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When you face the possibility of confronting gothic horrors – as one might at the Providence Athenaeum, a frequent haunt of Edgar Allen Poe, it might be best to be prepared for any eventuality, as author and reviewer Paul Di Filippo demonstrates while wearing the Gravity Gun design!
Paul is an author and reviewer, publishing his first story in the short-lived Unearth magazine in 1977. Other works, including the recently published A Canticle for Ackerman can be found right here on Amazing Stories!
Perhaps his best known works are the collections The Steampunk Trilogy: Victoria; Hottentots; Walt and Emily not to mention some 200+ other short works in a large number of collections. His novella, A Year in the Linear City was nominated for a Best Novella Hugo Award. Many of his stories, such as Fuzzy Dice, play with both genre and parallel world concepts, often featuring other authors as characters, such as the stories in the collection Lost Pages. He also plays with Lovecraftian horror, mixing it up with steampunk as in The Visionary Pageant Arrayed Before Her.
He is also a reviewer of some renown, having provided reviews to Asimov’s Science Fiction, Science Fiction Eye, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Interzone and more, and currently The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (you can get a cramp in your mouse finger scrolling through his ISFDB entry, so be careful!)
Paul’s fiction is notable for its…engagement with the bizarre. Spend some time with him at a convention, or online, and you’ll probably discover that this is not out of character. He’s a fun guy and a great friend to Amazing Stories!
You can do just that (spend some time with him online) over on Facebook or on his website, as well as several posts right here on Amazing Stories.
We’re pretty sure Paul is safe now: his sense of humor is strong armor indeed – but you might not be. Pick up a Gravity Gun Convention Wear(TM) shirt, or one of our other designs right here in our store for your own armor against gothic and other horrors!
