Gravity's Angels

Short stories from the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author. "e;One of the best science fiction collections I've ever read."e; -The Magazine of Fantasy and Science FictionThough written in the last decades of the twentieth-century, these tales are timeless and prophetic visions created by Michael Swanwick's wide-ranging imagination. Through stories of talking alien beasts, eco-fiction, and post-apocalyptic survival, this collection shows that humanity is something worth clinging to, even as technology and circumstances drastically change around us. Swanwick's first-published short story, "e;The Feast of Saint Janus,"e; takes us to an America after the Worldwide Collapse, where a woman is surgically enhanced to look and sound like Janis Joplin with horrific consequences. In the award-winning "e;The Edge of the World"e; a group of teenagers explore the graffiti-ridden stairway at the precipice of a flat earth. While in "e;The Dragon Line,"e; Merlin and Mordred reunite in a dim and disenchanted future to join forces and save the world. With thirteen stories in all, Gravity's Angels "e;chronicles the career of one of the most impressive science fiction writers of the '80s . . . Swanwick's work illustrates the power and potential of contemporary science fiction"e; (Publishers Weekly). "e;The stories collected here are luminous with the promise of his ambition, smart and allusive, dense with ideas and images, sacred and profane."e; Interzone"e;An extremely impressive collection . . . If there is any justice in the world, Gravity's Angels will bring Swanwick whatever recognition he has not had thus far."e; Locus "e;This is a book that merits a place on any serious science fiction reader's shelf."e; The New York Review of Science Fiction