The Dog Said Bow-Wow - Brossura

Swanwick, Michael

Brossura

ISBN 10: 189239152X ISBN 13: 9781892391520

Casa editrice: Tachyon Pubns, 2007

Riassunto

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 town. An ogre is murdered in a locked room in Faerie. An uncanny bordello proves as dangerous as it is alluring. Language is stolen from the builders of Babel. Those strangely loveable Post-Utopian scoundrels and con men Darger and Surplus swindle their way through London, Paris, and Arcadia.

The Dog Said Bow-Wow includes three Hugo Award winning stories and an original novelette of swashbuckling romance and adventure, The Skysailor’s Tale.” Ranging from the hardest of science fiction to the highest of fantasy, this irresistible collection amuses and enlightens as only Michael Swanwick can.

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Recensione:

In addition to their individual quality, the 16 stories in this rollicking collection amply demonstrate Hugo-winner Swanwick’s impressive versatility...intriguing characters and lovingly told stories.”
Publishers Weekly, starred review

Witty, smart, challenging, marveling in off-beat invention and beautifully written....”
SF Site, featured review

Every reader with a dollop of humanity will admire Michael Swanwick’s rowdy good humor. His towering creativity seems so effortless that it is easily overlooked so effortless, and so immense. You won’t want to put this book down.”
Gene Wolfe

By turns funny, clever, mysterious, and possessing hidden depths, the stories in Swanwick’s latest collection demonstrate he’s at the top of his game. Delightful, thoughtful work, sure to please his readers.”
Jeff VanderMeer, author of The Third Bear

For most writers, it’s a good day when a story is witty or has great ideas or characters. Michael Swanwick consistently wins on all three.”
Vernor Vinge

Michael Swanwick is one of my all-time favorite short-story writers. Sometimes he makes me laugh, sometimes he makes me shudder, sometimes he makes me weep. He always makes me think. And that’s just when I am talking to him.”
Jane Yolen

In The Dog Said Bow-Wow, a valuable author has taken the disreputable duckling of category fiction and nurtured it into a swan of elegant speculation, as the wick of disciplined fancy draws the reader’s inflamed imagination ever downward through the waxen feast. Swan and wick: an essential conjunction yielding wonder, warmth, wit, and many a synergistic epiphany.”
James Morrow, author of Shambling Toward Hiroshima

Michael Swanwick’s stories start soft, sneak close, and punch hard. And nobody else nobody! in science fiction has his range.”
Nancy Kress, author of After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall

Michael Swanwick’s The Dog Said Bow-Wow is an extraordinarily strong collection. His fierce imagination, subtle humor, and genius for implication are evident in each of these stories.”
Jeffrey Ford

...arguably [the] best collection of his stories, populated by tricksters, dinosaurs, gods, and explorers, Swanwick takes a variety of old themes and styles and twists them into something fresh and new.”
Rain Taxi

Swanwick’s graceful prose, prodigious inventiveness, and sense of humor are very much in evidence here....”
Tangent

...surpassingly brilliant...storytelling of the highest order.”
Locus

Witty, smart, challenging, marveling in off-beat invention and beautifully written....”
SF Site

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Tachyon Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 189239152X
• ISBN 13: 9781892391520
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 296