Lost Among the Stars

In this astonishing variegated assortment of tales award-winning author Paul Di Filippo covers all the themes and modes he is best-known for and ventures into new territory as well.--Visit a hermetic city where beauty is the only currency.--Experience a steampunk fable in which nothing is what it first seems and a young mans future rests on finding his true father.--Hang out with the techno-savvy social-media gypsies who form the new elite in the not-too-distant future.--Ride a wild ribofunk express train into the badlands where a mans skin is not his own.--Experience a counterfacutal World War II where victory is acheived by amazing rays.--Vist a haunted Italian city where the Neolithic and the present live side-by-side and a hero who falls in love with a goddess must battle her ancient foe.--Visit an Orwellian future redeemed only by the imagination and love of a tortured dissenter.These are just some of the uncanny tales contained in this collection incorporating comedy and tragedy laughter and tears!