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Bones of the Earthby Michael SwanwickISBN 0380812894 (0-380-81289-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bones of the Earth'Book summary:Paleontologist Richard Leyster is studying the dinosaur-fossil discovery of a lifetime when a stranger comes into his office with an ice cooler and an offer: a mysterious and dangerous job that pays no better than Leyster's beloved current position at the Smithsonian. He rejects the offer and the stranger departs, leaving the cooler. Leyster opens the cooler and finds the head of a just-slain stegosaur. It really is an offer he can't refuse: a job that will allow him to study living dinosaurs. But the stranger has disappeared, and Leyster has no idea where to find him.
Expanded from his Hugo Award-winning story "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur," Michael Swanwick's Bones of the Earth is a time-travel novel as exciting as Jurassic Park and far more intelligent. In addition to the Hugo, Michael Swanwick has won the Nebula, World Fantasy, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards. His previous books include the novels In the Drift, Vacuum Flowers, and Griffin's Egg, and his collections include Gravity's Angels, A Geography of Unknown Lands, and Moon Dogs, among others. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Griffin's Eggby Michael Swanwick , Peter GudynasISBN 0312069898 (0-312-06989-8)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Griffin's Egg'Book summary:Two people fall in love and a community fights for its life against a backdrop of thermonuclear war and a hi-tech repressive government in this science-fiction story written by the author of "In the Drift" and "Vacuum Flowers". [via]
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In the Driftby Michael SwanwickISBN 0099615304 (0-09-961530-4)
Softcover, Legend
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Drift'Book summary:When a meltdown at Three Mile Island creates a death zone known as the Drift, the area becomes a terrible place of eerie skies, body-mutilating boneseekers, monsters, and mutants, who fight to escape the island for their own vengeful purposes. Reissue. [via]
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The Iron Dragon's Daughterby Michael SwanwickISBN 0380730464 (0-380-73046-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iron Dragon's Daughter'Book summary:Named a NEW YORK TIMES notable book of 1994, THE IRON DRAGON'S DAUGHTER tells the heartrending story of a changeling child who is kidnapped to a realm of malls and machines and enslaved in a vast, infernal factory. Ultimately she escapes and attempts to educate herself about this alien world, while being tormented by visions of the life she was denied. [via]
More editions of The Iron Dragon's Daughter:
- Iron Dragon's Daughter: ISBN 0575076054 (0-575-07605-4)
Softcover, Gollancz Limited, Victor - The Iron Dragon's Daughter: ISBN 0380972336 (0-380-97233-6)
Hardcover, Avon Books - The Iron Dragon's Daughter: ISBN 0380720981 (0-380-72098-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins - The Iron Dragon's Daughter: ISBN 0688131743 (0-688-13174-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Iron Dragon's Daughter: ISBN 0380730464 (0-380-73046-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
- Iron Dragon's Daughter: ISBN 0575076054 (0-575-07605-4)
Jack Faustby Michael SwanwickISBN 038079070X (0-380-79070-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jack Faust'Book summary:Jack Faust is a breathtaking and masterful new spin on Goethe's story of a scholar who sells his soul to the Devil for the gift of unlimited knowledge.
But unlike the classic Mephistopheles, the seductive demon who approaches Swanwick's Johannes Faust is not the devil as we know him, but rather a representative of a mysterious race that seeks nothing less than the extermination of the hated human animal. And the wisdom this creature offers the disenchanted thinker goes far beyond anything known or imagined in Goethe's day: the secrets of flight and the cosmos, the principles of economics and engineering, the mysteries of medicine and the atom.
And so begins Faust's transition from madman to savior--from Johannes to Jack--as he accelerates human progress at blinding speed, setting the mighty gears and pistons of industry in motion to first remake Germany, and then all Europe, in his own image. Ushering in a New Age of Mechanization hundreds of years before its rightful time, he is alternately adored and despised for his accomplishments, as he attempts to elevate humankind from the muck of ignorance, superstition and disease.
Yet it is love that damns Jack Faust and, ultimately, humanity as well. For Mephistopheles has revealed to him the beauty and purity of innocence in the person of Margarete Reinhardt, the daughter of a struggling businessman. To win her heart, Faust will give Margarete power and influence in an age when women are powerless-- and fame in a time when notoriety can be fatal-- and, in the process, blind his beloved, and himself, to the horrors Faust's "progress" has wrought. For brutality and greed will always pervert love and genius in a degenerate world--a world which now, thanks to Jack Faust, is rapidly sliding into chaos...or something far worse. [via]
Stations of the Tideby Michael SwanwickISBN 0380730456 (0-380-73045-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stations of the Tide'Book summary:[via]From author Michael Swanwickone of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fictioncomes a masterwork of radically altered realities and world-shattering seductions.
The Jubilee Tides will drown the continents of the planet Miranda beneath the weight of her own oceans. But as the once-in-two-centuries cataclysm approaches, an even greater catastrophe threatens this dark and dangerous planet of tale-spinners, conjurers, and shapechangers.
A man from the Bureau of Proscribed Technologies has been sent to investigate. For Gregorian has come, a genius renegade scientist and charismatic bush wizard. With magic and forbidden technology, he plans to remake the rotting, dying world in his own evil imageand to force whom or whatever remains on its diminishing surface toward a terrifying and astonishing confrontation with death and transcendence.
This novel of surreal hard SF was compared to the fiction of Gene Wolfe when it was first published, and the author has gone on in the two decades since to become recognized as one of the finest living SF and fantasy writers.More editions of Stations of the Tide:
- Stations of the Tide: ISBN 0380817616 (0-380-81761-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers - Stations of the Tide: ISBN 0099985101 (0-09-998510-1)
Softcover, Legend - Stations of the Tide: ISBN 0380715244 (0-380-71524-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Stations of the Tide: ISBN 0712651047 (0-7126-5104-7)
Softcover, Random House - Stations of the Tide: ISBN 0688104517 (0-688-10451-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Stations of the Tide: ISBN 0712651039 (0-7126-5103-9)
Hardcover, Random House - Stations of the Tide: ISBN 0380730456 (0-380-73045-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
- Stations of the Tide: ISBN 0380817616 (0-380-81761-6)
Vacuum Flowersby Michael SwanwickISBN 009961040X (0-09-961040-X)
Softcover, Little, Brown & Company (Canada)
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