Tales of Old Earth by Michael
Swanwick
Incredible
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Theodore Sturgeon
Awards, Michael Swanwick is one of science fictions best authors and a
master of short fiction. Tales of Old Earth collects 19 of his acclaimed
stories, including one (The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O) that is original to this
volume. The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O is a mythic, Zelazny-tinged tale of
time-transcending, world-hopping humans, monsters, and gods. In the
Hugo Award winner The Very Pulse of the Machine, the stranded surviving
member of a Jupiter mission may have discovered the secret of the moon
Io--or may be going mad. In The Dead, the corporate mania for profit
reaches a shocking nadir of exploitation. Mother Grasshopper explores a
planet that might be the weirdest ever to appear in science fiction (a huge
claim, but true). In the World Fantasy Award winner Radio Waves, a
peculiar science-fictional ghost in a strange and frightening afterlife
recovers his memory, and regrets it. Tales of Old Earth has one minor
but potentially annoying problem: it doesnt give copyright information for

the individual stories, so you cant see where, or when, they first appeared.
Other books by Michael Swanwick include the novels In the Drift, Vacuum
Flowers, Griffins Egg, Stations of the Tide (a Nebula Award winner), and
The Iron Dragons Daughter (a New York Times Notable Book); and the
collections Gravitys Angels and A Geography of Unknown Lands.
--Cynthia Ward
Personal Review: Tales of Old Earth by Michael Swanwick
Contents of this collection can probably still be found on the Amazon site
and elsewhere, but here they come again, with additional information.A
User's Guide to Michael Swanwick by Bruce Sterling (foreword).
'The Very Pulse of the Machine' (short story) Asimov's Feb 1998.
'The Dead' (short story) Starlight 1, ed. by Patrick Nielsen Hayden, 1996.
'Scherzo with Tyrannosaur' (short story) Asimov's Jul 1999.
'Ancient Engines' (short story) Asimov's Feb 1999.
'North of Diddy-Wah-Diddy' (novelette) Killing Me Softly, ed. Gardner
Dozois, 1995.
'The Mask' (short story) Asimov's Apr 1994.
'Mother Grasshopper' (short story) A Geography of Unknown Lands, 1997.
'Riding the Giganotosaur' (short story) Asimov's Oct/Nov 1999.
'Wild Minds' (short story) Asimov's May 1998.
'The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O' (short story).
'Microcosmic Dog' (shory story) Science Fiction Age Nov 1998.
'In Concert' (short story) Asimov's Sep 1992.
'Radiant Doors' (short story) Asimov's Sep 1998. 'Ice Age' (short story)
Amazing Jan 1984.
'Walking Out' (short story) Asimov's Feb 1995.
'The Changeling's Tale' (short story) Asimov's Jan 1994.
'Midnight Express' (short story) Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers, ed.
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, 1998.
'The Wisdom of Old Earth' (short story) Asimov's Dec 1997.

'Radio Waves' (short story) Omni Win 1995.There are quite a number of
stories here that have either won an award or were at least nominated.
Scherzo with Tyrannosaur is a 2000 Hugo winner. And The Very Pulse of
the Machine is likewise a Hugo winner, but of the year 1999. All those
awards merely state the obvious: Read these tales. Swanwick is excellent
in the short story and novelette regions but I'm as of yet unfamiliar with his
novels. This collection was for me an introduction to Swanwick the writer,
and I'll probably pick up one of his novels in the near-future.This is a fine
collection, one of the best in years. Write more stories, Michael Swanwick!
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