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Science fiction and fantasy's most adept short-story author reinvents some classic themes in an engaging collection that includes three of his Hugo awardwinning 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 Comprising 16 imaginative and mischievous adventures, including the previously unpublished novelette, The Skysailor's Tale, this adroit gathering makes a collection to truly revel in.
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"Surpassingly brilliant ... storytelling of the highest order" Locus "Swanwick's wildly imaginative and beautifully written short stories have been, for several years, one of the primary joys of the field." Karen Joy Fowler, The Washington Post Book World "In addition to their individual quality, the 16 stories in this rollicking collection amply demonstrate Hugo-winner Swanwick's impressive versatility." Publishers Weekly, starred review "[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 story forward." The New York Review of Science Fiction "Swanwick has emerged as one of the country's most respected authors." Philadelphia Enquirer Magazine "What makes Swanwick special is his ability to wring fresh, unexpected consequences from standard [science fiction] notions." Kirkus "One of contemporary [science fiction's] greatest short-story writers." Interzone magazine "Swanwick's graceful prose, prodigious inventiveness and sense of humor are very much in evidence here." tangentonline.com "Witty, smart, challenging, marveling in off-beat invention and beautifully written." SF Site "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
About the Author:
Michael Swanwick is one of the most acclaimed science-fiction and fantasy short-story writers of his generation, having received five consecutive Hugo Awards. He has also won the Theodore Sturgeon and World Fantasy awards. Swanwick's novels include "The Iron Dragon's Daughter," a "New York Times" Notable Book, and the Nebula Award-winning "Stations of the Tide." His short fiction has appeared in many venues, including "OMNI," "Penthouse," "Amazing," "Asimov's Science Fiction," "New Dimensions," and "Full Spectrum," and his work has been translated into more than ten languages.
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- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1892391643
- ISBN 13 9781892391643
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages1
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