Year's Best Fantasy 4
King DragonMichael Swanwick
Michael Swanwick [] lives in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His novels include the Nebula
Award winner, Stations of the Tide (1991), The Iron
Dragon's Daughter (1993) and Jack Faust (1997), and
Bones of the Earth (2002). Swanwick is also the author of
two influential critical essays, one on SF, "User's Guide to
the Postmoderns" (1985), and one on fantasy, "In The Tradition
... " (1994). But in between the novels, he writes
short stories, and his tales have dominated the short fiction
Hugo Award nominations in recent years. His stories have
been collected principally in Gravity's Angels (1991), A Geography
of Unknown Lands (1997), Moon Dogs (2000),
Tales of Old Earth (2000), and as a pamphlet, Puck
Aleshire's Abecedary (2000), and a collection of shortshorts,
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