Free Speculative Fiction Online: Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick

Hugo Hugo Hugo Hugo Hugo Nebula WFA

Winner of 5 Hugos (and nominated for 17 more).

Winner of one Nebula (and nominated for 15 more).

Winner of one World Fantasy Award (and nominated for 5 more).

(These numbers refer to awards for best novel, novella, novelette and short story only!)

Show all award-winning/ award-nominated fiction

Stories currently online:

The Very Pulse of the Machine (Asimov's, February 1998)
Hugo for Best Short Story 1999.
Notes:

The Dog Said Bow-Wow (Asimov's, October 2001)
A sample from this anthology.
Hugo for Best Short Story 2002.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2002.
Featured in Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best SF", Nineteenth Edition.
Reviews: Notes:

Slow Life (Analog, December 2002)
Hugo for Best Novelette 2003.
Featured in Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best SF", Twentieth Edition.
Review: Notes:

Ginungagap (TriQuarterly #49, Fall 1980)
A sample from this collection.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1980.
Notes:

The Feast of Saint Janis (New Dimensions Anthology #11, 1980)
A sample from this collection.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1980.
Notes:

Trojan Horse (Omni, December 1984)
A sample from this collection.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1984.
Featured in Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best SF", Second Edition.
Notes:

With Gardner Dozois & Jack Dann: The Gods of Mars (Omni, March 1985)
A sample from this collection.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1985.
Notes:

The Dead (Starlight Anthology #1, 1996)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1997.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1997.
Featured in Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best SF", Fourteenth Edition.
Notes:

A Small Room in Koboldtown (Asimov's, April 2007)
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2008.
Reviews: Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled (Asimov's, February 2008)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2009.
Featured in Gardner Dozois's "Year's Best SF", Twenty-Sixth Edition.
Review: Notes:

With Gardner Dozois & Jack Dann: Golden Apples of the Sun (Penthouse, March 1984)
A sample from this collection.
Notes:

A Midwinter's Tale (Asimov's, December 1988)
A sample from this collection.
Notes:

The Sleep of Reason (Infinite Matrix, 2002)
Notes:
A collection of short short stories, based on a series of etchings by Francisco Goya.

With Eileen Gunn: Zeppelin City (Tor.com, October 2009)
Review: Notes:

With Eileen Gunn: The Trains that Climb the Winter Tree (Tor.com, December 2010)
Review: Notes:

The Dala Horse (Tor.com, July 2011)
Review: Notes:

The Woman Who Shook the World-Tree (Tor.com, March 2012)
Reviews: Notes:

The Mongolian Wizard (Tor.com, July 2012)
Reviews: Notes:

The Fire Gown (Tor.com, August 2012)
Notes:

Day of the Kraken (Tor.com, September 2012)
Reviews: Notes:

From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled … (Clarkesworld #80, May 2013)
Notes: