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See Also:
- Dozois, Gardner
- Kelly, James Patrick
- Egan, Greg
- McDonald, Ian
- James, Patrick
- Hartwell, David G.
- Waldrop, Howard
- Kessel, John
- Robert, Reed
- Cadigan, Pat
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Michael Swanwick
Gravity's Angels is a showcase for a decade's worth of Swanwick's shorter fictions, from his first published short story, "The Feast of Saint Janis," to a descent past the edge of a flat Earth otherwise very like our own in "The Edge of [... more]
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The Dragon Quintet
And now for something a little different...: Overall, I thought this was quite a good collection of stories, and I found the majority of it interesting. Unfortunately, the first story in it, by Orson Scott Card, was a tad dull, and I kept putting it down [... more]
$6.99
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Stations of the Tide
Fascinating, canny, and powerful: I finished reading STATIONS OF THE TIDE last week; I would have written about it sooner, but it's taken me this long to process and digest my thoughts about the book into something approaching a coherent whole. The book' [... more]
$6.50
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Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures
An entertaining collection of short stories: Michael Swanwick has consistently impressed me with his imagination in both his novels and short stories. Here we have a collection of miscellaneous very short work of varying quality. The title story was [... more]
$14.95
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Bones of the Earth
Amazon.com Review: Paleontologist Richard Leyster is studying the dinosaur-fossil discovery of a lifetime when a stranger comes into his office with an ice cooler and an offer: a mysterious and dangerous job that pays no better than Leyster's beloved [... more]
$25.95
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The Dragons of Babel (Tom Doherty Associates Book)
Weird and flawed but powerful for all that: He's just a country boy, living in a small village after his parents are killed by the war. But when a dragon crashes nearby and decides to make himself king of the village, Will Le Fey gets drafted as the [... more]
$25.95
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Vacuum flowers
If you could change your personality...: The central technological advancement of this book is the plug-in personality. You go into a clinic and get yourself "wetwired" to perform any given task (janitor, policeman, doctor), or simply augment [... more]
$15.95
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Gravity's Angels
Wonderful short fiction: I've been consistently amazed by Michael Swanwick's novels ever since I read Vacuum Flowers about 7 or 8 years ago. I was pleased to see that Gravity's Angels had been re-released, and so I bought a copy. I was assuming that his [... more]
$16.95
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Tales of Old Earth
Amazon.com Review: Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards, Michael Swanwick is one of science fiction's best authors and a master of short fiction. Tales of Old Earth collects 19 of his acclaimed stories, including one (& [... more]
$25.00
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The Dog Said Bow-Wow
My introduction to Michael Swanwick: I stumbled upon this anthology after scanning a list of past Hugo winners, looking for some authors with whom I was not yet acquainted. I wish I had discovered Michael Swanwick years ago. I couldn't put this book down. [... more]
$14.95
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In the Drift (Ace Science Fiction Special, No 6)
A good fluff book.: This is a fast read and very easy to understand, but, contrary to my sci-fi class's belief, I consider it mind candy. The futuristic ideas seem well thought out and almost plausible, but as for the actual details, it seems like [... more]
$5.50
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Jack Faust
Amazon.com Review: Michael Swanwick (Stations of the Tide and The Iron Dragon's Daughter ) has long been too innovative for his own good, and Jack Faust continues that tradition. This story has elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror, comedy, [... more]
$23.00
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