Michael Swanwick’s “witty, smart, challenging” collection The Dog Said Bow-Wow is a Kindle Daily Deal for Wednesday, May 28.

For today only, the ebook is available for just $1.99!

2008 Locus Award finalist

Featuring the 2002 Hugo Award winner “The Dog Said Bow-Wow”

Also the 2003 Hugo Award winner “Slow Life”

And the 2004 Hugo Award winner “Legions in Time”

Great literature has never been this much fun before. The reigning master of short fiction reinvents science fiction and fantasy in a dazzling new collection unlike anything you’ve ever read. Time-traveling dinosaurs wreak havoc on a placid Vermont town. An ogre is murdered in a locked room in Faerie. An uncanny bordello proves as dangerous as it is alluring. Language is stolen from the builders of Babel. Those strangely loveable Post-Utopian scoundrels and con men Darger and Surplus swindle their way through London, Paris, and Arcadia.

The Dog Said Bow-Wow includes three Hugo Award–winning stories and an original novelette of swashbuckling romance and adventure, “The Skysailor’s Tale.” Ranging from the hardest of science fiction to the highest of fantasy, this irresistible collection amuses and enlightens as only Michael Swanwick can.

“In addition to their individual quality, the 16 stories in this rollicking collection amply demonstrate Hugo-winner Swanwick’s impressive versatility…intriguing characters and lovingly told stories.” 
—Publishers Weekly, starred review

 “Witty, smart, challenging, marveling in off-beat invention and beautifully written….” 
—SF Site, featured review

“Every reader with a dollop of humanity will admire Michael Swanwick’s rowdy good humor. His towering creativity seems so effortless that it is easily overlooked—so effortless, and so immense. You won’t want to put this book down.”
—Gene Wolfe

“By turns funny, clever, mysterious, and possessing hidden depths, the stories in Swanwick’s latest collection demonstrate he’s at the top of his game. Delightful, thoughtful work, sure to please his readers.” 
—Jeff VanderMeer, author of The Third Bear

“For most writers, it’s a good day when a story is witty or has great ideas or characters. Michael Swanwick consistently wins on all three.” 
—Vernor Vinge

“Michael Swanwick is one of my all-time favorite short-story writers. Sometimes he makes me laugh, sometimes he makes me shudder, sometimes he makes me weep. He always makes me think. And that’s just when I am talking to him.” 
—Jane Yolen

“In The Dog Said Bow-Wow, a valuable author has taken the disreputable duckling of category fiction and nurtured it into a swan of elegant speculation, as the wick of disciplined fancy draws the reader’s inflamed imagination ever downward through the waxen feast. Swan and wick: an essential conjunction yielding wonder, warmth, wit, and many a synergistic epiphany.” 
—James Morrow, author of Shambling Toward Hiroshima

“Michael Swanwick’s stories start soft, sneak close, and punch hard. And nobody else—nobody!—in science fiction has his range.” 
—Nancy Kress, author of After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall

“Michael Swanwick’s The Dog Said Bow-Wow is an extraordinarily strong collection. His fierce imagination, subtle humor, and genius for implication are evident in each of these stories.” 
—Jeffrey Ford

“…arguably [the] best collection of his stories, populated by tricksters, dinosaurs, gods, and explorers, Swanwick takes a variety of old themes and styles and twists them into something fresh and new.” 
—Rain Taxi

“Swanwick’s graceful prose, prodigious inventiveness, and sense of humor are very much in evidence here….” 
—Tangent

“…surpassingly brilliant…storytelling of the highest order.” 
—Locus

Table of Contents

• Introduction by Terry Bisson
• ‘Hello,’ Said the Stick A Great Day for Brontosaurs
• A Small Room in Koboldtown
• An Episode of Stardust
• Dirty Little War
• Girls and Boys, Come Out to Play
• Legions of Time
• Slow Life
• The Bordello in Faerie
• The Dog Said Bow-Wow
• The Last Geek
• The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport
• The Skysailor’s Tale
• Tin Marsh
• Tricerotops Summer
• Urdumheim

For more info about The Dog Said Bow-Wow, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Ann Monn