Originally published in the translation version of Science Fiction World 2018.1.
Michael Swanwick, American science fiction writer. Born November 18, 1950, lives in Philadelphia .
Michael Swanwick has been publishing fantasy novels since the 1980s. His first work, The Feast of St Janis, was published in New Dimension (11, 1980) and was nominated for that year's Nebula Award. Soon, Swanwick became more and more well-known, possessing a writer's passion and skill, mixing his usual multi-layered sci-fi tropes with his mythology. At first Swanwick was in the stage of honing his writing skills with short stories and novels. But his works during this period covered a wide range of content, such as sentimental redemption fables, hard science fiction stories on the asteroid belt, typical "cyberpunk" novels... Gradually, he formed his own mature style, Passionate, passionate, cruel, tragic, profound, restrained, and even moral redemption and domestication, these contradictory and harmonious styles are unified in his works.
Michael Swanwick's creation of long-form works can be described as a step-by-step, gradual development. It wasn't until the fourth full-length feature "Tide Station" finally ushered in an outbreak that it won the Nebula Award in 1991 and was nominated for the Hugo Award and the Arthur C. Clark Award. Earth Keel was published in February 2002 to critical acclaim and was nominated for the 2002 Nebula Award and the 2003 Hugo Award.
Compared with his novels, Michael Swanwick's short stories are more profound and the speed of creation is more amazing. He has written more than one hundred novels in the "Sci-Fi Periodic Table of Elements" series at the rate of one per week. For more than a decade, Swanwick has won numerous awards for his short stories and novels. "Edge of the World" won Theodore Sturgeon Award, "Radio Waves" won the World Fantasy Award, "Dog Talks" won the Nebula Award, "Pulse of the Machine", "Dinosaur Concerto", "Slow Life" and "The Air Force" Received a Hugo Award.
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