Michael Swanwick

Born: 1950-11-18

Biography

Born in Schenectady, New York.

Bibliography

L 1980-00-00 “Ginungagap”
1980-07-00 “The Feast of Saint Janis”
1981-04-00 “Touring”
1981-05-00 “’Til Human Voices Wake Us”
1981-06-00 “Mummer Kiss”
1981-06-00 “Walden Three”
1982-09-00 “The Man Who Met Picasso”
1984-01-00 “Ice Age”
1984-03-00 “Afternoon at Schrafft’s”
1984-03-00 “Virgin Territory”
1984-11-00 “Golden Apples of the Sun”
1984-11-00 “When the Music’s Over...”
1984-12-00 “Trojan Horse”
1984-12-15 “Marrow Death”
1985-02-00 In the Drift
L 1985-02-00 “The Transmigration of Philip K.”
1985-03-00 “The Gods of Mars”
1985-03-00 “The Blind Minotaur”
1985-05-00 “Anyone Here from Utah?”
L 1985-07-00 “Dogfight”
1985-10-00 “Snow Job”
1986-12-00 “Covenant of Souls”
1987-02-00 Vacuum Flowers
1987-06-00 “Foresight”
1988-04-00 “The Overcoat”
L L 1988-06-00 “The Dragon Line”
1988-12-00 “A Midwinter’s Tale”
1989-03-00 “Snow Angels”
1989-04-00 “The Edge of the World”
1990-09-00 “U F O”
1991-01-00 “Griffin’s Egg”
1991-02-00 Stations of the Tide
1991-02-00 “The Bulls”
1991-03-00 “Critics”
1991-04-00 “Ether; A Bicentennial Minute; Stage Direction”
1991-05-00 “Books”
1991-06-00 “Writing in My Sleep (Fifth in a Series): Glass Soul; Bastards; Xeroxing”
1991-07-00 “Trolls”
1991-08-00 “Fantasies”
1991-08-00 “God”
1991-09-00 “Rafferty Rafferty and Mr. Bog”
1991-10-00 “Storyteller Rock”
1992-02-00 “The Wireless Folly”
1992-09-00 “In Concert”
1993-05-00 “Picasso Deconstructed: Eleven Still-Lifes”
1993-11-00 The Iron Dragon’s Daughter
1993-11=00 “Cold Iron”
1994-01-00 “The Changeling’s Tale”
1994-04-00 “The Mask”
1995-02-00 “Walking Out”
1995-11-00 “North of Diddy-Wah-Diddy”
1995-12-00 “The City of God”
1995-12-00 “Radio Waves”
1996-05-24 “An Abecedary of the Imagination”
1996-09-00 “The Dead”
1996-12-00 “Ships”
1997-07-00 “Mother Grasshopper”
1997-09-00 Jack Faust
1997-11-00 “A Is for Albany”
1997-12-00 “B Is for Borges”
1997-12-00 “The Wisdom of Old Earth”
1998-01-00 “C Is for Cancer”
1998-02-00 “D Is for Drink”
1998-02-00 “The Very Pulse of the Machine”
1998-03-00 “E Is for Elf-Sex”
1998-04-00 “F Is for Fountain Pen”
1998-05-00 “G Is for Golem”
1998-05-00 “Wild Minds”
1998-06-00 “H Is for Hoppity Hooper”
1998-07-00 “Vergil Magus: King Without Country”
1998-07-00 “I Is for Impermanence”
1998-08-00 “Ancestral Voices”
1998-08-00 “120 Is for Issues”
1998-08-00 “J Is for Joe”
1998-09-00 “K Is for Kong”
1998-09-00 “Radiant Doors”
1998-10-00 “Midnight Express”
1998-10-00 “L Is for Language”
1998-11-00 “M Is for Mirrorganger”
1998-11-00 “Microcosmic Dog”
1998-12-00 “Archaic Planets: Nine Excerpts from the Encyclopedia Galactica”
1998-12-00 “N Is for Notary”
1999-01-00 “Green Fire”
1999-01-00 “O Is for Opening”
L 1999-02-00 “Ancient Engines”
1999-02-00 “P Is for Powers”
1999-03-00 “Q Is for Quilled Bandersnatch”
1999-04-00 “R Is for Rain Women”
1999-05-00 “S Is for Smiley Face”
1999-06-00 “T Is for Time”
1999-07-00 “Scherzo with Tyrannosaur”
1999-07-00 “U Is for UFO”
1999-08-00 “V Is for Virtual Food”
1999-09-00 “W Is for Wyvern”
1999-10-00 “Riding the Gigantosaur”
1999-10-00 “X Is for Xanadu”
1999-11-00 “Y Is for Youth”
1999-12-00 “Z Is for Zothique”
2000-02-00 “Mickelrede; or, The Slayer and the Staff: A Ghost-Novel”
L 2000-02-00 “Moon Dogs”
2000-03-00 “The Madness of Gordon Van Gelder”
2000-05-00 “The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O”
2001-08-22 “Under’s Game”
2001-10-00 “Letters to the Editor”
2001-10-00 “The Dog Said Bow-Wow”
2002-00-00 “Cecil Rhodes in Hell”
2002-03-00 Bones of the Earth
L 2002-03-00 “‘Hello,’ Said the Stick”
2002-03-00 “Five British Dinosaurs”
2002-05-00 “A Great Day for Brontosaurs”
2002-07-00 “Dirty Little War”
2002-10-00 “The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport”
L L 2002-12-00 “Slow Life”
2003-00-00 “The Thief of Time”
2003-00-00 “A Matter of Size”
2003-00-00 “Three Conversations”
2003-00-00 “How the West Was Won II”
2003-00-00 “The Scientific Method”
2003-00-00 “Dueling Mosasaurs”
2003-00-00 “Pocket Brontosaurs”
2003-00-00 “Herbivores”
2003-00-00 “Parallels”
2003-00-00 “Wusses”
2003-00-00 “Dinosaur Music”
2003-00-00 “The Bird-Fishers”
2003-00-00 “Proving Dr. Tom’s Hypothesis”
2003-00-00 “Five British Dinosaurs”
2003-04-00 “King Dragon”
2003-04-00 “Legions in Time”
2003-07-00 “Smoke and Mirrors: Four Scenes from the Post-utopian Future”
2003-09-00 “A Bicentennial Minute”
2003-09-00 “Bastards”
2003-09-00 “Ether”
2003-09-00 “Glass Soul”
2003-09-00 “Stage Direction”
2003-09-00 “Xeroxing”
2003-10-00 “Coyote at the End of History”
2003-10-00 “Deep in the Woods of Grammarie”
L 2004-08-00 “The Last Geek”
2004-10-00 “The Word That Sings the Scythe”
2005-07-00 “The Hindenburg”
2005-07-00 “Jane Carter of Mars”
2005-07-00 “Lithium for God”
2005-07-00 “A Beryl As Big As the Ritz”
2005-07-00 “Francis, Child of Scorn”
2005-07-00 “They’re Made of Carbon”
2005-07-00 “Nitrogen: An Introduction”
2005-07-00 “Oxygen Planets”
2005-07-00 “The Message”
2005-07-00 “House Rules”
2005-07-00 “Electric Pickles”
2005-07-00 “Aluminum Foil”
2005-07-00 “Programable Breasts”
2005-07-00 “Blcokade Runners”
2005-07-00 “Vitriol”
2005-07-00 “Seven Days of Creation”
2005-07-00 “The Eye of Argon”
2005-07-00 “Bananas”
2005-07-00 “Angels of the Apocalypse”
2005-07-00 “Bingham’s Folly”
2005-07-00 “Killer Robots”
2005-07-00 “Vanadium”
2005-07-00 “Babe”
2005-07-00 “Graffiti”
2005-07-00 “The Era of the Iron Horse”
2005-07-00 “Merfolk”
2005-07-00 “What This Country Needs—”
2005-07-00 “Lucky Penny”
2005-07-00 “Brass”
2005-07-00 “Space Pirates”
2005-07-00 “Germanium”
2005-07-00 “Lucrezia Borgia”
2005-07-00 “H. G. Wells on the Moon”
2005-07-00 “Try Not to Think of Elephants”
2005-07-00 “Man of Steel”
2005-07-00 “Glass Beads”
2005-07-00 “Fallout”
2005-07-00 “It: A Preliminary Account”
2005-07-00 “It’s Not Virtual Anything—It’s Real Zirconium!”
2005-07-00 “Woman of Stone”
2005-07-00 “Living in the Shadow of the Molly-Be-Damned”
2005-07-00 “Claimjumper and Ting”
2005-07-00 “Land of Our Fathers”
2005-07-00 “War of the Worlds”
2005-07-00 “Dark Secrets of the Western Heroes”
2005-07-00 “Starry Night”
2005-07-00 “On the India Line”
2005-07-00 “The Man with a Clock for a Heart”
2005-07-00 “Money and Its Opposite”
2005-07-00 “A Change of Seasons”
2005-07-00 “In Loco Parentis”
2005-07-00 “Warrior Princess”
2005-07-00 “Castles in the Air”
2005-07-00 “What to Expect from Your Barium Enema”
2005-07-00 “Immortality”
2005-07-00 “Cerium—At last!”
2005-07-00 “Absolute Zero”
2005-07-00 “Retirement Day”
2005-07-00 “Foresight”
2005-07-00 “Singular Cities”
2005-07-00 “Europa and the Bull”
2005-07-00 “Tattoos”
2005-07-00 “Morphobots”
2005-07-00 “A Letter from Hell”
2005-07-00 “Nanotechnologist’s Lung”
2005-07-00 “Tarzan of the Periodic Table”
2005-07-00 “Conan the Elemental”
2005-07-00 “Elements Day”
2005-07-00 “Dragon Star”
2005-07-00 “Riding the Rods”
2005-07-00 “Consider Poor Doris!”
2005-07-00 “Light Bulb Jokes”
2005-07-00 “Beads and Trinkets”
2005-07-00 “Everything Your Mother Wants You to Know About Osmium”
2005-07-00 “Don’t Look to the Skies!”
2005-07-00 “Platinum Blonde”
2005-07-00 “Crown of Beauty”
2005-07-00 “The Outriders”
2005-07-00 “A Perfect Murder”
2005-07-00 “A Polite Society”
2005-07-00 “The Pepto-Bismol Hour”
2005-07-00 “Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be (Polonius Updated)”
2005-07-00 “Bad Brains”
2005-07-00 “Monster in the Basement”
2005-07-00 “Vive le Francium!”
2005-07-00 “The Ghost of Pierre Curie Reminisces”
2005-07-00 “The Case of the Purloined Actinium”
2005-07-00 “Mjolnir”
2005-07-00 “Forge Star”
2005-07-00 “Cooking with Uranium”
2005-07-00 “The Oceans of Neptune”
2005-07-00 “Pure Science”
2005-07-00 “Nuclear Blackmail”
2005-07-00 “Holy Mother Church”
2005-07-00 “Vindicating Bishop Berkeley”
2005-07-00 “Nuclear Handguns”
2005-07-00 “The Dark Lady of the Equations”
2005-07-00 “The Fermi Paradox”
2005-07-00 “The Feast of Saint Mendeleyev”
2005-07-00 “My Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech”
2005-07-00 “Lawrence of America”
2005-07-00 ““Radioactive” B. Hayes”
2005-07-00 “George “Dubna” Bush”
2005-07-00 “The Sea Borg”
2005-07-00 “Boring Niels”
2005-07-00 “To Hass and Hass Not”
2005-07-00 “Lise Meitner, Physicist”
2005-07-00 “Science Made Ugly”
2005-07-00 “Defining Our Terms”
2005-07-00 “Don’t Blink!”
2005-07-00 “What We Talk About When We Talk About Ununtrium”
2005-07-00 “Island of Stability”
2005-07-00 “Uup, Uup, and Awaaaaaaay!”
2005-07-00 “Spanish Witches”
2005-07-00 “The Dragon Lady at the End of Time”
2005-07-00 “Now You See It Now You”
2005-07-00 “Girls and Boys, Come Out to Play”
2005-08-19 “Triceratops Summer”
L 2006-01-00 “An Episode of Stardust”
L 2006-08-00 “Tin Marsh”
L 2006-09-00 “The Bordello in Faerie”
2006-12-00 “Lord Weary’s Empire”
2007-04-00 “A Small Room in Koboldtown”
2007-07-00 “Congratulations from the Future!”
2007-07-00 “The End of All Things”
2007-07-00 “The Mental Daguerreotype”
L 2007-09-00 “The Skysailor’s Tale”
L L 2007-09-00 “Urdumheim”
2008-01-00 The Dragons of Babel
2008-02-00 “From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled ...”
L 2008-09-00 “Shed That Guilt! Double Your Productivity Overnight!”
L 2008-10-00 “The Scarecrow’s Boy”
2008-10-08 “Hush and Hark”
2008-10-08 “Metasciencefiction”
2009-04-00 “The Armies of Elfland”
2009-09-00 “Errata Slip Found in a Copy of the Arkham University Press Trade Paperback Reissue of the Necronomicon”
2009-10-00 “The Magaracs: A Family Saga, in Fragments”
2009-10-06 “Zeppelin City”
2009-11-00 “Last Drink Bird Head”
2009-12-02 “Invisibility for Beginners”
L 2010-06-01 “Goblin Lake”
L 2010-09-00 “Steadfast Castle”
2010-10-00 “Spirits in the Night”
L 2010-12-00 “Libertarian Russia”
2010-12-21 “The Trains That Climb the Winter Tree”
2011-00-00 “Manger Animals”
2011-00-00 “Mrs. Claus”
2011-00-00 “Snowflake People”
2011-00-00 “The Brain Barron”
2011-03-22 “Cold Reading”
2011-04-00 Dancing with Bears
L 2011-04-00 “An Empty House with Many Doors”
L 2011-05-00 “The Man in Grey”
L 2011-07-12 “The Dala Horse”
L 2011-08-00 “For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I'll Not Be Back Again”
2012-00-00 “Adam’s Third Wife”
2012-00-00 “Cookie Elves”
2012-00-00 “Meryons”
L 2012-01-00 “Pushkin the American”
L 2012-02-29 “The Woman Who Shook the World-Tree”
2012-06-00 “The Year of the Three Monarchs”
L 2012-07-04 “The Mongolian Wizard”
2012-08-08 “The Fire Gown”
2012-08-15 “Space Cougar!”
2012-09-25 “Day of the Kraken”
L 2013-08-00 “The She-Wolf’s Hidden Grin”
2013-11-11 “Tumbling”
2013-11-27 “House of Dreams”
2013-12-30 “Bone-Fire Time”
2013-12-30 “Interview with a Salamander”
2013-12-30 “Mice Discover Fire”
2014-00-00 “Ministering Angels”
2014-00-00 “One Mile Below”
2014-00-00 “Santas of All Nations”
2014-00-00 “Straws”
L 2014-04-00 “Of Finest Scarlet Was Her Gown”
L L 2014-04-00 “Passage of Earth”
2014-06-00 “Six Untitled Tales Written in Mark Twain’s Library”
2014-06-17 “Tawny Petticoats”
2014-11-00 “3 A. M. in the Mesozoic Bar”
2015-04-00 “Lock Up Your Chickens and Daughters—H’ard and Andy are Come to Town”
2015-08-05 “The Night of the Salamander”
2015-08-11 Chasing the Phoenix
2015-09-30 “The Pyramid of Krakow”
2015-12-02 “The Phantom in the Maze”
2016-03-02 “A Week Without Magic”
L 2016-08-06 “Universe Box”
L 2017-09-00 “Starlight Express”
L 2019-03-00 “Eighteen Songs by Debussy”
2019-05-00 “Murder in the Spook House”
L 2019-06-19 “The New Prometheus”
2019-06-25 The Iron Dragon’s Mother
L 2019-09-00 “Ghost Ships”
L 2019-11-00 “Cloud”
L 2020-04-30 “There Was an Old Woman ...”
L 2020-06-25 “Dragon Slayer”
2020-07-00 “Artificial People”
2020-08-25 City Under the Stars
L 2020-12-00 “The Last Days of Old Night”
2021-03-00 “Dream Atlas”
L 2021-04-07 “Annie Without Crow”
L 2021-07-00 “Huginn and Muninn—and What Came After”
L 2021-07-00 “Dreadnought”
L 2022-01-00 “The Beast of Tara”
2022-01-00 “The White Leopard”
L L 2022-03-00 “Nirvana or Bust”
2022-07-00 “Reservoir Ice”
2023-06-07 “The Star-Bear”
2023-10-00 “Timothy: An Oral History”
L 2024-02-00 The Sleep of Reason