Michael Swanwick Bibliography

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Novels | Collections | Short Fiction | Non-Fiction (Selected)

Bones of the Earth,
NY: Eos Books, 2002.
Griffin's Egg,
London: Century Legend, 1991;
NY: St. Martin's Press, 1992.
Collected in: Moon Dogs
In The Drift,
NY: Ace Books, 1985,
London: Century Legend, 1989.
The Iron Dragon's Daughter,
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993;
London: Millenium, 1993;
NY: Morrow, 1994;
NY: Avonova, 1995.
Jack Faust,
NY: Avon Books, 1997;
London: Millenium, 1997, 1998.
Stations Of The Tide,
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1991;
NY: William Morrow and Company, 1991;
NY: Avon Books, 1992,
London: Century Legend, 1992.
Vacuum Flowers,
NY: Arbor House, 1987;
NY: Ace Books, 1988;
London: Simon & Schuster, Ltd., 1988;
London: Legend, 1989.

Novels | Collections | Short Fiction | Non-Fiction (Selected)

Cigar-Box Faust, San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, 2001.
Contains:
"Cigar-Box Faust",
"Writing In My Sleep",
"An Abecedary of the Imagination",
"Eight Takes On Kindred Themes",
"Picasso Deconstructed: Eleven Still-Lifes",
"Brief Essays",
"Archaic Planets",
"The Mask" (shorter version), and
"The Madness of Gordon Van Gelder".
A Geography Of Unknown Lands, Lemoyne, PA: Tiger Eyes Press, 1997.
Contains:
"The Wireless Folly",
"Mother Grasshopper",
"North of Diddy-Wah-Diddy",
"The Edge of the World",
"Radio Waves",
"The Changeling’s Tale".
Gravity's Angels, Sauk City: Arkham House, 1991;
Berkeley: Frog Ltd., 2001.
Contains:
"A Midwinter’s Tale",
"The Feast of St. Janis",
"The Blind Minotaur",
"The Transmigration of Philip K",
"Covenant of Souls",
"The Dragon Line",
"Mummer Kiss",
"Trojan Horse",
"Snow Angels",
"The Man Who Met Picasso",
"Foresight",
"Ginungagap",
"The Edge of the World".
Moon Dogs, Ann A. Broomhead and Timothy P. Szczesuil, eds., Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2000.
Contains:
"Author Profile",
"Moon Dogs",
"The Death of the Magus: Two Myths",
"Mickelrede",
"Vergil Magus: King Without Country",
"Jane Swanwick and the Search for Identity",
"The Hagiography of Saint Dozois",
"Ancestral Voices",
"The City of God",
"The Dead" (dramatic version),
"They Fell Like Wheat",
"A User’s Guide To the Postmoderns",
"Ships",
"In the Tradition",
"Growing Up in the Future", and
Griffin’s Egg.
Puck Aleshire's Abecedary, Pleasantville, NY: Dragon Press, 2000.
Contains:
"Puck Aleshire’s Abecedary"
Tales Of Old Earth, Berkley, CA: Frog Ltd., 2000.
Contains:
"The Very Pulse of the Machine",
"The Dead",
"Scherzo With Tyrannosaur",
"Ancient Engines",
"North of Diddy-Wah-Diddy",
"The Mask",
"Mother Grasshopper",
"Riding the Giganotosaur",
"Wild Minds",
"The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O",
"Microcosmic Dog",
"In Concert",
"Radiant Doors",
"Ice Age",
"Walking Out",
"The Changeling’s Tale",
"Midnight Express",
"The Wisdom of Old Earth",
"Radio Waves".

Novels | Collections | Short Fiction | Non-Fiction (Selected)

"An Abecedary of the Imagination",
Disclave 1996 Program Book.
Collected in: Cigar-Box Faust
"Afternoon at Schrafft's", (collaboration with Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois),
Amazing, Vol. 57: No. 6, March, 1984.
Collected in: Gardner Dozois et al., Slow Dancing Through Time, Kansas City: Ursus Imprints, 1990.
"Ancestral Voices", (with Gardner Dozois),
Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol 22: No 8, August, 1998.
Collected in: Moon Dogs
"Ancient Engines",
Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 23: No. 2, September, 1999.
Collected in: Tales Of Old Earth
Reprinted in: Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, eds., Beyond Flesh, NY: Ace Books, 2002.
"Anyone Here from Utah?",
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Vol 9: No. 5, May, 1985.
Reprinted in: George H. Scithers and Darrell Schweitzer, eds., Another Round at the Spaceport Bar, NY: Avon Books, 1989.
"Archaic Planets: Nine Excerpts from the Encyclopedia Galactica", (with Sean Swanwick),
Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 22:No. 12, December, 1998.
Collected in: Cigar-Box Faust
"The Blind Minotaur",
Amazing, Vol. 58: No. 6, March,1985.
Collected in: Gravity’s Angels
Reprinted in: Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, eds., Bestiary!, NY: Ace, 1985.
Gardner Dozois, ed., The Good New Stuff, NY: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999.
"The Changeling's Tale",
Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 18: No. 1, January, 1994.
Collected in: A Geography Of Unknown Lands and Tales Of Old Earth
"Cigar-Box Faust".
Collected (and first published) in: Cigar-Box Faust
"The City of God", (with Gardner Dozois),
Omni Online, 1995.
Collected in: Moon Dogs
"Cold Iron",
Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 17: Nos. 12 & 13, November, 1993.
Incorporated into: The Iron Dragon’s Daughter
"Covenant of Souls",
Omni, December, 1986.
Collected in: Gravity’s Angels
"The Dead",
Starlight, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, ed., New York: Tor, 1996; trade pb Tor, 1996.
Collected in: Tales Of Old Earth and (dramatic version) Moon Dogs
"Dogfight", (collaboration with William Gibson),
Omni, Vol. 7: No. 10, July, 1985.
Collected in: William Gibson, Burning Chrome,
NY: Arbor House, 1986;
NY: Ace Books, 1987;
London: Gollancz, 1986.
"The Dragon Line",
Terry’s Universe, Beth Meacham,ed., NY: Tor, 1988;
NY: Tor, 1989.
Collected in: Gravity’s Angels
"The Edge of the World",
Lou Aronica, Shawna McCarthy, Amy Stout & Patrick LoBrutto, eds., Full Spectrum 2, NY: Doubleday, 1989.
Collected in: Gravity’s Angels and A Geography Of Unknown Lands
"Fantasies", (collaboration with Tim Sullivan),
Amazing Stories, Vol. 66: No. 4, August, 1991.
"The Feast of Saint Janis",
Robert Silverberg, ed., New Dimensions 11, NY: Pocket Books, 1980.
Collected in: Gravity’s Angels
"Foresight",
Interzone, No. 20, Summer 1987.
Collected in: Gravity’s Angels
"Ginungagap",
Triquarterly 49, 1980.
Collected in: Gravity’s Angels
"The Gods of Mars", (collaboration with Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois),
Omni, Vol. 7: No. 6, March, 1985.
Collected in: Gardner Dozois et al., Slow Dancing Through Time, Kansas City: Ursus Imprints, 1990.
"Golden Apples of the Sun", see "Virgin Territory".
"Green Fire", (collaboration with Eileen Gunn, Andy Duncan, and Pat Murphy),
Event Horizon, 1999.
Revised version: Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 24, No. 4, April, 2000.
"Ice Age",
Amazing, Vol. 57: No. 5, January, 1984.
Collected in: Tales Of Old Earth
"In Concert",
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Vol. 16: No. 10, September, 1992.
Collected in: Tales Of Old Earth
"Inconsequence and Moonlight".
Unpublished.
"The Man Who Met Picasso",
Omni, Vol. 4: No. 12, September, 1982.
Collected in: Gravity’s Angels
"Marrow Death",
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Vol. 8: No. 13, Mid-December, 1984.
Incorporated into: In The Drift
"The Madness of Gordon Van Gelder",
Fantasy And Science Fiction, Vol. 98: No. 3, March, 2000.
Collected in: Cigar-Box Faust
"The Mask", short-short story.
Collected in: Cigar-Box Faust
"The Mask" (longer version),
Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 18: Nos. 4 & 5, April, 1994.
Collected in: Tales Of Old Earth
"Mickelrede, or, The Slayer and the Staff", (posthumous collaboration with Avram Davidson).
Collected (and first published) in: Moon Dogs
"Microcosmic Dog",
Science Fiction Age, Vol. 7: No. 1, November, 1998.
Collected in: Tales Of Old Earth
"Midnight Express",
Sirens And Other Daemon Lovers, Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling, eds., NY: HarperPrism, 1998.
Collected in: Tales Of Old Earth
"A Midwinter's Tale",
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Vol. 12: No. 12, December, 1988.
Collected in: Gravity’s Angels
"Moon Dogs".
Collected (and first published) in: Moon Dogs
"Mother Grasshopper".
Collected (and first published) in: A Geography Of Unknown Lands and Tales Of Old Earth
"Mummer Kiss",
Terry Carr, ed., Universe 11, NY: Doubleday, 1981;
Zebra, 1981.
Collected in: Gravity’s Angels; and incorporated into: In The Drift
"North of Diddy-Wah-Diddy",
Gardner Dozois, ed., Killing Me Softly, NY: HarperPrism, 1995.
Collected in: A Geography Of Unknown Lands and Tales Of Old Earth
"The Overcoat",
Omni, Vol. 10: No. 7, May, 1988.
"Picasso Deconstructed: Eleven Still-Lifes",
Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 17: No. 6, May, 1993.
Collected in: Cigar-Box Faust
"Puck Aleshire’s Abecedary", twenty-six short-short stories,
The New York Review Of Science Fiction, November 1997 - December 1999.
"Radiant Doors",
Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol 22: No 9, September, 1998.
Collected in: Tales Of Old Earth
"Radio Waves",
Omni, Vol. 17: No. 9, Winter 1995.
Collected in: A Geography Of Unknown Lands and Tales Of Old Earth
"The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O".
Collected (and first published) in: Tales Of Old Earth
"Riding the Giganotosaur",
Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 23, No. 10, October/November, 1999.
Collected in: Tales Of Old Earth
"Scherzo With Tyrannosaur",
Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 23, No. 7, July, 1999.
Collected in: Tales Of Old Earth
"Ships", (collaboration with Jack Dann),
Ellen Datlow, ed., Poisoned Kisses, London: Millenium, 1996.
Collected in: Moon Dogs
"Snow Angels",
Omni, Vol. 11: No. 6, March, 1989.
Collected in: Gravity’s Angels
"Snow Job", (collaboration with Gardner Dozois),
High Times, No. 80, April, 1982.
Collected in: Gardner Dozois et al., Slow Dancing Through Time, Kansas City: Ursus Imprints, 1990.
"'Til Human Voices Wake Us",
Richard S. McEnroe, ed., Proteus: Voices For The 80s, NY: Ace, 1981.
"Touring", (collaboration with Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois),
Penthouse, Vol. 12: No. 8, April, 1981.
Collected in: Gardner Dozois et al., Slow Dancing Through Time, Kansas City: Ursus Imprints, 1990.
"The Transmigration of Philip K",
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Vol. 9: No. 2, February, 1985.
Collected in: Gravity’s Angels
"Trojan Horse",
Omni, Vol. 7: No. 3, December, 1984.
Collected in: Gravity’s Angels
"U F O",
Aboriginal Science Fiction, Vol. 4: No. 5, Whole No. 23, September-October, 1990.
"Vergil Magus: King Without Country", (posthumous collaboration with Avram Davidson),
Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol.22: No. 7, Whole Number 271, July, 1998.
Collected in: Moon Dogs
"The Very Pulse of the Machine",
Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 22: No. 6, February, 1998.
Collected in: Tales Of Old Earth
"Virgin Territory", (collaboration with Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann),
Penthouse, Vol. 15: No. 7, March, 1984.
Collected in: Gardner Dozois et al., Slow Dancing Through Time, Kansas City: Ursus Imprints, 1990, as "Golden Apples of the Sun".
"Walden Three",
Marta Randall and Robert Silverberg, eds., New Dimensions 12, NY: Timescape/Pocket Books, 1981.
"Walking Out",
Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol 19: No. 2, February 1995.
Collected in: Tales Of Old Earth
"When the Music's Over",
Michael Bishop, ed., Light Years And Dark, NY: Berkley, 1984.
"Wild Minds",
Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol 22: No. 5, May, 1998.
Collected in: Tales Of Old Earth
"The Wireless Folly",
Thunder’s Shadow Collector’s Magazine, Vol. III: No. 1, February, 1992.
Collected in: A Geography Of Unknown Lands
"The Wisdom of Old Earth",
Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 21: No. 12, December, 1997.
Collected in: Tales Of Old Earth
"Writing In My Sleep", nine short-short stories,
The New York Review Of Science Fiction, February - October 1991.
Collected in: Cigar-Box Faust

Novels | Collections | Short Fiction | Non-Fiction (Selected)

"As Good As it Gets",
Afterword to Gardner Dozois et al., Slow Dancing Through Time, Kansas City: Ursus imprints, 1990.
"Author Profile", (autobiographical),
Tangent, Summer 1997.
Collected in: Moon Dogs
"Brief Essays", eleven short essays,
The New York Review Of Science Fiction, August 1993 - May 1994.
Collected in: Cigar-Box Faust
Being Gardner Dozois,
Baltimore: Old Earth Books, 2001.
"The Death of the Magus: Two Myths", (tribute to Avram Davidson), 1994.
Collected in: Moon Dogs
"Despair and the Duck Lady",
Introduction to R A Lafferty, Iron Tears, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Edgwood Press, 1992.
"Eight Takes on Kindred Themes",
The New York Review Of Science Fiction, Number 70, Vol. 6, No. 10: June 1994.
Collected in: Cigar-Box Faust
"Foreword"
to Ian R. MacLeod, Voyages By Starlight, Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1997.
"Growing Up with the Future",
guest of honor speech, Disclave 1996.
Collected in: Moon Dogs
"The Hagiography of Saint Dozois",
Philcon 97 Program Book, 1997.
Collected in: Moon Dogs
"In the Tradition . . .", (essay),
Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 18: Nos. 12 & 13, November, 1994.
Collected in: The Postmodern Archipelago and Moon Dogs
"Jane Swanwick and the Search for Identity",
The New York Review Of Science Fiction, Number 113, Vol. 10, No. 5: January 1998.
Collected in: Moon Dogs
"Lot’s Children",
Introduction to Ward Moore, Lot And Lot’s Daughter, San Francisco: Tachyon, 1996.
"Paul J. McAuley: Compleat Radical",
Introduction, Paul J. McAuley, Making History, Leeds: PS Publishing, 2000.
The Postmodern Archipelago, (chapbook),
San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, 1997.
Contains: "A User’s Guide to the Postmoderns" and "In the Tradition ..."
"The Strange Case of Raphael Aloysius Lafferty",
Amazing Stories, Vol. 68, No. 7 (Whole No. 587), October 1993.
"Strange Inhabitants and Unknown Boundaries",
Introduction, The Boss In The Wall by Avram Davidson and Grania Davis, San Francisco: Tachyon, 1998.
"Taken Gently by the Hand ... James Morrow's ‘Arms and the Woman'",
Para*doxa, Volume 5, Number 12, 1999.
"They Fell Like Wheat",
guest of honor speech, Confluence 1996.
Collected in: Moon Dogs
"A User's Guide to the Postmoderns", (essay),
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Vol. 10: No. 8, August, 1986.
Collected in: The Postmodern Archipelago and Moon Dogs

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