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	"Galaxy of Mirrors" Is Anybody Out There? (2010) "Yes We Have No Bananas" Eclipse No. 3 (October 2009) "The New Cyberiad" We Think, Therefore We Are (January 2009) "Hot Properties" The Inferior 4+1 (December 2008) "A Partial and Conjectural History of Dr. Mueller's Panoptical Cartoon Engine" nobrowcartoons.com (October 2008) "Plumage from Pegasus: Galley Knaves" Fantasy and Science Fiction (July 2008) "Professor Fluvius's Palace Of Many Waters" Postscripts No. 15 (Summer 2008) "Plumage from Pegasus: Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Text" Fantasy and Science Fiction (May 2008) "Victoria" Steampunk (May 2008) "Plumage from Pegasus: Two CC's of Bestseller, Stat!" Fantasy and Science Fiction (March 2008) "iCity" The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction Vol. 2 (February 2008) "Tangled in the Nets of the Gods" The New Weird (February 2008) "Death in a Dirty Dhoti" The New Weird (February 2008) "Plumage from Pegasus: The Publishing House Always Wins" Fantasy and Science Fiction (January 2008) "Murder in Geektopia" Sideways in Crime (2008) "The End of the Great Continuity" Postscripts (Winter 2007) "Plumage from Pegasus: Survival of the Fannish" Fantasy and Science Fiction (December 2007) "Pulp Alibis" pauldifilippo.com (October 2007) "Homecoming" pauldifilippo.com (October 2007) "ARGUS blinked" Nature Volume 449, Issue 7162 (October 2007) "Plumage from Pegasus: Book Clubbed" Fantasy and Science Fiction (October 2007) "Plumage from Pegasus: It's All Goodkind" Fantasy and Science Fiction (June 2007) "Plumage from Pegasus: Grow Old Along with Me" Fantasy and Science Fiction (May 2007) "Up Around the Bend" Flurb No. 3 (April 2007) "Wikiworld" Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge (February 2007) "Plumage from Pegasus: Our Feynman Who Art in Heaven…" Fantasy and Science Fiction (February 2007) "Personal Jesus" The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction (2007) "Cootie Box" The Flash (2007) "Lignum Crucis" A Cross of Centuries (2007) "The Singularity Needs Women!" Forbidden Planets (November 2006) "Plumage from Pegasus: The Goth Squad" Fantasy and Science Fiction (September 2006) "Femaville 29" Salon Fantastique (September 2006) "Elves of the Subdimensions" Flurb No. 1 (Fall-Winter, 2006). With Rudy Rucker. "Plumage from Pegasus: Changing Teams" Fantasy and Science Fiction (August 2006) "Pinocchia" Sex in the System (June 2006) "Plumage from Pegasus: A Black Hole Ate My Homework" Fantasy and Science Fiction (May 2006) "Escape from New Austin" Jigsaw Nation (May 2006), StarShipSofa (November 2008) The Furthest Schorr: 32 Fugues on the Paintings of Todd Schorr Interzone No. 203 (April 2006) and Shuteye for the Timebroker (Spring 2006) Samples: "The Deviled Egg" "The Harem Dancer" "Madame Calivera's Corporate Identity Program" "Pilgrim's Progress" "The Spectre of Cartoon Appeal" "The Spectre of Monster Appeal" "The Venus of Augmentation" "The Clash of Holidays" "Variations in Kitsch" "The Return of the Prodigal Taung Baby" "A Goober and a Tuber in an Exchange of Fisticuffs" "Sugar Shakes" "The Sailor Man" "The Hunter-Gatherer" "The Perfect Lover" Nature Vol. 440, No. 7087 (April 2006) "Plumage from Pegasus: Brother, Can You Spare a Hyperlink?" Fantasy and Science Fiction (February 2006) "Days of Other Light" Poe's Lighthouse (February 2006) "Harsh Oases" Interzone No. 201 (December 2005) "Plumage from Pegasus: Nothing to Fear but Books Themselves" Fantasy and Science Fiction Vol. 109, No. 6 (December 2005) "Eel Pie Stall" Adventure Vol. 1 (November 2005) "Daydream Nation" Cosmos (October 2005) "Plumage from Pegasus: Soul Mining" Fantasy and Science Fiction (September 2005) "Plumage from Pegasus: Moody's Angels" Fantasy and Science Fiction (May 2005) "The Secret Sutras of Sally Strumpet" Fantasy & Science Fiction (April 2005) "Plumage from Pegasus: The Marching Models" Fantasy and Science Fiction (February 2005) "Plumage from Pegasus: Et in Arcadia Superego" Fantasy and Science Fiction (January 2005) "Shadowboxer" Amazing Stories (December 2004) "Sisyphus and the Stranger" Asimov's Science Fiction (October/November 2004) "Clouds and Cold Fires" Live Without a Net (July 2004) "Plumage from Pegasus: The Slan Corps Wants You!" Fantasy and Science Fiction (July 2004) "Plumage from Pegasus: The Final Shush!" Fantasy and Science Fiction (June 2004) "Plumage from Pegasus: On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're Adorable" Fantasy and Science Fiction (April 2004) "Homecoming" pauldifilippo.com (April 2004) "Plumage from Pegasus: Make Love, Not Flab" Fantasy and Science Fiction (December 2003) "And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon" Science Fiction Weekly (November 2003) "Plumage from Pegasus: Write What You Sell" Fantasy and Science Fiction (August 2003) "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" The Silver Gryphon (May 2003). Reprinted in Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology (October 2007). "Seeing is Believing" Fantasy and Science Fiction No. 616 (April 2003) "Plumage from Pegasus: We, The Publicists" Fantasy and Science Fiction No. 615 (March 2003) "Science Fiction" Witpunk (March 2003) "Plumage from Pegasus: Prose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet" Fantasy and Science Fiction (January 2003) "Bare Market" Interzone (January 2003) "Ailoura" (2002) "A Martian Theodicy" Mars Probes (2002) "Plumage from Pegasus: Games Writers Play" Fantasy and Science Fiction No. 611 (October-November 2002) "Shipbreaker" Science Fiction Weekly (October 2002) "Plumage from Pegasus: The Unkindest Cuts" Fantasy and Science Fiction No. 609 (August 2002) "Slumberland" Fantastic Metropolis (July 2002) "Plumage From Pegasus: My Life - and Welcome to Fifteen Percent of It" Fantasy and Science Fiction No. 607 (June 2002) "Plumage From Pegasus: Kiss of the Spider Critic" Fantasy and Science Fiction No. 606 (May 2002) "The Short Ashy Life of Hiram P. Dottle" Fantasy and Science Fiction #606 (May 2002) "A Year in the Linear City" A Year in the Linear City (April 2002). Reprinted in Cities (April 2004). "Plumage from Pegasus: Press One for Literature" Fantasy and Science Fiction (March 2002) "What Goes Up a Chimney? Smoke!" Interzone (March 2002) "Mehitabel in Hell" Dead Cats Bouncing (March 2002) "Karuna, Inc." (2001) "Plumage from Pegasus: Adventures in Mishmosh Land, by A. Patchwork Girl, Customizer" Fantasy and Science Fiction (October-November 2001) "Neutrino Drag" Science Fiction Weekly (August 2001) "Plumage from Pegasus: Woolpullers, Inc." Fantasy and Science Fiction (June 2001) "Babylon Sisters" Interzone No. 168 (June 2001) "Doing the Unstuck" Fantasy and Science Fiction No. 595 (May 2001) "Plumage from Pegasus: The Magazine Chums Versus the Baron of Numedia" Fantasy and Science Fiction (February 2001) "The Scab's Progress" Science Fiction Weekly (January 2001). With Bruce Sterling. "Return to Cockaigne" Interzone No. 163 (January 2001) "Math Takes a Holiday" The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy (2001) "Working for the U" Amazing Stories No. 599 (Winter 2000) "Plumage from Pegasus: Hail to the Hack" Fantasy and Science Fiction (December 2000) "Rare Firsts" Realms of Fantasy (December 2000) "Plumage from Pegasus: This Is My Gun, This Is My Pen, Sir!" Fantasy and Science Fiction (August 2000) "Plumage from Pegasus: The Factchecker Only Rings Once" Fantasy and Science Fiction (July 2000) "Plumage from Pegasus: When You Midlist Upon a Star" Fantasy and Science Fiction (May 2000) "Singing Each to Each" Interzone No. 155 (May 2000) "The Reluctant Book" Science Fiction Age No. 46 (May 2000) "Stealing Happy Hours" Interzone No. 153 (March 2000) "Stink Lines" Fantasy and Science Fiction No. 581 (February 2000) "Plumage from Pegasus: In the Air" Fantasy and Science Fiction (January 2000) "The Square Root of Pythagoras" Science Fiction Age No. 43 (November 1999). With Rudy Rucker. "Fax" Pirate Writings No. 17 (1999) "Plumage from Pegasus: And I Think To Myself, What A Wonderful World" Fantasy and Science Fiction (July 1999) "The Man Who Stole the Moon" Moon Shots (June 1999) "Plumage from Pegasus: Missed Connections" Fantasy and Science Fiction (April 1999) "Angelmakers" Interzone No. 141 (March 1999) "Plumage From Pegasus: As Through a Pair of Mirrorshades Darkly" Fantasy and Science Fiction (February 1999) "Plumage from Pegasus: The History of Snivelization" Fantasy and Science Fiction (October-November 1999) "Plumage From Pegasus: Scissors Cut Paper, Paper Covers Schlock" Fantasy and Science Fiction (October-November 1998) "Pulp Alibis" After Yesterday's Crash (Fall 1998). Story appears only in the Italian edition of this Larry McCaffery anthology, Schegge d'America., and at pauldifilippo.com (June 2004). "Jack Neck and the Worrybird" Science Fiction Age No. 35 (July 1998) "Plumage From Pegasus: Next Big Thing" Fantasy and Science Fiction (May 1998) "Don't Let Them See You Nova" Interzone No. 129 (March 1998) "Our House" The Edge No. 7 (May-June 1998) "Plumage From Pegasus: You Won't Take Me Alive!" Fantasy and Science Fiction No. 559 (February 1998) "Fantasy Trilogy" The Edge Vol. 2 No. 1 (1997). Reprinted in Non-Stop No. 3 (1997). "Distances" Pirate Writings No. 13 (1997) "Ribofunk Update" Non-Stop No. 3 (1997) "The Happy Valley at the End of the World" Interzone No. 125 (November 1997). Reprinted in Lost Pages. "Plumage From Pegasus: The Only Thing Worse than Yet One More Bad Trilogy" Fantasy and Science Fiction (September 1997) "Plumage From Pegasus: Narrative Contents May Have Settled During Shipment" Fantasy and Science Fiction (July 1997) "The Cobain Sweater" Interzone No. 120 (June 1997). Reprinted in Fractal Paisleys. "Plumage from Pegasus: Nature, Wineberry in Tooth and Claw, With a Hint of Claret" Fantasy and Science Fiction (March 1997) "Alice, Alfie, Ted and the Aliens" Interzone No. 117 (March 1997). Reprinted in Lost Pages. "The Jackdaw's Last Case" Science Fiction Age No. 26 (January 1997). Reprinted in Lost Pages. "Life Sentence" Interzone No. 111 (September 1996) "Plumage From Pegasus: Have Gun, Will Edit" Fantasy and Science Fiction (August 1996) "Plumage From Pegasus: Manuscript Found in a Pipedream" Fantasy and Science Fiction (June 1996) "My Two Best Friends" The Thirteenth Moon (May 1996) "Going Abo" Aberrations No. 37 (May 1996) "Your Gold Teeth, Pt. 2" Aberrations No. 36 (April 1996). With Don Webb. "Plumage From Pegasus: It Was the Blessed of Times, It Was the Cursed of Times" Fantasy and Science Fiction (February 1996) "Flying the Flannel" Interzone No. 103 (January 1996). Reprinted in Fractal Paisleys. "Blankie" Ribofunk (April 1996) "The Bad Splice" Ribofunk (April 1996) "And Them, Too, I Hope" Pirate Writings No. 11 (1996) "Everywhere Is Now" Dreams from the Strangers Cafe No. 5 (1996) "The Death of Salvador Dali" The Edge Vol. 2 No. 3 (1996). Reprinted in Fantastic Worlds No. 2. "Spondulix" Science Fiction Age No. 18 No. 18 (September 1995) "Take Me To the Pilot" Asimov's Science Fiction (August 1995). Reprinted in Destroy All Brains! "Shake It to the West" Space and Time No. 86 (Fall 1995) "Plumage From Pegasus: YourMoneyTM" Fantasy and Science Fiction (July 1995) "Big Eater" Interzone No. 96 (June 1995). Reprinted in Ribofunk. "Otto and Toto in the Oort" Science Fiction Age No. 16 (May 1995) "Plumage From Pegasus: Pencil Me In" Fantasy and Science Fiction (April 1995) "Hottentots" The Steampunk Trilogy (April 1995) "Distributed Mind" Interzone (April 1995). Reprinted in Ribofunk. "Linda and Phil" Amazing Anthology (Spring 1995). Reprinted in Lost Pages. "Leakage" Pirate Writings (Spring 1995). Reprinted in Destroy All Brains! and The Best of Pirate Writings. "Image Central" The Edge Vol 2. No. 1 (1995). Reprinted in Non-Stop No. 3 (1997). "Shit Control" The Edge Vol 2. No. 1 (1995). Reprinted in Non-Stop No. 3 (1997). "McGregor" Universe No. 3 (1994). Reprinted in Ribofunk. "Plumage From Pegasus: Not the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction" Fantasy and Science Fiction (September 1994) "The Double Felix" Interzone (September 1994). Reprinted in Fractal Paisleys. "Bad Beliefs" Pirate Writings (Fall 1994). Reprinted in The Best of Pirate Writings. "The Ballad of Sally NutrasweetTM" Science Fiction Age No. 10 (May 1994). Reprinted in France in CyberDreams magazine No.9, and Destroy All Brains! "Time Travel Blasphemies 1 & 2" Proud Flesh No. 1 (Fall 1994) "Strange Brew" The Third Alternative No. 2 (Spring 1994) "A Night in the Thirteenth Avenue Mission" After Hours No. 17 (Winter 1993) "Walt and Emily" Interzone Nos. 77 & 78 (Nov-Dec 1993). Reprinted in The Steampunk Trilogy. "Up the Lazy River" Science Fiction Age Vol. 1 No. 6 (September 1993). Reprinted in Ribofunk. "Streetlife" New Worlds No. 3 (1993). Reprinted in Ribofunk, and in Italy in Cuori Elettrici. "Sleep Is Where You Find It" Fantasy and Science Fiction (September 1993). With Marc Laidlaw. "SUITs" Amazing Stories (August 1993) "Mud Puppy Goes Uptown" Back Brain Recluse No. 22 (1993) "The Horror Writer" Nova Science Fiction No. 5 (1993) "Campbell's World" Amazing Stories (September 1993). Reprinted in Lost Pages. "Afterschool Special" Amazing Stories (June 1993). Reprinted in Ribofunk. "Mama Told Me Not to Come" Amazing Stories Vol. LXVII No. 10 (January 1993). Reprinted in Fractal Paisleys, and Disco 2000. "Lennon Spex" Amazing Stories Vol LXVII No. 4 (1992). Reprinted on Clarinet CD-ROM Hugo and Nebula Anthology (1993), Nebula Awards Vol. 28, and Fractal Paisleys. "Fractal Paisleys" Fantasy and Science Fiction (May 1992). Reprinted in Fractal Paisleys. "Destroy All Brains!" Interzone No. 56 (February 1992). Reprinted in Destroy All Brains! "World Wars III" Interzone No. 55 (January 1992). Reprinted in Germany in the anthology Partner Furs Leben, The Best of Interzone (1997), and Lost Pages. "Brain Wars" New Worlds No. 2 (1992). Reprinted in Ribofunk. "Anne" Science Fiction Age No. 1 (November 1992). Reprinted in Lost Pages. "Victoria" Amazing Stories Vol. LXVI No. 2 (June 1991). Reprinted in The Steampunk Trilogy. "The Mill" Amazing Stories Vol. LXVI No. 6 (October 1991) "The Grange" Fantasy and Science Fiction (October-November 1991) "Mairzy Doats" Fantasy and Science Fiction (February 1991). Reprinted in Lost Pages and One Lamp. "Any Major Dude" New Worlds No. 1 (1991). Reprinted in Non-Stop No. 1, and Nanotech. "Master Blaster and Whammer Jammer Meet the Groove Thang" Pulphouse No. 8 (1990). Reprinted in Fractal Paisleys. "Cockfight" Journal Wired Vol. 2 (1990). Reprinted in Ribofunk. "My Alphabet Starts Where Your Alphabet Ends" Nebula Awards Vol. 24 (1990) "Gravitons" Hardware No. 2 (1990) "The Boot" Fantasy and Science Fiction No. 475 (December 1990). Reprinted in Ribofunk. "One Night in Television City" Universe Vol. 1 (1990). Reprinted in Ribofunk. "Harlem Nova" Amazing Stories (September 1990) "Before and After Science" Arrows of Desire No. 2 (1990) "Slowhand and Little Sister" Miami Metropolis No. 7 (1990) "Solitons" January Semiotext(e) No. 14 (January 1990) "Living With The Giants" Amazing Stories (January 1990). Reprinted in Destroy All Brains! "Moloch" Journal Wired Vol. 3 (Summer-Fall 1990) "Spandex" Journal Wired Vol. 3 (Summer-Fall 1990) "Little Worker" Fantasy and Science Fiction (December 1989). Reprinted in Ribofunk, and in Spain in Gigamesh No. 20. "I Kant Cuz I'm Too Jung" New Pathways (September 1989) "The Moon-Bonham Effect" Hardware No. 1 (1989) "Phylogenesis" Synergy Vol. 3 (1989). Reprinted in Hayakawa's Science Fiction Magazine. "Do You Believe in Magic?" Fantasy and Science Fiction (January 1989). Reprinted in Fractal Paisleys. "A Thief in Babylon" Amazing Stories (January 1989) "Instability" Fantasy and Science Fiction (September 1988). With Rudy Rucker. Reprinted in Benford's What Might Have Been Vol II, in Transreal!, and Lost Pages. "Waterloo Sunset" New Pathways (July 1988) "Modern Conveniences" Edge Detector No. 1 (1988) "Billy" Pulphouse Vol. 2 (1988) "The Jones Continuum" Science Fiction Eye Vol. 1 No. 3 (1988) "A Short Course in Art Appreciation" Fantasy and Science Fiction (May 1988). Reprinted in Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 2 (1989), and the Russian Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nos. 27-28. "Triplets" The Drabble Book (April 1988) "A Conspiracy of Noise" Fantasy and Science Fiction (November 1987). Reprinted in Germany in Die Larm-Verschworung. "Little Doors" Night Cry (Fall 1987) "Kid Charlemagne" Amazing Stories (September 1987) "Winter In America" New Pathways (August 1987) "Agents" Fantasy and Science Fiction (April 1987). Reprinted in Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1987 (1988). "Anselmo Merino" New Pathways (November 1986) "Campion's Tree" New Pathways (September 1986) "The Great Jones Coop Ten Gigasoul Party" New Pathways (July 1986) "Yellowing Bowers" Night Cry (Summer 1986) "Skintwister" Fantasy and Science Fiction No. 418 (March 1986). Reprinted in Hayakawa's Best Science Fiction of the Eighties and in Italy by Casa Editrice Nord. "Stone Lives" Fantasy and Science Fiction No. 411 (August 1985). Reprinted in Mirrorshades. "Rescuing Andy" Twilight Zone (May-June 1985) "Branding Organ Donors" The New York Times (2 June 1979) "Falling Expectations" Unearth (Winter 1977) "My Adventures with the SPCA" Shock Waves Vol. 1.1 "Heaven Sent Me an Angel, C.O.D." bOING-bOING No. 7 "Underground" bOING-bOING No. 5 "Fleshflowers" Back Brian Recluse No. 16.