Most Popular Books by Michael Swanwick

In October 2015, Michael Swanwick interviewed legendary science fiction editor Gardner Dozois on the subject of James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice B. Sheldon), with whom Dozois corresponded for many years. With facsimiles of two letters preserved in the Dozois papers at the Eaton Collection, U.C. Riverside.

This book is a collection of three classic hard science fiction novellas set on the moon. "Griffin''s Egg" by five-time Hugo Award winner Michael Swanwick, is the tale of a lunar settlement''s struggle to survive as a thermonuclear war ravages Earth. "Stories for Men" by two-time winner of the Nebula Award, John Kessel, was a recipient of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. It''s the story of a man who struggles with his place in a matriarchal society that dominates the lunar colony where he lives. "The Menace from Farside" by Hugo Award winner Ian McDonald, pays homage to the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing. It''s part of the author''s popular Luna series. In this novella, a teenager justifies to a psychological-counsellor AI, her excursion to the site of the first Moon landing at the Sea of Tranquility.

In un futuro post apocalittico dal sapore ottocentesco, in cui Internet non esiste più... Darger e Surplus sono due truffatori gentiluomini: Darger è un malinconico amante dei libri antichi; Surplus un cane geneticamente modificato per comportarsi come un uomo. Con l''inganno si sono uniti alla carovana dell''ambasciatore di Bisanzio per raggiungere sani e salvi Mosca, dove intendono dare vita a una truffa ai danni del Duca. Però il Duca non è un personaggio così facile da avvicinare, nonostante il dono che gli stanno portando: sette donne bellissime, create solo per soddisfarlo. Darger e Surplus si troveranno nel mezzo di una rete di intrighi tra fanatici religiosi, politici affamati di potere, macchine viventi che odiano il genere umano e perfino Lenin ritornato ad arringare le folle. Riusciranno i due truffatori gentiluomini a cavarsela? [Romanzo di fantascienza post apocalittica, collana Vaporteppa, 111.500 parole, circa 388 pagine]

Caccia alla fenice "Surplus arrivò dal nord abbigliato come uno sciamano, ricoperto di nastri multicolori e dischi di rame battuto. Conduceva uno yak adorno di nappe rosse e campanelli d''argento. La bestia trasportava un grosso involto di tela, legato accuratamente con delle corde. Dentro c''era il cadavere del suo amico Aubrey Darger." In un lontano futuro, un cane umano geneticamente modificato che cammina in posizione eretta, arriva in Cina per riportare in vita il suo compagno truffatore. Il vecchio mondo tecnologico è solo un ricordo e le intelligenze artificiali che l''avevano gestito sono state bandite e distrutte. O così sembra Un capolavoro della fantascienza dal vincitore di cinque premi Hugo.

A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy *** ISSUE 9: July 2014 *** Mike Resnick, Editor Shahid Mahmud, Publisher *** Stories by: Kary English, Gardner Dozois, Andrea G. Stewart, Robert Sheckley, Laurie Tom, Lou J. Berger, Michael Swanwick, Lisa Tang Liu & Ken Liu, Kay Kenyon. *** Serialization: Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp *** Columns by: Barry Malzberg, Gregory Benford *** Book Reviews: Paul Cook. *** Interview: Joy Ward interviews Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon *** Galaxy''s Edge is a bi-monthly (every two months) magazine published by Phoenix Pick, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Arc Manor, an award winning independent press based in Maryland. Each issue of the magazine has a mix of new and old (reprint) stories, a serialization of a novel, columns by Barry Malzberg and Gregory Benford, book reviews by Paul Cook and an interview conducted by Joy Ward.

MUTINY IN SPACE began as a novella entitled "Valentine''s Planet," which appeared in the August 1964 issue of Worlds of Tomorrow. "To space opera of the time, the character of the captain was as important as that of the king was to Shakespeare. He (the captain was always a "he," even when the author was female) was the model and exemplar for society, the man with the right stuff, he who made the tough decisions and enforced discipline?

Critical monograph examining the writings of Virginia fantasistJames Branch Cabell (1879-1958), author of Jurgen.

"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 passionate Surplus, a bioengineered humanoid canine, blithely get themselves into and out of predicaments with sanguine ease in a future in which most technological science has regressed, while the biological sciences have progressed in often terrifying ways." -- Publishers Weekly