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Michael Swanwick

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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, 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.

He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Marianne Porter, and their son, Sean.

Comments by Michael Swanwick:

My father was an engineer, and in the normal course of things, I probably would have become one as well. But I was lured away from the engineering by science, and then lured away from science by literature. Science fiction allows me to keep faith with my past as well as my future. The works themselves range from hard science fiction to stone fantasy, with stops at all stations in between, and are written at whatever length is best. There is much about them that seems obvious to me, much that cuts close to the bone. But I'm neither a confessional writer nor a ventriloquist. Stories must speak for themselves or not at all.
Michael Swanwick's
Field Guide to the
Mesozoic Megafauna
by Michael Swanwick

Also by Michael Swanwick:

The Dog Said Bow-Wow
Cigar Box Faust and Other Miniatures
Tales of Old Earth
Gravity's Angels
The Postmodern Archipelago

Cover and interior illustrations by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law
Cover design by Eleanor Farrell


This latest collection from Michael Swanwick contains eighteen highly entertaining short-short stories on dinosaur themes. These dinosaurs are steely bureaucrats, genetically-engineered Christmas toys, and beloved killer pets, clashing with immoral scientists, neighborhood bullies and society ladies - with dangerous, sometimes moving, and wickedly funny consequences. Michael Crichton's dinosaurs were never quite like this. As one canny old predator remarks: "Herbivores! You gotta love 'em. They fall for the old theropod-in-a-rubber-tenontosaur-suit trick every time."

In this companion volume to Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures, Swanwick continues to delight readers with his mastery of the short-short story, aka microfiction. A collection certain to charm anyone who is or ever wanted to be a paleontologist - and to convince them that pursuing alternative careers is probably wise. Featuring the British Science Fiction Association Award-nominated "Five British Dinosaurs."

Swanwick has written a short-short story for each of the 13 dinosaurs from the Mesozoic era ... The stories are very funny, often ironic, and well worth the very brief time they take to read. Highlights include "The Thief of Time," which ironically plays with the different meanings of the egg-stealing Eoraptor, the hilarious "A Matter of Size,"which gives an unexpected look at how the Giantosaurus of South America may have regarded its North American cousins, "Three Conversations," which gives a sting-in-the-tale ending to a short adventure in kite-flying, "Pocket Brontosaurs," where Swanwick shows that Michael Crichton and Steven Speilberg may have missed the real commercial appeal of bringing dinosaurs back to life, and the darly funny "Herbivores," which you should read for yourself. All are worth seeking out....
-Locus 		 

Chapbook
ISBN 1892391139
$8.95

 

 

 

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