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Not So Much, Said the Cat

by Michael Swanwick

The master of literary science fiction returns with this dazzling new collection. Michael Swanwick takes us on a whirlwind journey across the globe and across time and space, where magic and science exist in possibilities that are not of this world. Travel from Norway to Russia, and America to ancient Gehenna. Discover a calculus problem that rocks the ages and robots who both nurture and kill. Meet a magical horse who protects the innocent, a semi-repentant troll, a savvy teenager who takes on the Devil, and time travelers from the Mesozoic who party till the end of time. These are tales intimate in their telling, galactic in their scope, and deliciously sesquipedalian in their verbiage.

Prasie for Michael Swanwick

“Swanwick’s wildly imaginative and beautifully written short stories have been, for several years, one of the primary joys of the field.”
—Washington Post Book World

“One of contemporary sf’s greatest short-story writers.”
—Interzone

“One of the most powerful and consistently inventive short story writers of his generation.”
—Gardner Dozois, editor of the Year’s Best Science Fiction series

“An amazingly assured writer, seemingly incapable of writing a sentence that isn’t interesting in itself, in addition to the way it moves the sentence forward.”
—New York Review of Science Fiction

“Michael Swanwick is darkly magnificent.”
—Jack McDevitt, author of The Engines of God

“Swanwick’s prose takes no prisoners.”
—Time Out Chicago

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction by Michael Swanwick

• Steadfast Castle

• The Man in Grey

• The Dala Horse

• The Woman Who Shook the World-Tree

• Of Finest Scarlet Was Her Gown

• 3 A.M. in the Mesozoic Bar

• Passage of Earth

• From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled …

• For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I’ll Not Be Back Again

• Libertarian Russia

• The Scarecrow’s Boy

• The She-Wolf’s Hidden Grin

• Goblin Lake

• Pushkin the American

• An Empty House with Many Doors

• Tawny Petticoats

• The House of Dreams

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