Little Doors — Paul Di Filippo

Here are 17 new stories from a writer whose work has been praised by William Gibson as “spooky, haunting, hilarious.” In the title story of Little Doors, a professor of children's literature discovers a bizarre synchronicity between a lost text and his illicit relationship with a student. In another story, a boy is born without a brain and his skull is invaded by a group of wild animals. Another chronicles an all-night drive through a Manhattan distinctly different from -- but strangely similar to -- our own. All of these stories are replete with chaos, human oddities, and the unruly energy of a Tom Waits song, forming an exhilarating collection from a truly creative force in contemporary fiction. The master of "trailer park science fiction", Di Filippo is a two-time finalist for the Nebula Award and finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. “[Di Filippo] channelsurfs postmodern apocalypse, brilliantly.” -- Jonathan Lethem