Paul Di Filippo’s career began either in 1977, when his first story appeared in Unearth magazine; or in 1982, when he quit his job as a COBOL programmer to devote himself fulltime to writing; or in 1985, when his second and third stories appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Twilight Zone Magazine; or in 1995, when his first book, The Steampunk Trilogy, debuted. 2006 saw the publication of his twenty-fifth book, Top 10: Beyond the Farthest Precinct, a milestone he is very proud of. His new novel with Payseur & Schmidt, Cosmocopia, will debut at WFC 2007. He intends to retire now in stages over the next forty years.