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Michael Swanwick

@michaelswanwick.bsky.social
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Science Fiction and Fantasy writer. As a hobby, I also write Criticism and Non-Fiction.

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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 19h
At least he's polite! Part 8 of AUTUMN'S END is up on my blog: floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/10/autu...
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AUTUMN'S END (Part 8 of 31)
.        Above: Every year, to celebrate the season, I write a Halloween story which Marianne and I then copy out, one word at a time, on f...
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In Part 7 of AUTUMN'S END, we learn that Death also has... a son? floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/10/autu...
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AUTUMN'S END (Part 7 of 31)
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In Part 6 of AUTUMN'S End, we learn more about Death's daughter. floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/10/autu...
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AUTUMN'S END (Part 6 of 31)
.   Above: Every year, to celebrate the season, I write a Halloween story which Marianne and I then copy out, one word at a time, on fallen...
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
PLAGUE!!!! (Marianne, who knows this stuff, says, "These things happen.) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Lab worker ‘possibly’ dies of plague in Siberia, prompting quarantine measures
Precautions in place in several hospitals in eastern Russia amid uncertainty over death of Darya Shipilova
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Part 5 of AUTUMN'S END, we learn exactly who--or what--Death's Daughter is. floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/10/autu...
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AUTUMN'S END (Part 5 of 31)
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
OCTOBER LEAVES, the first of my Halloween-written-on-leaves stories, appears in chapbook form at last! In an edition of 48 copies hand stitched, numbered, Usigned, with Nepalese lokta paper cover. Sale on October 10, 2026 noon, East Coast time, at www.dragonstairs.com Domestic $11 International
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Red Dog Red Dog is Michael Swanwick's collection of essays, some fictional, about life in western Pennsylvania. It is wrapped in mulberry terrazzo paper in shades of red and tan (much like real red ...
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Death has family! Part 4 of AUTUMN'S END is up on: floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/10/autu...
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AUTUMN'S END (4 of 31)
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Scott Edelman.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tom Doyle.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Dan Joy.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Also Dan Joy.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lawrence Schoen.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
...and creepier. You can read Part 3 of AUTUMN'S END on my blog: floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/10/autu...
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AUTUMN'S END (3 of 31)
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Part 2 of AUTUMN'S END is up. Things are starting to get creepy. floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/10/autu...
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AUTUMN'S END (Part 2 of 31)
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wishing you all a happy BARtober!
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every year, I write a Halloween story on fallen leaves and post photos of them, a sentence at a time, on my blog. The story will conclude on All Hallow's Eve. The first installment of AUTUMN'S END is up at: floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/10/autu...
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AUTUMN'S END (Part 1 of 31)
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What you see is all I know.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Art.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cocktail Hour! Tonight: French Blondes , served with crackers and egg salad. A fresh new flash fiction for garnish.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pegana Press is down to 7 copies of their letterpress illustrated edition of Robert W. Chambers' "The Repairer of Reputations" from THE KING IN YELLOW. A pricey, beautiful book, issued in an edition of 65, which is smaller than most Dragonstairs Press chapbooks run. peganapress.om/robert-w-cha...
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The always spooky Jean Auguste Girard.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Great Lexicographer has renamed artificial intelligence. It is now "super intelligence." Please adjust your writing accordingly.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Amazon Prime offers the January-February issue of Asimov's for $18.00 plus $4.99 shipping. Or issue 3 for $24.99 with free shipping. Kinda depressing, really.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I read this book so you don't have to. floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/09/anot...
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Another Book You Needn't Bother Reading
. One of my guilty pleasures is reading outdated collections of essays and the like. Sometimes you discover forgotten treasures: A. A. Milne...
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have found that the more I am paid, the better I am treated. And, as you say, vice versa.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yesterday, a gallon of diesel cost $6.60 here in Roxborough. Today, it's $6.90.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
To cool off.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A little belatedly, I've put "City of Mists," the thirteenth Mongolian Wizard story in the pie closet.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I idly asked a search engine if Dolly Parton drank wine, and it replied, NO, DOLLY PARTON DID NOT DRINK BLOOD. I honestly never imagined a woman that busy could spare the time to be a vampire.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
That was fast.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On my blog, I write about The Illuminated Man, a critical biography of J. G. Ballard by Christopher Priest and Tina Allan. It's not quite a review, but it should be enough to tell you if it's your sort of thing. floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/09/not-...
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Not Quite A Review of The Illuminated Man by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan
. I am not sure what to say about The Illuminated Man: Life, Death, and the Worlds of J. G. Ballard , which I've just finished reading. It'...
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Anybody here old enough to remember when there were treaties to prevent the weaponization of outer space? Well, that was when we didn't have the capacity to deploy them. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
The US Air Force Secretary says the weapons are necessary to defend the country against enemy action.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Dragonstairs Press at work.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Have you noticed how, with age, common household items take on personality?
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Putting a couple of ragged old pulps in the Wee Free Library. In a coverless 1948 copy of Astounding, I read an Ole Doc Methuselah by Rene Lafayette. Dear lord, but it was awful in so many ways!
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I filled in the next round of paperwork for the Anthropic settlement. All as expected. Except that a musical theater actor claimed one of my novels. Hoping, apparently, that I hadn't bothered.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Going home.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A terrible shot of Nibbles Woodaway
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Maine.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Maine.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Leaff.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Definitely not the same bird. This one.has been here in Maine a while.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is a lifer! A white morph great blue heron.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
These are the vagaries of publishing, I'm afraid. I've just signed for a reprint of the Iron Dragon's Daughter in however long it takes them to do that. Six months or a year, maybe?
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
While I slept last night, I worked out the entirety of the next leaf-writing story, roughed out the Solstice chapbook stories for Dragonstairs, and made serious progress on a collaborative project to be announced later.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Only the price.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Antiquing.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Leaf.
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There's a several-second-long black stretch at the beginning of this clip. But it's a very funny French commercial. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNd_...
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CANAL Plus - 'March Of The Emperor'
YouTube video by EuroRSCG
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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A lovely day, topped by a double rainbow like the cherry atop the whipped cream.
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