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Gravity's Angel  
Author: Michael Swanwick
ISBN: 1583940294
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
Aliens who absorb the memories of those they've slain, magicians slugging it out in present-day Philadelphia, and Janis Joplin reborn as an obsessed-over saint in a barbarous post-technological U.S: these are a few of the motifs from one of science fiction's modern masters.




Gravity's Angel

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Aliens who absorb the memories of those they've slain, magicians slugging it out in present-day Philadelphia, and Janis Joplin reborn as an obsessed-over saint in a barbarous post-technological U.S: these are a few of the motifs from one of science fiction's modern masters.

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly

This volume chronicles the career of one of the most impressive science fiction writers of the '80s. Almost all of Swanwick's ( Stations of the Tide ) short stories are collected here, from his impressive debut, ``The Feast of Saint Janis,'' to the most recent, ``The Edge of the World.'' Several commonalities in his works emerge: many future worlds are bleak after some sort of disaster; his characters are dominated by internal imperatives which, for good or ill, determine their fates; scientific and philosophical searches for knowledge are accompanied by a painful, sometimes tragic loss of innocence. In ``Mummer Kiss'' the chaos following a major nuclear meltdown has triggered a worldwide depression, while in ``Foresight,'' human memory works backward--everyone can ``recall'' their future but nothing of their past, and though they know what will heppen they cannot change it. Every story uses the traditional materials of the genre to explore deeper issues of character and conscience, and even when flawed--the otherwise exemplary ``The Man Who Met Picasso'' is all but ruined by its cop-out ending--Swanwick's work illustrates the power and potential of contemporary science fiction. (Aug.)

     



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