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Michael Swanwick (born November 18, 1950) is an American science fiction author. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began publishing in the early 1980s.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Selected Bibliography 2.1 Novels 2.2 Collections 2.3 Short stories 2.4 Essays 3 External links

His published novels are: In the Drift (an Ace Special, 1985); Vacuum Flowers (1987); Stations of the Tide (1991); The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993), a fantasy with elves in Armani suits and dragons as jet fighters; Jack Faust (1997), a retelling of the Faust legend with modern science and technology; and Bones of the Earth (2002), a time-travel story involving dinosaurs.

His short fiction has been collected in Gravity's Angels (1991), Moon Dogs (2000) and Tales of Old Earth (2000). Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures, a collection of short-shorts, was published by Tachyon Publications in 2003. A novella, Griffin's Egg, was published in book form in 1991 and is also collected in Moon Dogs. He has collaborated with other authors on several short works, including Gardner Dozois ("Ancestral Voices", "City of God", "Snow Job") and William Gibson ("Dogfight").

Stations of the Tide won the Nebula for best novel, and several of his shorter works have won awards as well: the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for "The Edge of the World" in 1989, the World Fantasy Award for "Radio Waves" in 1996, and Hugos for "The Very Pulse of the Machine" in 1999, "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" in 2000, "The Dog Said Bow-wow" in 2002, "Slow Life" in 2003, and "Legions in Time" in 2004.

Swanwick has written about the field as well. He published two long essays on the state of the science fiction (The User's Guide to the Postmoderns, 1986) and fantasy ("In the Tradition...", 1994), the former of which was controversial for its categorization of new SF writers into "cyberpunk" and "literary humanist" camps. Both essays were collected together in The Postmodern Archipelago 1997. A book-length interview with Gardner Dozois, Being Gardner Dozois, was published in 2001. A new collection of Swanwick's most recent stories, The Dog Said Bow-Wow has been announced by Tachyon Publications to see print in the fall of 2007.

(a complete bibliography may be found at the author's website)

• In the Drift (1984)
• Vacuum Flowers (1987)
• Stations of the Tide (1991) (Nebula Award winner)
• The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993)
• Jack Faust (1997)
• Bones of the Earth (2002)

• Gravity's Angels (1991)
• A Geography of Unknown Lands (1997)
• Moon Dogs (2000)
• Puck Aleshire's Abecedary (2000)
• Tales of Old Earth (2000)
• Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures (2003)
• Michael Swanwick's Field Guide to the Mesozoic Megafauna (2004)
• The Periodic Table of Science Fiction (2005)

• "The Gods of Mars" (1985) (with Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann)
• "Dogfight" (1985) (with William Gibson)
• "The Edge of the World" (1989)
• "Griffin's Egg" (1991)
• "The Dead" (1996)
• "The Very Pulse of the Machine" (1998) (Hugo Award winner)
• "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" (1999) (Hugo Award winner)
• "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" (2001) (Hugo Award winner)
• "Slow Life" (2002) (Hugo Award winner)
• "Legions in Time" (2003) (Hugo Award winner)
• "Tin Marsh" (2006)

• User's Guide to the Postmoderns, Asimov's, 1986
• The Postmodern Archipelago (1997)

• Michael Swanwick Online (official home page)
• Michael Swanwick at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database