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Michael Swanwick (Beth Gwinn), Michael Blumlein (Flurb), Rudy Rucker (Rudy Rucker, CC-BY-SA), Jacob Weisman (Jill Roberts), and Peter V. Brett (Karsten Moran)

SPECULICTION reviews Michael Swanwick’s forthcoming collection NOT SO MUCH, SAID THE CAT.

Michael Swanwick had his first short story published in 1980, and in the three and a half decades since, if anything, has proven himself to be one of speculative fiction’s least predictable writers. For any reader who has spent at least a few years in the field and begun to discern the formulas much of genre adheres to, this comes as a blessing. Forever thinking laterally, one simply never knows what they’re going to get with a new Swanwick offering. His latest, the 2016 collection NOT SO MUCH, SAID THE CAT (Tachyon), is no exception. 

In the end, NOT SO MUCH, SAID THE CAT is confirmation that, even in the latter phases of his career, Swanwick is still one of the most original acts on the scene. Short fiction as complementary to his dynamic style as his novel-length work, the stories skip and jump, sending stereotypes scurrying to the shadows. The base premises of some of the stories may be tried and true, but in Swanwick’s hands come across as something more, making any collection, including this one, richer and more dynamic for it. 

SOMA FM shared their podcast of the Michael Blumlein/Rudy Rucker June 12 SF IN SF.

For KIRKUS in his article The Science Fiction and Fantasy Books You’ll Want to Read in July, John DeNardo recommends Jacob Weisman’s forthcoming anthology INVADERS: 22 TALES FROM THE OUTER LIMITS OF LITERATURE.

For multi-author themed anthologies, any of the following will give you hours of solid entertainment:

• Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold edited by Paula Guran
• Deserts of Fire: Speculative Fiction and the Modern War edited by Douglas Lain
• Drowned Worlds edited by Jonathan Strahan
• In the Shadow of Frankenstein edited by Stephen Jones
• Invaders: 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature edited by Jacob Weisman

Badali Jewelry is offering an official line of medallions and rings based on Peter V. Brett’s THE DEMON CYCLE. Each piece uses Lauren K. Cannon’s ward designs.

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

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more information on THE ROBERTS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about INVADERS: 22 TALES FROM THE OUTER LIMITS OF LITERATURE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Goro Fujita

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE GREAT BAZAAR & BRAYAN’S GOLD, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story