Michael Swanwick

@mindhealer111 I'm glad it gave you pleasure.

@MichaelSwanwick Thanks for writing about unununium. It's very clever and funny.

About The Sleep of Reason, Michael Swanwick's collection of short-shorts based on Goya's etchings Los Caprichos: rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/04/review…

@torbooks The Fellowship of the Ring. It took all night--and a school night to boot.

What’s a book you read in one sitting? 👀

@ArkapravoTweets It'll take a few more years. There are 11 stories so far. When there are 21, the war will be over, Ritter's tale will be complete, and there will be exactly enough stories for a full-length book.

@MichaelSwanwick As a request, in 2025 your 'Mongolian Wizard' story collection should be published as a single book - not short parts. Wish you a happy 2025.

@JoyceCarolOates That is so Barry. I hate the thought that I'll never have another meal or conversation with him again.

legendary sci-fi/speculative fiction writer, critic & black-humor curmudgeon Barry Malzberg is said to be very ill, in hospice, & surely would love to receive some greetings via Twitter or elsewhere. sorry I have not more details. (here, with Barry two years ago in, where else, a New Jersey diner.)

Limited Time Offer: Save 75% on the "Dragons of Babel" audiobook. Offer ends 11/05 @MichaelSwanwick audiobooks.com/promotions/pro…

In celebration of the 50th World Fantasy Convention's Toastmaster, @MichaelSwanwick, @reactormag presents a new Mongolian Wizard story about a battle to save Paris from an unexpected new foe... Edited by Claire Eddy | Art by @dvpalumbo reactormag.com/dragons-of-par…

My annual Halloween story, written on leaves, serialized daily, and ending on the 31st, has begun. You can find the daily link on bluesky (@michaelswanwick.bsky.social) or Facebook (Michael.Swanwick.3) Meanwhile, here's the first day's worth of story: floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2024/10/all-so…

Final four days to get in on this kickstarter. Checkout the full color interior art by @MManzieri for the hard sf novellas by @MichaelSwanwick @iannmcdonald and John Kessel in updates. kickstarter.com/projects/allan…

Kickstarter 3 Hard Shots at the Moon 🌜 Hard sf novellas by @MichaelSwanwick @iannmcdonald @JJVTKessel @MManzieri With your help this book goes from dream to reality. To pledge: kickstarter.com/projects/allan…

A heartfelt review of Gregory Frost's RHYMER. (URL in first comment below)

@arrroberts I'm amazed nobody teaches these things in grammar school anymore.

@arrroberts It's clearly one letter evolving into another. The fourth letter is a "geus," the letter that is simulatneously a gee and an ess.

"Egggs"

Wow. Just wow.

I deliberately used a clickbait title here. Let's make this act of courage known. Let's shout it from the rooftops. I THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD STORY--THEN I LEARNED THAT IT WAS A HEROIC ONE. floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2024/05/i-thou…

Hey, Virginia, how about a reasonable compromise? Just rename it as "Stonewall High School" Honor some real American heroes

@NJRuzzock @UnlikelyWorlds Copyright law is such that US books aren't sold on Amazon UK and UK books aren't sold on Amazon US. Maddening, but it's meant to protect the British publishing industry--which is worth preserving.

@MichaelSwanwick @UnlikelyWorlds Sadly not available in the UK (although I do have my tatty old paperback to keep me going!) I don't know if your publishers simply don't "do" Kindle/Amazon?

It's online! (And, seriously, if you haven't read the book, you ought to consider it. People speak very highly of it.)

@BestSF Maude Coffin Pratt rules! Even though they never existed, I remember her photographs vividly.

@Catrambo I gave a copy to my friend Andrew Matveev, who had been exiled to Siberia for writing a novel influence by Hunter S. Thompson, and he said, "Yes, this is my life."

This book captures the process of writing a novel better than any other I have ever seen.