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The Best of Michael Swanwick
| Author: | Michael Swanwick |
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Subterranean Press, 2008 |
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| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
It's here at last the first comprehensive overview of the extraordinary career of master storyteller Michael Swanwick. Covering over a quarter of a century, from his first two published stories both of them Nebula finalists to his most recent, these works bear witness to one of the most vivid and far-ranging imaginations in contemporary fiction. From the hardest of hard science fiction to the purest of core fantasy, from the heartwarming to the despairing, these are works incandescent with literary brilliance.
In these pages, Janis Joplin is worshiped as a god, teenagers climb down the edge of the world, zombies are commodified, a vengeful man tracks a wizard across the surface of a planet-sized grasshopper, dinosaurs invade Vermont, a train leaves New York City bound for Hell, and those lovable Post-Utopian con men, Darger and Surplus, seek their fortunes in Buckingham Labyrinth.
Michael Swanwick is one of the most acclaimed and prolific writers of his generation, as well as being the only person ever to win five Hugo Awards for fiction in the space of six years. All five of those stories are included here plus much, much more, all of it beautifully written, critically acclaimed, and deeply satisfying to read.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - (2008) - essay
- The Feast of Saint Janis - (1980) - novelette
- Ginungagap - (1980) - novelette
- Trojan Horse - (1984) - novelette
- A Midwinter's Tale - (1988) - shortstory
- The Edge of the World - (1989) - shortstory
- Griffin's Egg - (1991) - novella
- The Changeling's Tale - (1994) - shortstory
- North of Diddy-Wah-Diddy - (1995) - novelette
- Radio Waves - (1995) - novelette
- The Dead - (1996) - shortstory
- Mother Grasshopper - (1997) - shortstory
- Radiant Doors - (1998) - shortstory
- The Very Pulse of the Machine - (1998) - novelette
- Wild Minds - (1998) - shortstory
- Scherzo with Tyrannosaur - (1999) - shortstory
- The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O - (2000) - shortstory
- The Dog Said Bow-Wow - (2001) - shortstory
- Slow Life - (2002) - novelette
- Legions in Time - (2003) - novelette
- Triceratops Summer - (2005) - shortstory
- From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled - (2008) - shortstory
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