ISBN 1-56858-062-2 (US hbk)

"One Night in Television City" by Paul Di Filippo
(originally published in Universe , Volume 1, 1990... preliminary Nebula ballot),

"Little Worker" by Paul Di Filippo
(originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , December 1989),

"Cockfight" by Paul Di Filippo
(originally published in Journal Wired , Volume 2, 1990),

"Big Eater" by Paul Di Filippo
(originally published in Interzone , June 1995),

"The Boot" by Paul Di Filippo
(originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , December 1990),

"Blankie" by Paul Di Filippo ,

"The Bad Splice" by Paul Di Filippo ,

"McGregor" by Paul Di Filippo
(originally published in Universe , No.3, 1994),

"Brain Wars" by Paul Di Filippo
(originally published in New Worlds , No.2, 1992),

"Streetlife" by Paul Di Filippo
(originally published in New Worlds , No.3, 1993... reprinted in Italy in Cuori Elettrici ),

"Afterschool Special" by Paul Di Filippo
(originally published in Amazing Stories , June 1993),

"Up the Lazy River by Paul Di Filippo "
(originally published in Science Fiction Age , Volume 1, No.6, 1993),

"Distributed Mind" by Paul Di Filippo
(originally published in Interzone , April 1995).

"Following the shock wave of cyberpunk writing in the late 1980s, Paul Di Filippo's first book, The Steampunk Trilogy , burst on the scene in 1995, leading SF veteran William Gibson to declare the young writer's work 'spooky, haunting, hilarious'.

"Cyberpunk concentrated on cold hardware. Di Filippo coined 'ribofunk' by fusing 'ribosome' (as in cellular biology) with 'funk' (as in rock and roll).

"In the world of Ribofunk , biology is a cutting-edge science, where the Protein Police patrol for renegade gene splicers and part-human sea creatures live in Lake Superior, dealing with toxic spills. Ribofunk depicts a sentient river; a sultry bodyguard who happens to be part wolverine; a reluctant thrill seeker who climbs a skyscraper -- and finds himself stuck; and a chain-smoking Peter Rabbit who leads his fellows in a bloody rebellion against -- whom else? -- Mr. McGregor." [jacket blurb, US hbk, 1996]

"This collection, Ribofunk , stands as the field's madcap Dubliners of the biogenetic revolution. One simply has to read it to understand why. So read it." --Michael Bishop.

"Ribofunk is great science fiction: wildly inventive, warmly human, culturally relevant, and deeply funny. Paul Di Filippo does dazzling new tricks with English. And then he puts the wonderful language and the wild science together...and the whole fractal exfoliation leads to the utterly wonderful Ribofunk. The book of the year." --Rudy Rucker.

"Ribofunk ...is both a throwback to an old tradition and a flashforward to something new and strange. Stylish, fascinating, quite different, seriously extrapolative, and quite funny too. The best single author short story collection in a while." --Norman Spinrad.

"Di Filippo is a talented writer, and there's a lot of nice stuff in Ribofunk . But the collection is like eating Chinese food without enough rice: an hour later, you're hungry again." --Dwight Brown (in Nova Express , Volume 4, Number 4, Winter/Spring 1998).