Ribofunk
by Paul Di Filippo | 
Wool
by Hugh Howey | 
Exhalation
by Ted Chiang | 
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
by James Tiptree Jr. | 
Nine Tomorrows
by Isaac Asimov | 
Cryptic
by Jack McDevitt | 
The Fog Horn
by Ray Bradbury | 
The Big Book of Science Fiction
by Jeff VanderMeer | 
The Best Short Stories
by J. G. Ballard | 
In the Hall of the Martian Kings
by John Varley | 
Zima Blue and Other Stories
by Alastair Reynolds | 
The Jaguar Hunter
by Lucius Shepard | 
The Third Level
by Jack Finney | 
Under Old Earth
by Cordwainer Smith | 
Robot Uprisings
by Daniel H. Wilson | 
The Barbie Murders and Other Stories
by John Varley | 
The Draco Tavern
by Larry Niven | 
Virtual Unrealities
by Alfred Bester | 
Expanded Universe
by Robert A. Heinlein | 
First Contacts
by Murray Leinster |
You can try to escape from the mundane, or with the help of Paul Di Filippo, you can take a brief, 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 exists 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 will no longer see everyday life quite the same.