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The Farthest Shore; People trade time, paintings tell tales, and Jules Verne gets reworked in this surreal collection of sf stories.

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20060903
Author:Reviewed by Adrienne Martini

SHUTEYE FOR THE TIMEBROKER

Stories

By Paul Di Filippo

Thunder's Mouth. 312 pp. Paperback, $15.95

No matter what the genre, the momentum of a good story is inescapable. In its thrall, a reader can overlook any number of errors in the telling. Sadly, in Paul Di Filippo's latest collection, Shuteye for the Timebroker, the reader has too much time to ponder his prose and its shortcomings.

Di Filippo, twice a Nebula Award finalist and a long-running columnist for the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, doesn't lack for rich ideas. The 15 short stories collected here all have nuggets of ...

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