Discover the vast worlds and pocket universes of Michael Swanwick (Stations of the Tide), the only author to win science fiction's most prestigious award five times in six years. In his dazzling new collection, the master of speculative short stories returns with new tales in which magic and science improbably coexist with myth and legend.
[STARRED REVIEW] "All of Swanwick's stories awaken insights into the mystery of being human in an increasingly mind-bending technological world. This is an author at the height of his powers."
-Publishers Weekly
In engaging stories, Mischling the thief races through time to defeat three trolls before the sun rises for the first time and turns the inhabitants of her city into stone. A scientist is on the run from assassins, because her research in merging human intelligence with sentient AI is too dangerous. An aging veteran obtains a military weapon from his past: a VR robotic leopard in which he rediscovers the consequences of the hunt. In the biggest heist in the history of the universe, a loser Trickster (and the girlfriend who is better than he deserves) sets out to violate every trope and expectation of fiction possible.
With two stories original to this collection, Michael Swanwick aptly demonstrates with poignant humor why he is widely respected as a master of imaginative storytelling. Michael Swanwick is one of the most acclaimed science fiction and fantasy short-story writers of his generation, having received an unprecedented five Hugo Awards in a six year period. He is also the winner of the British Science Fiction and World Fantasy Awards. Swanwick's stories, published in such collections such as Gravity's Angels, Tales of Old Earth, and Not So Much, Said the Cat, have also appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including OMNI, Penthouse, Amazing, Asimov's Science Fiction, New Dimensions. Swanwick's novels include The Iron Dragon's Daughter, a New York Times Notable Book, the Nebula Award–winner Stations of the Tide, the Darger & Surplus series, Dragons of Babel, and City in the Stars. His work has also been translated into more than ten languages. Swanwick lives in Pennsylvania.
• With two brand-new tales, lauded storyteller Michael Swanwick (Stations of the Tide, Bones of the Earth) continues to expand upon imaginative short fiction. In his signature blend of science fiction, fantasy, fable, and legend, Swanwick can create and destroy entire universes in a single perfectly wrought sentence
• Michael Swanwick is one of science fiction and fantasy's most acclaimed short-story writers. He received an unprecedented five Hugo Awards in a six-year period and also has won the Nebula, British Science Fiction and World Fantasy Awards
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The Last Days of Old Night
The Year of the Three Monarchs
Ghost Ships
The White Leopard
Dragon Slayer
The Warm Equations
Requiem for a White Rabbit
Dreadnaught
Grandmother Dimetrodon
The Star-Bear
Nirvana or Bust
The Beast of Tara
Reservoir Ice
Artificial People
Huginn and Muninn and What Came After
Cloud
The New Prometheus
Timothy: An Oral History
Annie Without Crow
Universe Box
Advance Praise for The Universe Box
[STARRED REVIEW] "Five-time Hugo Award winner Swanwick (Stations of the Tide) swirls together myth and science in this wildly inventive collection. A frequent theme is the interaction of humanity and technology, which is probed poignantly in the bittersweet 'Artificial People,' narrated by a newly sentient robot who falls for one of the scientists on her team, and 'The White Leopard,' about a man who is able to see through the eyes of his leopard-shaped military drone. In 'Requiem for a
