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- Legal Name: Swanwick, Michael Jurgen
- Birthplace: Schenectady, NY, USA
- Birthdate: 18 November 1950
- Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Swanwick
- Webpage: http://www.michaelswanwick.com/
- Interviews: Michael Swanwick: Of All Plausible Worlds , Michael Swanwick: Has Strange Notions
- Biography: Bio:Michael Swanwick
- Bibliographic Comments: Author:Michael Swanwick
- Author Tags: steampunk (2) , nanotechnology (1) , Nebula Award Winner (1) , science fantasy (1) , science fiction (1) , fantasy (1)
- Puck Aleshire's Abecedary
- Puck Aleshire's Abecedary (2000) [C]
- 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]
- 12 L is for Language (1998) [SF]
- 12 Michael Swanwick's Complete "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]
- 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)
- 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 Glass Soul; Bastards; Xeroxing (1991)
- 6 Trolls (1991)
- 7 God (1991)
- 8 Rafferty Rafferty and Mr. Bog (1991)
- 9 Storyteller Rock (1991)
- 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)
- Ginungagap (1980)
- The Feast of Saint Janis (1980)
- Mummer Kiss (1981)
-
Touring (1981)
with
Gardner Dozois
and
Jack Dann
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Touring (1981) [as by Gardner R. Dozois and Jack M. Dann and Michael Swanwick ]
- Variant Title: Touring (1981) [as by Michael Swanwick and Gardner Dozois and Jack M. Dann ]
- 'Til Human Voices Wake Us (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)
- Fantasies (1991) with Timothy Robert Sullivan [only as by Michael Swanwick and Tim Sullivan ]
- Three Scenes from "Stations of the Tide" (1991)
- Griffin's Egg (1991)
- The Wireless Folly (1992)
- In Concert (1992)
- Picasso Deconstructed: Eleven Still-Lifes (1993)
- Cold Iron (1993)
- The Changeling's Tale (1994)
- The Mask (1994)
- "In the Tradition . . ." (1994)
- Radio Waves (1995)
- Walking Out (1995)
- North of Diddy-Wah-Diddy (1995)
- The City of God (1995) with Gardner Dozois
- The Dead (1996)
- Ships (1996) with Jack Dann
- Mother Grasshopper (1997)
- The Wisdom of Old Earth (1997)
- Microcosmic Dog (1998)
- Midnight Express (1998)
- 120 is for Issues (1998)
- The Very Pulse of the Machine (1998)
- Wild Minds (1998)
- The Questing Mind (1998)
- Ancestral Voices (1998) with Gardner Dozois
- Radiant Doors (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)
- Under's Game (2001)
- The Dog Said Bow-Wow (2001)
- Dirty Little War (2002)
- Cecil Rhodes in Hell (2002)
- Five British Dinosaurs (2002)
- "Hello," Said the Stick (2002)
- A Great Day for Brontosaurs (2002)
- The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport (2002)
- Slow Life (2002)
- Legions in Time (2003)
- King Dragon (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 Last Geek (2004)
- The Word that Sings the Scythe (2004)
- Girls and Boys, Come Out to Play (2005)
- The Hindenburg (2005)
- Jane Carter of Mars (2005)
- Lithium for God (2005)
- A Beryl as Big as the Ritz (2005)
- Francis, Child of Scorn (2005)
- They're Made of Carbon (2005)
- Nitrogen: An Introduction (2005)
- Oxygen Planets (2005)
- The Message (2005)
- House Rules (2005)
- Electric Pickles (2005)
- Aluminium Foil (2005)
- Programmable Breasts (2005)
- Blockade Runners (2005)
- Vitriol (2005)
- Seven Days of Creation (2005)
- The Eye of Argon (2005)
- Bananas (2005)
- Angels of the Apocalypse (2005)
- Bingham's Folley (2005)
- Killer Robots (2005)
- Vanadium (2005)
- Babe (2005)
- Graffiti (2005)
- The Era of the Iron Horse (2005)
- Merfolk (2005)
- "What This Country Needs—" (2005)
- Lucky Penny (2005)
- Brass (2005)
- Space Pirates (2005)
- Germanium (2005)
- Lucrezia Borgia (2005)
- H.G. Wells on the Moon (2005)
- Try Not to Think of Elephants (2005)
- Man of Steel (2005)
- Glass Beads (2005)
- Fallout (2005)
- It: A Preliminary Account (2005)
- It's Not Virtual Anything— It's Real Zirconium! (2005)
- Woman of Stone (2005)
- Living in the Shadow of the Molly-Be-Damned (2005)
- Claimjumper and Ting (2005)
- Land of Our Fathers (2005)
- War of the Worlds (2005)
- Dark Secrets of the Western Heroes (2005)
- Starry Night (2005)
- On the India Line (2005)
- The Man With a Clock for a Heart (2005)
- Money and It's Opposite (2005)
- A Change of Seasons (2005)
- In Loco Parentis (2005)
- Warrior Princess (2005)
- 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 Skysailor's Tale (2007)
- Urdumheim (2007)
- 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)
- The Armies of Elfland (2009) with Eileen Gunn
- Hooray for Eileen! (1994)
- Letter (Science Fiction Eye #2) (1987)
- Letter (Locus #319) (1987)
- Recommended Reading (1987) (1988)
- Eight Short Fiction Reviews (Neal Barrett, Jr) (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)
- Nine Short Fiction Reviews (Part 1 of 2) (1992)
- Nine Short Fiction Reviews (Part 2 of 2) (1992)
- Introduction: Despair and the Duck Lady (1992)
- Letter (Analog, April 1992) (1992)
- And God Made Fans (1993)
- Corrupting the Mainstream (1993)
- Galileo's Finger (1993)
- Involution Ocean (1993)
- Men, Women, and Writers (1993)
- My Career as a Poet (1993)
- Pere Ubu's Ascot (1993)
- The Strange Case Of Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (1993)
- Memories and Visions: Fans and Fellow Writers Remember Philip K. Dick: Eight Takes on Kindred Themes (1994)
- The Other Patrick McGrath (1994)
- Ruthenia (1994)
- Writing in My Sleep (1994)
- The Death of the Magus: Two Myths (1994)
- Superman (1994)
-
In the Tradition . . . (1994)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: "In the Tradition . . ." (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
- They Fell Like Wheat (1996)
- Foreword (Voyages by Starlight) (1996)
- Introduction (Lot & Lot's Daughter) (1996)
- Growing Up in the Future (1997)
- Author Profile: Michael Swanwick (1997)
- The Hagiography of Saint Dozois (1997)
- A Tale of Two Essays (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)
- Read This Aloud (1999)
- Taken Gently By The Hand: James Morrow's "Arms and the Woman" (1999)
- Introduction (Making History) (2000)
- Paul J. McAuley: Compleat Radical (Introduction to Making History) (2000)
- Futures: Twenty-Three Short-Short Fiction Reviews (2001)
- Sex, Magic, Television: How I Wrote _Stations of the Tide_ (2001)
- Three Tales by Ursula K. Le Guin (2001)
- Letter: Periodic Table of SF (NYRSF, February 2001) (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)
- Introduction: The Comprehending Strangeness of Jeffrey Ford (2002)
- Introduction (Mutiny in Space) (2002)
- Three Names Offered Up to God (2003)
- The View from the Top of the Mountain (2003)
- Six Things I Brought Home from Finland (2003)
- Preface (Another Green World) (2003)
- Introduction (Trujillo and Other Stories) (2004)
- Introduction (Her Smoke Rose Up Forever) (2004)
- Afterword (The Periodic Table of Science Fiction) (2005)
- What Can Be Saved from the Wreckage?: James Branch Cabell in the Twenty-First Century (2007)
- The Wolf in the Labyrinth (2007)
- Obituary: Janet Kagan (2008) with Gardner Dozois and Gregory Frost
- Introduction (The Economy of Light) (2008)
- Introduction (The Best of Michael Swanwick) (2008)
- Hope-in-the-Mist (2009)
- A Lexicon of Lud (2009)
- Space 2001: To the Moon and Beyond (Exhibition at the Bruce Museum of Arts and Sciences, Greenwich, Connectut) (2001) by uncredited
- How to Write "Scientific" Fiction (2006) by Hugo Gernsback
- Singular Interviews: John Crowley (1999) with John Crowley
- Singular Interviews: Tom Purdom (1999) with Tom Purdom
- Gardner Dozois: Interview (2002) with Gardner Dozois