Little Doors
by Paul Di Filippo
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"Every one of the 17 idiosyncratic short fantasies in this superior collection from Nebula and Philip K. Dick finalist Di Filippo is immaculately told" (Publishers Weekly). "Di Filippo is like gourmet potato chips to me. I can never eat just one of his stories." --Harlan Ellison You can try to escape from the mundane, or with the help of Paul Di Filippo, you can take a short, meaningful break from it. In the vein of George Saunders or Michael Chabon, Di Filippo uses the tools of science show more fiction and the surreal to take a deep, richly felt look at humanity. His brand of funny, quirky, thoughtful, fast-moving, heart-warming, brain-bending stories exist across the entire spectrum of the fantastic from hard science fiction to satire to fantasy and on to horror, delivering a riotously entertaining string of modern fables and stories from tomorrow, now and anytime. After you read Paul Di Filippo, you'll no longer see everyday life quite the same. The 17 stories in this collection allow us to encounter Salvador Dali stumbling through his own personalized afterlife; experience the hilariously odd life of Hiram P. Dottle from birth through death and on into several reincarnations; gaze in wonder as a boy is born without a brain and his skull is invaded by wild animals; and, in the title story, a professor of children's literature discovers a bizarre set of similarities between a lost text and his illicit relationship with one of his students. Originally published: 2002 show lessTags
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Contents: Little Doors/Billy/Moloch/TheGrange/Sleep is where you find it/The Horror Writer/My Two Best Friends/The Death of Salvador Dali/Our House/Jack Neck and the Worrybird/Stealing Happy Hours/Singing Each to Each/Rare Firsts/Return to Cockaigne/The Short Ashy Afterlife of Hiram P. Dottle/Slumberland/Mehitabel in Hell
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- 2002-11
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