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Paul Di Filippo (b. October 29, 1954) was born in Rhode Island, where he has lived all his life. He met Deborah Newton in college, and in January 2006 they celebrated thirty years together. Di Filippo currently lives in a cramped house with 7,000 books, two cats (Penny Century and Queen Mab) and a chocolate cocker spaniel named Brownie. A prolific short story writer, since 1977 his smart and often idiosyncratic fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, such as The New York Times, Twilight Zone Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Night Cry, New Pathways, Amazing, SF Eye, Pulphouse, Hardware, Journal Wired, New Worlds, Interzone, SF Age, After Hours, Nova SF, Universe, The Third Alternative, Pirate Writings, Space and Time, The Edge, Fantastic Stories, Sci Fiction, The Year’s Best Fantasy, The Year’s Best SF, Mirrorshades, The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy III, The Mammoth Book of Future Cops, Disco 2000, Mars Probes and Nanotech. Winner of the 1994 British SF Association Award for Best Short Story and a multiple Nebula Award nominee, his short stories are collected in The Steampunk Trilogy, Ribofunk, Destroy All Brains!, the World Fantasy Award-nominated Fractal Paisleys, Lost Pages (winner of a Citation for Excellence from the Philip K. Dick Award), Strange Trades, Little Doors, Babylon Sisters, Neutrino Drag and The Emperor of Gondwanaland. He has collaborated on stories with Rudy Rucker, Marc Laidlaw, Don Webb and Barry Malzberg. Di Filippo’s other books include the novels Ciphers, Would it Kill You to Smile? and Muskrat Courage (both written with Michael Bishop as “Philip Lawson”), Joe’s Liver, A Mouthful of Tongues, Fuzzy Dice, Spondulix, Harp Pipe and Symphony, Plumage from Pegasus and the Hugo Award, Sturgeon Award and World Fantasy Award-nominated A Year in the Linear City. He also contributed the text to Dreamland, a book of Todd Schorr’s art.