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{{Short description|American science fiction author (born 1950)}}
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'''Michael Swanwick''' (born November 18, 1950)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?179 | title=Summary Bibliography: Michael Swanwick }}</ref> is an American [[list of fantasy authors|fantasy]] and [[List of science-fiction authors|science fiction author]] who began publishing in the early 1980s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/2004/Issues/06Swanwick.html |title=Locus Online: Michael Swanwick interview excerpts |publisher=Locus Magazine |date=May 27, 2004 |access-date=March 31, 2010}}</ref>

==Writing career==
[[File:Michael Swanwick 2005.JPG|thumb|At the [[63rd World Science Fiction Convention]] in [[Glasgow]], August 2005]]
[[File:Michael Swanwick 2007.jpg|thumb|At the [[Avram Davidson]] tribute, NYC, 2007]]

Swanwick's fiction writing began with short stories, starting in 1980 when he published "Ginungagap" in ''[[TriQuarterly]]'' and "The Feast of St. Janis" in ''New Dimensions 11''.  Both stories were nominees for the [[Nebula Award for Best Short Story]] in 1981.<ref>[http://www.crescentblues.com/6_6issue/int_swanwick.shtml The Periodic Prime of Michael Swanwick] (interview with Michael Swanwick) accessed January 3, 2014</ref>
His first novel was ''[[In the Drift]]'' (an [[Ace Science Fiction Specials|Ace Special]], 1985), a look at the results of a more catastrophic [[Three Mile Island accident|Three Mile Island]] incident, which expands on his earlier short story "Mummer's Kiss".  This was followed in 1987 by ''[[Vacuum Flowers]]'', an adventurous tour of an inhabited Solar System, where the people of Earth have been subsumed by a cybernetic mass-mind. Some characters’ bodies contain multiple personalities, which can be recorded and edited (or damaged) as if they were [[wetware (brain)|wetware]].

In the 1990s, Swanwick moved towards the intersection between [[science fiction]], [[fantasy]], and [[Magic realism|magical realism]]. ''[[Stations of the Tide]]'' (1991) is the story of a bureaucrat's pursuit of a magician on a world soon to be altered by its 50-year tide swell; it is set far in the future, blurring the line between magic and technology. ''[[The Iron Dragon's Daughter]]'' (1993) is a fantasy set in a [[Fairyland]] based on modern America, with elves wearing Armani suits and dragons serving as jet fighters. The main character, a [[changeling]] stolen from the real world, struggles to survive a factory, a high school, and a university, all the while being manipulated by a dragon. In ''[[Jack Faust (novel)|Jack Faust]]'' (1997), a retelling of the [[Faust]] legend, the scholar does not gain magical power but modern scientific knowledge with which he begins the [[Industrial Revolution]] centuries early.

In the 2000s, Swanwick wrote several series of [[flash fiction]]s, beginning with ''[[Puck Aleshire's Abecedary]]'', a collection of 26 stories, each titled for a different letter of the alphabet. Other series included ''[[The Periodic Table of Science Fiction]]'', 118 stories each themed about a different chemical element. These were originally published in [[Sci Fiction]]. Later, ''The Infinite Matrix'' published ''The Sleep of Reason'', in which each story was based on one of [[Francisco Goya|Goya]]’s ''[[Los caprichos|caprichos]]''. In this period, he won several awards for short fiction; between 1999 and 2003, he had nine stories shortlisted for the [[Hugo Award for Best Short Story]], and won in 1999, 2000, and 2002.<ref>{{cite web |title=Conversations with a Dark God: An Interview With Michael Swanwick |url=http://www.sfsite.com/07b/ms132.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030402233747/http://www.sfsite.com/07b/ms132.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 2, 2003 |website=The SF Site |access-date=November 5, 2021}}</ref>

He also continued to write novels. ''[[Bones of the Earth]]'' (2002) is a [[time travel]] story involving [[dinosaur]]s. ''[[The Dragons of Babel]]'' (2008) is set in the same world as ''The Iron Dragon's Daughter'', although the setting and characters are different; ''The Iron Dragon's Mother'' (2019) was a third volume in the series. He has written two novels featuring the [[posthuman]] rogues Darger and Surplus, who had already appeared in short stories: ''Dancing with Bears'' (2011) concerns their adventures in post-Utopian Russia, and in “Chasing the Phoenix” (2015) they travel to China. After Gardner Dozois's death, Swanwick completed his unfinished novel ''City Under the Stars''.

His many works of short fiction have been collected in ''[[Gravity's Angels]]'' (1991), ''[[Moon Dogs (short story collection)|Moon Dogs]]'' (2000), ''Tales of Old Earth'' (2000), and others. A novella, ''Griffin's Egg'', was published in book form in 1991 and is also collected in ''Moon Dogs''. He has collaborated with other authors on several short works, including [[Gardner Dozois]] ("Ancestral Voices", "City of God", "Snow Job") and [[William Gibson]] ("[[Dogfight (short story)|Dogfight]]").

''Stations of the Tide'' won the [[Nebula Award|Nebula]] for [[Nebula Award for Best Novel|best novel]] in 1991, and several of his shorter works have won awards as well: the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for "The Edge of the World" in 1989, the World Fantasy Award for "[[Radio Waves (novella)|Radio Waves]]" in 1996,<ref>{{cite web|author=World Fantasy Convention |year=2010 |title=Award Winners and Nominees |url=http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html/ |access-date=February 4, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201074405/http://worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html |archive-date=December 1, 2010 }}</ref> and [[Hugo Award|Hugos]] for "[[The Very Pulse of the Machine]]" in 1999, "[[Scherzo with Tyrannosaur]]" in 2000, "[[The Dog Said Bow-Wow]]" in 2002, "[[Slow Life (novelette)|Slow Life]]" in 2003, and "Legions in Time" in 2004.

===Nonfiction writing===
Swanwick has written about the field as well. He published two long essays on the state of the science fiction ("The User's Guide to the Postmoderns", 1986) and fantasy ("In the Tradition...", 1994), the former of which was controversial for its categorization of new SF writers into "cyberpunk" and "literary humanist" camps. Both essays were collected together in ''The Postmodern Archipelago'' 1997. A book-length interview with Gardner Dozois, ''[[Being Gardner Dozois]]'', was published in 2001. He is a prolific contributor to the [[New York Review of Science Fiction]]. Swanwick wrote a monograph on [[James Branch Cabell]], ''What Can Be Saved From the Wreckage?'', which was published in 2007 with a preface by [[Barry Humphries]],<ref>{{cite web |title=What Can Be Saved from the Wreckage? by Michael Swanwick |url=http://www.avramdavidson.org/wreckage.html |website=avramdavidson.org |access-date=December 4, 2021}}</ref> and a short [[biography in literature|literary biography]] of [[Hope Mirrlees]], ''Hope-in-the-Mist'', which was published in 2009.

=== Television and film ===
Swanwick's short stories "Ice Age" and "The Very Pulse of the Machine" from ''Tales of Old Earth'' were adapted for the Netflix series ''[[Love, Death & Robots|Love, Death + Robots]]'' (2019) for its first and third seasons respectively.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.netflix.com/title/80174608|title=Love, Death & Robots {{!}} Netflix Official Site|website=www.netflix.com|language=en|access-date=October 7, 2019}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Swanwick thanks his wife, Marianne C. Porter, in all his books, referring to her as "the M. C. Porter Endowment for the Arts".<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Don't Try to Make a Living Writing Short Stories |url=https://www.wired.com/2016/09/geeks-guide-michael-swanwick/ |magazine=Wired |date=September 23, 2016 |access-date=November 5, 2021}}</ref>

He was a friend of [[Gardner Dozois]] and Susan Caspar for many years. From this friendship grew ''Being Gardner Dozois'' and several collaborations, including the novel ''City Under the Stars''.<ref>{{cite web |title=The City Under the Stars - Gardner Dozois' Last Book |url=https://floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-city-under-stars-gardner-dozois.html |website=Flogging Babel |date=July 9, 2019 |access-date=November 5, 2021}}</ref>

==Awards==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Work !! Year & Award!! Category!! Result !! Ref.
|-
| rowspan="2" |"The Feast of Saint Janis"
|1981 [[Nebula Award]]
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name="nebula">{{cite web |title=Michael Swanwick |url=https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nominees/michael-swanwick/ |website=Nebula Awards |publisher=Science Fictions & Fantasy Writers Association |access-date=24 September 2025}}</ref>
|-
|1981 [[Locus Award]]
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 1981 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1981 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" |"Ginungagap"
|1981 Nebula Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name="nebula" />
|-
|1981 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |"Mummer Kiss"
|1982 SF Chronicle Award
|Novelette
|{{Won}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll 1982 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Science_Fiction_Chronicle_Readers_Poll_1982 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|1982 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 1982 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1982 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|1982 Nebula Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name="nebula" />
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Walden Three"
|1982 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |"The Man Who Met Picasso"
|1983 [[World Fantasy Award]]
|Short Fiction
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name="wfa nominees">{{cite web |title=Nominees |url=https://worldfantasy.org/awards/nominees/ |publisher=World Fantasy Awards |access-date=24 September 2025}}</ref>
|-
|1983 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 1983 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1983 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" |"Marrow Death"
|1985 Nebula Award
|Novella
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name="nebula" />
|-
|1985 Locus Award
|Novella
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 1985 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1985 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" |"Trojan Horse"
|1985 Nebula Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name="nebula" />
|-
|1985 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |"When the Music's Over..."
|1985 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="4" |"[[Dogfight (short story)|Dogfight]]"
(with [[William Gibson]])
|1986 SF Chronicle Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll 1986 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Science_Fiction_Chronicle_Readers_Poll_1986 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|1986 [[Hugo Award]]
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1986 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 1986 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1986 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|1986 Nebula Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name="nebula" />
|-
| rowspan="1" |''In The Drift''
|1986 Locus Award
|First Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |"The Blind Minotaur"
|1986 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |"The Gods of Mars"
(with [[Gardner Dozois]] and [[Jack Dann]])
|1986 Nebula Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1986 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |"The Transmigration of Philip K."
|1986 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |"A Midwinter's Tale"
|1988 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Short Story
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|1989 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 1989 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1989 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |''[[Vacuum Flowers]]''
|1988 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 1988 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1988 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" |"The Dragon Line"
|1989 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1989 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Short Story
|'''7th Place'''
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Asimov's Reader Poll 1990 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_1990 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="4" |"The Edge of the World"
|1990 Hugo Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1990 World Fantasy Award
|Short Fiction
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name="wfa nominees" />
|-
|1990 [[Theodore Sturgeon Award]]
|Short Science Fiction
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|1990 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 1990 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1990 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Snow Angels"
|1990 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |"U.F.O."
|1991 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 1991 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1991 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="7" |''[[Stations of the Tide]]''
|1992 SF Chronicle Award
|Novel
|{{Won}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll 1992 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Science_Fiction_Chronicle_Readers_Poll_1992 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|1992 Nebula Award
|Novel
|{{Won}}
|<ref name="nebula" />
|-
|1992 [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|John W. Campbell Memorial Award]]
|
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1992 Hugo Award
|Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1992 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 1992 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1992 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|1993 [[Arthur C. Clarke Award]]
|Science Fiction Novel
|{{CFinalist}}
|
|-
|1999 [[Kurd Laßwitz Award]]
|Foreign Work
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="5" |''Griffin's Egg''
|1992 SF Chronicle Award
|Novella
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll 1992 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Science_Fiction_Chronicle_Readers_Poll_1992 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|1992 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Novella
|'''5th Place'''
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Asimov's Reader Poll 1993 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_1993 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|1992 Hugo Award
|Novella
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1992 Locus Award
|Novella
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1993 Nebula Award
|Novella
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name="nebula" />
|-
| rowspan="2" |''[[Gravity's Angels]]''
|1992 Locus Award
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1999 Kurd Laßwitz Award
|Foreign Work
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |"In Concert"
|1993 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |"Cold Iron"
|1993 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Novella
|'''2nd Place'''
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Asimov's Reader Poll 1994 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_1994 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|1995 Nebula Award
|Novella
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name="nebula" />
|-
| rowspan="3" |"The Changeling's Tale"
|1994 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Short Story
|'''8th Place'''
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Asimov's Reader Poll 1995 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_1995 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|1995 World Fantasy Award
|Short Fiction
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name="wfa nominees" />
|-
|1995 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 1995 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1995 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" |''[[The Iron Dragon's Daughter]]''
|1994 Arthur C. Clarke Award
|
|{{CFinalist}}
|
|-
|1994 World Fantasy Award
|Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name="wfa nominees" />
|-
|1994 Locus Award
|Fantasy Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 1994 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1994 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |"The Mask"
|1995 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |"Walking Out"
|1995 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Short Story
|'''6th Place'''
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Asimov's Reader Poll 1996 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_1996 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|1996 Hugo Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1996 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 1996 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1996 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" |"The City of God"
(with Gardner Dozois)
|1996 Locus Award
|Novella
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1996 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Novella
|'''6th Place'''
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Asimov's Reader Poll 1997 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_1997 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="4" |"Radio Waves"
|1996 World Fantasy Award
|Novella
|{{Won}}
|<ref name="wfa nominees" />
|-
|1996 HOMer Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: HOMer Awards 1997 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/HOMer_Awards_1997 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|1997 [[Theodore Sturgeon Award]]
|Short Science Fiction
|{{CFinalist}}
|
|-
|1997 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 1997 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1997 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" |"[[The Dead (Swanwick short story)|The Dead]]"
|1997 Hugo Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1997 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1998 Nebula Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name="nebula" />
|-
| rowspan="4" |''[[Jack Faust (novel)|Jack Faust]]''
|1997 Sidewise Award for Alternate History
|Long Form
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Sidewise Awards 1998 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Sidewise_Awards_1998 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|1997 [[BSFA Award]]
|Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1998 Locus Award
|Fantasy Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 1998 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1998 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|1998 Hugo Award
|Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''A Geography of Unknown Lands''
|1998 World Fantasy Award
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name="wfa nominees" />
|-
|1998 Locus Award
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |"Ancestral Voices"
(with Gardner Dozois)
|1998 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Novella
|'''4th Place'''
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Asimov's Reader Poll 1999 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_1999 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|1999 Locus Award
|Novella
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 1999 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1999 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="4" |"[[Radiant Doors]]"
|1998 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Short Story
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|1999 Hugo Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1999 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2000 Nebula Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name="nebula" />
|-
| rowspan="3" |"[[The Very Pulse of the Machine]]"
|1998 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Short Story
|'''3rd Place'''
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Asimov's Reader Poll 1999 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_1999 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|1999 Hugo Award
|Short Story
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|1999 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Mother Grasshopper"
|1998 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |"The Wisdom of Old Earth"
|1998 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |"Wild Minds"
|1999 Hugo Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1999 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Microcosmic Dog"
|1999 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="4" |"[[Ancient Engines]]"
|1999 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Short Story
|{{Won}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Asimov's Reader Poll 2000 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_2000 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|2000 Hugo Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2000 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2000 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2000 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|2000 Nebula Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name="nebula" />
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Archaic Planets: Nine Excerpts from the Encyclopedia Galactica"
(with Sean Swanwick)
|1999 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Short Story
|'''3rd Place'''
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Asimov's Reader Poll 1999 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_1999 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="4" |"[[Scherzo with Tyrannosaur]]"
|1999: Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Short Story
|'''4th Place'''
|
|-
|2000 Hugo Award
|Short Story
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|2000 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2001 Nebula Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name="nebula" />
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Riding the Giganotosaur"
|1999 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Short Story
|'''7th Place'''
|
|-
| rowspan="4" |"Moon Dogs"
|2000: HOMer Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2000 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Short Story
|'''6th Place'''
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Asimov's Reader Poll 2001 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_2001 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|2001 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2001 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2001 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|2001 Hugo Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Moon Dogs'' (collection)
|2001 Locus Award
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Green Fire"
(with [[Andy Duncan (writer)|Andy Duncan]], [[Eileen Gunn]] & [[Pat Murphy (writer)|Pat Murphy]])
|2000 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Novella
|'''8th Place'''
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |"The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O"
|2001 World Fantasy Award
|Short Fiction
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name="wfa nominees" />
|-
|2001 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2001 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2001 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Tales of Old Earth''
|2001 Locus Award
|Collection
|{{Won}}
|
|-
| rowspan="5" |"[[The Dog Said Bow-Wow]]"
|2001 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Short Story
|'''4th Place'''
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Asimov's Reader Poll 2002 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_2002 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|2002 Hugo Award
|Short Story
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|2002 Theodore Sturgeon Award
|Short Science Fiction
|{{CFinalist}}
|
|-
|2002 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2002 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2002 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|2003 Nebula Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name="nebula" />
|-
| rowspan="1" |''The Dog Said Bow-Wow'' (collection)
|2008 Locus Award
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2008 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2008 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" |"The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport"
|2002 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Short Story
|'''3rd Place'''
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Asimov's Reader Poll 2003 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_2003 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|2003 Hugo Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2003 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2003 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2003 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" |"[[Slow Life (novelette)|Slow Life]]"
|2002 Analog Award
|Novelette
|'''5th Place'''
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Analog Readers Poll 2003 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Analog_Readers_Poll_2003 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|2003 Hugo Award
|Novelette
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|2003 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Being Gardner Dozois: An Interview by Michael Swanwick''
|2002 Hugo Award
|Related Work
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2002 Locus Award
|Non-Fiction
|{{Won}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2002 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2002 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Five British Dinosaurs"
|2002 BSFA Award
|Short Fiction
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |"[['Hello,' Said the Stick]]"
|2003 Hugo Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2003 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="4" |''[[Bones of the Earth]]''
|2003 Hugo Award
|Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2003 Nebula Award
|Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref name="nebula" />
|-
|2003 [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|John W. Campbell Memorial Award]]
|
|{{CFinalist}}
|
|-
|2003 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2003 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2003 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Dirty Little War"
|2003 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |"[[Legions in Time]]"
|2003 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Novelette
|'''6th Place'''
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Asimov's Reader Poll 2004 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_2004 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|2004 Hugo Award
|Novelette
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|2004 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2004 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2004 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Coyote at the End of History"
|2003 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Short Story
|{{Won}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Asimov's Reader Poll 2004 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_2004 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Deep in the Woods of Grammarie"
|2004 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |"King Dragon"
|2004 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Smoke and Mirrors: Four Scenes from the Post-utopian Future"
|2004 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |"The Last Geek"
|2005 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2005 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2005 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |"The Word that Sings the Scythe"
|2005 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Girls and Boys, Come Out to Play"
|2006 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2006 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2006 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Triceratops Summer"
|2006 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="4" |"Lord Weary's Empire"
|2006 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Novella
|'''3rd Place'''
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Asimov's Reader Poll 2007 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_2007 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|2007 Theodore Sturgeon Award
|Short Science Fiction
|'''3rd Place'''
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=2007 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award |url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?41+2007 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.isfdb.org}} </ref>
|-
|2007 Hugo Award
|Novella
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2007 Locus Award
|Novella
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2007 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2007 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Tin Marsh"
|2007 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |"A Small Room in Koboldtown"
|2008 Hugo Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2008 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Won}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2008 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2008 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |"The Skysailor's Tale"
|2008 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Urdumheim"
|2008 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="4" |"From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled"
|2008 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Short Story
|'''2nd Place'''
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Asimov's Reader Poll 2009 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_2009 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|2009  Hugo Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2009 Theodore Sturgeon Award
|Short Science Fiction
|{{CFinalist}}
|
|-
|2009 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2009 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2009 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" |''[[The Dragons of Babel]]''
|2009 Locus Award
|Fantasy Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2009 [[Alex Awards]]
|
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|2011 [[FantLab's Book of the Year Award]]
|Translated Novel/Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''The Best of Michael Swanwick''
|2009 Locus Award
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2009 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2009 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|2015 FantLab's Book of the Year Award
|Translated Novel/Collection by Foreign Writer
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |"The Scarecrow's Boy"
|2009 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |"Libertarian Russia"
|2010 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Short Story
|{{Won}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Asimov's Reader Poll 2011 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_2011 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
|2011 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2011 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2011 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Hope-in-the-Mist: The Extraordinary Career and Mysterious Life of Hope Mirrlees''
|2010 Hugo Award
|Related Work
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2010 Locus Award
|Non-Fiction/Art Book
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2010 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2010 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Zeppelin City"
(with [[Eileen Gunn]])
|2010 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Dancing With Bears''
|2012 [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|John W. Campbell Memorial Award]]
|
|{{CFinalist}}
|
|-
|2012 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2012 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2012 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |"For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I’ll Not Be Back Again"
|2012 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |"The Dala Horse"
|2012 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |"The She-Wolf's Hidden Grin"
|2014 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2014 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2014 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Of Finest Scarlet Was Her Gown"
|2015 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2015 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2015 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Passage of Earth"
|2015 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Tawny Petticoats"
|2015 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Lock Up Your Chickens and Daughters -- H'ard and Andy Are Come to Town"
(with [[Gregory Frost]])
|2015 Asimov's Readers' Poll
|Novelette
|{{Won}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Asimov's Reader Poll 2016 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_2016 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |"The Pyramid of Krakow"
|2016 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=2016 Locus Poll Award |url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?28+2016 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.isfdb.org}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Chasing the Phoenix''
|2016 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Not So Much, Said the Cat''
|2017 Locus Award
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2017 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2017 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Starlight Express"
|2018 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2018 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2018 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |''The Iron Dragon's Mother''
|2020 Locus Award
|Fantasy Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2020 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2020 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |''City Under the Stars''
(with Gardner Dozois)
|2021 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2021 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2021 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |''The Postutopian Adventures of Darger and Surplus''
|2021 Locus Award
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |"Huginn and Muninn -- and What Came After"
|2022 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2022 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2022 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |''The Best of Michael Swanwick, Volume Two''
|2024 Locus Award
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2024 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2024 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.sfadb.com}} </ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |
|1991 [[Inkpot Award]]
|
|{{Won}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |
|2010 [[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association]]
|Toastmaster Award
|{{Won}}
|<ref name="nebula" />
|-
| rowspan="1" |
|2020 [[Aelita Prize]]
|
|{{Won}}
|<ref>{{cite web |title=Aelita Award |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/aelita_award |publisher=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |access-date=24 September 2025}}</ref>
|-
|}

==Bibliography==
{{Incomplete list|date=November 2023}}

===Novels===
* ''In the Drift'' (1985)
* ''[[Vacuum Flowers]]'' (1987)
* ''[[Stations of the Tide]]'' (1991)
* ''[[Jack Faust (novel)|Jack Faust]]'' (1997)
* ''[[Bones of the Earth]]'' (2002)
* ''City Under the Stars'' (2020), with [[Gardner Dozois]]

; Iron Dragon's Daughter series
* ''[[The Iron Dragon's Daughter]]'' (1993)
* ''[[The Dragons of Babel]]'' (2008)
* ''The Iron Dragon's Mother'' (2019)

; Darger and Surplus series
* ''Dancing With Bears'' (2011)
* ''Chasing the Phoenix'' (2015)

===Short fiction===
; Collections
* ''[[Gravity's Angels]]'' ([[Arkham House Publishers]], 1991) 
* ''A Geography of Unknown Lands'' (1997)
* ''Moon Dogs'' (2000)
* ''[[Puck Aleshire's Abecedary]]'' (2000)
* ''Tales of Old Earth'' ([[Tachyon Publications]], 2000)
* ''Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures'' (Tachyon Publications, 2003)
* ''Michael Swanwick's Field Guide to the Mesozoic Megafauna'' (Tachyon Publications, 2004)
* ''[[The Periodic Table of Science Fiction]]'' (2005) 
* ''[[The Dog Said Bow-Wow]]'' (Tachyon Publications, 2007)
* ''The Best of Michael Swanwick'' (2008)
* ''It Came Upon a Midnight: Three Brief Midwinter Tales'' (2011)
* ''Midwinter Elves: Three Brief Midwinter Tales'' (2012)
* ''Solstice Fire'' (2013)
* ''Season's Greetings'' (2014)
* ''Not So Much, Said the Cat'' (Tachyon Publications, 2016)
* ''The Best of Michael Swanwick: Volume Two'' (2023)

;Stories<ref group=lower-alpha>Short stories unless otherwise noted.</ref>
{{div col|colwidth=20em}}
* ''The Feast of Saint Janis'' (1980) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''Ginungagap'' (1980) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''Walden Three'' (1981) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''Touring'' (1981) (with [[Jack Dann]] and [[Gardner Dozois]])
* ''{{'}}Til Human Voices Wake Us'' (1981) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''Mummer's Kiss'' (1981) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''The Man Who Met Picasso'' (1982)
* ''Golden Apples of the Sun'' (1984) (with Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''Ice Age'' (1984)
* ''Afternoon at Schrafft's'' (1984) (with Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois)
* ''Virgin Territory'' (1984) (with Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''When the Music's Over...'' (1984)
* ''Trojan Horse'' (1984) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''Marrow Death'' (1984) '''(Novella)'''
* ''The Transmigration of Philip K.'' (1985)
* ''The Gods of Mars'' (1985) (with [[Gardner Dozois]] and [[Jack Dann]])
* ''[[Dogfight (short story)|Dogfight]]'' (1985) '''(Novelette)''' (with [[William Gibson]])
* ''The Blind Minotaur'' (1985)
* ''Anyone Here From Utah?'' (1985)
* ''Snow Job'' (1985) (with Gardner Dozois)
* ''Covenant of Souls'' (1986)
* ''Foresight'' (1987)
* ''The Overcoat'' (1988)
* ''The Dragon Line'' (1988)
* ''A Midwinter's Tale'' (1988)
* ''Snow Angels'' (1989) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''The Edge of the World'' (1989)
* ''U.F.O.'' (1990)
* ''Griffen's Egg'' (1991) '''(Novella)'''
* ''Fantasies'' (1991) (with Tom Sullivan)
* ''The Wireless Folly'' (1992)
* ''In Concert'' (1992)
* ''Picasso Deconstructed: Eleven Still-Lifes'' (1993)
* ''Cold Iron'' (1993) '''(Novella)'''
* ''The Changeling's Tale'' (1994)
* ''The Mask'' (1994)
* ''Walking Out'' (1995)
* ''North of Diddy-Wah-Diddy'' (1995) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''Radio Waves'' (1995) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''The City of God'' (1995) (with Gardner Dozois) '''(Novella)'''
* ''Ships'' (1996) (with Jack Dann) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''An Abecedary of the Imagination'' (1996)
* ''Mother Grasshopper'' (1997)
* ''The Wisdom of Old Earth'' (1997)
* ''Midnight Express'' (1998)
* ''Wild Minds'' (1998)
* ''120 is for Issues'' (1998)
* ''Ancestral Voices'' (1998) (with Gardner Dozois) '''(Novella)'''
* ''Microcosmic Dog'' (1998)
* ''Archaic Planets: Nine Excerpts from the Encyclopedia Galactica'' (1998) (with Sean Swanwick)
* ''[[The Dead (Swanwick short story)|The Dead]]'' (1996)<ref>[http://www.tor.com/2011/10/25/the-dead The Dead], 2011 reprint at Tor.com</ref>
* ''[[The Very Pulse of the Machine]]'' (1998)
* ''[[Radiant Doors]]'' (1999)
* ''[[Ancient Engines]]'' (1999)
* ''[[Scherzo with Tyrannosaur]]'' (1999)
* ''Green Fire'' (1999) (with [[Andy Duncan (writer)|Andy Duncan]], [[Eileen Gunn]] & [[Pat Murphy (writer)|Pat Murphy]]) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''Riding the Giganotosaur'' (1999)
* ''Mickelrede; or, The Slayer and the Staff: A Ghost-Novel'' (2000) (with Avram Davidson)
* ''The Madness of Gordon Van Gelder'' (2000)
* ''Letter to the Editor'' (2001)
* ''[[The Dog Said Bow-Wow]]'' (2001)
* ''Five British Dinosaurs'' (2002)
* ''A Great Day for Brontosaurs'' (2002)
* ''[['Hello,' Said the Stick]]'' (2002)
* ''Dirty Little War'' (2002)
* ''[[Slow Life (novelette)|Slow Life]]'' (2002) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''King Dragon'' (2003) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''[[Legions in Time]]''<ref>{{cite web|author=Willie Garcia, Webmaster |url=http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0406/legionsintime.shtml |title="Legions In Time" by Michael Swanwick |publisher=Asimovs |access-date=March 31, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041208165439/http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0406/legionsintime.shtml |archive-date=December 8, 2004 }}</ref> (2003) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''Smoke and Mirrors: Four Scenes from the Post-Utopian Future'' (2003)
* ''A Bicentinial Minute'' (2003)
* ''Bastards'' (2003)
* ''Ether'' (2003)
* ''Glass Soul'' (2003)
* ''Stage Direction'' (2003)
* ''Xeroxing'' (2003)
* ''Coyote at the end of History'' (2003)
* ''Deep in the Woods of Grammarie'' (2003)
* ''The Last Geek'' (2004)
* ''The Word that Sings the Scythe'' (2004) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''Triceritops Summer'' (2005)
* ''The Bordello in Faerie'' (2006)
* ''An Episode of Stardust'' (2006)
* ''Lord Weary's Empire'' (2006) '''(Novella)'''
* ''Tin Marsh'' (2006) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''Urdumheim'' (2007) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''A Small Room in Koboldtown'' (2007)
* ''Congratulations from the Future!'' (2007)
* ''The End of All Things'' (2007)
* ''The Mental Dagueereotype'' (2007) (with Anthony Trollope)
* ''The Skysailor's Tale'' (2007) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport'' (2008) - a Darger and Surplus tale<ref>{{cite web|author=Michael Swanwick|url=http://io9.com/5802446/the-little-cat-laughed-to-see-such-sport|title="The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport" by Michael Swanwick|date=May 23, 2011 |publisher=io9.com|access-date=April 24, 2014}}</ref>
* ''From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled...'' (2008)
* ''Shed that Guilt! Double Your Productivity Overnight!'' (2008) (with Eileen Gunn)
* ''The Scarecrow's Boy'' (2008)
* ''Hush and Hark'' (2008)
* ''Metasciencefiction'' (2008)
* ''The Armies of Elfland'' (2009) (with Eileen Gunn) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''The Magaracs: A Family Saga, in Fragments'' (2009)
* ''Zeppelin City'' (2011) (with Eileen Gunn) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''Last Drink Bird Head'' (2009)
* ''Invisibility for Beginners'' (2009)
* ''Goblin Lake'' (2010)
* ''Steadfast Castle'' (2010)
* ''Spirits in the Night'' (2010)
* ''Libertarian Russia'' (2010)
* ''The Trains that Climb the Winter Tree'' (2011) (with Eileen Gunn) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''Manger Animals'' (2011)
* ''Mrs. Claus'' (2011)
* ''Snowflake People'' (2011)
* ''The Brain Baron'' (2011)
* ''Cold Reading'' (2011)
* ''An Empty House with Many Doors'' (2011)
* ''The Man in Grey'' (2011)
* ''For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I'll Not Be Back Again'' (2011)
*"The Dala Horse" (2011) '''(Novelette)''', 3 "Best of" reprints<ref>[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1362951 The Dala Horse] at ISFDB</ref>
* ''Adam's Third Wife'' (2012)
* ''Cookie Elves'' (2012)
* ''Meryons'' (2012)
* ''Pushkin the American'' (2012)
* ''The Woman Who Shook the World-Tree'' (2012)
* ''The Year of the Three Monarchs'' (2012)
* ''Tumbling'' (2013)
* ''Bone-Fire Time'' (2013)
* ''Interview with a Salamander'' (2013)
* ''Mice Discover Fire'' (2013)
* ''Ministering Angels'' (2014)
* ''One Mile Below'' (2014)
* ''Santas of All Nations'' (2014)
* ''Straws'' (2014)
* ''Of Finest Scarlett Was Her Gown'' (2014) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''Passage of Earth'' (2014)
* ''Six Untitled Tales Written in Mark Twain's Library'' (2014)
* ''3 A.M. in the Mesozoic Bar'' (2014)
* ''Lock Up Your Chickens and Daughters - H'ard and Andy Are Come to Town'' (2015) (with [[Gregory Frost]]) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''Universe Box'' (2016) '''(Novelette)'''
* ''Starlight Express'' (2017)
* ''Eighteen Songs by Debussy'' (2019)
* ''Ghost Ships'' (2019)
* ''Cloud'' (2019)
* ''Dragon Slayer'' (2020)
* ''Artificial People'' (2020)
* ''The Last Days of Old Night'' (2020)
* ''Dream Atlas'' (2021)
* ''Dreadnought'' (2021)
* ''Huginn and Muninn - and What Came After'' (2021)
* ''The Beast of Tara'' (2022)
* ''The White Leopard'' (2022)
* ''Nirvana or Bust'' (2022)
* ''Reservoir Ice'' (2022)
* ''The Star-Bear'' (2023)
* ''Timothy: An Oral History'' (2023)
* ''Unquiet Graves'' (2024)
* The Mongolian Wizard series
**"[[The Mongolian Wizard]]" (2012)<ref>[http://www.tor.com/2012/07/04/the-mongolian-wizard/ The Mongolian Wizard] at [[Tor.com]]</ref>
**"The Fire Gown" (2012)
**"Day of the Kraken" (2012)
**"House of Dreams" (2013)
**"The Night of the Salamander" (2015)
**"The Pyramid of Krakow" (2015)
**"The Phantom in the Maze" (2015)
**"Murder in the Spook House" (2019)
**"The New Prometheus" (2019)
**"Halcyon Afternoon" (2024)
**"Dragons of Paris" (2024)
{{div col end}}

;Poems
* ''Hooray for Eileen!'' (1994)
* ''Cigar-Box Faust'' (2003)

=== Nonfiction ===
* ''The Postmodern Archipelago'' (1997)
* ''Being Gardner Dozois: An Interview by Michael Swanwick'' (2001)
* ''What Can Be Saved from the Wreckage?: James Branch Cabell in the Twenty-First Century'' (2007)
* ''Hope-in-the-Mist: The Extraordinary Career and Mysterious Life of Hope Mirrlees'' (2009)
* ''October Leaves'' (2010)
* ''Hunting the Phoenix'' (2015)
* ''Being Gardner Dozois'' (2018) (with Gardner Dozois)
* '''She Saved Us From World War Three': Gardner Dozois Remembers James Tiptree, Jr.'' (2020)

===Critical studies and reviews of Swanwick's work===
;''Chasing the Phoenix''
* {{cite journal |author=Sakers, Don | author-link=Don Sakers |date=September 2015 |title=The Reference Library |journal=Analog Science Fiction and Fact |volume=135 |issue=9 |pages=105–108}}
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== References ==
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== External links ==
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*[https://floggingbabel.blogspot.com/ Swanwick's weblog]
*{{ISFDB name|name=Michael Swanwick}}
*[https://www.freesfonline.net/authors/Michael_Swanwick.html Michael Swanwick's online fiction] at Free Speculative Fiction Online
*[https://www.flickr.com/photos/54366973@N04/sets/72157624935495213/ "October Leaves"], a photo-story at [[Flickr]]
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