Free Speculative Fiction Online: Michael Swanwick

Award-winning fiction:

Stations of the Tide (Asimov's, December 1990)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 1992.
Nebula for Best Novel 1991.
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Radio Waves (Omni, Winter 1995)
World Fantasy Award for Best Novella 1996.
Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Tenth Edition.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Thirteenth Edition.
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The Very Pulse of the Machine (Asimov's, February 1998)
Alternate link.
Hugo for Best Short Story 1999.
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Recommended!

Scherzo with Tyrannosaur (Asimov's, July 1999)
Hugo for Best Short Story 2000.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2000.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Seventeenth Edition.
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The Dog Said Bow-Wow (Asimov's, October 2001)
A sample from this anthology.
Hugo for Best Short Story 2002.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2002.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Nineteenth Edition.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 7’.
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Slow Life (Analog, December 2002)
Hugo for Best Novelette 2003.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twentieth Edition.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 8’.
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Legions in Time (Asimov's, April 2003)
Hugo for Best Novelette 2004.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF of the Year’, 2003 Edition.
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Award-nominated fiction:

This list is limited to the Hugo Awards, the Nebula Awards, and the World Fantasy Awards. See here for further awards.

Ginungagap (TriQuarterly #49, Fall 1980)
A sample from this collection.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1980.
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The Feast of Saint Janis (New Dimensions Anthology #11, 1980)
A sample from this collection.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1980.
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Mummer Kiss (Universe Anthology #11, 1981)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1981.
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Not freely available online!

The Man Who Met Picasso (Omni, September 1982)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 1983.
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Not freely available online!

Marrow Death (Asimov's, December 1984)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 1984.
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Trojan Horse (Omni, December 1984)
A sample from this collection.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1984.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Second Edition.
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With William Gibson: Dogfight (Omni, July 1985)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1986.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1985.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Third Edition.
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The Edge of the World (Full Spectrum Anthology #2, 1989)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1990.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 1990.
Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Third Edition.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Seventh Edition.
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Griffin’s Egg (Legend, 1991)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 1992.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 1992.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Tenth Edition.
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The Iron Dragon’s Daughter (Millennium, 1993)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novel 1994.
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Not freely available online!

Cold Iron (Asimov's, November 1993)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 1994.
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The Changeling’s Tale (Asimov's, January 1994)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 1995.
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Walking Out (Asimov's, February 1995)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1996.
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The Dead (Starlight Anthology #1, 1996)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1997.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1997.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Fourteenth Edition.
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Jack Faust (Avon, 1997)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 1998.
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Wild Minds (Asimov's, May 1998)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1999.
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Radiant Doors (Asimov's, September 1998)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1999.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1999.
Featured in David Hartwell’s ‘Year’s Best SF 4’.
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Ancient Engines (Asimov's, February 1999)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2000.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1999.
Featured in David Hartwell’s ‘Year’s Best SF 5’.
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The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O (Tales of Old Earth Collection, 2000)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2001.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Eighteenth Edition.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy 1’.
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Moon Dogs (Asimov's, March 2000)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2001.
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Not freely available online!

Bones of the Earth (Eos, 2002)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 2003.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 2002.
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Not freely available online!

"Hello," Said the Stick (Analog, March 2002)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2003.
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The Little Cat Laughed To See Such Sport (Asimov's, October 2002)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2003.
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Lord Weary’s Empire (Asimov's, December 2006)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2007.
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A Small Room in Koboldtown (Asimov's, April 2007)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2008.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled (Asimov's, February 2008)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2009.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Sixth Edition.
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Other fiction online:

With Gardner Dozois & Jack Dann: Touring (Penthouse, April 1981)
A sample from this collection.
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With Gardner Dozois & Jack Dann: Golden Apples of the Sun (Penthouse, March 1984)
A sample from this collection.
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With Gardner Dozois & Jack Dann: The Gods of Mars (Omni, March 1985)
A sample from this collection.
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A Midwinter’s Tale (Asimov's, December 1988)
A sample from this collection.
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Triceratops Summer (Amazon.com, August 2005)
A sample from this anthology.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Third Edition.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘SF: The Best of the Year 2006’.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF of the Year’, 2005 Edition.
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From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled … (Asimov's, February 2008)
Alternate link.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Three.
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Hush and Hark (Drabblecast, October 2008)
Available as part of this magazine.
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Metasciencefiction (Drabblecast, October 2008)
Available as part of this magazine.
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With Eileen Gunn: The Armies of Elfland (Asimov's, April 2009)
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With Eileen Gunn: Zeppelin City (Tor.com, October 2009)
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Four.
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Invisibility for Beginners (Drabblecast, December 2009)
Available as part of this magazine.
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Spirits in the Night (Abyss & Apex #36, Fourth Quarter 2010)
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

With Eileen Gunn: The Trains that Climb the Winter Tree (Tor.com, December 2010)
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The Dala Horse (Tor.com, July 2011)
Alternate link.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Ninth Edition.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Six.
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For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I’ll Not Be Back Again (Asimov's, August 2011)
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Ninth Edition.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 17’.
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The Woman Who Shook the World-Tree (Tor.com, March 2012)
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The Mongolian Wizard (Tor.com, July 2012)
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The Fire Gown (Tor.com, August 2012)
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Day of the Kraken (Tor.com, September 2012)
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The She-Wolf’s Hidden Grin (Shadows of the New Sun Anthology, 2013)
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House of Dreams (Tor.com, December 2013)
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Passage of Earth (Clarkesworld #91, April 2014)
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The Night of the Salamander (Tor.com, August 2015)
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The Pyramid of Krakow (Tor.com, September 2015)
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The Phantom in the Maze (Tor.com, December 2015)
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Murder in the Spook House (Tor.com, May 2019)
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The New Prometheus (Tor.com, June 2019)
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Artificial People (Clarkesworld #166, July 2020)
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The Last Days of Old Night (Clarkesworld #171, December 2020)
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Annie Without Crow (Tor.com, April 2021)
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The Star-Bear (Tor.com, June 2023)

Timothy: An Oral History (Clarkesworld #205, October 2023)
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Free Speculative Fiction Online

Michael Swanwick

Award-winning fiction:

Stations of the Tide (Asimov's, December 1990)

Radio Waves (Omni, Winter 1995)

The Very Pulse of the Machine (Asimov's, February 1998)

Scherzo with Tyrannosaur (Asimov's, July 1999)

The Dog Said Bow-Wow (Asimov's, October 2001)

Slow Life (Analog, December 2002)

Legions in Time (Asimov's, April 2003)

Award-nominated fiction:

Ginungagap (TriQuarterly #49, Fall 1980)

The Feast of Saint Janis (New Dimensions Anthology #11, 1980)

Mummer Kiss (Universe Anthology #11, 1981)

The Man Who Met Picasso (Omni, September 1982)

Marrow Death (Asimov's, December 1984)

Trojan Horse (Omni, December 1984)

With William Gibson: Dogfight (Omni, July 1985)

The Edge of the World (Full Spectrum Anthology #2, 1989)

Griffin’s Egg (Legend, 1991)

The Iron Dragon’s Daughter (Millennium, 1993)

Cold Iron (Asimov's, November 1993)

The Changeling’s Tale (Asimov's, January 1994)

Walking Out (Asimov's, February 1995)

The Dead (Starlight Anthology #1, 1996)

Jack Faust (Avon, 1997)

Wild Minds (Asimov's, May 1998)

Radiant Doors (Asimov's, September 1998)

Ancient Engines (Asimov's, February 1999)

The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O (Tales of Old Earth Collection, 2000)

Moon Dogs (Asimov's, March 2000)

Bones of the Earth (Eos, 2002)

"Hello," Said the Stick (Analog, March 2002)

The Little Cat Laughed To See Such Sport (Asimov's, October 2002)

Lord Weary’s Empire (Asimov's, December 2006)

A Small Room in Koboldtown (Asimov's, April 2007)

From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled (Asimov's, February 2008)

Other fiction online:

With Gardner Dozois & Jack Dann: Touring (Penthouse, April 1981)

With Gardner Dozois & Jack Dann: Golden Apples of the Sun (Penthouse, March 1984)

With Gardner Dozois & Jack Dann: The Gods of Mars (Omni, March 1985)

A Midwinter’s Tale (Asimov's, December 1988)

Triceratops Summer (Amazon.com, August 2005)

From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled … (Asimov's, February 2008)

Hush and Hark (Drabblecast, October 2008)

Metasciencefiction (Drabblecast, October 2008)

With Eileen Gunn: The Armies of Elfland (Asimov's, April 2009)

With Eileen Gunn: Zeppelin City (Tor.com, October 2009)

Invisibility for Beginners (Drabblecast, December 2009)

Spirits in the Night (Abyss & Apex #36, Fourth Quarter 2010)

With Eileen Gunn: The Trains that Climb the Winter Tree (Tor.com, December 2010)

The Dala Horse (Tor.com, July 2011)

For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I’ll Not Be Back Again (Asimov's, August 2011)

The Woman Who Shook the World-Tree (Tor.com, March 2012)

The Mongolian Wizard (Tor.com, July 2012)

The Fire Gown (Tor.com, August 2012)

Day of the Kraken (Tor.com, September 2012)

The She-Wolf’s Hidden Grin (Shadows of the New Sun Anthology, 2013)

House of Dreams (Tor.com, December 2013)

Passage of Earth (Clarkesworld #91, April 2014)

The Night of the Salamander (Tor.com, August 2015)

The Pyramid of Krakow (Tor.com, September 2015)

The Phantom in the Maze (Tor.com, December 2015)

Murder in the Spook House (Tor.com, May 2019)

The New Prometheus (Tor.com, June 2019)

Artificial People (Clarkesworld #166, July 2020)

The Last Days of Old Night (Clarkesworld #171, December 2020)

Annie Without Crow (Tor.com, April 2021)

The Star-Bear (Tor.com, June 2023)

Timothy: An Oral History (Clarkesworld #205, October 2023)