Michael Swanwick

I'm going to move to Theory someday. Everything works there.

— Michael Swanwick

The bureaucrat fell from the sky.

— Michael Swanwick

It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books.

— Michael Swanwick

“Perfection is death,' Anastasia said. 'The world is imperfect, but if it weren't, who would love it?”

— Michael Swanwick

Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy

— Michael Swanwick

This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed;…

— Michael Swanwick

“This book is dedicated to all good teachers everywhere, most particularly those of the William Levering School and Central High School in…

— Michael Swanwick

“Silent, unseen, small cousin of death, Born this instant, closer than breath, Killer of thought, assassin of dreams, Memory's surgeon, the end…

— Michael Swanwick

Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our…

— Michael Swanwick

“The mechanism thus created periodically acts out post-modern notions of cosmology and then deconstructs itself. It has met with great admiration and…

— Michael Swanwick

Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer…

— Michael Swanwick

“A hippogriff flew past, trailing laughter. It came so close to Will that he could smell its scent, a pungent mixture of…

— Michael Swanwick

You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them…

— Michael Swanwick