Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today! I mean it. Shakespeare was a better stylist, Melville was more important… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines,… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
“A hippogriff flew past, trailing laughter. It came so close to Will that he could smell its scent, a pungent mixture of horse sweat and milky pin-feathers, and feel the wind from its wings. Its rider’s hair streamed out behind her like a red banner. Will stared up at her, awestruck. The young woman in the saddle was all grace… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share
It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books. — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our genre exists… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
“The mechanism thus created periodically acts out post-modern notions of cosmology and then deconstructs itself. It has met with great admiration and no little… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them aside in disgust at what they fancy is said within, or hide their faces in one which they pretend to peruse while somebody else lectures them on matters they'd rather not confront. But they do not read them.… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share
“Silent, unseen, small cousin of death, Born this instant, closer than breath, Killer of thought, assassin of dreams, Memory's surgeon, the end of your… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
“Perfection is death,' Anastasia said. 'The world is imperfect, but if it weren't, who would love it?” — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
“This book is dedicated to all good teachers everywhere, most particularly those of the William Levering School and Central High School in Philadelphia, to… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
