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Michael Swanwick (born November 18, 1950) is an American science fiction author. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began publishing in the early 1980s. ==Writing career== Michael Swanwick's fiction writing began with short stories, starting in 1980 when he published "Ginungagap" in ''TriQuarterly'' and "The Feast of St. Janis" in ''New Dimensions 11''. Both stories were nominees for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 1981.〔(The Periodic Prime of Michael Swanwick ) (interview with Michael Swanwick) accessed 3 January 2014〕 His published novels are ''In the Drift'' (an Ace Special, 1985), a look at the results of a more catastrophic Three Mile Island incident, which expands on his earlier short story "Mummer's Kiss". This was followed in 1987 by ''Vacuum Flowers'' (1987), an adventurous tour of an inhabited Solar System, where the people of Earth have been subsumed by a cybernetic mass-mind; ''Stations of the Tide'' (1991), the story of a bureaucrat's pursuit of a magician on a world soon to be altered by its 50 year tide swell; ''The Iron Dragon's Daughter'' (1993), a fantasy with elves in Armani suits and dragons as jet fighters; ''Jack Faust'' (1997), a retelling of the Faust legend with modern science and technology; ''Bones of the Earth'' (2002), a time-travel story involving dinosaurs; ''The Dragons of Babel'' (2008), which is set in the same fantasy world as ''The Iron Dragon's Daughter''; and ''Dancing with Bears'' (2011), featuring the rogues Darger and Surplus (from a series of his short stories) adventuring in post-Utopian Russia. His short fiction has been collected in ''Gravity's Angels'' (1991), ''Moon Dogs'' (2000), ''Tales of Old Earth'' (2000), ''Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures'' (2003), ''The Dog Said Bow-Wow'' (2007), and ''The Best of Michael Swanwick'' (2008). A novella, ''Griffin's Egg'', was published in book form in 1991 and is also collected in ''Moon Dogs''. He has collaborated with other authors on several short works, including Gardner Dozois ("Ancestral Voices", "City of God", "Snow Job") and William Gibson ("Dogfight"). ''Stations of the Tide'' won the Nebula for best novel in 1991, and several of his shorter works have won awards as well: the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for "The Edge of the World" in 1989, the World Fantasy Award for "Radio Waves" in 1996, and Hugos for "The Very Pulse of the Machine" in 1999, "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" in 2000, "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" in 2002, "Slow Life" in 2003, and "Legions in Time" in 2004. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Swanwick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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