Authors: Michael Swanwick, Bruce Sterling
ISBN-13: 9781583940563, ISBN-10: 1583940561
Format: Paperback
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Date Published: December 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Michael Swanwick has received the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards for his work. His books include In the Drift, Vacuum Flowers, Griffin's Egg, Stations of the Tide, The Iron Dragon's Wife, Gravity's Angels, and A Geography of Unknown Islands. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Marianne Porter, and their son, Sean.
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.
Foreword: A User's Guide to Michael Swanwick | ||
The Very Pulse of the Machine | 1 | |
The Dead | 22 | |
Scherzo with Tyrannosaur | 35 | |
Ancient Engines | 49 | |
North of Diddy-Wah-Diddy | 58 | |
The Mask | 80 | |
Mother Grasshopper | 86 | |
Riding the Giganotosaur | 105 | |
Wild Minds | 126 | |
The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O | 137 | |
Microcosmic Dog | 154 | |
In Concert | 166 | |
Radiant Doors | 179 | |
Ice Age | 197 | |
Walking Out | 207 | |
The Changeling's Tale | 218 | |
Midnight Express | 236 | |
The Wisdom of Old Earth | 244 | |
Radio Waves | 255 |