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- Darger and Surplus
- 3 Dancing with Bears (2011)
- The Dog Said Bow-Wow (2001) [SF]
- The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport (2002) [SF]
- Girls and Boys, Come Out to Play (2005) [SF]
- Puck Aleshire's Abecedary
- 1 A is for Albany (1997) [SF]
- 2 B is for Borges (1997) [SF]
- 3 C is for Cancer (1998) [SF]
- 4 D is for Drink (1998) [SF]
- 5 E is for Elf-Sex (1998) [SF]
- 6 F is for Fountain Pen (1998) [SF]
- 7 G is for Golem (1998) [SF]
- 8 H is for Hoppity Hooper (1998) [SF]
- 9 I is for Impermanence (1998) [SF]
- 10 J is for Joe (1998) [SF]
- 11 K is for Kong (1998) [SF]
- 12 L is for Language (1998) [SF]
- 13 M is for Mirrorganger (1998) [SF]
- 14 N is for Notary (1998) [SF]
- 15 O is for Opening (1999) [SF]
- 16 P is for Powers (1999) [SF]
- 17 Q is for Quilled Bandersnatch (1999) [SF]
- 18 R is for Rain Women (1999) [SF]
- 19 S is for Smiley Face (1999) [SF]
- 20 T is for Time (1999) [SF]
- 21 U is for UFO (1999) [SF]
- 22 V is for Virtual Food (1999) [SF]
- 23 W is for Wyvern (1999) [SF]
- 24 X is for Xanadu (1999) [SF]
- 25 Y is for Youth (1999) [SF]
- 26 Z is for Zothique (1999) [SF]
- Puck Aleshire's Abecedary (2000) [C]
- The Iron Dragon's Daughter
- 1 The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993)
- 2 The Dragons of Babel (2008)
- In the Drift (1985)
-
Vacuum Flowers (1987)
also appeared as:
- Magazine Appearances:
- Vacuum Flowers (Part 1 of 3) (1986)
- Vacuum Flowers (Part 2 of 3) (1987)
- Vacuum Flowers (Part 3 of 3) (1987)
-
Stations of the Tide (1991)
also appeared as:
- Magazine Appearances:
- Stations of the Tide (Part 1 of 2) (1990)
- Stations of the Tide (Part 2 of 2) (1991)
- Jack Faust (1997)
- Bones of the Earth (2002)
- Gravity's Angels (1991)
- A Geography of Unknown Lands (1997)
- Tales of Old Earth (2000)
- Moon Dogs (2000)
- Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures (2003)
- Michael Swanwick's Field Guide to the Mesozoic Megafauna (2004)
- The Periodic Table of Science Fiction (2005)
- The Dog Said Bow-Wow (2007)
- The Best of Michael Swanwick (2008)
- Griffin's Egg (1991)
- Eines Greifen Ei (1993)
- The Brain Baron (2011)
- Zeppelin City (2011) with Eileen Gunn
- The Trains that Climb the Winter Tree (2011) with Eileen Gunn
- The Dala Horse (2011)
- The Mongolian Wizard (2012)
- The Fire Gown (2012)
- Day of the Kraken (2012)
- The Postmodern Archipelago (1997)
- Being Gardner Dozois: An Interview by Michael Swanwick (2001)
- What Can Be Saved from the Wreckage?: James Branch Cabell in the Twenty-First Century (2007)
- Hope-in-the-Mist: The Extraordinary Career and Mysterious Life of Hope Mirrlees (2009)
- Writing In My Sleep
- 1 The Bulls (1991)
- 2 Critics (1991)
- 3 Ether; A Bicentennial Minute; Stage Direction (1991)
- 4 Books (1991)
- 5 Writing in My Sleep (Fifth in a Series): Glass Soul; Bastards; Xeroxing (1991)
- 6 Trolls (1991)
- 7 God (1991)
- 8 Rafferty Rafferty and Mr. Bog (1991)
- 9 Storyteller Rock (1991)
- The Periodic Table of Science Fiction
- 1 The Hindenburg (2005)
- 2 Jane Carter of Mars (2005)
- 3 Lithium for God (2005)
- 4 A Beryl as Big as the Ritz (2005)
- 5 Francis, Child of Scorn (2005)
- 6 They're Made of Carbon (2005)
- 7 Nitrogen: An Introduction (2005)
- 8 Oxygen Planets (2005)
- 9 The Message (2005)
- 10 House Rules (2005)
- 11 Electric Pickles (2005)
- 12 Under's Game (2001)
- 13 Aluminium Foil (2005)
- 14 Programmable Breasts (2005)
- 15 Blockade Runners (2005)
- 16 Vitriol (2005)
- 17 Seven Days of Creation (2005)
- 18 The Eye of Argon (2005)
- 19 Bananas (2005)
- 20 Angels of the Apocalypse (2005)
- 21 Bingham's Folley (2005)
- 22 Killer Robots (2005)
- 23 Vanadium (2005)
- 24 Babe (2005)
- 25 Graffiti (2005)
- 26 The Era of the Iron Horse (2005)
- 27 Merfolk (2005)
- 28 What This Country Needs— (2005)
- 29 Lucky Penny (2005)
- 30 Brass (2005)
- 31 Space Pirates (2005)
- 32 Germanium (2005)
- 33 Lucrezia Borgia (2005)
- 34 H.G. Wells on the Moon (2005)
- 35 Try Not To Think of Elephants (2005)
- 36 Man of Steel (2005)
- 37 Glass Beads (2005)
- 38 Fallout (2005)
- 39 It: A Preliminary Account (2005)
- 40 It's Not Virtual Anything—It's Real Zirconium! (2005)
- 41 Woman of Stone (2005)
- 42 Living in the Shadow of the Molly-Be-Damned (2005)
- 43 Claimjumper and Ting (2005)
- 44 Land of Our Fathers (2005)
- 45 Cecil Rhodes in Hell (2002)
- 46 War of the Worlds (2005)
- 47 Dark Secrets of the Western Heroes (2005)
- 48 Starry Night (2005)
- 49 On the India Line (2005)
- 50 The Man With a Clock for a Heart (2005)
- 51 Money and Its Opposite (2005)
- 52 A Change of Seasons (2005)
- 53 In Loco Parentis (2005)
- 54 Warrior Princess (2005)
- A Field Guide to the Mesozoic Megafauna
- 1 The Thief of Time (2003)
- 2 A Matter of Size (2003)
- 3 Three Conversations (2003)
- 4 How the West Was Won II (2003)
- 5 The Scientific Method (2003)
- 6 Dueling Mosasaurs (2003)
- 7 Pocket Brontosaurs (2003)
- 8 Herbivores (2003)
- 9 Parallels (2003)
- 10 Wusses (2003)
- 11 Dinosaur Music (2003)
- 12 The Bird-Fishers (2003)
- 13 Proving Dr. Tom's Hypothesis (2003)
- Sir Toby
- The Mongolian Wizard (2012)
- The Fire Gown (2012)
- Day of the Kraken (2012)
- Ginungagap (1980)
- The Feast of Saint Janis (1980)
- Touring (1981) with Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann [also as by Michael Swanwick and Gardner Dozois and Jack M. Dann ]
- 'Til Human Voices Wake Us (1981)
- Mummer Kiss (1981)
- Walden Three (1981)
- The Man Who Met Picasso (1982)
- Golden Apples of the Sun (1984) with Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
- Ice Age (1984)
- Afternoon at Schrafft's (1984) with Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
- When the Music's Over . . . (1984)
- Trojan Horse (1984)
- Marrow Death (1984)
- The Transmigration of Philip K. (1985)
- The Gods of Mars (1985) with Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
- The Blind Minotaur (1985)
- Anyone Here from Utah? (1985)
- Dogfight (1985) with William Gibson
- Snow Job (1985) with Gardner Dozois
- Covenant of Souls (1986)
- Foresight (1987)
- The Overcoat (1988)
- The Dragon Line (1988)
- A Midwinter's Tale (1988)
- Snow Angels (1989)
- The Edge of the World (1989)
- U F O (1990)
- Three Scenes from Stations of the Tide (excerpt) (1991)
- Griffin's Egg (1991)
- Fantasies (1991) with Tim Sullivan
- The Wireless Folly (1992)
- In Concert (1992)
- Picasso Deconstructed: Eleven Still-Lifes (1993)
- Cold Iron (1993)
- The Changeling's Tale (1994)
- The Mask (1994)
- Walking Out (1995)
- North of Diddy-Wah-Diddy (1995)
- The City of God (1995) with Gardner Dozois
- Radio Waves (1995)
- The Dead (1996)
- Ships (1996) with Jack Dann
- Mother Grasshopper (1997)
- The Wisdom of Old Earth (1997)
- Midnight Express (1998)
- The Very Pulse of the Machine (1998)
- Wild Minds (1998)
- The Questing Mind (1998)
- Ancestral Voices (1998) with Gardner Dozois
- 120 is for Issues (1998)
- Radiant Doors (1998)
- Microcosmic Dog (1998)
- Archaic Planets: Nine Excerpts from the Encyclopedia Galactica (1998) with Sean Swanwick
- Green Fire (1999) with Eileen Gunn and Andy Duncan and Pat Murphy
- Ancient Engines (1999)
- Scherzo with Tyrannosaur (1999)
- Riding the Giganotosaur (1999)
- The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O (2000)
-
Mickelrede; or, The Slayer and the Staff: A Ghost-Novel (2000)
with
Avram Davidson
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Mickelrede, or, The Slayer and the Staff (2000) [as by Michael Swanwick and Avram Davidson ]
- Moon Dogs (2000)
- The Madness of Gordon Van Gelder (2000)
- Dirty Little War (2002)
- Five British Dinosaurs (2002)
- "Hello," Said the Stick (2002)
- A Great Day for Brontosaurs (2002)
- Slow Life (2002)
- Legions in Time (2003)
- King Dragon (2003)
- Bones of the Earth (excerpt) (2003)
- Smoke and Mirrors: Four Scenes from the Post-utopian Future (2003)
- Coyote at the End of History (2003)
- Deep in the Woods of Grammarie (2003)
- The Periodic Table of Science Fiction (2003)
- The Last Geek (2004)
- The Word that Sings the Scythe (2004)
- Castles in the Air (2005)
- What to Expect from Your Barium Enema (2005)
- Immortality (2005)
- Cerium—Al Last! (2005)
- Absolute Zero (2005)
- Retirement Day (2005)
- Singular Cities (2005)
- Europe and the Bull (2005)
- Tattoos (2005)
- Morphobots (2005)
- A Letter from Hell (2005)
- Nanotechnologist's Lung (2005)
- Tarzan of the Periodic Table (2005)
- Conan the Elemental (2005)
- Elements Day (2005)
- Dragon Star (2005)
- Riding the Rods (2005)
- Consider Poor Doris! (2005)
- Light Bulb Jokes (2005)
- Beads and Trinkets (2005)
- Everything Your Mother Wants You to Know About Osmium (2005)
- Don't Look to the Skies! (2005)
- Platinum Blonde (2005)
- Crown of Beauty (2005)
- The Outriders (2005)
- A Perfect Murder (2005)
- A Polite Society (2005)
- The Pepto-Bismol Hour (2005)
- Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be (Polonius Updated) (2005)
- Bad Brains (2005)
- Monster in the Basement (2005)
- Viva la Francium! (2005)
- The Ghost of Pierre Curie Reminisces (2005)
- The Case of the Purloined Actinium (2005)
- Mjoinir (2005)
- Forge Star (2005)
- Cooking With Uranium (2005)
- The Oceans of Neptune (2005)
- Pure Science (2005)
- Nuclear Blackmail (2005)
- Holy Mother Church (2005)
- Vindicating Bishop Berkeley (2005)
- Nuclear Handguns (2005)
- The Dark Lady of the Equations (2005)
- The Fermi Paradox (2005)
- The Feast of Saint Mendeleyev (2005)
- My Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (Presented Here Against the Unlikely Chance I Never Get to Deliver It) (2005)
- Lawrence of America (2005)
- "Radioactive" B. Hayes (2005)
- George "Dubna" Bush (2005)
- The Sea Borg (2005)
- Boring Niels (2005)
- To Hass and Hass Not (2005)
- Lise Meitner, Physicist (2005)
- Science Made Ugly (2005)
- Defining Our Terms (2005)
- Don't Blink! (2005)
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Ununtrium (2005)
- Island of Stability (2005)
- Uup, Uup, and Awaaaaaaay! (2005)
- Spanish Witches (2005)
- Dragon Lady at the End of Time (2005)
- Now You See It Now You (2005)
- Triceratops Summer (2005)
- The Bordello in Faerie (2006)
- An Episode of Stardust (2006)
- Tin Marsh (2006)
- Lord Weary's Empire (2006)
- A Small Room in Koboldtown (2007)
- Congratulations From the Future! (2007)
- The End of Things (2007) with H. G. Wells
- The Mental Daguerreotype (2007) with Anthony Trollope
- The Skysailor's Tale (2007)
- Urdumheim (2007)
-
From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled . . . (2008)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled (2008)
- "Shed That Guilt! Double Your Productivity Overnight!" (2008) with Eileen Gunn
- The Scarecrow's Boy (2008)
- Hush and Hark (2008)
- Metasciencefiction (2008)
- Errata Slip Found in a Copy of the Arkham University Press Trade Paperback Reissue of the Necronomicon (2009)
- The Armies of Elfland (2009) with Eileen Gunn
- The Magaracs: A Family Saga, in Fragments (2009)
- Zeppelin City (2009) with Eileen Gunn
- Last Drink Bird Head (2009)
- Invisibility for Beginners (2009)
- Goblin Lake (2010)
- Steadfast Castle (2010)
- Libertarian Russia (2010)
- The Trains that Climb the Winter Tree (2010) with Eileen Gunn
- The Brain Baron (2011)
- Cold Reading (2011)
- An Empty House With Many Doors (2011)
- The Man in Grey (2011)
- The Dala Horse (2011)
- For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I'll Not Be Back Again (2011)
- Pushkin the American (2012)
- The Woman Who Shook the World-Tree (2012)
- The Year of the Three Monarchs (2012)
- Space Cougar! (2012) with S. Hutson Blount and Peter V. Brett and Erin Cashier and Spike Marlowe and Alan DeNiro and Gordon Van Gelder and Jay Lake and Nick Mamatas and Carlton Mellick, III and E. C. Myers and Devin Poore and Christopher Reynaga and Ken Scholes and John Skipp and Peter Straub and Jackson Juiceely
- The She-Wolf's Hidden Grin [forthcoming: Aug 2013]
- Hooray for Eileen! (1994)
- Viewpoint
- A User's Guide to the Postmoderns (1986)
-
"In the Tradition . . ." (1994)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: In the Tradition . . . (1994)
- Letter (Science Fiction Eye #2) (1987)
- Letter (Locus #319) (1987)
- Recommended Reading (1987) (1988)
- Eight Short Fiction Reviews (1988)
- Three Short Fiction Reviews (Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Lunatics", Lucius Shepard's "Life of Buddha", Eileen Gunn's "Stable Strategies for Middle Management") (1989)
- The Amateur Demographer Goes to the Bookstore (1989)
- Response to "The New Generation Gap" (1989)
- Three Short Fiction Reviews (Ian McDonald's "Unfinished Portraits of the King of Pain by Van Gogh", Phillip C. Jennings's "Messiah", Judith Moffett's "Tiny Tango") (1989)
- Letter (Short Form, October 1989) (1989)
- "Ode to Be a Blurber!" (1990)
- Two Short Fiction Reviews (Zoe Fairbairns' "Relics", Joe R. Lansdale's On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks") (1990)
- It Doesn't Get Any Better (1990)
- Four Short Fiction Reviews (Terry Bisson's "Over Flat Mountain"; "The Coon Suit"; "The Two Janets"; "Bears Discover Fire") (1991)
- One Thousand Stories (1991)
- "Cruising the Metagenre": Short Fiction in 1990 (1991)
- Nine Short Fiction Reviews (Part 1 of 2) (1992)
- Introduction: Despair and the Duck Lady (1992)
- Nine Short Fiction Reviews (Part 2 of 2) (1992)
- Letter (Analog, April 1992) (1992)
- Fritz Leiber Appreciation (1992)
- And God Made Fans (1993)
- Corrupting the Mainstream (1993)
- Galileo's Finger (1993)
- Involution Ocean (1993)
- An Appreciation (Avram Davidson) (1993)
- Men, Women, and Writers (1993)
- The Strange Case Of Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (1993)
- Letter (Locus #393) (1993)
- My Career as a Poet (1993)
- Pere Ubu's Ascot (1993)
- The Death of the Magus: Two Myths (1994)
- The Other Patrick McGrath (1994)
- Superman (1994)
- Ruthenia (1994)
- Letter (NYRSF, April 1994) (1994)
- Writing in My Sleep (1994)
- Memories and Visions: Fans and Fellow Writers Remember Philip K. Dick: Eight Takes on Kindred Themes (1994)
- The Year in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium (1995) with Gregory Benford and Eleanor Arnason and Paul Di Filippo and Rebecca Ore and Maureen F. McHugh and Robert J. Sawyer and Norman Spinrad
- Foreword (Voyages by Starlight) (1996)
- Lot's Children (1996)
- They Fell Like Wheat (1996)
- Author Profile: Michael Swanwick (1997)
- The Hagiography of Saint Dozois (1997)
- Growing Up in the Future (1997)
- Letter (NYRSF, September 1997) (1997)
- Amos Tutuola: An Appreciation (1997)
- A Tale of Two Essays (1997)
- Letter (NYRSF, November 1997) (1997)
- Jane Swanwick and the Search for Identity (1998)
- Strange Inhabitants and Unknown Boundaries (1998)
- Introduction (The Boss in the Wall) (1998)
- Introduction: The Slovo Stove (1998)
- Letter (NYRSF, December 1998) (1998)
- Taken Gently By The Hand: James Morrow's "Arms and the Woman" (1999)
- Read This Aloud (NYRSF, January 1999) (1999)
- Baubles from the Magpie's Nest: Short Fiction in 1998 (1999)
- James Turner: An Appreciation (1999)
- Looking Backward from the Year Two Thousand: 1999 in Short Fiction (2000)
- Introduction (Making History) (2000)
- Paul J. McAuley: Compleat Radical (2000)
- Letter: Periodic Table of SF (NYRSF, February 2001) (2001)
- Brits Triumphant, Name Brand Writers, and the Last Great Fantasy Story of the Millennium: The Year 2000 in Short Fiction (2001)
- Futures: Twenty-Three Short-Short Fiction Reviews (2001)
- Review of the exhibition "Space 2001: To the Moon and Beyond" (2001)
- Lord Vacant on the Boulevard of Naked Angels: Extracts from the Dream Diary of Michael Swanwick (2001)
- David G. Hartwell (2001)
- Introduction to Snow Job (2001)
- Introduction: The Strange and Fabulous Journey of Gardner Dozois (2001)
- Introduction to Executive Clemency (2001)
- Letters to the Editor (2001)
- Three Tales by Ursula K. Le Guin (2001)
- A Changeling Returns (2001)
- Sex, Magic, Television: How I Wrote "Stations of the Tide" (2001)
- Mushrooms, Lobsters, Ambitious Failures, and Things That Eat Books in the Night: The Year 2001 in Short Fiction (2002)
- Introduction (My Aunt, Hope Mirrlees) (2002)
- Three Names Offered Up to God (2002)
- Introduction: The Comprehending Strangeness of Jeffrey Ford (2002)
- Letter (Locus #500) (2002)
- Introduction (Mutiny in Space) (2002)
- Hope-in-the-Mist (2003)
- Notes of a Random Reader: 2002 in Science Fiction (2003)
- The View from the Top of the Mountain (2003)
- Six Things I Brought Home from Finland (2003)
- Preface (Another Green World) (2003)
- Slipstream, Metafiction, and Minds on Fire: A Brief and Disorganized Look at Short Fiction in 2003 (2004)
- Introduction (Trujillo and Other Stories) (2004)
- Introduction (Her Smoke Rose Up Forever) (2004)
- Russia: Aelita Conference (2004)
- Letter (Locus #527) (2004)
- Afterword (The Periodic Table of Science Fiction) (2005)
- A Lexicon of Lud: In respect to Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees (2005)
- Introduction (Alien Bootlegger) (2005)
- Robert Sheckley (2006)
- What Can Be Saved from the Wreckage?: James Branch Cabell in the Twenty-First Century (2007)
- Jack (2007)
- Fantastic Cities Panel Interaction 2005 (2007) with Claire Weaver and Ian R. MacLeod and Jeffrey Ford
- The Wolf in the Labyrinth (2007)
- Janet Kagan (2008)
- Brief Lives: Jack Woodford (2008)
- Introduction: The Economy of Jack (2008)
- A Dizzy Celebration of Being Somewhere Wonderful: Reading Rhetorics of Fantasy in the Real World (2008)
- Introduction (The Best of Michael Swanwick) (2008)
- The View from the Wharf Rat: A Letter from Otakon 2006 in Baltimore (2009)
- A Lexicon of Lud (2009)
- The Inimitable George Scithers (2010)
- Brief Lives: Edward Scott Woodley (Number 2 in an Occasional Series) (2011)
- Brief Lives: Judith Merrill (Number 3 in an Occasional Series) (2011)
- Brief Lives: William Fitzgerald Jenkins Number 4 in an Occasional Series) (2011)
- Hope Mirrlee's "Paris, A Poem" (2011)
- Will Jenkins's Greatest Invention (2011)
- Introduction (Lost Tales, Vol. 1) (2012)
- Brief Lives: Anna Quinsland (Number 5 in an Occasional Series) (2012)
- Jim Young, Pursuer of Dreams (2012)
- An Exchange (2013) with Tom Purdom
- The Finder (2001) by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Bones of the Earth (2001) by Ursula K. Le Guin
- On the High Marsh (2001) by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Blood Sport (2005) by Robert F. Jones
- TH.2058 (2009) by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
- Singular Interviews: John Crowley (1999) with John Crowley
- Singular Interviews: Tom Purdom (1999) with Tom Purdom
- Gardner Dozois: Interview (2002) with Gardner Dozois
- Gardner Dozois: 25 Years of "The Year's Best" (2003) with Gardner Dozois
- Michael Swanwick: Dinosaur Dreams (2004)
- Singular Interviews: Gregory Frost (2005) with Gregory Frost
- Singlular Interviews: Paul Park (2005) with Paul Park
- Singular Interviews: Karl Schroeder (2008) with Karl Schroeder
- Michael Swanwick: God Reached Down and Flicked a Switch (2009)