Jonathan Strahan. Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks.com), $19.99 trade paper (500p) ISBN 978-1-59780-345-8
Strahan’s sixth annual genre-spanning anthology lacks the clarity (or perhaps narrowness) of purpose of a series focusing solely on fantasy or SF, but the 31 selections demonstrate a knowledge of and affection for the fantastic that rival editors...
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Michael Swanwick, Author . Tachyon $14.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-892391-52-0
In addition to their individual quality, the 16 stories in this rollicking collection amply demonstrate Hugo-winner Swanwick's impressive versatility. Characters vary from feuding prospectors on a heat-scoured Venus in “Tin Marsh”...
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Michael Swanwick, Author . Tor $25.95 (318p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1950-0
In this triumphant return to the universe of The Iron Dragon’s Daughter
(1994), Hugo-winner Swanwick introduces Will le Fey, an orphan of uncertain parentage. After defeating an evil mechanical war dragon who has enslaved him and his village,
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Michael Swanwick, Author . Subterranean $38 (469p) ISBN 978-1-59606-178-1
More than a quarter century’s worth of short fiction is gathered in this comprehensive collection of stories from Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award–winner Swanwick. The tales run the gamut from strict space adventures like “The Very Pulse of the...
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Michael Swanwick, Author Arkham House Publishers $24.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-87054-162-9
This volume chronicles the career of one of the most impressive science fiction writers of the '80s. Almost all of Swanwick's ( Stations of the Tide ) short stories are collected here, from his impressive debut, ``The Feast of Saint Janis,'' to the...
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Michael Swanwick, Author Avon Books $23 (337p) ISBN 978-0-380-97444-3
Set in Wittenberg, Germany, on the eve of the 19th century, Swanwick's vivid, off-kilter retelling of an immortal tale opens with Faust burning his books in frustration at his own ignorance, trapped in a time and in a city where things were done ""by
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Michael Swanwick, Author Arbor House Publishing $15.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-87795-870-3
Like most of the genre, Swanwick's cyberpunk novel takes off from '40s crime thrillers and films noir, his basis here being the amnesiac seeking her own past. Eucrasia Walsh had been a persona buma tester of plug-in personalitiesuntil one of the...
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Michael Swanwick, Author William Morrow & Company $19.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-688-10451-1
Swanwick ( Vacuum Flowers ) takes a fascinating mix of nanotechnology, magic, the vagaries of human nature (including the dynamics of office politics, transmitted to a higher plane) and an accidental genocide, and creates a futuristic detective...
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Michael Swanwick, Author Avon Books $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71524-4
In this highly readable, futuristic detective novel, a bureaucrat/agent tracks a bush wizard who appears to be using a restricted brand of high technology to work his magic. (Mar.)
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Michael Swanwick, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (101p) ISBN 978-0-312-06989-6
Swanwick's ( Gravity's Angels ) latest combines many elements common to his previous work: a solid hard-science fiction setting, an interest in the workings of interpersonal relationships, and speculation about the potentials of the mind and the...
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Michael Swanwick, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (424p) ISBN 978-0-688-13174-6
Swanwick's nihilistic tale features a human changeling who tries to make her way in a cutthroat society that mirrors contemporary life. While the players are elves, dwarves, lamies and other ``magickal'' creatures, they could be 20th-century...
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Michael Swanwick. Night Shade, $24.99 (280p) ISBN 978-1-59780-235-2
Following 2007's The Dog Said Bow-Wow, Swanwick sends his postapocalyptic con artists Darger and Surplus to ferry seven genetically enhanced brides from the caliph of Byzantium to the duke of Muscovy. Unfortunately, the plot requires Darger and...
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Michael Swanwick. Tor, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8090-6
Hugo-winner Swanwick (Dancing with Bears) takes his longtime rogue heroes, Surplus and Darger, to postapocalyptic China in this intriguing chronicle of adventures. Once Surplus resurrects Darger with the help of the Infallible Physician, the pair...
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Michael Swanwick. Tachyon, , $15.95 ISBN 978-1-61696-228-9
Multiple Hugo Award–winner Swanwick (Chasing the Phoenix) returns with this superb collection of stories published between 2008 and 2014. Ranging across the various subgenres of fantasy and science fiction, the volume includes the Hugo-winning “From
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Michael Swanwick. Subterranean, $40 (200p) ISBN 978-1-59606-937-4
This entertaining volume collects Swanwick’s tales of his recurring roguish con artists (who previously appeared in the novel Chasing the Phoenix) and their exploits in a neo-Victorian, postapocalyptic future. Throughout, melancholy human Darger and
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Michael Swanwick. Tor, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-19825-9
Traveling through a vast, dark faerie world, Swanwick’s gripping sequel to 1993’s The Iron Dragon’s Daughter poetically tells the tale of a dragon pilot who’s running from accusations of crimes she didn’t commit. Shortly after Caitlin’s father dies...
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Michael Swanwick. Subterranean, $50 (536p) ISBN 978-1-64524-112-6
Hugo and Nebula Award winner Swanwick showcases his talent for world and character building in this superior collection of 37 shorts written between 1999 and 2023. The opening of the charmingly folkloric “There Was an Old Woman...” (“Had he been a...
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Gardner Dazois & Michael Swanwick. Tor.com, $14.99 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-75658-9
Dazois (When the Great Days Come) and Swanwick (the Iron Dragon series) expand on their 1995 novella City of God to explore humanity’s relationship with technology and religion in this uneven sci-fi tale set on a far-future Earth. When ageing Carl...
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