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Title: Gravity's Angels by Michael Swanwick ISBN: 1-58394-029-4 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: 30 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Early Swanwick is Weak but Promising
Comment: These stories were all written in the Eighties, and the writing is quite involving, but there is a distinct lack of theme or intent in each tale. Only the last one, The Edge of the World, is ingenious and poignant and leaves a lasting impression. Swanwick's later works are much better. I suggest Tales of Old Earth, a masterful collection.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful short fiction
Comment: I've been consistently amazed by Michael Swanwick's novels ever since I read Vacuum Flowers about 7 or 8 years ago. I was pleased to see that Gravity's Angels had been re-released, and so I bought a copy. I was assuming that his short fiction is on par with his novels.
It is. O boy, is it ever.
I'd read one of the stories here before - Mummer's Kiss is a part of the novel In the Drift - but it didn't matter, it's worth re-reading. One short story seems to serve as a proving ground for the society depicted in Vacuum Flowers; another is an interesting take on the Arthur myth/legend. One's about a healer trapped in a church and one's about a man who may or may not be holding reality together.
Not a single one of these stories is anything less than amazing. If you've read Swanwick, and enjoyed his work, then buy this book. If you've never read Swanwick (and it seems a lot of you haven't, which is too bad; he's a phenomenal writer, easily one of the five best working in SF today), there's not a better place to start.
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Title: Tales of Old Earth by Michael Swanwick ISBN: 1583940561 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: 09 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures by Michael Swanwick ISBN: 1892391074 Publisher: Tachyon Publications Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick ISBN: 0380812894 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 25 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Cities by Paul Di Filippo, China Mieville, Michael Moorcock, Geoff Ryman, Peter Crowther ISBN: 1568583044 Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois ISBN: 0312308604 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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