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One of the most acclaimed science-fiction and fantasy short-story
writers of his generation, Michael Swanwick won an extraordinary five
Hugo Awards in six years (1999-2000 and 2002-2004). His stories also
garnered World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, Asimov’s Readers’
Awards, Locus, and SF Chronicle awards. Swanwick’s Stations Of
The Tide (1991) won the prestigious Nebula award for best novel.

His other acclaimed novels
include In The Drift (1985), Vacuum Flowers (1987),
Jack Faust (1997), Bones of the
Earth (2002), The Dragons of Babel (2008), Dancing with Bears (2011), Chasing the Phoenix (2015), and The Iron Dragon’s Mother (2019). The many collections of Swanwick’s numerous
acclaimed short tales include GRAVITY’S ANGELS (1991), TALES OF OLD EARTH (2000), CIGAR-BOX FAUST AND OTHER MINATURES (2003), MICHAEL SWANWICK’S FIELD GUIDE TO THE MESOZOIC MEGAFAUNA (2004), THE DOG SAID BOW-WOW(2007), The Best of Michael Swanwick
(2008), Solstice Fire (2013), Season’s Greetings
(2014), and NOT SO MUCH SAID THE CAT (2016).

Omni,
Penthouse, Amazing, Asimov’s Science Fiction,
New Dimensions, and Full Spectrum number among the many
venues with Swanwick’s short fiction. A frequent contributor to the
New York Review of Science Fiction, he
previously published the controversial essays on the state of the
science fiction and fantasy fields: The User’s Guide to the
Postmoderns (1986) and “In the Tradition…” (1994). Both essays
were collected in THE POSTMODERN ARCHIPELAGO (1997). Swanwick
contributed to the serialized The Witch Who Came in
from the Cold
(2017).

All of us at Tachyon
wish the extraordinary and amazing Micheal a spectacular birthday.

For more information on NOT SO MUCH, SAID THE CAT, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on GRAVITY’S ANGELS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Michael Dashow

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Cover by Michael Dashow

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For more info on MICHAEL SWANWICK’S FIELD GUIDE TO THE MESOZOIC MEGAFAUNA, visit the Tachyon page.

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Cover by Michael Dashow