"[A] witty, supple, artfully humorous, and vastly engaging yarn . . . Swanwick's approaching top form, and this one's just too good to miss." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)In the distant future, Surplus arrives in China dressed as a Mongolian shaman, leading a yak which carries the corpse of his friend, Darger. The old high-tech world has long since collapsed, and the artificial intelligences that ran it are outlawed a...

Short stories from the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author. "One of the best science fiction collections I've ever read." — The Magazine of Fantasy and Science FictionThough written in the last decades of the twentieth-century, these tales are timeless and prophetic visions created by Michael Swanwick's wide-ranging imagination. Through stories of talking alien beasts, eco-fiction, and post-apocalyptic survival, this colle...

Discover the vast worlds and pocket universes of Michael Swanwick (Stations of the Tide), the only author to win science fiction’s most prestigious award five times in six years. In his dazzling new collection, the master of speculative short stories returns with new tales in which magic and science improbably coexist with myth and legend.**[STARRED REVIEW] “All of Swanwick’s stories awaken insights into the mystery of being human in an increa...

The Nebula Award-wining novel from Michael Swanwick—one of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fiction—a masterwork of radically altered realities and world-shattering seductions.The Jubilee Tides will drown the continents of the planet Miranda beneath the weight of her own oceans. But as the once-in-two-centuries cataclysm approaches, an even greater catastrophe threatens this dark and dangerous planet of tale-spinners, conjure...

An iron dragon crashes into an orphan's life and sends him on an amazing journey in this high-fantasy masterpiece from a five-time Hugo Award winner."Well-written, beautifully conceived, it is one of the very few fantasy novels I can unreservedly recommend. I love everything about this book." —Michael MoorcockA war-dragon of Babel crashes in the idyllic fields of a post-industrialized Faerie and, dragging himself into the nearest village, d...

With "The Mongolian Wizard," Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Michael Swanwick launches a new fiction series at Tor.com -- beginning with this story of a very unusual international conference in a fractured Europe that never was.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The award-winning author returns to the gritty, post-industrial faerie world of his New York Times Notable Book The Iron Dragon's Daughter .A Kirkus Reviews Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of the YearA Locus Award FinalistCaitlin of House Sans Merci is the young half-human pilot of a sentient mechanical dragon. Returning from her first soul-stealing raid, she discove...

"Jane vuole sottrarsi a un destino infame e per farlo è disposta a pagare qualsiasi prezzo. È una changeling, una bambina scambiata nella culla, rapita al mondo umano. È stata condotta in catene in un universo fatato e guerrafondaio, e costretta a lavorare in una fabbrica di draghi di ferro, tenuti insieme dall'odio e dall'acciaio. Melanchthon è uno di loro, il più maligno e violento, ormai malfunzionante e destinato alla demolizione. Lui e Jane stringono un patto, uniti come sono da senti...

A collection of some of the best original short fiction published on Tor.com in 2011. Includes stories by Charlie Jane Anders, James Allan Gardner, Yoon Ha Lee, Nnedi Okorafor, Paul Park, Matthew Sandborn Smith, Michael Swanwick, and Harry Turtedove.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A collection of some of the best original short fiction published on Tor.com in 2012. Includes stories by Elizabeth Bear, Adam Troy Castro, Paul Cornell, Kathryn Cramer, Brit Mandelo, Pat Murphy, Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Rachel Swirsky, and Gene Wolfe.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The master of literary science fiction returns with this dazzling new collection. Michael Swanwick takes us on a whirlwind journey across the globe and across time and space, where magic and science exist in possibilities that are not of this world. These tales are intimate in their telling, galactic in their scope, and delightfully sesquipedalian in their verbiage.Join the caravan through Swanwick's worlds and into the playground of his mind. Travel from Norway to Russia and Ameri...

A second "Mongolian Wizard" tale from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Michael Swanwick – continuing an epic of magic and deception in an alternate Europe of railroads and sorcery.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.