Book description
Paul Di Filippo is one of Science Fiction's finest short story writers,
wild, witty, exuberantly imaginative;
Babylon Sisters and Other Posthumans
is a generous showcase of his strange, transformative, and powerful
hard science fiction 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.
