- Paperback: 300 pages
- Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S.; Reprint edition (19 Dec 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1583940294
- ISBN-13: 978-1583940297
- Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 2.8 x 22.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,648,771 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Gravity's Angels is a showcase for a decade's worth of Swanwick's shorter fictions, from his first published short story, "The Feast of Saint Janis," to a descent past the edge of a flat Earth otherwise very like our own in "The Edge of the World," which won the 1990 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. The stories collected here are luminous with the promise of his ambition, smart and allusive, dense with ideas and images, sacred and profane.
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Wonderful short fiction, 15 May 2001
By P. Johanneson "yet another reader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gravity's Angel (Paperback)
I've been consistently amazed by Michael Swanwick's novels ever since I read Vacuum Flowers about 7 or 8 years ago. I was pleased to see that Gravity's Angels had been re-released, and so I bought a copy. I was assuming that his short fiction is on par with his novels.It is. O boy, is it ever.
I'd read one of the stories here before - Mummer's Kiss is a part of the novel In the Drift - but it didn't matter, it's worth re-reading. One short story seems to serve as a proving ground for the society depicted in Vacuum Flowers; another is an interesting take on the Arthur myth/legend. One's about a healer trapped in a church and one's about a man who may or may not be holding reality together.
Not a single one of these stories is anything less than amazing. If you've read Swanwick, and enjoyed his work, then buy this book. If you've never read Swanwick (and it seems a lot of you haven't, which is too bad; he's a phenomenal writer, easily one of the five best working in SF today), there's not a better place to start.
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Early Swanwick is Weak but Promising, 1 July 2003
By Jack M. Walter "Jack M. Walter" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gravity's Angel (Paperback)
These stories were all written in the Eighties, and the writing is quite involving, but there is a distinct lack of theme or intent in each tale. Only the last one, The Edge of the World, is ingenious and poignant and leaves a lasting impression. Swanwick's later works are much better. I suggest Tales of Old Earth, a masterful collection.
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