Michael Swanwick Books In Order
Book links take you to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases.Publication Order of Iron Dragon's Daughter Books
The Iron Dragon's Daughter | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dragons of Babel | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Iron Dragon's Mother | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Darger and Surplus Books
Dancing with Bears | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chasing the Phoenix | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Postutopian Adventures of Darger and Surplus | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Mongolian Wizard Books
The Mongolian Wizard | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fire Gown | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Day of the Kraken | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
House of Dreams | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Night of the Salamander | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pyramid of Krakow | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Phantom in the Maze | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder in the Spook House | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The New Prometheus | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
In the Drift | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Vacuum Flowers | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stations of the Tide | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jack Faust | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bones of the Earth | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Man Who Met Picasso | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dogfight (in Omni) | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Edge of the World | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Griffin's Egg | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Changeling\'s Tale | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Walking Out (in Asimov's) | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Radio Waves | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dead (in Starlight 1) | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Very Pulse of the Machine (in The Best of...) | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wild Minds (in The Best of...) | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Radiant Doors (in The Best of...) | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ancient Engines (in Asimov's) | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Scherzo with Tyrannosaur (in Asimov's) | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
'Hello,' Said the Stick | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Slow Life | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Legions in Time | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lord Weary’s Empire | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Small Room in Koboldtown | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zeppelin City | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Trains That Climb the Winter Tree | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dala Horse | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Annie Without Crow | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Star-Bear | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Gravity's Angels | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales of Old Earth | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Geography of Unknown Lands | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Moon Dogs | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Michael Swanwick's Field Guide to Mesozoic Megafauna | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Periodic Table of Science Fiction | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dog Said Bow-Wow | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Michael Swanwick | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Not So Much, Said the Cat | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Postmodern Archipelago | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Being Gardner Dozois | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hope-in-the-Mist | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of William Gibson Short Stories/Novellas
Dogfight (in Omni) | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Winter Market | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Witch Who Came In From The Cold Books
The Witch Who Came In From The Cold: Season One | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Witch Who Came In From The Cold: The Complete Season 2 | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Books
Eighth Annual Collection | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ninth Annual Collection | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Twelfth Annual Edition | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thirteenth Annual Collection | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. |
Publication Order of Year's Best Fantasy Books
Year's Best Fantasy | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Year's Best Fantasy | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Year's Best Fantasy 2 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Year's Best Fantasy 3 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Year's Best Fantasy 4 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Year's Best Fantasy 6 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Year's Best Fantasy 7 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Year's Best Fantasy 8 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Year's Best Fantasy 9 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Universe 11 | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Magicats! | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Omni Magazine, July 1985 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1986 | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Terry's Universe: Science fiction's finest writers join in honoring the memory of Terry Carr | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Seventh Omni Book of Science Fiction | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 1989 | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Third Annual Collection | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Fantasy Stories of the Year, 1989 | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Slow Dancing Through Time | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Earth | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1994 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1995 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Killing Me Softly | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tenth Annual Collection | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Starlight 1 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Modern Classics of Fantasy | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1998 | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Good New Stuff | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1999 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1999 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Asimov's Science Fiction, April 2000 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Year's Best SF 5 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 35 (2001) | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Supermen | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2002 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 15 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Year's Best SF 8 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hard SF Renaissance | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seventeenth Annual Collection | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fiction Factory | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Futures Past | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of the Best, Vol 2 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rewired | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, February 2008 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 22 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Year's Best SF 14 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2010 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unfit for Eden: A Postscripts Anthology 26/27 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sword & Sorcery Anthology | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2011 edition | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Timeless Time Travel Tales | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Year's Best SF 16 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 4 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Steampunk Specs | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shadows of the New Sun | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Time Traveler's Almanac | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rogues | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Nine | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Far Voyager: A Postcripts Anthology 32/33 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 7 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Letters to Tiptree | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Clarkesworld: Year Eight | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Asimov's Science Fiction, September-October 2017 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2018 Edition | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 107, April 2019 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 38, May 2019 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Devil's Ways | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
About Michael Swanwick
Starting out in the early eighties, American author Michael Swanwick has been making a name for himself for a long time now. Beginning as a short-story writer he is well known for producing science-fiction novels that really transport the reader to far off distant lands. Asking some of the bigger questions on life and human nature, he is definitely a writer who excels in his particular literary genre. Making a distinctive niche for himself, he sets himself apart with his idiosyncratic style that really resonates with the reader, despite the otherworldly settings of the stories themselves. It is the characters that make his stories too, allowing them to breathe life into the worlds that he creates, giving them a grounded and realistic tone.
Winning awards for his work over the years as well, this New York based author is also known for infusing his stories with an element of fantasy too. Imbuing his stories with a sense of the mystical almost, he always makes sure to make them entertaining, whilst putting forwards a set of strong ideas as well. Creating a number of series and franchises too, he manages to keep his stories going over time, something which he will continue to do for many years to come.
Early and Personal Life
Born and raised in Schenectady, New York, in the United States, Michael Swanwick was born on the 18th of November, 1950. Over time he would turn to writing short-stories, as literature had been hardwired into him from an early age, as he would continue to hone his craft. This would carry on for quite some time to follow, as he would focus on science-fiction, a genre which he would gradually establish his name with throughout the intervening years. Getting his work published in various different publications, his profile would quickly rise in stature, as he would come to be respected by both his peers and contemporaries alike. Currently living in Philadelphia with Marianne Porter and Sean, their son, he continues to regularly write to this very day.
Writing Career
Publishing his first short story titled ‘Ginungagap’ in 1980, he would see it feature in the ‘TriQuarterly’, which he would follow that same year with the story ‘The Feast of St. Janis’. This would feature in ‘New Dimensions 11’, and soon he was well on his way to making a name for himself as a fully fledged author of literary fiction. Both of these short stories went on to become awards nominees, as they were nominated for the ‘Nebula Award for Best Short Story’ in 1981 the following year. He would soon go on to publish ‘In the Drift’ in 1985, which would use the real-world event of the Three Mile Island catastrophe to help inspire it. Using this as the basis of his commentary, he has gone on to create work of similar nature ever since, producing a lot of fiction, as well as many non-fiction essays too.
The Dragons of Babel
First released through the ‘Tor Books’ publishing label, this would originally come out in 2008 on the 8th of January. Providing a sequel of sorts to ‘The Dragon’s Daughter’, it is set in the same world, whilst also being its own unique story. This allows readers to read it at their own pace, not needing to follow the series overall to understand what’s going on, as it’s set within an industrialized world, as opposed to the first.
Working as a follow-up to the massively influential fantasy novel ‘The Iron Dragon’s Daughter’, this definitely has a lot of ground to cover. Set in the same world and universe, it manages to make its own mark as a novel and story, allowing it to have its own self-contained narrative in the process. With Michael Swanwick returning to the world of the novel with which he made a large name for himself, he works well the honor the original too. Creating strong and lasting characters that really stay with the reader long after they’ve finished the story, it definitely manages to leave quite the lasting impact.
Pulling into a village, a war-dragon from Babel makes his home there, set within the post-industrialized world of Faerie. This sees him declaring himself as king, whilst he goes on to make Will his lieutenant, whilst at night he will crawl into this fey’s mind in order to learn what it is that his subjects think. After being forced from his village, Will must travel with female soldier centaurs, whilst witnessing giants clashing, all whilst acquiring a surrogate daughter named Esme. Meeting Nat Whilk, a confidence trickster, in the Tower of Babel, a sprawling city, he then becomes a hero to the homeless and dispossessed. Will he find what it is that he is looking for? How will he deal with his love for the high-elven woman as he rises through the political ranks? What will become of the dragons of Babel?
Not So Much, Said The Cat
This time released through the ‘Tachyon Publications’ publishing outlet, this would first come out in 2016 on the 9th of August. Not being a part of any series, it would act as a follow-up of sorts to Swanwick’s earlier collection of short-stories titled ‘The Dog Said Bow-Wow’. Keeping a thematic set of ideas running constantly throughout, Swanwick says all that he wants to say with these stories, being strong as they are.
As a writer of short-stories, Michael Swanwick is unsurpassed, with this being the medium with which he made his name. In this collection he does what he does best, creating succinct and to-the-point stories that say exactly what he wants to say. Allowing the reader to really invest themselves in the action, he gives them brief glimpses into other far off exciting universes to explore. Painting a vivid portrait of these landscapes too, he definitely works at allowing them to come off of the page as well.
Transporting the reader across all of time and space, these short-stories really do have everything in this enthralling collection. With a galactic sense of scope and scale, they allow the reader to truly understand the full breadth and scale of Swanwick’s imagination. Hurtling all across the globe and throughout the galaxy, the stories are otherworldly in their nature and setting, whilst simultaneously being grounded in very human realities. As magical horses protect the innocent, trolls seek repentance, teenagers aim to take on the devil with only their savvy, and time-travelers party, everything is laid out here. Looking to the distant future, as well as the distant past, this collection really is one that stands the test of time in ‘Not So Much, Said The Cat’.
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