Feeling harried? Growing old too fast? Soon, with the advent of the O–Transformer, you will be able to purchase time. Although if you are not wealthy enough, you may become a chronogen, and your O–Energy will be decanted as you watch large–screen videos. Richard Stritzenberger, with the help of his friend and business partner Alan Royce Bradford, is currently in the process of developing the O–Transformer, an invention which will alter lives and challenge the democratic process. Even as you read this, it is happening. Through the efforts of these two men, a new industry - and a financial empire - is being born.

“A colorful palette of ideas and approaches . . . Most of the stories percolate with the author's trademark gushes of wit and humor” (Publishers Weekly). You can try to escape from the mundane, or with the help of Paul Di Filippo, you can take a short, meaningful break from it. In the vein of George Saunders or Michael Chabon, Di Filippo uses the tools of science fiction and the surreal to take a deep, richly felt look at humanity. His brand of funny, quirky, thoughtful, fast-moving, heart-warming, brain-bending stories exist across the entire spectrum of the fantastic from hard science fiction to satire to fantasy and on to horror, delivering a riotously entertaining string of modern fables and stories from tomorrow, now and anytime. After you read Paul Di Filippo, you’ll no longer see everyday life quite the same. If you’re allergic to surprises, Paul Di Filippo is not the writer for you. With a total of fifteen stories including two original to this volume, Di Filippo delivers conventional stories unconventionally and unconventional ones straightforwardly. With a magic imagination he transforms traditional science fiction formulas into strange coruscating gems. Many of the tales in Shuteye for the Timebroker mix scientific rigor with wild and hilariously weird fantasy, producing delightful alloys of the surreal and the mundane.