- Hardcover: 410 pages
- Publisher: New England Science Fiction Association (October 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1886778221
- ISBN-13: 978-1886778221
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.7 x 3.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 635 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,263,277 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Moon Dogs is a sampling of Michael Swanwick's work, with seven stories, one play, six essays, and two speeches. Two of the stories, "Moon Dogs" and "Mickelrede," are new. Michael Swanwick has given readings of the title story to general acclaim, and the NESFA Press is proud to make it available. "Mickelrede" is one of his posthumous collaborations with Avram Davidson, and gives an intriguing look into the creative process. His other such collaboration, "Vergil Magus: King Without Country," is another chance for the reader to visit with the mage from The Phoenix and the Mirror. The range of his fiction work is represented with the short novel Griffin's Egg, and the award-winning play "The Dead." Among the essays here are the hard-to-find "The Death of the Magus: Two Myths" and "The Hagiography of Saint Dozois," and the bizarre tale of "Jane Swanwick and the Search for Identity." His discussions of the SF field, "A User's Guide to the Postmoderns" and "In the Tradition .," are witty and insightful surveys-so much so that the former has even been pirated in countries around the world. His collaboration with Jack Dann, "Ships" (in its first American publication), and two of his several collaborations with Gardner Dozois, "Ancestral Voices" and "The City of God," are further demonstrations of the range of his fiction.
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Moon Dogs is the 2000 Boskone (a Boston-area SF convention) book by Guest of Honor Michael Swanwick.
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An eclectic collection of short stories, articles & a play, May 13 2000
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Moondogs (Hardcover)
Michael Swanwick's latest collection of 16 science fiction and fantasy stories, articles, and even a play is a fine sampling of his work over the last dozen years. The predominant theme running through much of this volume is death and the afterlife, although the stories range from the hard science fiction embodied by the lunar colony portrayed in Griffin's Egg and the alien invasion in Ancestral Voices to the gritty fantasy tale, Ships, set on the high seas. His seamless collaborations with such diverse writers as Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann, and the late Avram Davidson demonstrate his versatility. The thoughtful nonfiction pieces provide an insider's perspective on writers and literary trends in the genre.
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A powerful gathering of notable science fiction pieces., Jun 4 2000
By Midwest Book Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Moondogs (Hardcover)
This sampling of Swanwick's work include seven stories, a play, essays and even some speeches, providing examples of the wide range of Swanwick's style and subjects. From collaborations with others to Swanwick's art alone, this provides very different themes and tones in such notable works as 'Ancestral Voices', in which an alien being kills humans at will until one woman's unselfish act saves her world to 'Ships', in which a ship's captain holds the power to alter all around him. A powerful gathering of Swanwick's notable pieces.
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