Several authors have chimed in with their affection for Michael Swanwick’s forthcoming collection NOT SO MUCH, SAID THE CAT.

“Is
there any SF writer, living or dead or cryonically suspended, who
rivals Michael Swanwick for sheer virtuosity? I think not. From
the hard-sf poignancy of ‘The Woman Who Shook the World Tree’ to
the Borgesian high jinks of ‘The Man in Gray,’ from the beguiling
folk fantasy of ‘The Dala Horse’ to the post-cyberpunk intensity
of ‘Libertarian Russia,’ from the Bulgakov-inflected
phantasmagoria of ‘Of Finest Scarlet Was Her Gown’ to the
psychological realism (and biological surrealism) of ‘Passage of
Earth’—I could go on—NOT SO MUCH reveals an author who is a Jack-of-all-genres and their master as well.“
—James
Morrow author of GALÁPAGOS
REGAINED

“OK—it’s official. Michael Swanwick is a god. He makes worlds that
work, every tick and tock of them. He makes people who cry, sweat,
puke, fall in love, die in conceivable ways. He’s smart and crafty,
passionate and wily. Both trickster and life-giver. He creates and
uncreates. And yes, he brings Light. If I don’t exactly worship him,
I read every story of his I can get my hands on. So thanks, Tachyon
for bringing me more stories—some old favorites, some I hadn’t read
before. Because gods need their readers, and God knows, I need
more Swanwick.”
—Jane Yolen, author of BRIAR
ROSE

“Michael
Swanwick is one of our most reliably entertaining and provocative
writers.”

—Greg Bear, author of DARWIN’S
RADIO

“I
would effuse about the excellence of the stories within this
collection—Michael Swanwick’s eleventh such—for they are by turns
shocking, delightful, puckish, innovative, and electric… .
However, I am too busy plotting how to steal the devil’s stone
(given to him by a Siberian shaman) that Michael keeps by his
typewriter in order to unlock his writing power, all without
disturbing his cat.”
—Fran
Wilde, Nebula-nominated author of UPDRAFT and CLOUDBOUND

“This
is standard Swanwick, where the reader’s feet never quite touch the
ground. Brilliant.”
—Jack
McDevitt, author of THE ENGINES OF GOD

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

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