Michael Swanwick Reading Order

87 books (1980–2023)

Start with TriQuarterly 49: Science Fiction, the first of 87 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	TriQuarterly 49: Science Fiction 1980Buy 🇺🇸
2	Universe 11 1981Buy 🇺🇸
3	Magicats! 1984Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction 1985Buy 🇺🇸
5	Terry's Universe: Science fiction's finest writers join in honoring the memory of Terry Carr 1987Buy 🇺🇸
6	Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 1989 1989Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Seventh Omni Book of Science Fiction 1989Buy 🇺🇸
8	Third Annual Collection 1989Buy 🇺🇸
9	Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories 1990Buy 🇺🇸
10	Slow Dancing Through Time 1990Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Best Fantasy Stories of the Year, 1989 1990Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection 1990Buy 🇺🇸
13	Isaac Asimov's Earth 1992Buy 🇺🇸
14	Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1994 1994Buy 🇺🇸
15	Omni Visions Two 1994Buy 🇺🇸
16	Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1995 1995Buy 🇺🇸
17	Spirits Of Christmas: Twenty Other-Worldly Tales 1995Buy 🇺🇸
18	Starlight 1 1996Buy 🇺🇸
19	Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Tenth Annual Collection 1996Buy 🇺🇸
20	Modern Classics of Fantasy 1997Buy 🇺🇸
21	Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1998 1998Buy 🇺🇸
22	Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers 1998Buy 🇺🇸
23	Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1999 1999Buy 🇺🇸
24	Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1999 1999Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Good New Stuff 1999Buy 🇺🇸
26	Year's Best SF 4 1999Buy 🇺🇸
27	Asimov's Science Fiction, April 2000 2000Buy 🇺🇸
28	Explorers 2000Buy 🇺🇸
29	Infinity Plus One 2001Buy 🇺🇸
30	Meditations on Middle-Earth 2001Buy 🇺🇸
31	Nebula Awards 35 (2001) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
32	Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2002 2002Buy 🇺🇸
33	Supermen 2002Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction 2002Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 15 2002Buy 🇺🇸
36	I premi Hugo 2002 2003Buy 🇺🇸
37	The Hard SF Renaissance 2003Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16 2003Buy 🇺🇸
39	Year's Best SF 8 2003Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Year's Best Science Fiction: 21 Annual Edition 2004Buy 🇺🇸
41	Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection 2004Buy 🇺🇸
42	The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels 2005Buy 🇺🇸
43	The Fiction Factory 2005Buy 🇺🇸
44	Futures Past 2006Buy 🇺🇸
45	Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 2006Buy 🇺🇸
46	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection 2006Buy 🇺🇸
47	Year's Best SF 11 2006Buy 🇺🇸
48	Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: 30th Anniversary Anthology 2007Buy 🇺🇸
49	Rewired 2007Buy 🇺🇸
50	The Best of the Best, Vol 2 2007Buy 🇺🇸
51	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection 2007Buy 🇺🇸
52	Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, February 2008 2008Buy 🇺🇸
53	From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled 2008Buy 🇺🇸
54	Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition 2008Buy 🇺🇸
55	The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 21 2008Buy 🇺🇸
56	The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 22 2008Buy 🇺🇸
57	The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy 2008Buy 🇺🇸
58	The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF 2009Buy 🇺🇸
59	Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2010 2010Buy 🇺🇸
60	Alien Contact 2011Buy 🇺🇸
61	Unfit for Eden: A Postscripts Anthology 26/27 2011Buy 🇺🇸
62	Rock On: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy 2012Buy 🇺🇸
63	Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2011 edition 2012Buy 🇺🇸
64	The Mammoth Book of Steampunk 2012Buy 🇺🇸
65	The Palencar Project 2012Buy 🇺🇸
66	The Sword & Sorcery Anthology 2012Buy 🇺🇸
67	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection 2012Buy 🇺🇸
68	The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 4 2012Buy 🇺🇸
69	Timeless Time Travel Tales 2012Buy 🇺🇸
70	Shadows of the New Sun 2013Buy 🇺🇸
71	Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 Edition 2013Buy 🇺🇸
72	Steampunk Specs 2013Buy 🇺🇸
73	The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF 2013Buy 🇺🇸
74	The Time Traveler's Almanac 2013Buy 🇺🇸
75	Far Voyager: A Postcripts Anthology 32/33 2014Buy 🇺🇸
76	Rogues 2014Buy 🇺🇸
77	The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Nine 2014Buy 🇺🇸
78	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection 2014Buy 🇺🇸
79	The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6 2014Buy 🇺🇸
80	Letters to Tiptree 2015Buy 🇺🇸
81	The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 7 2015Buy 🇺🇸
82	Once Upon a Time Machine Volume 2 2018Buy 🇺🇸
83	The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2018 2018Buy 🇺🇸
84	Devil's Ways 2020Buy 🇺🇸
85	Love, Death and Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume One 2021Buy 🇺🇸
86	The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Fourth Annual Collection 2023Buy 🇺🇸
87	The Year's Top Tales of Space and Time 3 2023Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2011–2020)

Start with Dancing with Bears and read in order.

#	Title
1	Dancing with Bears 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	Chasing the Phoenix 2015Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Postutopian Adventures of Darger and Surplus 2020Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1993–2019)

Start with The Iron Dragon's Daughter and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Iron Dragon's Daughter 1993Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Dragons of Babel 2008Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Iron Dragon's Mother 2019Buy 🇺🇸

11 books (2012–2024)

Start with Day of the Kraken, the first of 11 books in the Mongolian Wizard series.

3 books (1997–2009)

Start with The Postmodern Archipelago and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Postmodern Archipelago 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	Being Gardner Dozois(With: Gardner Dozois) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	Hope-in-the-Mist 2009Buy 🇺🇸

26 books (1982–2023)

Start with The Man Who Met Picasso, the first of 26 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	The Man Who Met Picasso 1982Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dogfight (in Omni)(With: William Gibson) 1985Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Edge of the World 1989Buy 🇺🇸
4	Griffin's Egg 1991Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Changeling\'s Tale 1994Buy 🇺🇸
6	Radio Waves 1995Buy 🇺🇸
7	Walking Out (in Asimov's) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Dead (in Starlight 1) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
9	Radiant Doors (in The Best of...) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Very Pulse of the Machine (in The Best of...) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
11	Wild Minds (in The Best of...) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
12	Ancient Engines (in Asimov's) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
13	Scherzo with Tyrannosaur (in Asimov's) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O 2000Buy 🇺🇸
15	'Hello,' Said the Stick 2002Buy 🇺🇸
16	Slow Life 2002Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport 2002Buy 🇺🇸
18	Legions in Time 2003Buy 🇺🇸
19	Lord Weary’s Empire 2006Buy 🇺🇸
20	A Small Room in Koboldtown 2007Buy 🇺🇸
21	From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled 2008Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Trains That Climb the Winter Tree 2011Buy 🇺🇸
23	Zeppelin City 2011Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Dala Horse 2016Buy 🇺🇸
25	Annie Without Crow 2021Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Star-Bear 2023Buy 🇺🇸

11 books (1991–2026)

Start with Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures, the first of 11 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	Gravity's Angels 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	Tales of Old Earth 1992Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Geography of Unknown Lands 1997Buy 🇺🇸
5	Moon Dogs 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	Michael Swanwick's Field Guide to Mesozoic Megafauna 2004Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Periodic Table of Science Fiction 2005Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Dog Said Bow-Wow 2007Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Best of Michael Swanwick 2008Buy 🇺🇸
10	Not So Much, Said the Cat 2016Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Universe Box 2026Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1984–2002)

Start with In the Drift, the first of 5 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	In the Drift 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Vacuum Flowers 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Stations of the Tide 1991Buy 🇺🇸
4	Jack Faust 1997Buy 🇺🇸
5	Bones of the Earth 2002Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2012–2012)

Start with Dormanna(By: Gene Wolfe), the first of 5 books in the The Palencar Project series.

2 books (2016–2023)

Start with The Witch Who Came In From The Cold: Season One(With: Ian Tregillis,Max Gladstone,Lindsay Smith,Cassandra Rose Clarke) and read in order.

17 books (1971–1987)

Start with Universe 1(By: Terry Carr), the first of 17 books in the Universe series.

#	Title
1	Universe 1(By: Terry Carr) 1971Buy 🇺🇸
2	Universe 2(By: Terry Carr) 1972Buy 🇺🇸
3	Universe 3(By: Terry Carr) 1973Buy 🇺🇸
4	Universe 4(By: Terry Carr) 1974Buy 🇺🇸
5	Universe 5(By: Terry Carr) 1974Buy 🇺🇸
6	Universe 6(By: John Shirley,Terry Carr) 1976Buy 🇺🇸
7	Universe 7(By: Terry Carr) 1977Buy 🇺🇸
8	Universe 8(By: Terry Carr) 1978Buy 🇺🇸
9	Universe 9(By: John Shirley,Terry Carr) 1979Buy 🇺🇸
10	Universe 10(By: Terry Carr) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
11	Universe 11(With: Kim Stanley Robinson,William Gibson,Carter Scholz,Michael Bishop,Ian Watson,Nancy Kress,Carol Emshwiller,Josephine Saxton,Terry Carr) 1981Buy 🇺🇸
12	Universe 12(By: Terry Carr) 1982Buy 🇺🇸
13	Universe 13(By: Kim Stanley Robinson,Lucius Shepard,Michael Bishop,Ian Watson,Terry Carr,Bruce Sterling,Leanne Frahm,Bill Bickel) 1983Buy 🇺🇸
14	Universe 14(By: Terry Carr) 1984Buy 🇺🇸
15	Universe 15(By: Terry Carr) 1985Buy 🇺🇸
16	Universe 16(By: Terry Carr) 1986Buy 🇺🇸
17	Universe 17(By: Terry Carr) 1987Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1985–1986)

Start with Dogfight (in Omni)(With: William Gibson) and read in order.

9 books (2001–2009)

Start with Year's Best Fantasy, the first of 9 books in the Year's Best Fantasy series.

#	Title
1	Year's Best Fantasy 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	Year's Best Fantasy 2 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	Year's Best Fantasy 3 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Year's Best Fantasy 4 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	Year's Best Fantasy 5 2005Buy 🇺🇸
6	Year's Best Fantasy 6 2006Buy 🇺🇸
7	Year's Best Fantasy 7 2007Buy 🇺🇸
8	Year's Best Fantasy 8 2008Buy 🇺🇸
9	Year's Best Fantasy 9 2009Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (1996–2013)

Start with Year's Best SF, the first of 18 books in the Year's Best SF Anthology series.

#	Title
1	Year's Best SF 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	Year's Best SF 2 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	Year's Best SF 3 1998Buy 🇺🇸
4	Year's Best SF 4 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	Year's Best SF 5 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	Year's Best SF 6 2001Buy 🇺🇸
7	Year's Best SF 7 2002Buy 🇺🇸
8	Year's Best SF 8 2003Buy 🇺🇸
9	Year's Best SF 9 2004Buy 🇺🇸
10	Year's Best SF 10 2005Buy 🇺🇸
11	Year's Best SF 11 2006Buy 🇺🇸
12	Year's Best SF 12 2007Buy 🇺🇸
13	Year's Best SF 13 2008Buy 🇺🇸
14	Year's Best SF 14 2009Buy 🇺🇸
15	Year's Best SF 15 2010Buy 🇺🇸
16	Year's Best SF 16 2011Buy 🇺🇸
17	Year's Best SF 17 2012Buy 🇺🇸
18	Year's Best SF 18 2013Buy 🇺🇸