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The Best of Michael Swanwick

10 best books like The Best of Michael Swanwick (Michael Swanwick): The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection, Hell is the Absence of God, The Persistence of Vision, Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories, Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories, Kirinyaga, Crystal Express, Lost Worlds: Volume 1: Zothique, Averoigne and Others, The Ant King, and Other Stories, The Apex Book of World SF

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection
AuthorGardner Dozois
ISBN0312308604
Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, The Year's Best Science Fiction (Winner of the 2002 Locus Award for Best Anthology) continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen stories representing the previous year's best SF writing. This year's...
Hell is the Absence of God
AuthorTed Chiang
Which would you prefer: a judgemental God who causes suffering to sinners, or a reality where there is no justice at all?


Calvin: “Do you believe in the Devil... dedicated to the temptation corruption, and destruction of man?”
Hobbes: “I'm not sure man needs the help.”

This...
The Persistence of Vision
AuthorJohn Varley
ISBN0441662218
Introduction · Algis Budrys · in
The Phantom of Kansas · nv Galaxy Feb ’76
Air Raid [as by Herb Boehm] · ss IASFM Spr ’77
Retrograde Summer · nv F&SF Feb ’75
The Black Hole Passes · nv F&SF Jun ’75
In the Hall of the Martian Kings · na F&SF Feb ’77
In...
Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories
AuthorTerry Bisson
ISBN0312890354
Bears Discover Fire is the first short story collection by the most acclaimed science fiction author of the decade, author of such brilliant novels as Talking Man and Voyage to the Red Planet. It brings together nineteen of Bisson's finest works for the first time in one volume, among them the darkly...
Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories
AuthorJames Patrick Kelly
ISBN1930846207
This is a handsome, limited edition collection of the best work by one of the finest short fiction writers in science fiction. There are 14 stories in all, ranging from straight SF to tales that stray into the fantasy and horror genres. Of special note is the title story, which earned the 1996 Hugo Award...
Kirinyaga
AuthorMike Resnick
Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia collects Mike Resnick's famous Kirinyaga stories and ties them together in a thematic arc that has novel-like continuity. The story focuses on Koriba, a mundumugu (sort of like a witch doctor and a wise man rolled into one) of the Kikuyu tribe. Koriba feels that his tribe...
Crystal Express
AuthorBruce Sterling
ISBN0441124232
Short stories which depict worlds full of scientific advancement, genetic and surgical modifications of people, colonization of the solar system and alien contact. But they also show concern for the future of real people.

CONTENTS:

Swarm (1982)
Spider Rose (1982)
Cicada...
Lost Worlds: Volume 1: Zothique, Averoigne and Others
AuthorClark Ashton Smith
ISBN0586039643
Explore the most eerie lands in adult fantasy - The Lost Worlds of Clark Ashton Smith

The Contents:

ZOTHIQUE
The Empire of the Necromancers
The Isle of the Torturers
Necromancy in Naat
Xeethra

AVEROIGNE
The Holiness of Azedarac
The Beast of Averoigne

OTHERS
The...
The Ant King, and Other Stories
AuthorBenjamin Rosenbaum
ISBN1931520526
Urbane without being arch, sweet without being maudlin, mysterious without being cryptic.-Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing A dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron's zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms...
The Apex Book of World SF
AuthorLavie Tidhar
ISBN0982159633
The world of speculative fiction is expansive; it covers more than one country, one continent, one culture. Collected here are sixteen stories penned by authors from Thailand, the Philippines, China, Israel, Pakistan, Serbia, Croatia, Malaysia, and other countries across the globe. Each one tells...
Crackpot Palace
AuthorJeffrey Ford
ISBN0062122592
Eclectic is certainly an adjective that can be used to describe the work of the phenomenal Jeffrey Ford—along with imaginative, provocative, mesmerizing, and brilliant. His powerful dark fantasy, The Physiognomy, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; his novel, The Girl in the Glass, won...
Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction and Fantasy
AuthorJonathan Strahan
ISBN1597801178
An eclipse is a rare and unusual event, when the world is transformed and the sky becomes a dark eldritch thing. It's a time when anything could happen, when any kind of story just might be true. That sense of the strange and wonderful guides Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, the first volume in...
Unpossible and Other Stories
AuthorDaryl Gregory
ISBN1933846305
The short stories in this first collection by Daryl Gregory run the gamut from science fiction to contemporary fantasy, with a few stories that defy easy classification. His characters may be neuroscientists, superhero sidekicks, middle-aged heroes of children's stories, or fanatics spreading...
Getting to Know You
AuthorDavid Marusek
ISBN1596060883
David Marusek made quite a splash with his debut novel - the clever, dizzyingly dense sci-fi tale of a horribly breezy future, Counting Heads. this collection of short stories illustrates the many talents (and slight limitations) of a writer who may be agape at the potential wonder of our future, but...
The Best of Lucius Shepard
AuthorLucius Shepard
ISBN1596061332
Lucius Shepard writes from the darkest, truest heart of America—not the heart of the United States or of North America, but all of America—and he writes of it with rare passion, honesty and intelligence. His earliest stories, the ones that made his name a quarter of a century ago, were set in the jungles...
Restless Nights
AuthorDino Buzzati
ISBN0865471002
Contains:
-The Seven Messengers
-The End of the World
-Appointment with Einstein
-The Saucer Has Landed
-The Survivor's Story
-Prank
-The Walls of Anagoor
-Human Greatness
-The Colomber
-The Writer's Secret
-The Bewitched Jacket
-The Elevator
-The...
The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories
AuthorConnie Willis
ISBN1596061103
"Variety is the soul of pleasure," And variety is what this comprehensive new collection of Connie Willis is all about. The stories cover the entire spectrum, from sad to sparkling to terrifying, from classics to hard-to-find treasures with everything in between -- orangutans, Egypt, earthworms,...
Selections from Fragile Things, Volume One
AuthorNeil Gaiman
A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night. . . .

In a Hugo Award winning story, a great detective must solve a most unsettling royal murder in a strangely altered Victorian England. . . .

Two teenage boys crash a...
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