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Little Doors
| Author: | Paul Di Filippo |
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Open Road Integrated Media, 2014 Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction / Fantasy |
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Synopsis
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 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.
Table of Contents:
- Little Doors - (1987) - novelette
- Billy - (1988) - short story
- Moloch - (1990) - short story
- The Grange - (1991) - novelette
- Sleep Is Where You Find It - (1993) - novelette with Marc Laidlaw
- The Horror Writer - (1994) - short story
- My Two Best Friends - (1996) - short story
- The Death of Salvador Dali - (1996) - short story
- Our House - (1998) - short story
- Jack Neck and the Worrybird - (1998) - novelette
- Stealing Happy Hours - (2000) - short story
- Singing Each to Each - (2000) - short story
- Rare Firsts - (2000) - short story
- Return to Cockaigne - (2001) - short story
- The Short Ashy Afterlife of Hiram P. Dottle - (2002) - novelette
- Slumberland - (2002) - short story
- Mehitabel in Hell - (2002) - poem
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