Gravity's Angels: 13 Stories - Hardcover

Swanwick, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870541625 ISBN 13: 9780870541629

Publisher: Arkham House Pub, 1991

Synopsis

Stories deal with dragons, space travel, black holes, future warfare, and mystical experiences

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Swanwick: Michael Swanwick is one of the most acclaimed science-fiction and fantasy short-story writers of his generation, having received five consecutive Hugo Awards. He has also won the Theodore Sturgeon and World Fantasy awards. Swanwick’s novels include The Iron Dragon’s Daughter, a New York Times Notable Book, and the Nebula Award winning Stations of the Tide. His short fiction has appeared in many venues, including OMNI, Penthouse, Amazing, Asimov’s Science Fiction, New Dimensions, and Full Spectrum, and his work has been translated into more than ten languages

From Publishers Weekly:

This volume chronicles the career of one of the most impressive science fiction writers of the '80s. Almost all of Swanwick's ( Stations of the Tide ) short stories are collected here, from his impressive debut, "The Feast of Saint Janis," to the most recent, "The Edge of the World." Several commonalities in his works emerge: many future worlds are bleak after some sort of disaster; his characters are dominated by internal imperatives which, for good or ill, determine their fates; scientific and philosophical searches for knowledge are accompanied by a painful, sometimes tragic loss of innocence. In "Mummer Kiss" the chaos following a major nuclear meltdown has triggered a worldwide depression, while in "Foresight," human memory works backward--everyone can "recall" their future but nothing of their past, and though they know what will heppen they cannot change it. Every story uses the traditional materials of the genre to explore deeper issues of character and conscience, and even when flawed--the otherwise exemplary "The Man Who Met Picasso" is all but ruined by its cop-out ending--Swanwick's work illustrates the power and potential of contemporary science fiction.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Arkham House Pub
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0870541625
• ISBN 13: 9780870541629
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 302
• Illustrator: Aulisio Janet