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Tagged: Author.<div class="browsingBtns"> <input class="button PNI previous" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?id=p&entry=swanwick_michael'" value="Prev" /> <input class="button PNI next" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?&entry=swanwick_michael'" value="Next" /> <input class="button PNI incoming" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/incoming.php?entry=swanwick_michael'" value="About This Entry" title="What links to the entry; contributor initials explained; how to cite; other information" /> <input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Checklist" onclick="window.location.hash='chklst'" > <input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Alpha" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=swanwick_michael&abc'" > <input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Chron" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=swanwick_michael'" > <img alt="Icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com" style="margin: 0; position: relative; top:-2px;" src="/images/icon-gal.gif"></img> </div> <a href='/gallery.php?id=Swanwick-BlueMoon.jpg' target='_blank'> <img src='https://x.sf-encyclopedia.com/gal/thumbs/Swanwick-BlueMoon.jpg' alt='pic'></a> (1950-    ) US author who began to publish sf with "The Feast of St Janis" for New Dimensions 11 (anth 1980) edited by Marta <a href="/entry/randall_marta">Randall</a> and Robert <a href="/entry/silverberg_robert">Silverberg</a>, and who became known, very rapidly, as an author of intensely crafted, complex tales whose multiple layering allows his conventional sf plots and venues to be understood as exercises in mythopoesis, somewhat after the manner of Gene <a href="/entry/wolfe_gene">Wolfe</a>'s shorter works, though less perplexingly. Swanwick was not prolific in the 1980s, but his short fiction of this decade – assembled as Gravity's Angels (coll 1991) – ran a wide gamut, from "The Man Who Met Picasso" (September 1982 <a href="/entry/omni">Omni</a>), a slightly sentimental fable of redemption, to "Ginungagap" (Fall 1980 TriQuarterly), a <a href="/entry/hard_sf">Hard-SF</a> tale set in the <a href="/entry/asteroids">Asteroid</a> belt whose imagery and language comprehensively prefigure <a href="/entry/cyberpunk">Cyberpunk</a>; the later "A Midwinter's Tale" (December 1988 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>), though making nods to both Wolfe and A E <a href="/entry/van_vogt_a_e">van Vogt</a>, seems in the end to be written in Swanwick's mature voice – warm, cruel, contemplative, moral. Increasingly his short fiction gained accolades for its polish and intensity and density of meaning: he was awarded a <a href="/entry/hugo">Hugo</a> for best novelette for "Slow Life" (December 2002 <a href="/entry/analog">Analog</a>) and "Legions in Time" (April 2003 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>); a <a href="/entry/hugo">Hugo</a> for short story for "The Very Pulse of the Machine" (February 1998 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>), "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" (July 1999 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>), "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" (October/November 2001 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>); and a <a href="/entry/locus_award">Locus Award</a> for best short story for "A Small Room in Koboldtown" (May-June 2007 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>). Tales of Old Earth (coll 2000) received a further Locus Award for best collection. His novels show a steady progress towards the point where they are as intensely coherent as his best short fiction. In the Drift (fixup 1985), set in an <a href="/entry/alternate_history">Alternate History</a> in which Three Mile Island did in fact explode, describes a balkanized America moving from <a href="/entry/post-holocaust">Post-Holocaust</a> trauma to <a href="/entry/ruined_earth">Ruined Earth</a> recidivism through a series of linked episodes which ultimately fail to cohere sufficiently, so that the transcendental implications of the final sequences seem forced. Vacuum Flowers (Mid-December 1986-January 1987 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>; 1987), which builds upon the world foreshadowed in "Ginungagap", very much more cogently combines a tour-of-the-Solar-System <a href="/entry/fantastic_voyages">Fantastic Voyage</a> plot – carrying the reader downward from the corporation-dominated asteroid belt to an <a href="/entry/ai">AI</a>-run Earth – with a dense load of extrapolation about the nature of <a href="/entry/identity">Identity</a> when persona-chips can be bought and plugged in. The protagonist, a persona bum who has hijacked an attractive new identity for herself, runs an extremely complex gamut before turning – perhaps inevitably in Swanwick's work – towards <a href="/entry/transcendence">Transcendence</a>. Griffin's Egg (1991) applies his by-now-expected multiplex extrapolations to the <a href="/entry/near_future">Near Future</a> in a tale set on the <a href="/entry/moon">Moon</a> – controlled by corporations – during a period when Earth seems at the edge of self-destruction, and a long cold hegira may be in store for any survivors of the <a href="/entry/holocaust">Holocaust</a> to come. The titles of both these novels serve as metaphors for the evolving human species and as banners to proclaim the continuation of the species under new conditions. Unlike his first three books, Stations of the Tide (mid-December 1990-January 1991 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>; 1991), which won a <a href="/entry/nebula">Nebula</a>, takes place centuries hence and far from Earth, on a planet quarantined from the higher technologies (including, crucially, <a href="/entry/nanotechnology">Nanotechnology</a>-based fabricators) now controlled by a far-flung humanity. After a Prometheus/Caliban figure has stolen some of these technologies from the interstellar network that monitors quarantine (see <a href="/entry/galactic_empires">Galactic Empires</a>), the protagonist descends to Miranda, a <a href="/entry/great_year">Great Year</a> planet due to suffer a vast periodic climatic transformation from summer to winter, traces the "thief", and apprehends what it is necessary for him to apprehend – the knowledge, the meaning of life on the planet, the meaning of his own existence, and a sense of how best (he is a Prospero figure) to relieve himself of power and servants, including an Ariel-like portable <a href="/entry/ai">AI</a>. The complexity of this brief, dense, and fast-moving book is very considerable; and the interstellar network – whose HQ takes the shape of a Renaissance Theatre of <a href="/entry/memory">Memory</a> – is convincing in its own right and as a focus for Swanwick's continued speculations about the refractions of <a href="/entry/identity">Identity</a> in a world where autonomous subset personality-copies operated by <a href="/entry/computers">Computers</a> (they resemble the <a href="/entry/avatars">Avatar</a> "partials" in Greg <a href="/entry/bear_greg">Bear</a>'s Eon [1985]) do much of the work of being human. The Iron Dragon sequence, comprising The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993) and The Dragons of Babel (2008), taxingly examines the fantasy worlds which serve as a base, or as a spiralling series of <a href="/entry/alternate_worlds">Alternate Worlds</a>, from which equally taxing <a href="/entry/equipoise">Equipoisal</a> transactions of horror and sf are undertaken. In her ambivalent climb through several palimpsested worlds, whose events replicate each other, the protagonist of the first volume finds she must pay heavy dues – being required to use <a href="/entry/sex">Sex</a> as payment and weapon in the search for something like a vision of the shape of the universe (a vision she does not truly wish to gain) – before finding a precarious resting point. The portrait of the dragon in this volume, which is half-<a href="/entry/ai">AI</a> and half fantasy <a href="/entry/monsters">Monster</a>, constitutes a scathing analysis of the easy solutions to the problem of magic (etc) provided in the model of Rationalized Fantasy [see The <a href="/entry/encyclopedia_of_fantasy_the">Encyclopedia of Fantasy</a> under links below] promulgated by John W <a href="/entry/campbell_john_w_jr">Campbell</a> Jr in <a href="/entry/unknown">Unknown</a>. And the vision of a shopping mall in which time cannot pass (see <a href="/entry/time_distortion">Time Distortion</a>) concentrates (see <a href="/entry/fantastika">Fantastika</a>; <a href="/entry/horror_in_sf">Horror in SF</a>) the contemporary world into one devastating image. Less importunate in its anatomy of the world and its fictions, The Dragons of Babel is a more straightforward Hidden Monarch tale, an Urban Fantasy [for both terms see again The <a href="/entry/encyclopedia_of_fantasy_the">Encyclopedia of Fantasy</a> under links below] whose protagonist, haunted by a <a href="/entry/doppelgangers">Doppelganger</a> dragon-mind instructing him from within his consciousness, is destined to triumph, because that is what his story is about. Later novels include Jack Faust (1997), an extremely dark (though hilarious) sf parable of modernization (see <a href="/entry/fantastika">Fantastika</a>), with Jack depicted in terms of the second part of Goethe's early nineteenth-century vision, where Faust is seen as a <a href="/entry/utopias">Utopian</a> figure gone fatally sour [for fuller analysis see the entry on Faust in The <a href="/entry/encyclopedia_of_fantasy_the">Encyclopedia of Fantasy</a> under links below]; Swanwick's Faust is explicitly understood as the unwitting creator of Auschwitz. The mechanics of the tale are perhaps less interesting than this outcome: Mephistopheles – a name taken by representatives of a race from a <a href="/entry/parallel_worlds">Parallel World</a>, where time runs hugely faster than in ours (see <a href="/entry/time_distortion">Time Distortion</a>) – gives Faust the keys to modernization in order to ensure a rapid <a href="/entry/end_of_the_world">End of the World</a>, and seems likely to succeed. Bones of the Earth (2002) is a <a href="/entry/time_travel">Time Travel</a> tale with <a href="/entry/changewar">Changewar</a> elements; the speculations about the extinction event that put paid to the dinosaur era are intriguing. The Darger and Surplus sequence – comprising three stories from The Dog Said Bow-Wow (coll 2007), Dancing With Bears: The Postutopian Adventures of Darger & Surplus (2010), Chasing the Phoenix (2015) and the compendious The Postutopian Adventures of Darger & Surplus (coll 2020) – allows its scamp protagonists, a confidence artist and a <a href="/entry/genetic_engineering">Genetically Engineered</a> <a href="/entry/dogs">Dog</a> who is not entirely grateful for his <a href="/entry/uplift">Uplift</a>, to engage in comic and scarifying adventures in the <a href="/entry/ruined_earth">Ruined Earth</a> world that is the legacy left behind by the now extinct <a href="/entry/utopias">Utopians</a> – which is to say the world-builders predicted in Jack Faust. Very sophisticatedly, figures and topoi from the <a href="/entry/sf_megatext">SF Megatext</a> consort without undue entanglement; they include <a href="/entry/ai">AI</a>s; enhanced semi-conscious <a href="/entry/drugs">Drugs</a>; <a href="/entry/apes_as_human">Apes as Human</a> characters; the now-outlawed information networks necessary to the abandoned surveillance society of the twenty-first century; <a href="/entry/zombies">Zombies</a>. Darger is named after Henry <a href="/entry/darger_henry">Darger</a>; Surplus is based on the Learned English Dog from Thomas <a href="/entry/pynchon_thomas">Pynchon</a>'s Mason & Dixon (1997). Other recent work includes volumes of stories written around extremely clever conceits – including Puck Aleshire's Abecedary (coll 2000 chap), Michael Swanwick's Field Guide to the Mesozoic Megafauna & Five British Dinosaurs (coll 2004) and The Periodic Table of Science Fiction (coll of linked stories 2005), the latter comprising 118 tales built around the <a href="/entry/elements">Elements</a> of the periodic table – plus collections of independent work including Moon Dogs (coll 2000) and "Not So Much" Said the Cat (coll 2016); The Best of Michael Swanwick (coll 2008) assembles work from 1980. He has also published two studies of neglected or unknown writers: What Can Be Saved from the Wreckage?: James Branch Cabell in the Twenty-First Century (2007) (see James Branch <a href="/entry/cabell_james_branch">Cabell</a>); and Hope-in-the-Mist: The Extraordinary Career and Mysterious Life of Hope Mirrlees (2008 chap), the first sustained study of the great English fantasy writer [for Mirrlees see The <a href="/entry/encyclopedia_of_fantasy_the">Encyclopedia of Fantasy</a> under links below]. Both studies are of interest; the second is a work of genuinely original scholarship. More recently, The Third Frankenstein (2018) cleverly and rather wickedly argues that the <a href="/entry/frankenstein_monster">Frankenstein Monster</a> and Baron Frankenstein are the conjoined nightmare of Robert Walton, the arctic explorer whose ship rescues the Baron from death on the floes. In the 1980s "debate" between "humanists" and cyberpunks (see Bruce <a href="/entry/sterling_bruce">Sterling</a>), Swanwick was variously associated with one or both "schools"; he dealt deftly with this artefactual controversy in essays assembled as The Postmodern Archipelago (coll 1997 chap). In the end – like the similarly treated Kim Stanley <a href="/entry/robinson_kim_stanley">Robinson</a> – he was not to be easily assimilated. The most telling thing one can say about Swanwick, after noting the range of his intensely focused career, is that he has honoured the hardest task an sf writer can undertake: to remain contemporary. In 2020 he became the first US winner of the initially Soviet-only and later Russian-only <a href="/entry/aelita_award">Aelita Award</a>. [JC] see also: <a href="/entry/anti-intellectualism_in_sf">Anti-Intellectualism in SF</a>; <a href="/entry/arkham_house">Arkham House</a>; <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's Science Fiction</a>; <a href="/entry/games_and_sports">Games and Sports</a>; <a href="/entry/gothic_sf">Gothic SF</a>; <a href="/entry/interzone">Interzone</a>; <a href="/entry/mythology">Mythology</a>; <a href="/entry/nuclear_energy">Nuclear Energy</a>; <a href="/entry/optimism_and_pessimism">Optimism and Pessimism</a>; <a href="/entry/postmodernism_and_sf">Postmodernism and SF</a>; <a href="/entry/space_habitats">Space Habitats</a>; <a href="/entry/theodore_sturgeon_memorial_award">Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award</a>; <a href="/entry/worldcon">Worldcon</a>. <h3 id="chklst">Michael Jenkins Swanwick</h3> born Schenectady, New York: 18 November 1950 works <input type="button" value="Alphabetical" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=swanwick_michael&abc'"> <input type="button" value="Chronological" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=swanwick_michael'"> series Iron Dragon <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Iron+Dragon+Daughter&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Iron Dragon's Daughter</a> (London: Orion/Millennium, 1993) [Iron Dragon: hb/Geoff <a href="/entry/taylor_geoff">Taylor</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Dragons+of+Babel&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Dragons of Babel</a> (New York: Tor, 2008) [Iron Dragon: hb/Stephan <a href="/entry/martiniere_stephan">Martinière</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Iron+Dragon+Mother&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Iron Dragon's Mother</a> (New York: Tor, 2019) [Iron Dragon: hb/Gregory Manchess]</li> </ul> Darger and Surplus <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Dog+Said+Bow-Wow&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Dog Said Bow-Wow</a> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2007) [coll: title story and two others are Darger and Surplus: pb/Ann Monn]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Dancing+With+Bears+The+Postutopian+Adventures+of&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Dancing With Bears: The Postutopian Adventures of Darger & Surplus</a> (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, 2011) [Darger and Surplus: hb/Bruno Werneck]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Chasing+the+Phoenix&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Chasing the Phoenix</a> (New York: Tor, 2015) [Darger and Surplus: hb/Stephan <a href="/entry/martiniere_stephan">Martinière</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Death+of+Aubrey+Darger&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Death of Aubrey Darger</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2020) [chap: extract from the above: Darger and Surplus: pb/nonpictorial]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Postutopian+Adventures+of+Darger+and+Surplus&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Postutopian Adventures of Darger and Surplus</a> (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, 2020) [coll: Darger and Surplus: hb/Lee Moyer]</li> </ul> Sir Toby <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Mongolian+Wizard&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Mongolian Wizard</a> (New York: Tor.com, 2012) [story: ebook: Sir Toby: na/Gregory <a href="/entry/manchess_gregory">Manchess</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Fire+Gown&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Fire Gown</a> (New York: or.com, 2012) [story: ebook: Sir Toby: na/Gregory <a href="/entry/manchess_gregory">Manchess</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Day+of+the+Kraken&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Day of the Kraken</a> (New York: Tor.com, 2012) [story: ebook: Sir Toby: na/Gregory <a href="/entry/manchess_gregory">Manchess</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=House+of+Dreams&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">House of Dreams</a> (New York: Tor.com, 2013) [story: ebook: Sir Toby: na/Gregory <a href="/entry/manchess_gregory">Manchess</a>]</li> </ul> individual titles <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=In+the+Drift&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">In the Drift</a> (New York: Ace Books, 1985) [fixup: in the publisher's third Science Fiction Special series: pb/Ron Lieberman]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Vacuum+Flowers&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Vacuum Flowers</a> (New York: Arbor House, 1987) [first appeared Mid-December 1986-January 1987 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>: hb/Rich O'Donnell]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Stations+of+the+Tide&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Stations of the Tide</a> (New York: William Morrow, 1991) [first appeared Mid-December 1990-January 1991 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>: the "First Edition" from The Easton Press is subsequent: hb/Daniel Horne]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Jack+Faust&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Jack Faust</a> (New York: Avon Books, 1997) [hb/Greg Spalenka]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Bones+of+the+Earth&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Bones of the Earth</a> (New York: Eos, 2002) [hb/Joe <a href="/entry/devito_joe">DeVito</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Three+Science+Fiction+Thrillers&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Three Science Fiction Thrillers</a>: Bones of the Earth; In the Drift; Vacuum Flowers (place not given: Open Road, 2017) [omni of the three titles: ebook: na/]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=City+Under+the+Stars&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">City Under the Stars</a> (New York: Tor, 2020) with Gardner <a href="/entry/dozois_gardner">Dozois</a> [pb/Raphaël Lacoste]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Proceedings+of+the+American+Martini&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Proceedings of the American Martini Institute: Report of the American Martini Laboratory: The Once and Future Rye: The Whiskey That Was America</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2022) [chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Father+Winter&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Father Winter</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2023) [coll: pb/]</li> </ul> collections and stories <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Gravity+Angels&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Gravity's Angels</a> (Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1991) [coll: hb/from Pablo Picasso]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Griffin+Egg&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Griffin's Egg</a> (London: Century/Legend, 1991) [novella: hb/Peter <a href="/entry/gudynas_peter">Gudynas</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=A+Geography+of+Unknown+Lands&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">A Geography of Unknown Lands</a> (Lemoyne, Pennsylvania: Tigereyes Press, 1997) [coll: illus/hb/Lee Moyer]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Tales+of+Old+Earth&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Tales of Old Earth</a> (San Francisco, California: North Atlantic Books/Tachyon Publications/Frog, 2000) [coll: hb/Michael Dashow]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Moon+Dogs&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Moon Dogs</a> (Framingham, Massachusetts: The NESFA Press, 2000) [coll: hb/Rick <a href="/entry/berry_rick">Berry</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Puck+Aleshire+Abecedary&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Puck Aleshire's Abecedary</a> (Pleasantville, New York: Dragon Press, 2000) [coll of linked stories: chap: illus/pb/Kathryn <a href="/entry/cramer_kathryn">Cramer</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Cigar-Box+Faust+and+Other+Miniatures&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures</a> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2004) [coll: chap: pb/Freddie Baer]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Michael+Swanwick+Field+Guide+to+the+Mesozoic&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Michael Swanwick's Field Guide to the Mesozoic Megafauna & Five British Dinosaurs</a> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2004) [coll of linked stories: chap: pb/Stephanie Pui-Mun Law]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Periodic+Table+of+Science+Fiction&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Periodic Table of Science Fiction</a> (Hornsea, East Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2005) [coll of linked stories: hb/uncredited]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Best+of+Michael+Swanwick&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Best of Michael Swanwick</a> (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, 2008) [coll: hb/Lee Moyer]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=A+Midwinter+Tale&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">A Midwinter's Tale</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2010) [story: chap: first appeared December 1988 <a href="/entry/asimovs">Asimov's</a>: pb/nonpictorial]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Brain+Baron&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Brain Baron</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2011) [story: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Trains+That+Climb+the+Winter+Tree&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Trains That Climb the Winter Tree</a> (New York: Tor.com, 2011) with Eileen <a href="/entry/gunn_eileen">Gunn</a> [story: ebook: first appeared 21 December 2010 <a href="/entry/tor_com">Tor.com</a>: na/Gary Kelley]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Zeppelin+City&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Zeppelin City</a> (New York: Tor.com, 2011) with Eileen <a href="/entry/gunn_eileen">Gunn</a> [story: ebook: first appeared 6 October 2009 <a href="/entry/tor_com">Tor.com</a>: na/Benjamin Carré]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Nature+of+Mirrors&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Nature of Mirrors</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2011) [story: chap: first appeared as part of "Smoke and Mirrors: Four Scenes from the Post-Utopian Future" in Live Without a Net (anth 2003) edited by Lou <a href="/entry/anders_lou">Anders</a>: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Dala+Horse&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Dala Horse</a> (New York: Tor.com, 2011) [story: ebook: na/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=American+Cigarettes&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">American Cigarettes</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2011) [story: chap: first appeared in a different form in Live Without a Net (anth 2003) edited by Lou <a href="/entry/anders_lou">Anders</a>: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Song+of+the+Lorelei&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Song of the Lorelei</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2011) [story: chap: first appeared in a different form in Live Without a Net (anth 2003) edited by Lou <a href="/entry/anders_lou">Anders</a>: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=It+Came+Upon+a+Midnight+Three+Brief+Midwinter&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">It Came Upon a Midnight: Three Brief Midwinter Tales</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2011) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Midwinter+Elves+Three+Brief+Midwinter+Tales&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Midwinter Elves: Three Brief Midwinter Tales</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2012) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Mongolian+Wizard&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Mongolian Wizard</a> (New York: Tor.com, 2012) [story: ebook: first appeared 4 July 2012 <a href="/entry/tor_com">Tor.com</a>: na/Gregory <a href="/entry/manchess_gregory">Manchess</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Solstice+Fire&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Solstice Fire</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2013) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Tumbling&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Tumbling</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2013) [story: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Season+Greetings&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Season's Greetings</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2014) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=One+Mile+Below&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">One Mile Below</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2014) [story: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Solstice+Spirits&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Solstice Spirits</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2015) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=5+Seasons&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">5 Seasons</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2016) [coll: chap: pb/Shutterstock]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Not+So+Much+Said+the+Cat&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Not So Much, Said the Cat</a> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon, 2016) [coll: comma in title conveyed graphically as cat's tail: pb/Elizabeth Story]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Universe+Box&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Universe Box</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2016) [story: chap: an assemblage of object boxed as bricolage: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Midwinter+Fables&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Midwinter Fables</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2016) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Touchstones&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Touchstones</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2017) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Blue+Moon&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Blue Moon</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2018) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Proceedings+of+the+American+Martini&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Proceedings of the American Martini Institute: Report of the American Martini Laboratory: The Evolution of the Martini</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2018) [chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Small+Wonders&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Small Wonders</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2018) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Is+There+Something+About+You+Irish&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Is There Something About You Irish?</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2019) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Northern+Lights&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Northern Lights</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2019) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Devil+Bestiary&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Devil's Bestiary</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2020) [chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Gulliver+Wife&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Gulliver's Wife</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2020) [chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Blue+as+the+Moon&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Blue as the Moon</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2020) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Rainbow+Clause&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Rainbow Clause</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2020) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Reindeer+Season&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Reindeer Season</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2020) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Book+of+Blarney&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Book of Blarney</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2021) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Five+Rings&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Five Rings</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2021) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Fantasia+Romantica&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Fantasia Romantica</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2022) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Solstice+Veritas+or+The+Christmas+Cat+and+Other&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Solstice Veritas; or, The Christmas Cat and Other Memories</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2022) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Transits+of+Venus&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Transits of Venus</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2023) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Best+of+Michael+Swanwick+Volume+Two&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Best of Michael Swanwick: Volume Two</a> (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, 2023) [coll: hb/Lee Moyer]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Vintner+Guide+to+Remarkable+Wines&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Vintner's Guide to Remarkable Wines</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2023) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Red+Fox+Blue+Moon&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Red Fox, Blue Moon</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2023) [coll: chap: pb/photographic]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Winter+Songs&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Winter Songs</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2023) [coll: chap: book is dated 2022: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Sleep+of+Reason&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Sleep of Reason</a> (Hornsea, East Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2024) [coll: illus/hb/Goya]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Nevermore+An+Interview+with+the+Raven&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Nevermore: An Interview with the Raven</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2024) [chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Comicosmics&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Comicosmics</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2024) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+War+with+the+Zylv&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The War with the Zylv</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2024) [story: chap: pb/]</li> </ul> nonfiction <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Postmodern+Archipelago&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Postmodern Archipelago</a> (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 1997) [nonfiction: coll: chap: pb/Michael Dashow]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Being+Gardner+Dozois+An+Interview+by+Michael&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Being Gardner Dozois: An Interview by Michael Swanwick</a> (Baltimore, Maryland: Old Earth Books, 2001) [<a href="/entry/interviews">Interview</a>: Gardner <a href="/entry/dozois_gardner">Dozois</a>: hb/Omar Rayyan]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=DeConstructing+Babel&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">DeConstructing Babel</a> (Merion Station, Pennsylvania: Magic Pen Press, 2007) with Lucius <a href="/entry/shepard_lucius">Shepard</a> [nonfiction: chap: analysis of The Dragons of Babel (see above): pb/Jason <a href="/entry/van_hollander_jason">Van Hollander</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=What+Can+Be+Saved+from+the+Wreckage+James&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">What Can Be Saved from the Wreckage?: James Branch Cabell in the Twenty-First Century</a> (Upper Montclair, New Jersey: Temporary Culture, 2007) [nonfiction: chap: James Branch <a href="/entry/cabell_james_branch">Cabell</a>: hb/nonpictorial]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Hope-in-the-Mist+The+Extraordinary+Career+and&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Hope-in-the-Mist: The Extraordinary Career and Mysterious Life of Hope Mirrlees</a> (Upper Montclair, New Jersey: Temporary Culture, 2008) [nonfiction: chap: for Hope Mirrlees see The <a href="/entry/encyclopedia_of_fantasy_the">Encyclopedia of Fantasy</a>: pb/uncredited]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Meditations+on+Meditations+on+Oysters+A+Critical&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Meditations on Meditations on Oysters: A Critical Non-Fiction on Christopher Morley's Meditations on Oysters</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2015) [nonfiction: chap: dos: includes essay by Christopher <a href="/entry/morley_christopher">Morley</a>: pb/uncredited]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Third+Frankenstein&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Third Frankenstein</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2018) [nonfiction: chap: essay: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=In+Memoriam+Gardner+Dozois+1947-2018&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">In Memoriam: Gardner Dozois 1947-2018</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2020) with Sean Swanwick [nonfiction: chap: first appeared in 2018 Philcon programme book: Gardner <a href="/entry/dozois_gardner">Dozois</a>: pb/nonpictorial]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=She+Saved+Us+From+World+War+Three+Gardner&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">"She Saved Us From World War Three": Gardner Dozois Remembers James Tiptree, Jr</a> (Upper Montclair, New Jersey: Temporary Culture, 2020) [nonfiction: chap: <a href="/entry/interviews">Interview</a> with <a href="/entry/dozois_gardner">Dozois</a> about <a href="/entry/tiptree_james_jr">Tiptree</a>: pb/photo of Dozois by John <a href="/entry/dechancie_john">DeChancie</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Swanwolfe&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Swanwolfe</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2020) [nonfiction: chap: pb/]</li> <li>The Lonely and the Rum: A Conversation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2021) with Greer Gilman [nonfiction: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=In+His+Own+Words&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">In His Own Words</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2022) [nonfiction: chap: <a href="/entry/interviews">Interview</a> of Gardner <a href="/entry/dozois_gardner">Dozois</a>: pb/photographic]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Brief+Essays+on+Genre&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Brief Essays on Genre</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2023) [nonfiction: chap: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Brief+Lives&field-author=Swanwick+Michael" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Brief Lives</a> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dragonstairs Press, 2024) [nonfiction: coll: chap: pb/]</li> </ul> about the author <ul class="x"> <li>Alvaro <a href="/entry/zinos-amaro_alvaro">Zinos-Amaro</a>. <a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Being+Michael+Swanwick&field-author=Zinos+Amaro+Alvaro" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Being Michael Swanwick</a> (Bonney Lake, Washington: Fairwood Press, 2023) with Michael Swanwick [nonfiction: extended interview sequence: pb/]</li> </ul> links <ul class="x"> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.michaelswanwick.com/">Michael Swanwick Online</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?179">Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://sf-encyclopedia.com/fe/">The Encyclopedia of Fantasy</a>: <a target="_blank" 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