Yet More Praise for THE BEST OF MICHAEL SWANWICK
Paul di Filippo gives his most kind take on our mammoth The Best of Michael Swanwick over at scifi.com:
“Nearly two dozen stories, assembled over as many years, constitute a mid-career milestone from this writer, known equally well for his radical SF and fantasy novels as for his award-winning short fiction. Arrayed in chronological order, they chart Swanwick’s evolution as a craftsman—although, truth be told, the stories display an uncanny talent right from the start…
“What the reader comes away with from the typical Swanwick tale is a set of intellectual frissons akin to those that might emerge from a Greg Egan story, along with the high emotions that one would expect from a Harlan Ellison production. This ability to blend heart and mind is the key to the attractiveness of Swanwick’s fiction—hybrid virtues too often missing from SF in general.”