Babylon Sisters

Paul Di Filippo is one of Science Fictions 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.