Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick
Swanwick in 2019
Born	(1950-11-18) November 18, 1950
Occupation	Author
Period	1980s–present
Genre	Science fiction, fantasy
Website
michaelswanwick.com

Michael Swanwick (born November 18, 1950) is an American fantasy and science fiction author who began publishing in the early 1980s.

Writing career

At the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005

At the Avram Davidson tribute, NYC, 2007

Swanwick's fiction writing began with short stories, starting in 1980 when he published "Ginungagap" in TriQuarterly and "The Feast of St. Janis" in New Dimensions 11. Both stories were nominees for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 1981. His first novel was In the Drift (an Ace Special, 1985), a look at the results of a more catastrophic Three Mile Island incident, which expands on his earlier short story "Mummer's Kiss". This was followed in 1987 by Vacuum Flowers, an adventurous tour of an inhabited Solar System, where the people of Earth have been subsumed by a cybernetic mass-mind. Some characters’ bodies contain multiple personalities, which can be recorded and edited (or damaged) as if they were wetware.

In the 1990s, Swanwick moved towards the intersection between science fiction, fantasy, and magical realism. Stations of the Tide (1991) is the story of a bureaucrat's pursuit of a magician on a world soon to be altered by its 50-year tide swell; it is set far in the future, blurring the line between magic and technology. The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993) is a fantasy set in a Fairyland based on modern America, with elves wearing Armani suits and dragons serving as jet fighters. The main character, a changeling stolen from the real world, struggles to survive a factory, a high school, and a university, all the while being manipulated by a dragon. In Jack Faust (1997), a retelling of the Faust legend, the scholar does not gain magical power but modern scientific knowledge with which he begins the Industrial Revolution centuries early.

In the 2000s, Swanwick wrote several series of flash fictions, beginning with Puck Aleshire's Abecedary, a collection of 26 stories, each titled for a different letter of the alphabet. Other series included The Periodic Table of Science Fiction, 118 stories each themed about a different chemical element. These were originally published in Sci Fiction. Later, The Infinite Matrix published The Sleep of Reason, in which each story was based on one of Goya’s caprichos. In this period, he won several awards for short fiction; between 1999 and 2003, he had nine stories shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story, and won in 1999, 2000, and 2002.

He also continued to write novels. Bones of the Earth (2002) is a time travel story involving dinosaurs. The Dragons of Babel (2008) is set in the same world as The Iron Dragon's Daughter, although the setting and characters are different; The Iron Dragon's Mother (2019) was a third volume in the series. He has written two novels featuring the posthuman rogues Darger and Surplus, who had already appeared in short stories: Dancing with Bears (2011) concerns their adventures in post-Utopian Russia, and in “Chasing the Phoenix” (2015) they travel to China. After Gardner Dozois's death, Swanwick completed his unfinished novel City Under the Stars.

His many works of short fiction have been collected in Gravity's Angels (1991), Moon Dogs (2000), Tales of Old Earth (2000), and others. A novella, Griffin's Egg, was published in book form in 1991 and is also collected in Moon Dogs. He has collaborated with other authors on several short works, including Gardner Dozois ("Ancestral Voices", "City of God", "Snow Job") and William Gibson ("Dogfight").

Stations of the Tide won the Nebula for best novel in 1991, and several of his shorter works have won awards as well: the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for "The Edge of the World" in 1989, the World Fantasy Award for "Radio Waves" in 1996, and Hugos for "The Very Pulse of the Machine" in 1999, "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" in 2000, "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" in 2002, "Slow Life" in 2003, and "Legions in Time" in 2004.

Nonfiction writing

Swanwick has written about the field as well. He published two long essays on the state of the science fiction ("The User's Guide to the Postmoderns", 1986) and fantasy ("In the Tradition...", 1994), the former of which was controversial for its categorization of new SF writers into "cyberpunk" and "literary humanist" camps. Both essays were collected together in The Postmodern Archipelago 1997. A book-length interview with Gardner Dozois, Being Gardner Dozois, was published in 2001. He is a prolific contributor to the New York Review of Science Fiction. Swanwick wrote a monograph on James Branch Cabell, What Can Be Saved From the Wreckage?, which was published in 2007 with a preface by Barry Humphries, and a short literary biography of Hope Mirrlees, Hope-in-the-Mist, which was published in 2009.

Television and film

Swanwick's short stories "Ice Age" and "The Very Pulse of the Machine" from Tales of Old Earth were adapted for the Netflix series Love, Death + Robots (2019) for its first and third seasons respectively.

Personal life

Swanwick thanks his wife, Marianne C. Porter, in all his books, referring to her as "the M. C. Porter Endowment for the Arts".

He was a friend of Gardner Dozois and Susan Caspar for many years. From this friendship grew Being Gardner Dozois and several collaborations, including the novel City Under the Stars.

Awards

Michael Swanwick's Literary Awards

Work	Awards
The Feast of Saint Janis	1981 Nebula Award (Novelette): Nominated 1981 Locus Award (Novelette): Nominated
Ginungagap	1981 Nebula Award (Novelette): Nominated 1981 Locus Award (Novelette): Nominated
Mummer Kiss	1982 SF Chronicle Award (Novelette): Won 1982 Locus Award (Novelette): Nominated 1982 Nebula Award (Novelette): Nominated
Walden Three	1982 Locus Award (Novelette): Nominated
The Man Who Met Picasso	1983 World Fantasy Award (Short Fiction): Nominated 1983 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
Marrow Death	1985 Nebula Award (Novella): Nominated 1985 Locus Award (Novella): Nominated
Trojan Horse	1985 Nebula Award (Novelette): Nominated 1985 Locus Award (Novelette): Nominated
When the Music's Over...	1985 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
Dogfight	1986 SF Chronicle Award (Novelette): Nominated 1986 Hugo Award (Novelette): Nominated 1986 Locus Award (Novelette): Nominated 1986 Nebula Award (Novelette): Nominated
In The Drift	1986 Locus Award (First Novel): Nominated
The Blind Minotaur'	1986 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
The Gods of Mars	1986 Nebula Award (Short Story): Nominated 1986 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
The Transmigration of Philip K.	1986 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
A Midwinter's Tale	1988 Asimov's Readers' Poll (Short Story): Won 1989 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
Vacuum Flowers	1988 Locus Award (SF Novel): Nominated
The Dragon Line	1989 Locus Award (Novelette): Nominated 1989 Asimov's Readers' Poll (Short Story): 7th Place
The Edge of the World	1990 Hugo Award (Short Story): Nominated 1990 World Fantasy Award (Short Fiction): Nominated 1990 Theodore Sturgeon Award: Won 1990 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
Snow Angels	1990 Locus Award (Novelette): Nominated
UFO	1991 Locus Award (Novelette): Nominated
Stations of the Tide	1992 SF Chronicle Award (Novel): Won 1992 Nebula Award (Novel): Won 1992 John W. Campbell Memorial Award: Nominated 1992 Hugo Award (Novel): Nominated 1992 Locus Award (SF Novel): Nominated 1993 Arthur C. Clarke Award (Science Fiction Novel): Finalist 1999 Kurd Laßwitz Award (Foreign Work): Nominated
Griffin's Egg	1992 SF Chronicle Award (Novella): Nominated 1992 Asimov's Readers' Poll (Novella): 5th Place 1992 Hugo Award (Novella): Nominated 1992 Locus Award (Novella): Nominated 1993 Nebula Award (Novella): Nominated
Gravity's Angels	1992 Locus Award (Collection): Nominated 1999 Kurd Laßwitz Award (Foreign Work): Nominated
In Concert	1993 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated>
Cold Iron	1993 Asimov's Readers' Poll (Novella): 2nd Place 1995 Nebula Award (Novella): Nominated
The Changeling's Tale	1994 Asimov's Readers' Poll (Short Story): 8th Place 1995 World Fantasy Award (Short Fiction): Nominated 1995 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
The Iron Dragon's Daughter	1994 Arthur C. Clarke Award: Finalist 1994 World Fantasy Award (Novel): Nominated 1994 Locus Award (Fantasy Novel): Nominated
The Mask	1995 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
Walking Out	1995 Asimov's Readers' Poll (Short Story): 6th Place 1996 Hugo Award (Short Story): Nominated 1996 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
The City of God (With Gardner Dozois)	1996 Locus Award (Novella): Nominated 1996: Asimov's Readers' Poll (Novella): 6th Place
Radio Waves	1996 World Fantasy Award (Novella): Won 1996 HOMer Award (Novelette): Nominated 1997 Theodore Sturgeon Award: Finalist 1997 Locus Award (Novelette): Nominated
The Dead	1997 Hugo Award (Short Story): Nominated 1997 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated 1998 Nebula Award (Short Story): Nominated
Jack Faust	1997 Sidewise Award for Alternate History (Long Form): Nominated 1997 BSFA Award (Novel): Nominated 1998 Locus Award (Fantasy Novel): Nominated 1998 Hugo Award (Novel): Nominated
A Geography of Unknown Lands	1998 World Fantasy Award (Collection): Nominated 1998 Locus Award (Collection): Nominated
Ancestral Voices (with Gardner Dozois)	1998 Asimov's Readers' Poll (Novella): 4th Place 1999 Locus Award (Novella): Nominated
Radiant Doors	1998 Asimov's Readers' Poll (Short Story): Won 1999 Hugo Award (Short Story): Nominated 1999 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated 2000 Nebula Award (Short Story): Nominated
The Very Pulse of the Machine	1998 Asimov's Readers' Poll (Short Story): 3rd Place 1999 Hugo Award (Short Story): Won 1999 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
Mother Grasshopper	1998 Locus Award (Novelette): Nominated
The Wisdom of Old Earth	1998 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
Wild Minds	1999 Hugo Award (Short Story): Nominated 1999 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
Microcosmic Dog	1999 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
Ancient Engines	1999 Asimov's Readers' Poll (Short Story): Won 2000 Hugo Award (Short Story): Nominated 2000 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated 2000 Nebula Award (Short Story): Nominated
Archaic Planets: Nine Excerpts from the Encyclopedia Galactica	1999 Asimov's Readers' Poll (Short Story): 3rd Place
Scherzo with Tyrannosaur	1999: Asimov's Readers' Poll (Short Story): 4th Place 2000 Hugo Award (Short Story): Won 2000 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated 2001 Nebula Award (Short Story): Nominated
Riding the Giganotosaur	1999 Asimov's Readers' Poll (Short Story): 7th Place
Moon Dogs	2000: HOMer Award (Short Story): Nominated 2000 Asimov's Readers' Poll (Short Story): 6th Place 2001 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated 2001 Hugo Award (Short Story): Nominated
Moon Dogs (Collection)	2001 Locus Award (Collection): Nominated
Green Fire	2000 Asimov's Readers' Poll (Novella): 8th Place
The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O	2001 World Fantasy Award (Short Fiction): Nominated 2001 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
Tales of Old Earth	2001 Locus Award (Collection): Won
The Dog Said Bow-Wow	2001 Asimov's Readers' Poll (Short Story): 4th Place 2002 Hugo Award (Short Story): Won 2002 Theodore Sturgeon Award (Short Science Fiction): Finalist 2002 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated 2003 Nebula Award (Short Story): Nominated
The Dog Said Bow-Wow (Collection)	2008 Locus Award (Collection): Nominated
The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport	2002 Asimov's Readers' Poll (Short Story): 3rd Place 2003 Hugo Award (Short Story): Nominated 2003: Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
Slow Life	2002 Analog Award (Novelette): 5th Place 2003 Hugo Award (Novelette): Won 2003 Locus Award (Novelette): Nominated
Being Gardner Dozois	2002 Hugo Award (Related Work): Nominated 2002 Locus Award (Non-Fiction): Won
Five British Dinosaurs	2002 BSFA Award (Short Fiction): Nominated
Hello, Said the Stick	2003 Hugo Award (Short Story): Nominated 2003 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
Bones of the Earth	2003 Hugo Award (Novel): Nominated 2003 Nebula Award (Novel): Nominated 2003 John W. Campbell Memorial Award: Finalist 2003 Locus Award (SF Novel): Nominated
Dirty Little War	2003 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
Legions in Time	2003 Asimov's Readers' Poll (Novelette): 6th Place 2004 Hugo Award (Novelette): Won 2004 Locus Award (Novelette): Nominated
Coyote at the End of History	2003 Asimov's Readers' Poll (Short Story): Won
Deep in the Woods of Grammarie	2004 Locus Award] (Short Story): Nominated
King Dragon	2004 Locus Award (Novelette): Nominated
Smoke and Mirrors: Four Scenes from the Post-utopian Future	2004 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
The Last Geek	2005 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
The Word that Sings the Scythe	2005 Locus Award (Novelette): Nominated
Girls and Boys, Come Out to Play	2006 Locus Award (Novelette): Nominated
Triceratops Summer	2006 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
Lord Weary's Empire	2006 Asimov's Readers' Poll (Novella): 3rd Place 2007 Theodore Sturgeon Award: 3rd Place 2007 Hugo Award (Novella): Nominated 2007 Locus Award (Novella): Nominated
Tin Marsh	2007: Locus Award (Short Story) - Tin Marsh - Nominated
A Small Room in Koboldtown	2008 Hugo Award (Short Story): Nominated 2008 Locus Award (Short Story): Won
The Skysailor's Tale	2008 Locus Award (Novelette): Nominated
Urdumheim	2008 Locus Award (Novelette): Nominated
From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled	2008 Asimov's Readers' Poll (Short Story): 2nd Place 2009 Hugo Award (Short Story): Nominated 2009 Theodore Sturgeon Award (Short Science Fiction): Finalist 2009 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
The Dragons of Babel	2009 Locus Award (Fantasy Novel): Nominated 2009 Alex Awards: Won 2011 FantLab's Book of the Year Award (Translated Novel/Collection): Nominated
The Best of Michael Swanwick	2009 Locus Award (Collection): Nominated 2015 FantLab's Book of the Year Award (Translated Novel/Collection by Foreign Writer): Nominated
The Scarecrow's Boy	2009 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
Libertarian Russia	2010 Asimov's Readers' Poll (Short Story): Won 2011 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
Hope-in-the-Mist: The Extraordinary Career and Mysterious Life of Hope Mirrlees	2010 Hugo Award (Best Related Work): Nominated 2010 Locus Award (Non-Fiction/Art Book): Nominated
Zeppelin City (with Eileen Gunn)	2010 Locus Award (Novelette): Nominated
Dancing With Bears	2012 John W. Campbell Memorial Award: Finalist 2012 Locus Award (SF Novel): Nominated
For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I’ll Not Be Back Again	2012 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
The Dala Horse	2012 Locus Award (Novelette): Nominated
The She-Wolf's Hidden Grin	2014 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
Of Finest Scarlet Was Her Gown	2015 Locus Award (Novelette): Nominated
Passage of Earth	2015 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
Tawny Petticoats	2015 Locus Award (Novelette): Nominated
Lock Up Your Chickens and Daughters -- H'ard and Andy Are Come to Town	2015 Asimov's Readers' Poll (Novelette): Won
The Pyramid of Krakow	2016 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
Chasing the Phoenix	2016 Locus Award (SF Novel): Nominated
Not So Much, Said the Cat	2017 Locus Award (Collection): Nominated
Starlight Express	2018 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
The Iron Dragon's Mother	2020 Locus Award (Fantasy Novel): Nominated
City Under the Stars (with Gardner Dozois)	2021 Locus Award (SF Novel): Nominated
The Postutopian Adventures of Darger and Surplus	2021 Locus Award (Collection): Nominated
Huginn and Muninn -- and What Came After	2022 Locus Award (Short Story): Nominated
The Best of Michael Swanwick, Volume Two	2024 Locus Award (Collection): Nominated

Swanwick is also the winner of the 1991 Inkpot Award, the 2010 Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association's "Toastmaster Award" & the 2020 Aelita Prize

Bibliography

Novels

• In the Drift (1985)
• Vacuum Flowers (1987)
• Stations of the Tide (1991)
• Jack Faust (1997)
• Bones of the Earth (2002)
• City Under the Stars (2020), with Gardner Dozois

Iron Dragon's Daughter series

• The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993)
• The Dragons of Babel (2008)
• The Iron Dragon's Mother (2019)

Darger and Surplus series

• Dancing With Bears (2011)
• Chasing the Phoenix (2015)

Short fiction

Collections

• Gravity's Angels (Arkham House Publishers, 1991)
• A Geography of Unknown Lands (1997)
• Moon Dogs (2000)
• Puck Aleshire's Abecedary (2000)
• Tales of Old Earth (Tachyon Publications, 2000)
• Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures (Tachyon Publications, 2003)
• Michael Swanwick's Field Guide to the Mesozoic Megafauna (Tachyon Publications, 2004)
• The Periodic Table of Science Fiction (2005)
• The Dog Said Bow-Wow (Tachyon Publications, 2007)
• The Best of Michael Swanwick (2008)
• It Came Upon a Midnight: Three Brief Midwinter Tales (2011)
• Midwinter Elves: Three Brief Midwinter Tales (2012)
• Solstice Fire (2013)
• Season's Greetings (2014)
• Not So Much, Said the Cat (Tachyon Publications, 2016)
• The Best of Michael Swanwick: Volume Two (2023)

Stories

• "The Feast of Saint Janis" (1980) (Novelette)
• Ginungagap (1980) (Novelette)
• "Walden Three" (1981) (Novelette)
• Touring (1981) (with Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois)
• Til Human Voices Wake Us (1981) (Novelette)'
• Mummer's Kiss (1981) (Novelette)
• "The Man Who Met Picasso" (1982)
• Golden Apples of the Sun (1984) (with Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois) (Novelette)
• Ice Age (1984)
• Afternoon at Schrafft's (1984) (with Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois)
• Virgin Territory (1984) (with Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois) (Novelette)
• When the Music's Over... (1984)
• Trojan Horse (1984) (Novelette)
• Marrow Death (1984) (Novella)
• "The Transmigration of Philip K." (1985)
• "The Gods of Mars" (1985) (with Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann)
• "Dogfight" (1985) (Novelette) (with William Gibson)
• The Blind Minotaur (1985)
• Anyone Here From Utah? (1985)
• Snow Job (1985) (with Gardner Dozois)
• Covenant of Souls (1986)
• Foresight (1987)
• The Overcoat (1988)
• The Dragon Line (1988)
• A Midwinter's Tale (1988)
• Snow Angels (1989) (Novelette)
• "The Edge of the World" (1989)
• U.F.O. (1990)
• Griffen's Egg (1991) (Novella)
• Fantasies (1991) (with Tom Sullivan)
• The Wireless Folly (1992)
• In Concert (1992)
• Picasso Deconstructed: Eleven Still-Lifes (1993)
• Cold Iron (1993) (Novella)
• The Changeling's Tale (1994)
• The Mask (1994)
• Walking Out (1995)
• North of Diddy-Wah-Diddy (1995) (Novelette)
• Radio Waves (1995) (Novelette)
• The City of God (1995) (with Gardner Dozois) (Novella)
• Ships (1996) (with Jack Dann) (Novelette)
• An Abecedary of the Imagination (1996)
• Mother Grasshopper (1997)
• The Wisdom of Old Earth (1997)
• Midnight Express (1998)
• Wild Minds (1998)
• 120 is for Issues (1998)
• Ancestoral Voices (1998) (with Gardner Dozois) (Novella)
• Microcosmic Dog (1998)
• Archaic Planets: Nine Excerpts from the Encyclopedia Galactica (1998) (with Sean Swanwick)
• "The Dead" (1996)
• "The Very Pulse of the Machine" (1998)
• "Radiant Doors" (1999)
• "Ancient Engines" (1999)
• "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" (1999)
• Green Fire (1999) (with Andy Duncan, Eileen Gunn & Pat Murphy) (Novelette)
• Riding the Giganotosaur (1999)
• Mickelrede; or, The Slayer and the Staff: A Ghost-Novel (2000) (with Avram Davidson)
• The Madness of Gordon Van Gelder (2000)
• Letter to the Editor (2001)
• "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" (2001)
• Five British Dinosaurs (2002)
• A Great Day for Brontosaurs (2002)
• "'Hello,' Said the Stick" (2002)
• Dirty Little War (2002)
• "Slow Life" (2002) (Novelette)
• King Dragon (2003) (Novelette)
• "Legions in Time" (2003) (Novelette)
• Smoke and Mirrors: Four Scenes from the Post-Utopian Future (2003)
• A Bicentinial Minute (2003)
• Bastards (2003)
• Ether (2003)
• Glass Soul (2003)
• Stage Direction (2003)
• Xeroxing (2003)
• Coyote at the end of History (2003)
• Deep in the Woods of Grammarie (2003)
• The Last Geek (2004)
• The Word that Sings the Scythe (2004) (Novelette)
• Triceritops Summer (2005)
• The Bordello in Faerie (2006)
• An Episode of Stardust (2006)
• Lord Weary's Empire (2006) (Novella)
• "Tin Marsh" (2006) (Novelette)
• "Urdumheim" (2007) (Novelette)
• A Small Room in Koboldtown (2007)
• Congratulations from the Future! (2007)
• The End of All Things (2007)
• The Mental Dagueereotype (2007) (with Anthony Trollope)
• The Skysailor's Tale (2007) (Novelette)
• "The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport" (2008) - a Darger and Surplus tale
• From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled... (2008)
• Shed that Guilt! Double Your Productivity Overnight! (2008) (with Eileen Gunn)
• The Scarecrow's Boy (2008)
• Hush and Hark (2008)
• Metasciencefiction (2008)
• The Armies of Elfland (2009) (with Eileen Gunn) (Novelette)
• The Magaracs: A Family Saga, in Fragments (2009)
• Zeppelin City (2011) (with Eileen Gunn) (Novelette)
• Last Drink Bird Head (2009)
• Invisibility for Beginners (2009)
• Goblin Lake (2010)
• Steadfast Castle (2010)
• Spirits in the Night (2010)
• Libertarian Russia (2010)
• The Trains that Climb the Winter Tree (2011) (with Eileen Gunn) (Novelette)
• Manger Animals (2011)
• Mrs. Claus (2011)
• Snowflake People (2011)
• The Brain Baron (2011)
• Cold Reading (2011)
• An Empty House with Many Doors (2011)
• The Man in Grey (2011)
• "For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I'll Not Be Back Again" (2011)
• "The Dala Horse" (2011) (Novelette), 3 "Best of" reprints
• Adam's Third Wife (2012)
• Cookie Elves (2012)
• Meryons (2012)
• Pushkin the American (2012)
• The Woman Who Shook the World-Tree (2012)
• The Year of the Three Monarchs (2012)
• Tumbling (2013)
• Bone-Fire Time (2013)
• Interview with a Salamander (2013)
• Mice Discover Fire (2013)
• Ministering Angels (2014)
• One Mile Below (2014)
• Santas of All Nations (2014)
• Straws (2014)
• Of Finest Scarlett Was Her Gown (2014) (Novelette)
• Passage of Earth (2014)
• Six Untitled Tales Written in Mark Twain's Library (2014)
• 3 A.M. in the Mesezoic Bar (2014)
• Lock Up Your Chickens and Daughters - H'ard and Andy Are Come to Town (2015) (with Gregory Frost) (Novelette)
• Universe Box (2016) (Novelette)
• Starlight Express (2017)
• Eighteen Songs by Debussy (2019)
• Ghost Ships (2019)
• Cloud (2019)
• Dragon Slayer (2020)
• Artificial People (2020)
• The Last Days of Old Night (2020)
• Dream Atlas (2021)
• Dreadnought (2021)
• Huginn and Muninn - and What Came After (2021)
• The Beast of Tara (2022)
• The White Leopard (2022)
• Nirvana or Bust (2022)
• Reservoir Ice (2022)
• The Star-Bear (2023)
• Timothy: An Oral Histroy (2023)
• Unquiet Graves (2024)
• The Mongolian Wizard series
  • "The Mongolian Wizard" (2012)
  • "The Fire Gown" (2012)
  • "Day of the Kraken" (2012)
  • "House of Dreams" (2013)
  • "The Night of the Salamander" (2015)
  • "The Pyramid of Krakow" (2015)
  • "The Phantom in the Maze" (2015)
  • "Murder in the Spook House" (2019)
  • "The New Prometheus" (2019)
  • "Halcyon Afternoon" (2024)
  • "Dragons of Paris" (2024)

Poems

• Hooray for Eileen! (1994)
• Cigar-Box Faust (2003)

Non-Fiction

• The Postmodern Archipelago (1997)
• Being Gardner Dozois: An Interview by Michael Swanwick (2001)
• What Can Be Saved from the Wreckage?: James Branch Cabell in the Twenty-First Century (2007)
• Hope-in-the-Mist: The Extraordinary Career and Mysterious Life of Hope Mirrlees (2009)
• October Leaves (2010)
• Hunting the Phoenix (2015)
• Being Gardner Dozois (2018) (with Gardner Dozois)
• 'She Saved Us From World War Three': Gardner Dozois Remembers James Tiptree, Jr. (2020)

Critical studies and reviews of Swanwick's work

Chasing the Phoenix

• Sakers, Don (September 2015). "The Reference Library". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (9): 105–108.

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Notes

External links

• Swanwick's weblog
• Michael Swanwick at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Michael Swanwick's online fiction at Free Speculative Fiction Online
• "October Leaves", a photo-story at Flickr