Shuteye for the Timebroker
Subtitle: Stories
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Published: April 6, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781560258179
Subjects: Modern fiction; American Science Fiction And Fantasy; Fiction; Fiction - Science Fiction; Science Fiction; Science Fiction - Short Stories; Fiction / Science Fiction / Short Stories; Science fiction, American
First sentence: Someone was singing in the cellar.
Description: The 15 stories in Di Filippo's latest collection show his command of a colorful palette of ideas and approaches. The title tale is an amusing satire of a sleepless 24/7 near-future in which time is traded like a commodity by professional (if sometimes incompetent) brokers. In the screwball fantasy "The Secret Sutras of Sally Strumpet," a male writer hires an actress to play the pseudonymous female "author" of his bestselling chick lit novel.