The New Prometheus

The New Prometheus

Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick

The New Prometheus is the ninth story in the Mongolian Wizard universe. Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Michael Swanwick has been building the world of the Mongolian Wizard on Tor.com since its first installment in 2012. The series depicts an alternate fin de siècle Europe shot through with magic, mystery, and intrigue, unveiled piece by piece in a series of stand-alone stories, and visualized with art by Greg Manchess.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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The Periodic Table of Science Fiction

The Periodic Table of Science Fiction

Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick

When Mendeleev set forth the Periodic Table of the Elements, he revolutionised chemistry—but just as importantly, he planted the seeds for Michael Swanwick's Periodic Table of Science Fiction. Now, after their epochal appearances online, this collection gathers together the one hundred and eighteen stories of the PTSF in print for the first time, in their definitive form. Life, Chemistry, and Science Fiction will never be the same again.Swanwick, grand master of the SF short story and absolute master of the short-short, is at his exuberant and ingenious best in these tales, each inspired by a single chemical element. Here are cosmos-spanning future histories, slyly conceived alternative timelines, shockingly subversive secret chronicles of intellectual passion, divine jests, and fragments of incomparable wisdom. In The Periodic Table of Science Fiction, revelations flow like heady wine: the real reason the Hindenburg exploded; how to measure the apocalyptic mood...
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The Postutopian Adventures of Darger and Surplus

The Postutopian Adventures of Darger and Surplus

Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick is one of the most celebrated and decorated writers of the past forty years. His novels and short stories have won the Hugo, the Nebula, the World Fantasy, the Locus, and the Theodore Sturgeon Awards, among others. His inimitable imagination and consummate skill are on full display in this collection, so revel in the postutopian world with its finest guides. Just check your pockets afterward.
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Murder in the Spook House: A Tor.com Original

Murder in the Spook House: A Tor.com Original

Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick

Murder in the Spook House is eighth story in the Mongolian Wizard universe. Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Michael Swanwick has been building the world of the Mongolian Wizard on Tor.com, beginning with the first installment in 2012. The series depicts an alternate fin de siècle Europe shot through with magic, mystery, and intrigue, unveiled piece by piece in a series of stand-alone stories, and visualized with art by Greg Manchess.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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The New Prometheus: A Tor.com Original

The New Prometheus: A Tor.com Original

Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick

The New Prometheus is the ninth story in the Mongolian Wizard universe. Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Michael Swanwick has been building the world of the Mongolian Wizard on Tor.com since its first installment in 2012. The series depicts an alternate fin de siècle Europe shot through with magic, mystery, and intrigue, unveiled piece by piece in a series of stand-alone stories, and visualized with art by Greg Manchess.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Stations of the Tide

Stations of the Tide

Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick

As the planet Miranda slowly drowns under the weight of its own tides, a bureaucrat from the Division of Technology Transfer conducts an investigation into the life of a local celebrity, a “magician” who possesses proscribed technology and whose personal powers hold much of the dying planet in thrall. Won Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1992. Nominated for Hugo and Campbell awards in 1992. Nominated for Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1993.
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The Dragons of Babel

The Dragons of Babel

Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick

A fantasy masterpiece from a five-time Hugo Award winner! A war-dragon of Babel crashes in the idyllic fields of a post-industrialized Faerie and, dragging himself into the nearest village, declares himself king and makes young Will his lieutenant. Nightly, he crawls inside the young fey's brain to get a measure of what his subjects think. Forced out of his village, Will travels with female centaur soldiers, witnesses the violent clash of giants, and acquires a surrogate daughter, Esme, who has no knowledge of the past and may be immortal. Evacuated to the Tower of Babel -- infinitely high, infinitely vulgar, very much like New York City -- Will meets the confidence trickster Nat Whilk. Inside the Dread Tower, Will becomes a hero to the homeless living in the tunnels under the city, rises as an underling to a politician, and meets his one true love - a high-elven woman he dare not aspire to. You've heard of hard SF: This is hard fantasy from a master of the form.
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