[extropy-chat] Babylon Sisters and Other Posthumans: Paul Di Filippo

[Damien Broderick]

I haven't read this; it looks inneresting:

http://www.wildsidepress.com/cgi-bin/miva?Merchant2/merchant.mv+Screen=PROD&Store_Code=WP1&Product_Code=1894815815&Category_Code=difilippo1

the blurb there reads thus:

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 SF 
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.