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Discover the vast worlds and pocket universes of Michael Swanwick (Stations of the Tide), the only author...
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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 new tales in which magic and science improbably coexist with myth and legend. [STARRED REVIEW] "All of Swanwick's stories awaken insights into the mystery of being human in an increasingly mind-bending technological world. This is an author at the height of his powers."
--Publishers Weekly 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. With two stories original to this collection, Michael Swanwick aptly demonstrates with poignant humor why he is widely respected as a master of imaginative storytelling.
Author: Michael Swanwick
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Published: 02/03/2026
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 5.52h x 8.49w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9781616964504
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 01/01/2026
Publishers Weekly 10/27/2025
Library Journal 01/01/2026 pg. 41
About the Author
Michael Swanwick is one of the most acclaimed science fiction and fantasy short-story writers of his generation, having received an unprecedented five Hugo Awards in a six year period. He is also the winner of the British Science Fiction and World Fantasy Awards. Swanwick's stories, published in such collections such as Gravity's Angels, Tales of Old Earth, and Not So Much, Said the Cat, have also appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including OMNI, Penthouse, Amazing, Asimov's Science Fiction, New Dimensions. Swanwick's novels include The Iron Dragon's Daughter, a New York Times Notable Book, the Nebula Award-winner Stations of the Tide, the Darger & Surplus series, Dragons of Babel, and City in the Stars. His work has also been translated into more than ten languages. Swanwick lives in Pennsylvania.
--Publishers Weekly 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. With two stories original to this collection, Michael Swanwick aptly demonstrates with poignant humor why he is widely respected as a master of imaginative storytelling.
Author: Michael Swanwick
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Published: 02/03/2026
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 5.52h x 8.49w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9781616964504
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 01/01/2026
Publishers Weekly 10/27/2025
Library Journal 01/01/2026 pg. 41
About the Author
Michael Swanwick is one of the most acclaimed science fiction and fantasy short-story writers of his generation, having received an unprecedented five Hugo Awards in a six year period. He is also the winner of the British Science Fiction and World Fantasy Awards. Swanwick's stories, published in such collections such as Gravity's Angels, Tales of Old Earth, and Not So Much, Said the Cat, have also appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including OMNI, Penthouse, Amazing, Asimov's Science Fiction, New Dimensions. Swanwick's novels include The Iron Dragon's Daughter, a New York Times Notable Book, the Nebula Award-winner Stations of the Tide, the Darger & Surplus series, Dragons of Babel, and City in the Stars. His work has also been translated into more than ten languages. Swanwick lives in Pennsylvania.
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