Michael Swanwick Books In Order

Iron Dragon’s Daughter Books In Publication Order

  1. The Iron Dragon’s Daughter (1993)
  2. The Dragons of Babel (2008)
  3. The Iron Dragon’s Mother (2019)

Darger and Surplus Books In Publication Order

  1. Dancing with Bears (2011)
  2. Chasing the Phoenix (2015)
  3. The Postutopian Adventures of Darger and Surplus (2020)

Mongolian Wizard Books In Publication Order

  1. The Mongolian Wizard (2012)
  2. The Fire Gown (2012)
  3. Day of the Kraken (2012)
  4. House of Dreams (2013)
  5. The Night of the Salamander (2015)
  6. The Pyramid of Krakow (2015)
  7. The Phantom in the Maze (2015)
  8. Murder in the Spook House (2019)
  9. The New Prometheus (2019)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Jack Faust (1971)
  2. In the Drift (1984)
  3. Vacuum Flowers (1987)
  4. Stations of the Tide (1991)
  5. Bones of the Earth (2002)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Griffin’s Egg (1991)
  2. Zeppelin City (2011)
  3. The Trains That Climb the Winter Tree (2011)
  4. The Dala Horse (2016)
  5. Annie Without Crow (2021)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Gravity’s Angels (1991)
  2. Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures (1991)
  3. Tales of Old Earth (1992)
  4. A Geography of Unknown Lands (1997)
  5. Moon Dogs (2000)
  6. Michael Swanwick’s Field Guide to Mesozoic Megafauna (2004)
  7. The Periodic Table of Science Fiction (2005)
  8. The Dog Said Bow-Wow (2007)
  9. The Best of Michael Swanwick (2008)
  10. Not So Much, Said the Cat (2016)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Postmodern Archipelago (1997)
  2. Being Gardner Dozois (2001)
  3. Hope-in-the-Mist (2009)

The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction Anthology Books In Publication Order

  1. The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 (2010)
  2. The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 (2011)
  3. The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 4 (2012)
  4. The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 5 (2013)
  5. The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6 (2014)
  6. The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 7 (2015)
  7. The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 8 (2016)
  8. The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9 (2017)
  9. The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 10 (2018)

The Year’s Best Science Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection (1986)
  2. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection (1994)
  3. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection (1997)

Year’s Best Fantasy Books In Publication Order

  1. Year’s Best Fantasy (2001)
  2. Year’s Best Fantasy (2001)
  3. Year’s Best Fantasy 2 (2002)
  4. Year’s Best Fantasy 3 (2003)
  5. Year’s Best Fantasy 4 (2004)
  6. Year’s Best Fantasy 5 (2005)
  7. Year’s Best Fantasy 6 (2006)
  8. Year’s Best Fantasy 7 (2007)
  9. Year’s Best Fantasy 8 (2008)
  10. Year’s Best Fantasy 9 (2009)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Magicats! (1984)
  2. The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction (1985)
  3. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection (1986)
  4. Terry’s Universe: Science fiction’s finest writers join in honoring the memory of Terry Carr (1987)
  5. The Seventh Omni Book of Science Fiction (1989)
  6. Slow Dancing Through Time (1990)
  7. Starlight 1 (1996)
  8. Modern Classics of Fantasy (1997)
  9. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection (1997)
  10. The Good New Stuff (1999)
  11. Nebula Awards 35 (2001) (2001)
  12. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection (2004)
  13. The Fiction Factory (2005)
  14. Year’s Best SF 11 (2006)
  15. The Best of the Best, Vol 2 (2007)
  16. Unfit for Eden: A Postscripts Anthology 26/27 (2011)
  17. The Sword & Sorcery Anthology (2012)
  18. Rogues (2014)
  19. Far Voyager: A Postcripts Anthology 32/33 (2014)
  20. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September/October 2017 (2017)
  21. Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 38, May 2019 (2019)
  22. The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book (2020)

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Michael Swanwick Books Overview

The Iron Dragon’s Daughter

Jane, a young human changeling, decides to escape servitude in a factory manufacturing enormous flying dragon machines and undertakes to obtain necessary artifacts and a mastery of her abilities. By the author of Stations of the Tide. Reprint. NYT.

The Dragons of Babel

A fantasy masterpiece from a five time Hugo Award winner! A war dragon of Babel crashes in the idyllic fields of a post industrialized Faerie and, dragging himself into the nearest village, declares himself king and makes young Will his lieutenant. Nightly, he crawls inside the young fey’s brain to get a measure of what his subjects think. Forced out of his village, Will travels with female centaur soldiers, witnesses the violent clash of giants, and acquires a surrogate daughter, Esme, who has no knowledge of the past and may be immortal. Evacuated to the Tower of Babel infinitely high, infinitely vulgar, very much like New York City Will meets the confidence trickster Nat Whilk. Inside the Dread Tower, Will becomes a hero to the homeless living in the tunnels under the city, rises as an underling to a politician, and meets his one true love a high elven woman he dare not aspire to. You’ve heard of hard SF: This is hard fantasy from a master of the form.

Jack Faust

Jack Faust is a breathtaking and masterful new spin on Goethe’s story of a scholar who sells his soul to the Devil for the gift of unlimited knowledge. But unlike the classic Mephistopheles, the seductive demon who approaches Swanwick’s Johannes Faust is not the devil as we know him, but rather a representative of a mysterious race that seeks nothing less than the extermination of the hated human animal. And the wisdom this creature offers the disenchanted thinker goes far beyond anything known or imagined in Goethe’s day: the secrets of flight and the cosmos, the principles of economics and engineering, the mysteries of medicine and the atom. And so begins Faust’s transition from madman to savior from Johannes to Jack as he accelerates human progress at blinding speed, setting the mighty gears and pistons of industry in motion to first remake Germany, and then all Europe, in his own image. Ushering in a New Age of Mechanization hundreds of years before its rightful time, he is alternately adored and despised for his accomplishments, as he attempts to elevate humankind from the muck of ignorance, superstition and disease. Yet it is love that damns Jack Faust and, ultimately, humanity as well. For Mephistopheles has revealed to him the beauty and purity of innocence in the person of Margarete Reinhardt, the daughter of a struggling businessman. To win her heart, Faust will give Margarete power and influence in an age when women are powerless and fame in a time when notoriety can be fatal and, in the process, blind his beloved, and himself, to the horrors Faust’s ‘progress’ has wrought. For brutality and greed will always pervert love and genius in a degenerate world a world which now, thanks to Jack Faust, is rapidly sliding into chaos…
or something far worse.

In the Drift

When a meltdown at Three Mile Island creates a death zone known as the Drift, the area becomes a terrible place of eerie skies, body mutilating boneseekers, monsters, and mutants, who fight to escape the island for their own vengeful purposes. Reissue.

Vacuum Flowers

In a world of plug in personalities and colonized asteroids, daring fugitive Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark seeks refuge on Earth orbiting settlements, where evil, self interest, and greed flourish in the vacuum of space. Reissue.

Stations of the Tide

The fiction of Michael Swanwick transports readers through thought and space; into dark, fantastic worlds teeming with awesome creations, characters and ideas. From the critically acclaimed author of Jack Faust comes an award winning vision of cataclysm and transformation; an extraordinary excursion into questionable realms of morality and godhood. The world of Miranda is dying doomed to drown beneath the weight of its own oceans. In the final days before the unavoidable natural disaster, the race is on to locate Gregorian a brilliant renegade scientist and wizard who, with his forbidden technology and charismatic magic, plans to remake the moribund planet in his own image. Gregorian must be found and stopped before the rising Jubilee Tides obliterate his trail and Miranda is inexorably hurtled toward a terrifying confrontation with death and transcendence. Brilliantly realized, suspenseful and compelling, Stations of the Tide is speculative fiction at its provocative best

Bones of the Earth

Paleontologist Richard Leyster has achieved professional nirvana: a position with the Smithsonian Museum plus a groundbreaking dinosaur fossil site he can research, publish on, and learn from for years to come. There is nothing that could lure him away until a disturbingly secretive stranger named Griffin enters Leyster’s office with an ice cooler and a job offer. In the cooler is the head of a freshly killed Stegosaurus. Griffin has been entrusted with an extraordinary gift, an impossible technology on loan to humanity from unknown beings for an undisclosed purpose. Time travel has become a reality millions of years before it rationally could be. With it, Richard Leyster and his colleagues can make their most cherished fantasy come true. They can study the dinosaurs up close, in their own time and milieu. Now, suddenly, individual lives can turn back on themselves. People can meet, shake hands, and converse with their younger versions at various crossroads in time. One wrong word, a single misguided act, could be disastrous to the project and to the world. But Griffin must make sure everything that is supposed to happen does happen no matter who is destined to be hurt…
or die. And then there’s Dr. Gertrude Salley passionate, fearless, and brutally ambitious a genius rebel in the tight community of ‘bone men’ and women. Alternately both Leyster’s and Griffin’s chief rival, trusted colleague, despised nemesis, and inscrutable lover at various junctures throughout time, Salley is relentlessly driven to screw with the working mechanisms of natural law, audaciously trespassing in forbidden areas, pushing paradox to the edge no matter what the consequences may be. And, when they concern the largest, most savage creatures that ever lived, the consequences may be terrifying indeed.

Gravity’s Angels

Aliens who absorb the memories of those they’ve slain, magicians slugging it out in present-day Philadelphia, and Janis Joplin reborn as an obsessed-over saint in a barbarous post-technological U.S: these are a few of the motifs from one of science fiction’s modern masters.

Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures

This collection of short short fiction by Michael Swanwick contains more than 70 stories in fewer than 100 pages. Often humorous, sometimes chilling, always entertaining, these are prime examples of a recently resurrected literary form. The title piece is a five minute condensation of a classic of Western literature, featuring a cigar cutter as Mephistopheles, a box of matches in the roles of Helen of Troy, an Angel of the Lord, the Light of Ontology, and a cigar as Faust himself. Swanwick’s bravura imagination has resulted in a separate story for every letter of the alphabet and another set of tales for every planet in the solar system. Additionally, there is a clutch of alternate autobiographies, a novella of decadence and corporate politics in a future Venice that has been boiled down to 416 words, Picasso and Philip K. Dick as existential heroes, and a rhyme for orange.

Tales of Old Earth

From pure fantasy to hard science fiction, this finely crafted offering by one of the greatest science fiction writers of his generation promises to stretch readers’ minds far beyond ordinary limits. Nineteen tales from Michael Swanwick’s best short fiction of the past decade are gathered here for the first time, including the 1999 Hugo Award nominated ‘Radiant Doors’ and ‘Wild Minds’ and this year’s winning story, ‘The Very Pulse of the Machine.’ The collection also features ‘The Raggle Taggle Gypsy O,’ written especially for this volume.

Moon Dogs

Hardcover, NESFA Press imprint of New England Science Fiction Association, Inc

Michael Swanwick’s Field Guide to Mesozoic Megafauna

This latest collection from renowned science fiction author Michael Swanwick contains 15 short short stories on dinosaur themes. These dinosaurs are steely bureaucrats, genetically engineered Christmas toys, and beloved killer pets, clashing with immoral scientists, neighbourhood bullies, and society ladies with dangerous, sometimes moving, and wickedly funny consequences.

The Dog Said Bow-Wow

Science fiction and fantasy’s most adept short story author reinvents some classic themes in an engaging collection that includes three of his Hugo award winning stories. These smart expansions of traditional themes summon dinosaurs, dragons, peril in space, myths, faeries, and time travel, each undergoing artful alchemy to create serious genre literature that is playful, original, and clever. Comprising 16 imaginative and mischievous adventures, including the previously unpublished novelette, The Skysailor’s Tale, this adroit gathering makes a collection to truly revel in.

The Best of Michael Swanwick

It’s here at last the first comprehensive overview of the extraordinary career of master storyteller Michael Swanwick. Covering over a quarter of a century, from his first two published stories both of them Nebula finalists to his most recent, these works bear witness to one of the most vivid and far ranging imaginations in contemporary fiction. From the hardest of hard science fiction to the purest of core fantasy, from the heartwarming to the despairing, these are works incandescent with literary brilliance. In these pages, Janis Joplin is worshiped as a god, teenagers climb down the edge of the world, zombies are commodified, a vengeful man tracks a wizard across the surface of a planet sized grasshopper, dinosaurs invade Vermont, a train leaves New York City bound for Hell, and those lovable Post Utopian con men, Darger and Surplus, seek their fortunes in Buckingham Labyrinth. Michael Swanwick is one of the most acclaimed and prolific writers of his generation, as well as being the only person ever to win five Hugo Awards for fiction in the space of six years. All five of those stories are included here plus much, much more, all of it beautifully written, critically acclaimed, and deeply satisfying to read.

The Postmodern Archipelago

The publication of Michael Swanwick’s ‘ A User’s Guide to the Post Moderns’ sent angry shockwaves rippling through the science fiction community. Not since the controversy surrounding the advent of the so called New Wave writers of the 1960s and early 1970s had anyone dared to categorize writers. A work that was originally intended as an homage, to illuminate the works of many of the younger writers in the field, was vilified in numerous fanzine articles and convention panels. But Swanwick’s essay was not intended to generate controversy and it remains, beyond the initial conflagration, a thoughtful and insightful look into the science fiction field of the early to mid 1980s. Herein lies the genesis of writers like William Gibson and Kim Stanley Robinson, Bruce Sterling and James Patrick Kelly. ‘A User’s Guide to the Post Moderns,’ is published here for the first time since its initial magazine appearance along with ‘In the Tradition…
‘, Swanwick’s elegant assay on the fantasy genre, and a brand new introduction written specially for this collection. BACK COVER: Reviews of ‘A User’s Guide to the Post Moderns’: Juicy and intelligent, these critical overviews provide a valuable snapshot of our field…
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Some of the writers that he praises may actually believe that they are as important to the field of science fiction as Swanwick says they are. The more they believe that, the more it will hurt when a more accurate perspective is forced upon them. Orson Scott Card A bilious assemblage of self congratulatory twaddle…
jejune mixture of bluster and untried arrogance…
My God, if this is the direction science fiction is going, it is doomed…
.A self conscious piece of snobbery not worth the powder to blow it to Kingdom Come. Like reading a history of Europe written from the point of view of Bulgaria. Swanwick’s article has proved nothing, clarified nothing, accomplished nothing except to get his name before a large number of people where he can spout his conspiracy literary theories in a pseudo journalistic ‘I’m above all this’ manner better served by UFO magazines and the Flat Earth Society newsletter. Praise for ‘In the Tradition…
‘A brave, lonely attempt to stem the tide. Nova Express An incisive essay…
Publisher’s Weekly Thought provoking and informative, the essay is as beautifully penned as any of the works lauded therein. Terri Windling

The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2

An unabridged audio collection of the best of the best science fiction stories published in 2009 by current and emerging masters of the genre, as narrated by top voice talents. In Erosion, by Ian Creasey, A man tests the limits of his exo suit prior to leaving a dying Earth. In As Women Fight, by Sara Genge, a hunter, in a society of body switchers, has no time to train for a fight to inhabit his wife’s body. In A Story, with Beans, by Steven Gould, the role of religion in a dystopian future plagued with metal eating bugs is considered. In Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance, by John Kessel, a monk, in the far future, steals the only copy of a set of plays from a repressive regime and uses this loot to free his people. In On the Human Plan, by Jay Lake, a mysterious alien visits a far future, dying Earth in search of the death of Death. Set in the Jackaroo sequence, Crimes and Glory, by Paul McAuley, a detective chases a thief to recover alien technology that both aliens and humanity are desperate to recover. Set in the Lovecraftian Boojum universe, Mongoose by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear, a vermin hunter and his tentacled assistant come on board a space station to hunt toves and raths. In Before My Last Breath, by Robert Reed, a geologist discovers a strange fossil in a coal mine that leads to the discovery of a peculiar graveyard. In The Island, by Peter Watts, a woman on a spaceship must decide whether to place a stargate near an alien society that will ultimately destroy it. Finally, This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Robert Charles Wilson, is an alternate American Civil War history in which the war was never fought, slavery gradually disappeared, and Uncle Tom s Cabin was never published. More than 9.5 hours on 8 CDs, read by Tom Dheere, Vanessa Hart, and J. P. Linton.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection

Third in series, winner of the 1987 Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology. Contents include Introduction: Summation: 1985, essay by Gardner Dozois; The Jaguar Hunter, by Lucius Shepard nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1985 World Fantasy Award; Dogfight, by Michael Swanwick and William Gibson nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; Fermi and Frost, by Frederik Pohl winner, 1986 Hugo Award; Green Days in Brunei, by Bruce Sterling nominated, 1985 Nebula Award; Snow, by John Crowley nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; The Fringe, by Orson Scott Card nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things, by Karen Joy Fowler; Sailing to Byzantium, by Robert Silverberg winner, 1985 Nebula Award; nominated, 1986 Hugo Award; Solstice, by James Patrick Kelly; Duke Pasquale’s Ring, novella by Avram Davidson; More Than the Sum of His Parts, by Joe Haldeman nominated, 1985 Nebula Award; Out of All Them Bright Stars, by Nancy Kress Winner, 1985 Nebula Award; Side Effects, by Walter Jon Williams; The Only Neat Thing to Do, by James Tiptree, Jr. nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; winner, 1986 Locus Poll Award; Dinner in Audoghast, by Bruce Sterling nominated, 1986 Hugo Award; Under Siege, by George R. R. Martin 1986 Locus Poll Award, 6th Place; Flying Saucer Rock & Roll, by Howard Waldrop nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; A Spanish Lesson, by Lucius Shepard Locus Poll Award, 11th Place; Roadside Rescue, by Pat Cadigan; Paper Dragons, by James P. Blaylock winner, 1986 World Fantasy Award; nominated, 1985 Nebula Award; Magazine Section, by R. A. Lafferty; The War at Home, by Lewis Shiner 1986 Locus Poll Award, 21st Place; Rockabye Baby, by S. C. Sykes nominated, 1985 Nebula Award; Green Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection

Join twenty eight of today’s finest writers for a host of imaginative tours through worlds as fabulous as the farthest galaxy and as strange as life on earth can be. Among the talented story tellers in this volume are: Stephen Baxter, James P. Blaylock, Tony Daniel, Gregory Feeley, Gwyneth Jones, Jonathan Lethem, Robert Reed, Michael Sanwick, Cherry Wilder, Walter Jon Williams, Gene Wolfe, Steven Utley, and many more of tomorrow’s leading imaginations. Gardener Dozois’s summary of the year in science fiction and a long list of honorable mentions round out this volume, making it the one book for anyone who’s interested in SF today.

Year’s Best Fantasy

Tales As Deep As Legend And As New As DawnAcclaimed editor David G. Hartwell has gathered a harvest of shimmering beauty and powerful writing in this inaugural volume of the very best fantasy from the last year. Established masters rub elbows with rising stars in this outstanding collection of short stories rich with imagined lands and finely etched, unforgettable characters. Travel to distant realms and around the block with stories by: Terry Goodkin Nicola GriffithNalo Hopkinson George R.R. Martin Robert Sheckley Michael Swanwick

Year’s Best Fantasy

Tales As Deep As Legend And As New As DawnAcclaimed editor David G. Hartwell has gathered a harvest of shimmering beauty and powerful writing in this inaugural volume of the very best fantasy from the last year. Established masters rub elbows with rising stars in this outstanding collection of short stories rich with imagined lands and finely etched, unforgettable characters. Travel to distant realms and around the block with stories by: Terry Goodkin Nicola GriffithNalo Hopkinson George R.R. Martin Robert Sheckley Michael Swanwick

Year’s Best Fantasy 2

Undreamed Of Wonders FromThe Farthest Reaches Of ImaginationIn this second volume of the previous year’s finest short fantastic fiction, acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell showcases new works by stellar literary artists acknowledged masters of the genre and exceptionally talented newcomers alike. Astonishing worlds come alive in these pages realms of strange creatures and remarkable sorceries, as well as twisted shadow versions of our inhabited earthly plain. A bold and breathtaking compendium of tales including a new Earthsea story from the incomparable Ursula K. Le Guin Years’s Best Fantasy 2 is the state of the art of a unique and winning genre, offering unforgettable excursions into new realities wondrous, bizarre, enchanting…
and terrifying.

Year’s Best Fantasy 3

The door to fantastic worlds, skewed realities, and breathtaking other realms is opened wide to you once more in this third anthology of the finest short fantasy fiction to emerge over the past year, compiled by acclaimed editor David G. Hartwell. Rarely has a more magnificent collection of tales been contained between book covers phenomenal visions of the impossible made possible by some of the field’s most accomplished literary artists and stellar talents on the rise. Year’s Best Fantasy 3 is a heady brew of magic and wonder, strange journeys and epic quests, boldly concocted by the likes of Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Swanwick, Tanith Lee, and others. Step into a dimension beyond the limits of ordinary imagination…
and be amazed!.

Year’s Best Fantasy 4

There is magic in our world…
and in others. The fertile imagination can cultivate wondrous things, aided by ancient myths and memory, enduring childhood dreams and desires, and the power of cultural archetypes. Once again, award winning editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer reap a magnificent crop of superior fantasy short fiction the finest to blossom over the past twelve months. A cornucopia of remarkable tales from some of the field 146;s most acclaimed artists Neil Gaiman, Octavia Butler, Tanith Lee, and Michael Swanwick, to name but a few as well as stunning new works from emerging young talents, Year’s Best Fantasy 4 is a collection as magical as its illustrious predecessors, a feast for every true connoisseur of fantastic literature.

Year’s Best Fantasy 5

Magic lives in remarkable realms and in the short fiction of today’s top fantasists. In this fifth breathtaking volume of the year’s best flights of the fantastic, award winning editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer present a dazzling new array of wonders stories that break through the time honored conventions of the genre to carry the reader to astonishing places that only the most ingenious minds could conceive. In the able hands of Neil Gaiman, Kage Baker, Tim Powers, and others, miracles become tangible and true, impossible creatures roam unfettered, and fairy tales are reshaped, sharpened, and freed from the restrictive bonds of childhood. Lose yourself in these pages and in these worlds and discover the power, the beauty, the unparalleled enchantment of fantasy at its finest.

Year’s Best Fantasy 6

Continuing to showcase the most compelling new genre fiction, this annual compendium presents an impressive lineup of bestselling authors and rising stars of fantasy. Fantasy fiction continues to attract talented authors and dedicated readers, and this intriguing sampler features the best new tales. Whether learning garden magic, battling trolls, or discovering one’s relative mortality, these wondrous stories tell of epic heroes and ordinary people performing feats of glory, honor, and occasional ridiculousness. This year’s contributors include Timothy J. Anderson, Laird Barron, Deborah Coates, Candas Jane Dorsey, Esther Friesner, Neil Gaiman, Gavin J. Grant, Ann Harris, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Claude Lalumiere, Yoon Ha Lee, Kelly Link, Garth Nix, Tim Pratt, Patrick Samphire, Heather Shaw, Delia Sherman, Bruce Sterling, Jonathan Sullivan, Greg Van Eekhout, Jeff Vandermeer, Liz Williams, Connie Willis, and Gene Wolfe.

Year’s Best Fantasy 7

As with its predecessors in the series, the seventh installment of this annual anthology showcases bestselling authors and rising stars of fantasy fiction. This volume is a compendium of the essential fantasy stories of 2006, a year of particularly outstanding and original offerings. Representing the breadth of talent in the fantasy genre, this year’s contributors include breakthrough talent Charles Stross, revered authors Peter S. Beagle and Gene Wolfe, and exciting newcomers Laird Barron and Martha Wells.

Year’s Best Fantasy 8

Continuing to showcase the most compelling new fiction of the genre, the anticipated eighth installment to this annual compendium presents an impressive lineup of bestselling authors and rising stars of fantasy. Collecting the essential fantasy stories of 2007, this engaging volume will excite fans and serve as a reference guide for those looking to sample the top writers in the genre. This year’s contributors include international bestseller Neil Gaiman, influential heroic fantasy writer Michael Moorcock, historical fantasy novelist Kage Baker, classic genre wordsmiths Garth Nix and Tad Williams, and many others.

Year’s Best Fantasy 9

Twenty eight doses of wonder. From the distant past to the present day, from Antarctica and Mars to worlds that never were, the tales in this book bring news from nowhere and everywhere. Fantasy is a mode of storytelling, a method of entertainment, a mode of argument, and a way of seeing. Here, presented by two of the most distinguished anthologists of the day, are twenty eight stories that see, tell, argue, and entertain.

Starlight 1

Gathers original stories that explore the excitement, invention, and sense of play that were once an integral part of science fiction.

Modern Classics of Fantasy

This wonderful collection celebrates fantasy’s heydey with 33 masterpieces of short fiction, ranging from 1940s stories by L. Sprague de Camp, H. L. Gold, Fritz Leiber, and Manly Wade Wellman to more recent tales by such towering modern talents as Peter S. Beagle, Terry Bisson, James P. Blaylock, Suzy McKee Charnas, John Crowley, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lucius Shepard, Michael Swanwick, JaneYolen, and Roger Zelazny. Just as Gardner Dozois’s anthology Modern Classics of Science Fiction SMP, 1992 has helped new generations of readers and old fans discover the genre’s finest short stories, so too shall this volume allow readers to find in one volume more than two dozen masterworks of fantasy.

The Good New Stuff

Once the mainstay of science fiction, adventure stories fell out of favor during the 1960s and early 1970s. But in recent years, science fiction writers have spun out galaxy spanning adventures as imaginative and wonderful as any of yesteryear’s tales. Renowned editor Gardner Dozois assembles seventeen such escapades here, with stories from today’s and tomorrow’s finest writers, including:Stephen Baxter, Tony Daniel, R. Garcia y Robertson, Peter F. Hamilton, Janet Kagan, George R. R. Martin, Paul J. McAuley, Maureen F. McHugh. G. David Nordley, Robert Reed, Mary Rosenblum, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick, George Turner, John Varley, Vernor Vinge, Walter Jon WilliamsThese stories brim with the exciting thrills our universe offers us alien landscapes, unimagined realms, life unlike any we have known before, and that mysterious realm known as the human soul. The Good New Stuff shows that they really do still write ’em like that!

Nebula Awards 35 (2001)

Edited by the widely acclaimed SF author Robert Silverberg, the Nebula Awards series is ‘the pulse of modern science fiction’ The New York Times Book ReviewThe Nebula Awards are the Academy Awards of science fiction, the finest works each year in the genre as voted by the members of SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The Nebula Awards anthology series has now reached its thirty fifth year. This edition contains the complete award winning texts by Ted Chiang, Mary A. Turzillo, Leslie What, and Octavia E. Butler an excerpt from her novel The Parable of the Talents; a report on the field ‘still inarguably dynamic’ by Gary K. Wolfe; runner up stories by David Marusek and Michael Swanwick; an early story by 2000 Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss; and 2000 Author Emeritus Daniel Keyes’s account of how he wrote Flowers for Algernon. In his introduction, editor Robert Silverberg looks back wryly at Damon Knight, the beginnings of SFWA, and the first Nebula banquets.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection

Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, The Year’s Best Science Fiction Winner of the 2003 Locus Award for Best Anthology continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen stories representing the previous year’s best science fiction writing. This year’s volume includes Nancy Kress, Walter Jon Williams, Michael Swanwick, Charles Stross, Gregory Benford, Vernor Vinge, Robert Reed, Octavia E. Butler, Stephen Baxler, Alex Irvine, and many other talented authors of science fiction, as well as thorough summations of the year and a recommended reading list.

The Fiction Factory

First dates with Jesus, dinosaurs falling out of the sky, and a famous painting that eats art critics are among the quirky stories found in this collaborative collection. Each piece was written by Jack Dunn and one or more coauthors, and the joint creations are 18 highly entertaining and cutting edge genre stories, many of them award winning or award nominated. Employees are drafted by corporations in the Nebula Award nominated story ‘High Steel,’ and the first manned landing on Mars is imagined in ‘The God of Mars,’ just two examples of the futuristic flavor of the collection. Short, clever essays by the coauthors, among them Susan Casper, Gardner Dozois, and Gregory Frost, introduce each story and provide insight into the friendships, conflicts, and story conferences involved in collaborative writing.

Year’s Best SF 11

This is the best short form science fiction of 2005, selected by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, two of the most respected editors in the field. The short story is one of the most vibrant and exciting areas in science fiction today. It is where the hot new authors emerge and where the beloved giants of the field continue to publish. Now, building on the success of the first nine volumes, Eos will once again present a collection of the best stories of the year in mass market. Here, selected and compiled by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, two of the most respected editors in the field, are stories with visions of tomorrow and yesterday, of the strange and the familiar, of the unknown and the unknowable. With stories from an all star team of science fiction authors, ‘Year’s Best SF 11‘ is an indispensable guide for every science fiction fan.

The Best of the Best, Vol 2

For more than twenty years The Year’s Best Science Fiction has been recognized as the best collection of short science fiction writing in the universe and an essential resource for every science fiction fan. In 2005 the original Best of the Best collected the finest short stories from that series and became a benchmark in the SF field. Now, for the first time ever, Hugo Award winning editor Gardner Dozios sifts through hundreds of stories and dozens of authors who have gone on to become some of the most esteemed practitioners of the form, to bring readers the ultimate anthology of short science fiction novels from his legendary series. Included are such notable short novels as: Sailing to Byzantium by Robert SilverbergIn the fiftieth century, people of Earth are able to create entire cities on a whim, including those of mythology and legend. When twentieth century traveler Charles Philip accidentally lands in this aberrant time period, he is simultaneously obsessed with discovering more about this alluring world and getting back home. But in a world made entirely of man’s creation, things are not always as they seem on the surface. Forgiveness Day by Ursula K. Le GuinLe Guin returns to her Hainish settled interstellar community, the Edumen, to tell the tale of two star crossed lovers who are literally worlds apart in this story of politics, violence, religion, and cultural disparity. Turquoise Days by Alastair ReynoldsOn a sea wold planet covered with idyllic tropical oceans, peace seems pervasive. Beneath the placid water lurks an ominous force that has the potential to destroy all tranquility. Contributors include: Greg Egan; Joe Haldeman; James Patrick Kelly; Nancy Kress; Ursula K. Le Guin; Ian R. MacLeod; Ian McDonald; Maureen F. McHugh; Frederick Pohl; Alastair Reynolds; Robert Silverberg; Michael Swanwick; Walter Jon Williams With work spanning two decades, The Best of the Best, Volume 2 stands as the ultimate anthology of short science fiction novels ever published in the world.

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