Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our genre exists to make possible. If you don't like Tom Purdom, you don't like science fiction. Period. — 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… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
“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
