Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures - Softcover

Swanwick, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1892391074 ISBN 13: 9781892391070

Verlag: TACHYON PUBN, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

<div>Often humorous, sometimes chilling, always entertaining, this collection of award-winning author Michael Swanwick&#8217;s short-short fiction is a work of masterfully sustained whimsy for adults. <i>Cigar-Box Faust</i> contains more than seventy fantastical stories in fewer than a hundred pages.<br><br>The title piece is a five-minute condensation of a classic of Western literature, featuring a cigar-cutter as Mephistopheles; a box of matches in the roles of Helen of Troy, an Angel of the Lord, and the Light of Ontology; and a cigar as Faust himself. Although it has previously been performed live by the author, this is its first appearance in print. There is also an abecedary showcasing Swanwick&#8217;s bravura imagination with a separate story for every letter of the alphabet, another set of tales for every planet in the solar system, and a series of pieces that the author literally wrote in his sleep! To say nothing of a clutch of alternate autobiographies, a novella of decadence and corporate politics in a future Venice that has been boiled down to 416 words, Picasso and Philip K. Dick as existential heroes...and a rhyme for orange.</div>

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

<div>Michael Swanwick is one of the most acclaimed science-fiction and fantasy short-story writers of his generation, having received five consecutive Hugo Awards. He has also won the Theodore Sturgeon and World Fantasy awards. Swanwick&#8217;s novels include <i>The Iron Dragon&#8217;s Daughter</i>, a <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book, and the Nebula Award&#150;winning <i>Stations of the Tide</i>. His short fiction has appeared in many venues, including <i>OMNI</i>, <i>Penthouse</i>, <i>Amazing</i>, <i>Asimov&#8217;s Science Fiction</i>, <i>New Dimensions</i>, and <i>Full Spectrum</i>, and his work has been translated into more than ten languages.</div>

Michael Swanwick is one of the most acclaimed science-fiction and fantasy short-story writers of his generation, having received five consecutive Hugo Awards. He has also won the Theodore Sturgeon and World Fantasy awards. Swanwick’s novels include The Iron Dragon’s Daughter, a New York Times Notable Book, and the Nebula Award?winning Stations of the Tide. His short fiction has appeared in many venues, including OMNI, Penthouse, Amazing, Asimov’s Science Fiction, New Dimensions, and Full Spectrum, and his work has been translated into more than ten languages.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: TACHYON PUBN
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1892391074
• ISBN 13: 9781892391070
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 94
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