Michael Swanwick

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  • Bibliography:
    46 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1987
  • Latest Book:
    February 2026
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Full Series List in Order

Iron Dragon

1 - The Iron Dragon's Daughter (Jan-1994)
2 - The Iron Dragon's Mother (Jun-2019)

Mongolian Wizard

1 - The Mongolian Wizard (Jul-2012)
2 - The Fire Gown (Aug-2012)
3 - Day of the Kraken (Sep-2012)
4 - House of Dreams (Nov-2013)

Book List in Order: 46 titles

  • Vacuum Flowers

    A cyberpunk thriller from Nebula Award winner Michael Swanwick that explores bioengineering, wetware, and the riddle of personality   Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark is a recorded personality owned by corporate giant Deutsche Nakasone. When Rebel’s pe...

  • In the Drift

    The “shocking [and] powerful” classic of postapocalyptic terror by the Nebula Award"winning author of The Iron Dragon’s Daughter (New York Daily News).   It’s been one hundred years since Three Mile Island went into full meltdown, fill...

  • Stations of the Tide

    The "Jubilee Tides" will drown Miranda beneath the weight of its 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. Fo...

  • Griffin's Egg

    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"....

  • The Iron Dragon's Daughter

    Iron Dragon - 1

    A human changeling child coming of age, in a world of violence and monsters, Jane toils unceasingly alongside trolls, dwarves, shifters and feys in the dank, stygian bowels of a steam dragon plant--helping to construct the massive black iron flying m...

  • A Geography of Unknown Lands

    • / Science Fiction
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  • Jack Faust

    An alternate-history reimagining of the Faust legend from the Nebula Award"winning author of Stations of the Tide   Taking as his canvas the classic tale of the temptation of Faust -- made famous by such literary luminaries as Goethe, Marlowe,...

  • Moon Dogs

    This sampling of Swanwick's work include seven stories, a play, essays and even some speeches, providing examples of the wide range of Swanwick's style and subjects. From collaborations with others to Swanwick's art alone, this provides very differen...

  • Being Gardner Dozois

    An in-depth look at a noted writer, anthologist and award winning editor. A facinating interview with Gardner Dozois describes his obsessions, collaborations, and his influence in the world of Fantasy and Science Fiction....



  • Cecil Rhodes in Hell

    in Year's Best Fantasy 3

    The door to fantastic worlds, skewed realities, and breathtaking other realms is opened wide to you once more in this third anthology of the finest short fantasy fiction to emerge over the past year, compiled by acclaimed editor David G. Hartwell....

  • Five British Dinosaurs

    in Year's Best Fantasy 3

    The door to fantastic worlds, skewed realities, and breathtaking other realms is opened wide to you once more in this third anthology of the finest short fantasy fiction to emerge over the past year, compiled by acclaimed editor David G. Hartwell....

  • Bones of the Earth

    Modern technology is pitted against ancient dinosaurs in this scientific thriller James Rollins calls “Jurassic Park set amid the paradox of time travel.”   Paleontologist Richard Leyster is perfectly content in his position with the Smithso...

  • Smoke and Mirrors: Four Scenes from the Post-Utopian Future

    in Live Without a Net
    • / Science Fiction
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    Imagine a future without cyberspace... without the Web or virtual reality.... What would happen in an alternate Information Age? What would you do? What would you fear? What wouldn't you know? You can't imagine. Today's top masters of specula...

  • Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures

    Often humorous, sometimes chilling, always entertaining, this collection of award-winning author Michael Swanwick’s short-short fiction is a work of masterfully sustained whimsy for adults. Cigar-Box Faust contains more than seventy fantastical sto...

  • Michael Swanwick's Field Guide to Mesozoic Megafauna

    The master of microfiction returns with eighteen short-short stories on dinosaur themes. Steely bureaucrats, genetically engineered Christmas toys, and beloved killer pets clash with immoral scientists, neighborhood bullies, and society ladies, with ...

  • The Dog Said Bow-Wow

    Great literature has never been this much fun before. The reigning master of short fiction reinvents science fiction and fantasy in a dazzling new collection unlike anything you’ve ever read. Time-traveling dinosaurs wreak havoc on a placid Vermont...

  • The Dragons of Babel

    A fantasy masterpiece from a five-time Hugo Award winner! A war-dragon of Babel crashes in the idyllic fields of a post-industrialized Faerie and, dragging himself into the nearest village, declares himself king and makes young Will his lieutenant. ...

  • The Best of Michael Swanwick

    <font face="Times New Roman" size="3">It's here at last--the first comprehensive overview of the extraordinary career of master storyteller Michael Swanwick. Covering over a quarter of a century, from his first two published...

  • Dancing With Bears

    Dancing With Bears follows the adventures of notorious con-men Darger and Surplus: They've lied and cheated their way onto the caravan that is delivering a priceless gift from the Caliph of Baghdad to the Duke of Muscovy. The only thing harder than t...



  • The Dala Horse

    Long after the wars, there are things abroad in the world -- things more than human. And they have scores to settle with one another....

  • The Mongolian Wizard

    Mongolian Wizard - 1

    With "The Mongolian Wizard," Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Michael Swanwick launches a new fiction series at Tor.com -- beginning with this story of a very unusual international conference in a fractured Europe that never was.At the Publisher'...

  • The Fire Gown

    Mongolian Wizard - 2

    A second “Mongolian Wizard” tale from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Michael Swanwick -- continuing an epic of magic and deception in an alternate Europe of railroads and sorcery....

  • Day of the Kraken

    Mongolian Wizard - 3

    The third in Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Michael Swanwick's "Mongolian Wizard" series of tales set in an alternate fin de siècle Europe shot through with sorcery and intrigue.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rig...

  • House of Dreams

    Mongolian Wizard - 4

    The fourth in Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Michael Swanwick's "Mongolian Wizard" series of tales set in an alternate fin de siècle Europe shot through with magic, mystery, and intrigue....

  • Chasing the Phoenix

    In the distant future, Surplus arrives in China dressed as a Mongolian shaman, leading a yak which carries the corpse of his friend, Darger. The old high-tech world has long since collapsed, and the artificial intelligences that ran it are outlawed a...

  • The Night of the Salamander

    A locked room, a murder, and an unexpected kind of magic: the fifth of Michael Swanwick's "Mongolian Wizard" tales.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied....

  • The Pyramid of Krakow

    The Wizard has swallowed more and more of Europe--and inside his shuttered realm are magic and mass death. The Pyramid of Krakow is the sixth of Michael Swanwick's "Mongolian Wizard" tales.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without ...

  • The Phantom in the Maze

    We tamper with time at our peril. The Phantom in the Maze, a new story in the Mongolian Wizard series by award-winning author Michael Swanwick.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) appli...

  • A Week Without Magic

    A visitor from Moscow Center has Tanya seeing red, while Gabe baits his hook in the latest episode of Serial Box's The Witch Who Came in from the Cold, featuring the distinctive storytelling magic of award-winning author and special-guest w...



  • Not So Much, Said the Cat

    The master of literary science fiction returns with this dazzling new collection. Michael Swanwick takes us on a whirlwind journey across the globe and across time and space, where magic and science exist in possibilities that are not of this world. ...

  • Bones of the Earth, In the Drift, and Vacuum Flowers

    Three excursions through time, outer space, and imaginary worlds from “one of the most intellectually astute SF writers of his generation” (The Washington Post). Michael Swanwick is a legend in the science fiction and fantasy universe, having wo...

  • Galaxy's Edge Magazine

    A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy  

    ISSUE 38: May 2019

     

    Mike Resnick, Editor Taylor Morris, Copyeditor Shahid Mahmud, Publisher

    Stories by: Emily McCosh  James Reinebold  Kristine Kathryn Rusch  D.A. Xiaolin S...

  • Murder in the Spook House

    Murder in the Spook House is eighth story in the Mongolian Wizard universe. Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Michael Swanwick has been building the world of the Mongolian Wizard on Tor.com, beginning with the first installment in 2012. The series...

  • The New Prometheus

    The New Prometheus is the ninth story in the Mongolian Wizard universe. Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Michael Swanwick has been building the world of the Mongolian Wizard on Tor.com since its first installment in 2012. The series depicts an a...

  • The Iron Dragon's Mother

    Iron Dragon - 2

    Award-winning author Michael Swanwick returns to the gritty, post-industrial faerie world of his New York Times Notable Book The Iron Dragon’s Daughter with the standalone adventure fantasy The Iron Dragon’s Mother. Caitlin of House Sans Merci...

  • The Postutopian Adventures of Darger and Surplus

    The world is grown strange.Gloriana, the six-brained Queen of England, squats in her throne room at the center of Buckingham Labyrinth. In Paris, the glowing Seine may, or may not, conceal the disassembled remnants of the Eiffel Tower. A dragon haunt...

  • Devil's Ways

    There is no light without dark; no highlights without shadows; no good without evil. The Devil is where things happen. Where stories begin. This collection brings together stories from multiple cultures, featuring the Devil both as an abstract concep...

  • Huginn and Muninn -- and What Came After

    • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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  • Annie Without Crow

    Michael Swanwick's "Annie Without Crow" is a historial fantasy short story--a Tor.com Original An act of indiscretion from her immortal trickster companion sends Annie and her league of ladies-in-waiting on a time-defying adventure that becomes th...



  • A Small Room in Koboldtown

    Crime, corruption, and detection in the Big City -- only this is a city of ghosts, ogres, and demons!...

  • The Best of Michael Swanwick, Volume Two

    Recently, the Wall Street Journal called Michael Swanwick the finest world-builder since Tolkien. His first two published stories in 1980 were both Nebula Award finalists. In the decades since, he has won the Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, World Fantasy,...

  • The Star-Bear

    A Russian émigré poet living in Paris is visited by a mysterious bear with an agenda…At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied....

  • Dragons of Paris

    Reactor presents a new Mongolian Wizard story about a battle to save Paris from an unexpected new foe . . .At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied....

  • Halcyon Afternoon

    Ritter grapples with a cunning adversary in this new Mongolian Wizard story . . .At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied....

  • The Universe Box

    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 s...

  • The Periodic Table of Science Fiction

    • / Science Fiction
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    When Mendeleev set forth the Periodic Table of the Elements, he revolutionised chemistry—but just as importantly, he planted the seeds for Michael Swanwick's Periodic Table of Science Fiction. Now, after their epochal appearances online,&n...

Award-Winning Books by Michael Swanwick

The Dragons of Babel
2009 Alex Award -- Adult/For Young Adults
Stations of the Tide
1992 Nebula Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael Swanwick has published 46 books.

The next book by Michael Swanwick, The Universe Box, will be published in February 2026.

The first book by Michael Swanwick, Vacuum Flowers, was published in January 1987.

Yes. Michael Swanwick has 2 series.
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