Michael Swanwick is an American science fiction author who has been publishing sci-fi stories since the 1980s. He won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1991 for Stations of the Tide. In addition to full-length novels, he has also written numerous short stories.

Not only has Swanwick won the Hugo award, he has also won five Huge awards and the World Fantasy Award. He has been nominated for many of these awards over the years and has the unique distinction of having lost more awards than any other writer. Swanwick lives in Philadelphia with his wife Marianne Porter and their child.

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Publication Order of Iron Dragon's Daughter Books

The Iron Dragon's Daughter(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dragons of Babel(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Iron Dragon's Mother(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Darger and Surplus Books

Dancing with Bears(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Chasing the Phoenix(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Postutopian Adventures of Darger and Surplus(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Mongolian Wizard Books

The Mongolian Wizard(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Fire Gown(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Day of the Kraken(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
House of Dreams(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Night of the Salamander(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Pyramid of Krakow(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Phantom in the Maze(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Murder in the Spook House(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The New Prometheus(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Halcyon Afternoon(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dragons of Paris(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

In the Drift(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Vacuum Flowers(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stations of the Tide(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Jack Faust(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bones of the Earth(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Man Who Met Picasso(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dogfight (in Omni) (With: William Gibson)(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Edge of the World(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Griffin's Egg(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Changeling\'s Tale(1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Walking Out (in Asimov's)(1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Radio Waves(1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dead (in Starlight 1)(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Very Pulse of the Machine (in The Best of...)(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Wild Minds (in The Best of...)(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Radiant Doors (in The Best of...)(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ancient Engines (in Asimov's)(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Scherzo with Tyrannosaur (in Asimov's)(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
'Hello,' Said the Stick(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Slow Life(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Legions in Time(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lord Weary’s Empire(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Small Room in Koboldtown(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Zeppelin City(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Trains That Climb the Winter Tree(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dala Horse(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Annie Without Crow(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Star-Bear(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Gravity's Angels(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales of Old Earth(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Geography of Unknown Lands(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Moon Dogs(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Michael Swanwick's Field Guide to Mesozoic Megafauna(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Periodic Table of Science Fiction(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dog Said Bow-Wow(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best of Michael Swanwick(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Not So Much, Said the Cat(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

The Postmodern Archipelago(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Being Gardner Dozois (With: Gardner Dozois)(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hope-in-the-Mist(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Year's Best SF Anthology Books

Year's Best SF (By: David G. Hartwell)(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 2 (By: David G. Hartwell,Sheila Finch)(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 3 (By: Paul Levinson,David G. Hartwell,Michael Moorcock)(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 4 (By: David G. Hartwell)(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 5 (By: David G. Hartwell)(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 6 (By: David G. Hartwell)(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 7 (By: Terry Bisson,David G. Hartwell,James K. Morrow,Kathryn Cramer)(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 8 (With: Terry Bisson,Ursula K. Le Guin,David G. Hartwell,Gene Wolfe,Charles Stross,Robert Sheckley,Michael Moorcock,Jack Williamson,Robert Reed,Paul Di Filippo,Nancy Kress,Greg Egan,Carol Emshwiller,Bruce Sterling,Geoffrey A. Landis,Charles Sheffield,Eleanor Arnason,J.R. Dunn,Kathryn Cramer,Ken Wharton,Richard Chwedyk,A.M. Dellamonica,Neal Asher,Robert Onopa)(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 9 (By: David G. Hartwell,Kathryn Cramer)(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 10 (By: David G. Hartwell,Brenda Cooper,Kathryn Cramer)(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 11 (With: Greg Bear,James Patrick Kelly,David G. Hartwell,Gardner Dozois,Liz Williams,Stephen Baxter,Daryl Gregory,Ken MacLeod,Ted Chiang,Peter F. Hamilton,Adam Roberts,Alastair Reynolds,Justina Robson,Gregory Benford,Bruce Sterling,Cory Doctorow,Joe Haldeman,Vonda N. McIntyre,Hannu Rajaniemi,Rudy Rucker,Tobias Buckell,Kathryn Cramer,Neal Asher,R. Garcia y Robertson,David Langford,Matthew Jarpe,Lauren McLaughlin,Larissa Lai,Oliver Morton,Bud Sparhawk,Alaya Dawn Johnson,Paul J. McAuley)(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 12 (By: David G. Hartwell,Michael Flynn,Kathryn Cramer,Charlie Rosenkrantz)(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 13 (By: David G. Hartwell,Kathryn Cramer)(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 14 (By: David G. Hartwell,Kathryn Cramer)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 15 (By: David G. Hartwell,Chris Roberson,Kathryn Cramer)(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 16 (By: David G. Hartwell,Kathryn Cramer)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 17 (By: David G. Hartwell,Carolyn Ives Gilman,Kathryn Cramer)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 18 (By: David G. Hartwell,Elizabeth Bear,Sean McMullen)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of William Gibson Short Stories/Novellas

(with William Gibson)

Dogfight (in Omni) (With: William Gibson)(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Winter Market (By: William Gibson)(1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of Universe Books

Universe 1 (By: Terry Carr)(1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Universe 2 (By: Terry Carr)(1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Universe 3 (By: Terry Carr)(1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Universe 4 (By: Terry Carr)(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Universe 5 (By: Terry Carr)(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Universe 6 (By: John Shirley,Terry Carr)(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Universe 7 (By: Terry Carr)(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Universe 8 (By: Terry Carr)(1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Universe 9 (By: John Shirley,Terry Carr)(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Universe 10 (By: Terry Carr)(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Universe 11 (With: Kim Stanley Robinson,William Gibson,Carter Scholz,Michael Bishop,Ian Watson,Nancy Kress,Carol Emshwiller,Josephine Saxton,Terry Carr)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Universe 12 (By: Terry Carr)(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Universe 13 (By: Kim Stanley Robinson,Lucius Shepard,Michael Bishop,Ian Watson,Terry Carr,Bruce Sterling,Leanne Frahm,Bill Bickel)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Universe 14 (By: Terry Carr)(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Universe 15 (By: Terry Carr)(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Universe 16 (By: Terry Carr)(1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Universe 17 (By: Terry Carr)(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of The Palencar Project Books

New World Blues (By: L.E. Modesitt Jr.)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dormanna (By: Gene Wolfe)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Thanatos Beach (By: James K. Morrow)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Woman Who Shook the World-Tree(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sigma Structure Symphony (By: Gregory Benford)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of The Witch Who Came In From The Cold Books

The Witch Who Came In From The Cold: Season One (With: Ian Tregillis,Max Gladstone,Lindsay Smith,Cassandra Rose Clarke)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Witch Who Came In From The Cold: The Complete Season 2 (By: Ian Tregillis,Fran Wilde,Max Gladstone,Lindsay Smith,Cassandra Rose Clarke)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of Year's Best Fantasy Books

Year's Best Fantasy (With: George R.R. Martin,Terry Goodkind,David G. Hartwell,Robert Sheckley,Nalo Hopkinson,Kathryn Cramer,Nicola Griffith,Alice Coppel-Tosic)(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best Fantasy 2 (By: David G. Hartwell,James K. Morrow,Kathryn Cramer)(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best Fantasy 3 (By: Kage Baker,Ursula K. Le Guin,David G. Hartwell,Charles de Lint,Neil Gaiman,China Miéville,Nalo Hopkinson,Kathryn Cramer,R. Garcia y Robertson,William Mingin,Patricia Bowne)(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best Fantasy 4 (By: Terry Bisson,David G. Hartwell,Kathryn Cramer)(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best Fantasy 5 (By: David G. Hartwell,Kathryn Cramer)(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best Fantasy 6 (By: David G. Hartwell,Neil Gaiman,Kathryn Cramer)(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best Fantasy 7 (By: David G. Hartwell,Kathryn Cramer,L.E. Modesitt Jr.)(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best Fantasy 8 (By: David G. Hartwell,Kathryn Cramer,David Ackert)(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best Fantasy 9 (By: David G. Hartwell,James K. Morrow,Kathryn Cramer)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Anthology series.

Publication Order of Anthologies

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If You Like Michael Swanwick Books, You’ll Love…

The Iron Dragon’s Daughter is the first in a series that combines cyberpunk with dystopic fantasy. Jane is a changeling who is trapped in a factory run by aristocratic high elves. The factory puts underage people to work and Jane is the only human. They are building cybernetic, magical dragons that are weaponized for war. The book takes place against a dystopic mindscape of dark challenges and class struggles. The dragon Melanchton is tempting Jane with the promise of freedom that will lead her into a daring escape. An escape that will shake the foundations of existence.

Swanwick’s Nebula award-winning novel was Stations of the Tide. The Jubilee Tides are a once-in-two-centuries cataclysm that threaten to drown the continents of planet Miranda. That is the least of their worries though as their is an even greater catastrophe looming. The Bureau of Proscribed Technologies has sent someone to investigate and he finds that Gregorian has come, a genius renegade scientist and charismatic bush wizard. He plans to remake the world in his own evil image and to force whatever is in his way to bend to his will.

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