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Michael Swanwick has received the Hugo, Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards for his work. Stations of the Tide was honored with the Nebula Award and was also nominated for the Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Awards. "The Edge of the World," was awarded the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award in 1989. It was also nominated for both the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. "Radio Waves" received the World Fantasy Award in 1996. "The Very Pulse of the Machine" received the Hugo Award in 1999, as did "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" in 2000 and "The Dog said Bow-Wow in 2002."
Swanwick's stories have appeared in Omni, Penthouse, Amazing, Asimov's, High Times, New Dimensions, Starlight, Universe, Full Spectrum, Triquarterly and elsewhere. Many have been reprinted in Best of the Year anthologies, and translated for Japanese, Dutch, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, French and Croatian publications. His books include In the Drift, an Ace Special; Vacuum Flowers; Griffin's Egg; Stations of the Tide; The Iron Dragon's Daughter, a New York Times Notable Book, and Jack Faust; his short fiction has been collected in Gravity's Angels (Tachyon), A Geography of Unknown Lands, Moon Dogs, and Tales of Old Earth, a Tachyon Publications-Frog Ltd. title and 2001 Locus award-winner for best short story collection. His latest novel, The Dragons of Babel, a sequel to The Iron Dragon's Daughter, will be out in January of 2008. Swanwick lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Marianne Porter, and their son, Sean. |
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The Dog Said Bow-Wow
by Michael Swanwick
Other titles by Michael Swanwick
Cigar Box Faust and Other Miniatures
Tales of Old Earth
Gravity's Angels
Michael Swanwick's Field Guide to the Mesozoic Megafauna
The Postmodern Archipelago
Cover design and photograph by Ann Monn
Trade paperback, 336 pp.
Limited edition, A-Z lettered, signed hardcover
Great literature has never been this much fun before. The reigning master of short fiction reinvents science fiction and fantasy in a dazzling new collection unlike anything you've ever read. Time-traveling dinosaurs wreak havoc on a placid Vermont town. An ogre is murdered in a locked room in Faerie. An uncanny bordello proves as dangerous as it is alluring. Language is stolen from the builders of Babel. Those strangely loveable Post-Utopian scoundrels and con men, Darger and Surplus, swindle their way through London, Paris, and Arcadia.
-Publishers Weekly "Witty, smart, challenging, marveling in off-beat invention and beautifully written..." -SF Site, featured review "Every reader with a dollop of humanity will admire Michael Swanwick's rowdy good humor. His towering creativity seems so effortless that it is easily overlooked - so effortless, and so immense. You won't want to put this book down." -Gene Wolfe "By turns funny, clever, mysterious, and possessing hidden depths, the stories in Swanwick's latest collection demonstrate he's at the top of his game. Delightful, thoughtful work, sure to please his readers." -Jeff VanderMeer "For most writers, it's a good day when a story is witty, or has great ideas or characters. Michael Swanwick consistently wins on all three." -Vernor Vinge "Michael Swanwick is one of my all-time favorite short story writers. Sometimes he makes me laugh, sometimes he makes me shudder, sometimes he makes me weep. He always makes me think. And that's just when I am talking to him." -Jane Yolen "In The Dog Said Bow-Wow, a valuable author has taken the disreputable duckling of category fiction and nurtured it into a swan of elegant speculation, as the wick of disciplined fancy draws the reader's inflamed imagination ever downward through the waxen feast. Swan and wick: an essential conjunction yielding wonder, warmth, wit, and many a synergistic epiphany." -James Morrow "Michael Swanwick's stories start soft, sneak close, and punch hard. And nobody else - nobody! - in science fiction has his range." -Nancy Kress "Michael Swanwick's The Dog Said Bow-Wow is an extraordinarily strong collection. His fierce imagination, subtle humor, and genius for implication are evident in each of these stories. From outer space to the land of faerie to all those strange and familiar places in between, he's gathered wonder and brought it back alive." -Jeffrey Ford "...arguably [the] best collection of his stories, populated by tricksters, dinosaurs, gods and explorers, Swanwick takes a variety of old themes and styles and twists them into something fresh and new." -Rain Taxi "Swanwick's graceful prose, prodigious inventiveness and sense of humor are very much in evidence here..." -Tangent "...surpassingly brilliant...storytelling of the highest order" -Locus "Witty, smart, challenging, marveling in off-beat invention and beautifully written..." -SF Site Praise for Michael Swanwick "Toto, I don't think we're on Pern anymore." -Locus "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 "One of contemporary sf's greatest short-story writers." -Interzone "Swanwick's work illustrates the power and potential of contemporary science fiction." -Publishers Weekly "(Swanwick) is an amazingly assured writer, seemingly incapable of writing a sentence that isn't interesting in itself, in addition to the way it moves the sentence forward." -The New York Review of Science Fiction "Michael Swanwick is darkly magnificent. Tales of Old Earth is just one brilliant ride after another, a midnight express with a master at the throttle. Sit back and enjoy." -Jack McDevitt "A classic in his own right." -Analog "What makes Swanwick special is his ability to wring fresh, unexpected consequences from standard sf notions." -Kirkus "Swanwick has emerged as one of the country's most respected authors." -Philadelphia Inquirer "Michael Swanwick is one of the most intellectually astute sf writers of his generation." -Washington Post Book World "Since the publication of his first stories back in 1980, Swanwick has developed a reputation for radically deconstructing the hoariest of old cliches in science fiction and turning them into something bright, shiny, and new." -Locus "Swanwick's prose takes no prisoners." -Time Out "Swanwick is our Prospero." -Terry Bisson |
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