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	Crescent Blues \| Author Interview: "The Periodic Prime of Michael Swanwick"
		Michael Swanwick: The cover of the New Yorker for the day I was born was a Charles Addams cartoon of a night watchman in a museum pointing his flashlight at a freshly hatched dinosaur egg with small footprints in the dust leading away from it.
		Michael Swanwick: It was the challenge, the very real possibility that I might fail, that appealed to me. It made the sequence into a kind of performance art, something akin to being a trapeze artist, which is a possibility not normally open to a writer.
		Michael Swanwick: It's a lot easier, in part because Goya was there first, creating emotionally-charged scenarios, and in part because there are so many recurring characters who evolve over the course of their stories.
	www.crescentblues.com /6_6issue/int_swanwick.shtml (2886 words)

	Is that a Hobbit in Your Rocket? Writers Write -- The IWJ
		Michael Swanwick: I really started as a stone fantasy reader, but that was in 1967 and it took me about a year to read every work of fantasy in existence, so I started reading SF because it gave me a fantasy-like kick.
		Michael Swanwick: Having written both SF flavored Fantasy and Fantasy flavored SF, I discovered that the true distinction between the two genres is that SF operates in a knowable universe and that Fantasy exists in a universe which is ultimately unknowable and mysterious.
		Michael Swanwick: In response to the new question, the Fantasy and SF field used to be small enough that one person could read everything.
	www.writerswrite.com /journal/sep01/eosconhobbit.htm (2701 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Jack Faust
		Swanwick is aware of the Faust legend and its history.
		Swanwick's morality play does not take into account the changes in mentality which occurred between the sixteenth century and the twentieth century.
		Gretchen is brought low by one of the Medieval mindsets which Swanwick refuses to change, thereby drawing attention to the fact that he is changing everything in the Medieval culture as it suits his purposes, not in a logical manner.
	www.sfsite.com /09b/jack17.htm (791 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Bones of the Earth / Michael Swanwick
		Swanwick unfortunately does them injustice by using them in the service of a clumsily structured narrative peopled with inadequately developed characters.
		Leyster wonders out loud why it is that paleontologists — often referred to in patronizing ways by other scientists as the "stamp collectors" of science — are the ones being given this unique opportunity, but his colleagues dismiss his questions in their enthusiasm.
		Swanwick himself keeps the answer to that mystery close to his vest as well, to good dramatic effect.
	www.sfreviews.net /bonesoftheearth.html (554 words)

	Review of Michael Swanwick's The Iron Dragon's Daughter
		Swanwick has no signposts to reassure the reader when he is this far into unique territory -- Swanwick inverts all of the archetypes and familiar angles of fantasy, which perhaps remakes for the adult reader the first encounter with the fantastic in fiction.
		Swanwick does not shy away from the sexual awakenings of this character -- for example, there's a pseudo-feminist ritual that opens Chapter 16 that might be too explicit for some.
		Swanwick's style is, to me, the perfect antidote to the hackwork that constitutes much of the writing in the genre...
	www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/irondragon.htm (908 words)

	The Modern Word - Michael Swanwick Interview
		Swanwick revels in exploring the full spectrum of the genre’s potential, with stories ranging from hard science fiction to Tolkienesque fantasy.
		Swanwick’s fiction teases out exciting variations on such archetypal SF themes as first contact between humans and aliens, the development of alternate worlds, and the vagaries of time paradoxes, while at the same time playing mind-bending games with reality (such as to be found in the short story “The Transformation of Philip K.”).
		Michael Swanwick: Oh, those were my high school and college years, which I spent writing bad fantasy and worse modern symbolism.
	www.themodernword.com /features/interview_swanwick.html (3599 words)

	Review: Michael Swanwick's Periodic Table of Science Fiction, reviewed by R Michael Harman
		The mad scientist in charge of this experiment is Michael Swanwick, the self-proclaimed second best writer to attend ReaderCon I. Swanwick has evidently been producing one story after another, every week, for quite an impressive stretch of time, and has another half a year to go.
		This is probably partly just Swanwick's personal style, but it also helps make the shorts work, by allowing him to tap into all kinds of external sources of meaning without using any lengthy exposition.
		Swanwick seems to be trying to prove himself a master of this medium -- and, in my judgement, he's succeeding quite admirably.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2002/20021223/periodic_table.shtml (1116 words)

	The Infinite Matrix \| Michael Swanwick & Francisco Goya \| The Sleep Of Reason
		Swanwick, and we hope it will not be his last.
		Michael Swanwick is the Hugo-bedizened science-fiction writer who single-handedly has reclaimed the short-short story from the dustbin of history, with Puck Aleshire's Abecedary, Writing in My Sleep, Picasso Deconstructed, and, of course, the Periodic Table of Science Fiction,, now playing on SciFiction.
		Michael Swanwick tells all, or some anyway, in an interview with Nick Gevers in Sci-Fi Weekly.
	www.infinitematrix.net /stories/swanwick/sleep_of_reason.html (296 words)

	The Official Website of Manhattan College Athletics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A USSF A licensed coach, Swanwick -- prior to coaching at Dominican -- was the men's soccer coach at Orange County Community College, directing the team to three consecutive Mid Hudson Conference Championships and three consecutive seasons in the NJCAA rankings.
		Swanwick played junior college soccer at Spartanburg Methodist College, an NJCAA Division I school, where he is second on the list of all-time leading scorers.
		Swanwick received his Master's Degree in social work from Fordham University in 1997 and is working on his doctorate in social work at the school.
	www.gojaspers.com /article.cfm?doc_id=6126 (398 words)

	Michael Swanwick interviewed - infinity plus non-fiction
		Since his first short story appeared about twenty years ago, Michael Swanwick has been one of American SF's most stylish and subversive writers, bringing to his intense, finely wrought stories and novels a sardonic intelligence that has few literary peers.
		To open a Swanwick text is to broach an aesthetic Pandora's box: fascination and disturbance inevitably and rewardingly follow.
		Swanwick is a literary alchemist, rendering everything his imagination touches brilliantly and perversely new.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/intms.htm (5336 words)

	Tangled Web UK Review - Jack Faust by Michael Swanwick March 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Michael Swanwick certainly demonstrates that chutzpa, but also the talent to bring it off in JACK FAUST, a (perhaps) science fictional variation on the classic fantasy story.
		In JACK FAUST, Swanwick offers the possibility that Mephistopheles is not the devil, as such, but the personification of an alien intelligence determined to see humanity destroy itself through the gift of premature knowledge.
		Swanwick paints a very convincing picture of the era, both pre- and post-Faustian influence, and has a smooth and absorbing prose style.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /reviews/jrussell/jackfaustpbkjr.html (380 words)

	Michael Swanwick, Jack Faust
		As is traditional, Swanwick’s Faust is a scholar in early Sixteenth Century Germany, who finds the limited academic knowledge of his time superstitious and restrictive; he offers his soul to any higher power that will provide him enlightenment to awe and reform the world.
		Swanwick has mordant fun with scenarios such as a Spanish Armada composed of ironclad warships, an industrialized Tudor England, and alchemists becoming chemists in pharmaceutical concerns.
		In Jack Faust’s love for Margarete Reinhardt, a skillfully drawn microcosm of his wider relationship with the world, the effects of these tendencies are seen: to win her, Faust unleashes his first wave of catastrophic technologies; then, when he loses her, his bitterness inspires him to the project of human extinction.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Rampart/2547/skyq.htm (506 words)

	Michael Swanwick, Bones of the Earth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Michael Swanwick has long had a soft spot in his literary heart for dinosaurs, but his passion has only rarely risen to the surface.
		But these are scientists and their insatiable curiosity means that the research continues, as much for their sanity as for posterity should they eventually be rescued.
		And Swanwick has great fun postulating saurian behavior and communication while the team is trapped in prehistory.
	www.rambles.net /swanwick_bones02.html (536 words)

	"Cigar-Box Faust" by Michael Swanwick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This collection of award-winning author Michael Swanwick’s short-short fiction is a work of masterfully-sustained whimsy for adults unlike anything you’ve ever read.
		Michael Swanwick made his initial reputation with stories like "The Feast of Saint Janis" and "Mummer Kiss," and followed these with a string of exceptional novels such as Stations of the Tide and The Iron Dragon's Daughter.
		Some were written specifically to amuse Swanwick's wife, or son, or favorite editors, and these happy origins may contribute to the effect.
	www.tachyonpublications.com /book/Cigar_Box_Faust.html?Session_ID=new&Reference_Page=/newbooks.html (1273 words)

	DarkEcho Review: Jack Faust by Michael Swanwick
		While exploring his own themes, Swanwick also makes the point that Jack Dann made in his excellent novel The Memory Cathedral: that man, by nature, is a brutal creature, who, given a choice, will pervert the wonders of science.
		Unlike Dann's protagonist (Leonardo da Vinci), Swanwick's Faust is virtually blind to the mayhem he's created, and becomes the prime mover in humanity's inexorable march to extinction.
		Swanwick seems to be reminding readers of the old adage, "Be careful what you wish for, because you may get it." Doing so, he provides a valuable, and extremely winning entertainment.
	www.darkecho.com /darkecho/reviews/jack_faust.html (411 words)

	Michael Swanwick - Old Earth Books
		Michael Swanwick takes an in-depth critical look at the fiction of an author whose editing career has overshadowed his thoughtful, interesting writing.
		How he and Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick became the Fiction Factory — a small group of science fiction writers in the 70s and 80s who primarily sold to the slicks, because the sf magazine editors of the time weren't looking at their type of fiction.
		Critical commentary, history, biography, Being Gardner Dozois is Michael Swanwick's bravura homage to a friend that goes beyond the norm, and engages the reader in a document that every serious fan of the genre must have.
	www.oldearthbooks.com /swanwick.htm (266 words)

	AwardWeb: How Michael Swanwick Received His Australian Hugo in Massachusetts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		So, at the 1999 Worldcon in Australia, Michael Swanwick's short story "The Very Pulse of the Machine" won the Hugo.
		Michael, who lived half a world away in Philadelphia, did not get to Australia so he sent along a representative to pick it up.
		However, someone noticed that Michael's name had been misspelled on the Hugo, so the award stayed in Australia to be repaired.
	dpsinfo.com /awardweb/hugos/swanwick99.html (155 words)

	Review of Michael Swanwick's Gravity's Angels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Swanwick creates character interplay that dramatizes the issues at the same time as it holds our interest.
		Swanwick's story is set in an unspecified period that has mythological/futuristic overtones, with a title character who is immortal but has been blinded.
		The stories in it might not be as good as the work Swanwick has produced subsequently, but the book is worth reading both in its right and as a way to trace the development of the career of a major writer in the genre.
	www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/gravitysangels.htm (875 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Bones of the Earth: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But there are a few strings attached to the offer: time travel is a secret, and he can’t divulge any of his findings to the world at large, nor can he, by either action or word, be the cause of a time-wrecking paradox.
		Thematically, Swanwick looks at the reasons people work beyond that of merely surviving, and the lengths some people will go to, including murder, due to their obsessions with some form of ‘belief’ system (in this case, the major players are the Creationists and federal bureaucrats).
		For anyone other than a paleontologist who is highly familiar with the various classes and species of dinosaurs, a lot of the description of these animals will seem to be couched in almost impenetrable scientific terms (quick, off the top of your head, what’s a ‘hadrosaur’?).
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0380812894 (1011 words)

	Vacuum Flowers by Michael Swanwick, a science fiction book
		This futuristic cyberpunk novel, set mostly in space settlements in the asteroids, tells the story of a woman named Eucrasia Walsh who liked the persona of Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark so much that she became her.
		Michael Swanwick (1950-) is a US writer of novels, nonfiction, and short fiction.
		It's an in-depth interview with Dozois, who is the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine and a SF writer, by Swanwick.
	members.aol.com /misuly/swanwick.htm (400 words)

	MICHAEL SWANWICK - BOOK HELP WEB AUTHOR PROFILE
		Michael Swanwick is a writer who likes a challenge.
		Whether it is embarking on a career with little but ideas and determination or producing a short story a week that corresponds to each element on the periodic table, Swanwick has been a prolific and well-decorated science fiction writer since the early 80s.
		Swanwick has numerous nominations and has won the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards.
	www.bookhelpweb.com /authors/swanwick/swanwick.htm (93 words)

	Twilight Times Reviews
		But, (I would not be writing this now if there were not a big solid but) like any good paleontologist, Michael Swanwick knows just how to excavate said fossil and bring the past back to life in a whole new glorious way.
		Much like Michael Moorcock, John Updike, and the late Donald Barthelme, Swanwick is fusing genres and writing styles in new and exciting ways.
		But in the "real" world of the novel, the best parts are when Swanwick is truly engaged in exploring his characters or in expounding his theories and high-fiving the dinosaur-digging community.
	www.etext.org /Zines/ASCII/TwilightTimes/reviews.html (4875 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Moon Dogs by Michael Swanwick
		This story is nominated for the 2001 Hugo Award for a very good reason: Michael Swanwick is one of the best short story writers in the business.
		In the case of the two main characters in "Moon Dogs", it leads to their fateful meeting in the woods, and neither of them will be the same afterwards.
		Swanwick's prose will forever change how you look at the little things in life, and this story is no different.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook823.htm (821 words)

	Michael Swanwick, Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures
		Lest you believe that this book is about the tiny little whatnots you'd see in the homes of well-to-do women of a certain age, let me clarify.
		Swanwick gives us a peek into the process a writer goes through when trying to come up with an updated biography every time something new is published.
		Swanwick is an award winning science-fiction writer, with scads of awards under his belt, including Hugo and Nebula awards for his work.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_swanwick_cigarboxfaust.html (643 words)

	Crescent Blues Book Views \| Michael Swanwick: Tales of Old Earth
		Swanwick's sense of the absurd drifts over even more arcane subjects, finally degenerating to the totally obscure.
		Swanwick's quirky style marches along, sometimes briskly, sometimes as a slow drawl that builds to an unusual climax.
		A surprising question, because the plots of Swanwick's tales tend to the mundane.
	www.crescentblues.com /3_6issue/tales_old_earth.shtml (405 words)

	"Michael Swanwick's Field Guide to Mesozoic Megafauna" by Michael Swanwick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Michael Crichton’s dinosaurs were never quite like this.
		In this companion volume to Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures, Swanwick continues to delight readers with his mastery of the short-short story, aka microfiction.
		Swanwick is the only writer we know of who is successfully writing in the short-short story genre, and at he has finally turned his attention to dinosaurs.
	www.tachyonpublications.com /book/Megafauna.html?Session_ID=new&Reference_Page=/newbooks.html (427 words)

	Amazon.com: The Iron Dragon's Daughter: Books: Michael Swanwick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Swanwick's nihilistic tale features a human changeling who tries to make her way in a cutthroat society that mirrors contemporary life.
		Nebula Award-winner Swanwick (Stations of the Tide) develops a powerful, yet dark and hopeless fantasy that should forever shatter charming illusions of Faerie and its folk.
		Swanwick (Stations of the Tide, Avon, 1992) brings his particular brand of elan to the fairy world, where high tech and magic are interdependent and where the denizens of folklore include leather-clad werewolves, half-elven pilots, and brash dwarven mechanics.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380972336?v=glance (766 words)

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