"The Postmodern Archipelago" by Michael Swanwick



			The Postmodern Archipelago by Michael Swanwick

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Michael Swanwick has received the Hugo, Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards for his work. Stations of the Tide was honored with the Nebula Award and was also nominated for the Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Awards. "The Edge of the World," was awarded the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award in 1989. It was also nominated for both the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. "Radio Waves" received the World Fantasy Award in 1996.

His stories have appeared in Omni, Penthouse, Amazing, Asimov's, High Times, New Dimensions, Starlight, Universe, and Full Spectrum. Many have been reprinted in Best of the Year anthologies, and translated for Japanese, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish and French publications. His books include In the Drift, an Ace Special; Vacuum Flowers; Griffin's Egg; Stations of the Tide The Iron Dragon's Daughter, a New York Times Notable Book; and Gravity's Angels, a short story collection.

He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Marianne Porter, and their son, Sean. Currently out from Tiger Eyes Press is A Geography of Unknown Lands, a short story collection. His latest novel, Jack Faust, was published by Avon Books. He is now working on another novel.

Comments by Michael Swanwick:

My father was an engineer, and in the normal course of things, I probably would have become one as well. But I was lured away from the engineering by science, and then lured away from science by literature. Science fiction allows me to keep faith with my past as well as my future. The works themselves range from hard science fiction to stone fantasy, with stops at all stations in between, and are written at whatever length is best. There is much about them that seems obvious to me, much that cuts close to the bone. But I'm neither a confessional writer nor a ventriloquist. Stories must speak for themselves or not at all.


	Reviews of "A User's Guide to the Post Moderns" Juicy and intelligent, these critical overviews provide a valuable snapshot of our field . . . *- Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine* Some of the writers that he praises may actually believe that they are as important to the field of science fiction as Swanwick says they are. The more they believe that, the more it will hurt when a more accurate perspective is forced upon them. *- Orson Scott Card* A bilious assemblage of self-congratulatory twaddle. . . jejune mixture of bluster and untried arrogance. . . My God, if this is the direction science fiction is going, it is doomed. . . .A self-conscious piece of snobbery not worth the powder to blow it to Kingdom Come. Like reading a history of Europe written from the point of view of Bulgaria. Swanwick's article has proved nothing, clarified nothing, accomplished nothing except to get his name before a large number of people where he can spout his conspiracy-literary theories in a pseudo-journalistic 'I'm above all this' manner better served by UFO magazines and the Flat Earth Society newsletter. Praise for "In the Tradition. . ." A brave, lonely attempt to stem the tide. *- Nova Express* An incisive essay. . . *- Publisher's Weekly* Thought-provoking and informative, the essay is as beautifully penned as any of the works lauded therein. *- Terri Windling*


	Books by Michael Swanwick In the Drift (1985) Vacuum Flowers (1987) Griffin's Egg (1990) Gravity's Angels: 13 Stories (1991) Stations of the Tide(1991) The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993) A Geography of Unknown Lands (1997) Jack Faust(1997) Moon Dogs(2000) Tales of Old Earth (2000) Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures (forthcoming) Bones of the Earth (forthcoming) Non-Fiction Books by Michael Swanwick The Postmodern Archipelago (1997) Being Gardner Dozois (forthcoming)

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