Une ville-monde. Un immense ruban urbain apparemment sans fin bordé par les Voies – un chemin de fer – et le Fleuve. En son sous-sol, un métro. Et sous le métro… Bienvenue dans la Ville-Rue. Diego Patchen réside dans le quartier de Vilgravier, du côté du 10.394.850e Bloc. Amoureux d’une plantureuse pompière, affligé d’un père malade acariâtre, Diego vit d’expédients. Son activité favorite demeure toutefois l’écriture de récits spéculatifs, ce genre littéraire appelé « Cosmos-Fiction ». Un registre volontiers décrié, mais qui bénéficie d’un socle de lecteurs fidèles, et dans lequel les écrivains se plaisent à imaginer d’autres mondes, d’autres univers, aux configurations différentes… Et alors que Diego célèbre la sortie de son premier recueil, le voici bientôt invité à une croisière sur le Fleuve… « Di Filippo à l’apex de son énergie créative idiosyncratique. » Locus
Author
Paul Di Filippo is the author of hundreds of short stories, some of which have been collected in these widely-praised collections: The Steampunk Trilogy, Ribofunk, Fractal Paisleys, Lost Pages, Little Doors, Strange Trades, Babylon Sisters, and his multiple-award-nominated novella, A Year in the Linear City. Another earlier collection, Destroy All Brains, was published by Pirate Writings, but is quite rare because of the extremely short print run (if you see one, buy it!). The popularity of Di Filippo’s short stories sometimes distracts from the impact of his mindbending, utterly unclassifiable novels: Ciphers, Joe’s Liver, Fuzzy Dice, A Mouthful of Tongues, and Spondulix. Paul’s offbeat sensibility, soulful characterizations, exquisite-yet-compact prose, and laugh-out-loud dialogue give his work a charmingly unique voice that is both compelling and addictive. He has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, BSFA, Philip K. Dick, Wired Magazine, and World Fantasy awards. Despite his dilatory ways, Paul affirms that the sequel to A Year in the Linear City, to be titled A Princess of the Linear Jungle, will get written in 2008. He has two books forthcoming from PS Publications: the collection entitled Harsh Oases and the novel titled Roadside Bodhisattva. His 2008 novel Cosmocopia is graced by Jim Woodring illustrations. Paul lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
