Hooray for ILL I'd been wanting to read Paul Di Filippo's novel Spondulix ever since reading the short story (of the same name) that it was based on in his collection Strange Trades but could never bring myself to pay $50 for it. I got it from the library a few days ago and finished it last night. Good stuff. Set in Hoboken, NJ, the book features an ex-Olympic diver, ex-circus performer who creates an alternate form of money called Spondulix in a moment of desperation. You probably can't imagine where it goes from there.

Labels: fiction, review, sf

posted by Kristin Buxton at 12:34 PM