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Swanwick Michael
Stations of the Tide
 List Price: Price: $6.80 You Save: $10.19 (60%) DescriptionFrom author Michael Swanwick—one of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fiction—comes a masterwork of radically altered realities and world-shattering seductions. The Jubilee Tides will drown the continents of the planet Miranda beneath the weight of her own oceans. But as the once-in-two-centuries cataclysm approaches, an even greater catastrophe threatens this dark and dangerous planet of tale-spinners, conjurers, and shapechangers. A man from the Bureau of Proscribed Technologies has been sent to investigate. For Gregorian has come, a genius renegade scientist and charismatic bush wizard. With magic and forbidden technology, he plans to remake the rotting, dying world in his own evil image—and to force whom or whatever remains on its diminishing surface toward a terrifying and astonishing confrontation with death and transcendence. This novel of surreal hard SF was compared to the fiction of Gene Wolfe when it was first published, and the author has gone on in the two decades since to become recognized as one of the finest living SF and fantasy writers.
Bones of the Earth
 List Price: Price: $7.00 You Save: $0.50 (7%) DescriptionWorld-renowned paleontologist Richard Leyster's universe changedforever the day a stranger named Griffin walked into his office with a remarkable job offer . . . and an ice cooler containing the head of a freshly killed Stegosaurus. For Leyster and a select group of scientific colleagues an impossible fantasy has come true: the ability to study dinosaurs up close, in their own era and milieu. But tampering with time and paradox can have disastrous effects on the future and the past alike, breeding a violent new strain of fundamentalist terror -- and, worse still, encouraging brilliant rebels like Dr. Gertrude Salley to toy with the working mechanisms of natural law, no matter what the consequences. And when they concern the largest, most savage creatures that ever walked the Earth, the consequences may be too horrifying to imagine . . . Paleontologist Richard Leyster is studying the dinosaur-fossil discovery of a lifetime when a stranger comes into his office with an ice cooler and an offer: a mysterious and dangerous job that pays no better than Leyster's beloved current position at the Smithsonian. He rejects the offer and the stranger departs, leaving the cooler. Leyster opens the cooler and finds the head of a just-slain stegosaur. It really is an offer he can't refuse: a job that will allow him to study living dinosaurs. But the stranger has disappeared, and Leyster has no idea where to find him. Expanded from his Hugo Award-winning story "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur," Michael Swanwick's Bones of the Earth is a time-travel novel as exciting as Jurassic Park and far more intelligent. In addition to the Hugo, Michael Swanwick has won the Nebula, World Fantasy, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards. His previous books include the novels In the Drift, Vacuum Flowers, and Griffin's Egg, and his collections include Gravity's Angels, A Geography of Unknown Lands, and Moon Dogs, among others. --Cynthia Ward
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2011 Edition: A Tor.Com Original
 DescriptionA collection of some of the best original short fiction published on Tor.com in 2011. Includes stories by Charlie Jane Anders, James Allan Gardner, Yoon Ha Lee, Nnedi Okorafor, Paul Park, Matthew Sandborn Smith, Michael Swanwick, and Harry Turtedove.
Fantasy Magazine, August 2011
 DescriptionFantasy Magazine is an online magazine focusing exclusively on fantasy fiction. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy—from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales…and anything and everything in between. Fantasy Magazine is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader—we publish stories of the fantastic that make us think, and tell us what it is to be human. And in our August 2011 issue...Cory Skerry paints a heart-wrenching story of a mother's love in his tale, "The World Is Cruel, My Daughter." After all, a mother's job is to protect her child... In our feature interview, Paul Goat Allen asks Seanan McGuire some fascinating questions about noir, mythology, the zombie apocalypse—and candy corn. Nisi Shawl's "The Pragmatical Princess" is the kind of girl who doesn't sit around waiting for princes or mice to rescue her. Here's a story of a dragon, a princess, and the power of thinking for oneself. Most of our readers are familiar with the Brothers Grimm and their famous fairy tales. But in "The Messengers, Monsters, and Moral Instructors of Islamic Literature," Saladin Ahmed introduces us to some fascinating Islamic folktales. Most battles in the Wild West were fought with gunpowder and hot lead. But in Laura Anne Gilman's "Crossroads," the outlaws aren't just gunslingers: They also sling magic. Preparing to go head-to-head with the uncanny? Not to worry—just read Abby Goldsmith's "How To Stock Your Magic-Fighting Toolkit," and you'll be ready to face any kind of magical trouble. When three teens set out to explore the edge of the world, they find garbage, infinity, chaos ... and unexpected magic. Michael Swanwick explores the wishes we make at "The Edge of the World." Then, Genevieve Valentine looks at the wacky side of wishes in her article, "The Weirdest Fairy-Tale Wishes Ever Made."
Dancing With Bears (Darger & Surplus Novels)
 List Price: Price: $8.82 You Save: $6.17 (41%) DescriptionDancing With Bears follows the adventures of notorious con-men Darger and Surplus: They''ve lied and cheated their way onto the caravan that is delivering a priceless gift from the Caliph of Baghdad to the Duke of Muscovy. The only thing harder than the journey to Muscovy is their arrival in Muscovy. An audience with the Duke seems impossible to obtain, and Darger and Surplus quickly become entangled in a morass of deceit and revolution. The only thing more dangerous than the convoluted political web surrounding Darger and Surplus is the gift itself, the Pearls of Byzantium, and Zoesophia, the governess sworn to protect their virtue.Swanwick Michael News
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