entertaining.

In a strange, seriously funny and stunningly inventive collection of stories all set in the same disturbingly dystopian tomorrow, acclaimed sf innovator Paul DiFilippo demonstrates that the future isn't electronic, nuclear, or cyber...it's organic. Here is an Earth where bodies and brains are routinely genetically/chemically modified; where laboratory-created Splices do the dirty work -- as long as their genetic makeup is less than haft human -- and, sometimes, go renegade, forcing the Protein Police to hunt them down like dogs. In this world, potentially apocalyptic threats -- viral, mental, virtual, physical, and brain-fryingly toxic -- are everywhere, inside and out, the outrageous end-products of unchecked biological tinkering with our surroundings and ourselves. You will never forget this brave new world: it's a future that will swallow you whole.

Far in the glorious interstellar future, a time of riches and complex technologies, the stern but utilitarian Quinary guards and regulates the flourishing human-colonized galaxy. Under their business-like rule, a family may own a whole planet. And so two bloodlines--the Corvivios clan and the Soldavere clan--are in full possession of the lush and benign world of Verano. All looks rosy for the families, but then the happy future is dramatically and tragically overturned!

Three tales set in the 19th century. In Victoria, a scientist breeds a replica of Queen Victoria and when the real queen disappears, the government uses her as a replacement. In Hottentots, Massachusetts is threatened by H.P. Lovecraft-style monsters and, of course, Hottentots. In Walt and Emily, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson travel to the world of spirits to meet future writers.

Jede Seite, jeder Satz dieses Buches ist die Gestaltwerdung eines fiebrigen Traums. Plastisch und tabulos beschreibt Paul Di Filippo eine neue Dimension körperlicher Freuden. Ein sprachgewaltiges Buch der Offenbarung und der Erlösung, das zu den Wurzeln unseres Menschseins vordringt. Amerika im Jahr 2015. Kerry Hackett unterzieht sich einer unheimlichen Transformation. Sie verschmilzt mit einem parabiologisch erschaffenen Wesen und wird zu einer Art alchemistischer Gottheit: übermenschlich, übersexualisiert und fähig, ihrer Gestalt jede nur erdenkliche Form zu verleihen. Sie verläßt die von einem totalitären Regime beherrschten USA und zieht in den Dschungel Brasiliens. Dort erprobt sie ihre neuen Fähigkeiten an jenen, die sich ihrer für würdig erweisen, und strebt auf eine neue Daseinsstufe zu.

An anthology of end-of-the-millennium fiction, capturing the atmosphere of the times from millennium madness to apocalypse culture. Writers such as Jeff Noon, Douglas Coupland, Nicholas Blincoe, Kathy Acker and Poppy Z. Brite have contributed exclusive stories.