Michael Swanwick

City Under the Stars completes a journey undertaken by Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick 25 years ago, when they published the novella The City of God. Over two decades later, the two realized there was more to the story, and began the work of expanding it. Now, after Gardner Dozois' tragic passing, the story can be told in full.God was in his Heavenwhich was fifteen miles away, due east.Far in Earth's future, in a post-utopian hell-hole, Hanson works ten solid back-breaking hours a day, shoveling endless mountains of coal, within sight of the iridescent wall that separates whats left of humanity from their gods.One day, after a tragedy of his own making, Hanson leaves the city, not knowing what he will do, or how he will survive in the wilderness without work. He finds himself drawn to the wall, to the elusive promise of God. And when the impossible happens, he steps through, into the city beyond.The impossible was only the beginning.

The Three Mile Island accident has contaminated all of central Pennsylvania, where two-headed monsters, mutated vampires, and other outcasts struggle to survive their shattered world. "Compulsively r

In the distant future, Surplus arrives in China dressed as a Mongolian shaman, leading a yak which carries the corpse of his friend, Darger. The old high-tech world has long since collapsed, and the artificial intelligences that ran it are outlawed and destroyed. Or so it seems.Darger and Surplus, a human and a genetically engineered dog with human intelligence who walks upright, are a pair of con men and the heroes of a series of prior Swanwick stories. They travel to what was once China and invent a scam to become rich and powerful. Pretending to have limited super-powers, they aid an ambitious local warlord who dreams of conquest and once again reuniting China under one ruler. And, against all odds, it begins to work, but it seems as if there are other forces at work behind the scenes.

A subversive and at times truly perverse cross between high-fantasy and steampunk. You don''t need to do drugs when there are books as trippy as this out there! The main character, Jane, is a changelinga child stolen from our reality and taken into Faerie. There she works alongside other urchins in a Dickensian factory producing huge flying war machinesiron dragons. When she comes of age she is destined never to fly, but only to serve as a breeder producing half-human pilots. In terror, Jane escapes. As a human, she never quite fits into Faerie (a malevolent, magic-ridden world that seems to have no moral centre) no matter where she flees. The world of the book is an unsettling place for the reader as well. Its a many-layered and beautifully dark experience that unfolds to a surprising final resolution.

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El paleontólogo Leyster recibe una propuesta: participar en un proyecto científico secreto, mientras se lo piensa le dejan una nevera con la cabeza de un estegosauro, tratando de evitar la cancelación del proyecto. Asi le introducira en un viaje en el tiempo y conocera a la raza de los Eternos, una especie de hombres-pajaro. Su investigacion enlazara directamente con su pasado: los dinosaurios, antecesores de los pajaros.

When Mendeleev set forth the Periodic Table of the Elements, he revolutionised chemistrybut just as importantly, he planted the seeds for Michael Swanwicks Periodic Table of Science Fiction. Now, after their epochal appearances online, this collection gathers together the one hundred and eighteen stories of the PTSF in print for the first time, in their definitive form. Life, Chemistry, and Science Fiction will never be the same again.Swanwick, grand master of the SF short story and absolute master of the short-short, is at his exuberant and ingenious best in these tales, each inspired by a single chemical element. Here are cosmos-spanning future histories, slyly conceived alternative timelines, shockingly subversive secret chronicles of intellectual passion, divine jests, and fragments of incomparable wisdom. In The Periodic Table of Science Fiction, revelations flow like heady wine: the real reason the Hindenburg exploded; how to measure the apocalyptic mood swings of God; why you never want pond scum to preside over your office; which is the most boring element in existence; how the Plains Indians adopted not the horse but the motorcycle; the best way to avert a spaceship hijacking; how to make a fortune in interplanetary metals prospecting; robot ideology; and much, much more. If Mendeleev encompassed all matter in his Periodic Table, Michael Swanwicks encompasses all that really matters . . . With an Afterword by the author, and an Introduction by Theodore Gray, winner of the Ig Nobel Prize for his Wooden Periodic Table.