Michael Swanwick

A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy ISSUE 61, March 2023 Lezli Robyn, EditorLauren Rudin, Assistant EditorZ.T. Bright, Slush ReaderAlicia Cay, CopyeditorShahid Mahmud, Publisher Thomas K. Carpenter, Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann, Michael Swanwick, Daniel J. Davis, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Laurence Raphael Brothers, Mike Resnick, Alan Smale, Krystal Claxton, Howard Waldrop, David GerroldJean Marie Ward Interviews Ursula Vernon (aka T. Kingfisher) Columns by: L. Penelope, Alan Smale Recommended Books: Richard Chwedyk Galaxy's Edge is a bi-monthly 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 stories, a serialization of a novel, columns by L. Penelope, Alan Smale and Gregory Benford, and book recommendations by Richard Chwydyk.

Discover the vast worlds and pocket universes of Michael Swanwick (Stations of the Tide), the only author to win science fiction's most prestigious award five times in six years. In his dazzling new collection, the master of speculative short stories returns with tales in which magic and science improbably coexist with myth and legend. With two stories original to this collection, Swanwick aptly demonstrates with poignant humor why he is widely respected as a master of imaginative storytelling. "Swanwick's wildly imaginative and beautifully written short stories have been, for several years, one of the primary joys of the field."--Washington Post Book World In engaging stories, Mischling the thief races through time to defeat three trolls before the sun rises for the first time and turns the inhabitants of her city into stone. A scientist is on the run from assassins, because her research in merging human intelligence with sentient AI is too dangerous. An aging veteran obtains a military weapon from his past: a VR robotic leopard in which he rediscovers the consequences of the hunt. In the biggest heist in the history of the universe, a loser Trickster (and the girlfriend who is better than he deserves) sets out to violate every trope and expectation of fiction possible. Table of ContentsStarlight ExpressThe Last Days of Old NightThe Year of the Three MonarchsGhost ShipsThe White LeopardDragon SlayerThe Warm EquationsRequiem for a White RabbitDreadnaughtGrandmother DimetrodonThe Star-BearNirvana or BustThe Beast of TaraReservoir IceArtificial PeopleHuginn and Muninn and What Came AfterCloudThe New PrometheusTimothy: An Oral HistoryAnnie Without CrowUniverse Box

Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. From author Michael Swanwick--one of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fiction--comes the Nebula award-winning masterwork of radically altered realities and world-shattering seductions. The "Jubilee Tides" will drown the continents of the planet Miranda beneath the weight of her own oceans. But as the once-in-two-centuries cataclysm approaches, an even greater catastrophe threatens this dark and dangerous planet of tale-spinners, conjurers, and shapechangers. A man from the Bureau of Proscribed Technologies has been sent to investigate. For Gregorian has come, a genius renegade scientist and charismatic bush wizard. With magic and forbidden technology, he plans to remake the rotting dying world in his own evil image-and to force whom or whatever remains on its diminishing surface toward a terrifying, astonishing confrontation with death and transcendence. This novel of surreal hard SF was widely compared to the fiction of Gene Wolfe when it was first published, and Swanwick has gone on in the two decades since its first publication to become recognized as one of the finest living SF and fantasy writers. With a new introduction by John Clute, author of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy

A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy ISSUE 58, September 2022 Lezli Robyn, EditorLauren Rudin, Assistant EditorZ.T. Bright, Slush ReaderTaylor Morris, CopyeditorShahid Mahmud, Publisher Stories by Soumya Sundar Mukherjee, Xan van Rooyen, Angela Slatter, Toshiya Kamei, Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann, Michael Swanwick, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Mike Resnick, Liu YanzengJean Marie Ward Interviews Mary Robinette KowalSerialization: Act One by Nancy Kress Columns by: L. Penelope, Alan Smale Recommended Books: Richard Chwedyk Galaxy's Edge is a bi-monthly 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 stories, a serialization of a novel, columns by L. Penelope, Alan Smale and Gregory Benford, and book recommendations by Richard Chwydyk.

A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy ISSUE 48: January 2021Lezli Robyn, EditorMartin Shoemaker, Assistant EditorTaylor Morris, CopyeditorShahid Mahmud, PublisherStories by Kai Wolden, Michael Swanwick, Elise Stephens. Sean Patrick Hazlett, Nancy Kress, Dantzel CherrySerialization: Over the Wine Dark Sea by Harry TurtledoveColumns by: Gregory Benford, L. PenelopeRecommended Books: Richard ChwedykGalaxy's Edge is a bi-monthly 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 stories, a serialization of a novel, columns by L. Penelope and Gregory Benford, and book recommendations by Richard Chwydyk.

A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy ISSUE 47: November 2020Lezli Robyn, EditorMartin Shoemaker, Assistant EditorTaylor Morris, CopyeditorShahid Mahmud, PublisherStories by: Andrea Stewart, Nancy Kress, Michael Swanwick, J. Scott Coatsworth, Mike Resnick & Jean-Claude Dunyach, Barb Galler-Smith, Joe Haldeman, Dantzel Cherry, by John Haas, Jack McDevitt, Larry HodgesSerialization: Midnight at the Well of Souls by Jack L. ChalkerColumns by: Gregory Benford, L. PenelopeRecommended Books: Richard ChwedykGalaxy's Edge is a bi-monthly 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 stories, a serialization of a novel, columns by L. Penelope and Gregory Benford, and book recommendations by Richard Chwydyk.

City Under the Stars completes a journey undertaken by Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick 25 years ago, when they published the novella The City of God. Over two decades later, the two realized there was more to the story, and began the work of expanding it. Now, after Gardner Dozois' tragic passing, the story can be told in full.God was in his Heaven--which was fifteen miles away, due east.Far in Earth's future, in a post-utopian hell-hole, Hanson works ten solid back-breaking hours a day, shoveling endless mountains of coal, within sight of the iridescent wall that separates what's left of humanity from their gods. One day, after a tragedy of his own making, Hanson leaves the city, not knowing what he will do, or how he will survive in the wilderness without work. He finds himself drawn to the wall, to the elusive promise of God. And when the impossible happens, he steps through, into the city beyond. The impossible was only the beginning.

There is no light without dark; no highlights without shadows; no good without evil. The Devil is where things happen. Where stories begin. This collection brings together stories from multiple cultures, featuring the Devil both as an abstract concept and a creature, a terror, a force of nature, an enemy, a trickster, and so many more.Step into the world of shadows, and travel through Devil's many incarnations spanning centuries of history and myth, from the Ancient Greece, African and Caribbean folklore, dark ages in Europe, all the way to the present day.This anthology features new and established authors from diverse, multicultural backgrounds.

A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST AND KIRKUS BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF 2019 Award-winning author Michael Swanwick returns to the gritty, post-industrial faerie world of his New York Times Notable Book The Iron Dragon's Daughter with the standalone adventure fantasy The Iron Dragon's Mother. Caitlin of House Sans Merci is the young half-human pilot of a sentient mechanical dragon. Returning from her first soul-stealing raid, she discovers an unwanted hitchhiker. When Caitlin is framed for the murder of her brother, to save herself she must disappear into Industrialized Faerie, looking for the one person who can clear her. Unfortunately, the stakes are higher than she knows. Her deeds will change her world forever.

If you wanted to know how one of the best editors and writers thinks, who would you want to know about? Gardner Dozois Gardner has won more Hugo awards for editing than anyone, for his incredible work with Asimove's Science Fiction Magazine-where stories he selected and edited won tons more awards. He's won awards for his own writing as well, and has created a huge number of anthologies, including the reknowned "Year's Best Science Fiction" series. There's no better choice than getting insights into a mind like that. BEING GARDNER DOZOIS is an in-depth look at what makes him tick; a facinating interview with his friend (and notable SF author) Michael Swanwick, that describes Gardner's thoughts on writing, his obsessions, collaborations, and his influence in the world of Fantasy and Science Fiction. A must for anyone who wants to get published (or get published more... or win awards... or win more awards), or anyone who loves the science fiction field.

"A tough, keen-edged blade of a story ... powerful and moving " -- Roger Zelazny "This episodic tale of life, war, and survival in post-meltdown Pennsylvania builds a potent new myth from the grim reality of radioactive waste. Swanwick's clean, strong prose makes the story compulsively readable." -- George R. R. Martin "A vivid, fast-paced and evocative story by one of science fiction's best new writers. A generation-spanning saga of the fight for power and survival in a chillingly possible alternate future America ... one which could still yet come to pass, tomorrow or today." -- Gardner Dozois In this dystopic world, radiation from the 1979 Three Mile Island accident has contaminated all of central Pennsylvania. A century after the disaster, the fallout zone -- known as the Drift -- harbors two-headed monsters, mutated vampires, and other outcasts. In the Drift chronicles the struggles of those on both sides of the divide as they fight to survive and transcend their shattered world.