num_pages: 410
description: Moon Dogs is a sampling of Michael Swanwick's work, with seven stories, one play, six essays, and two speeches. Two of the stories, "Moon Dogs" and "Mickelrede," are new. Michael Swanwick has given readings of the title story to general acclaim, and the NESFA Press is proud to make it available. "Mickelrede" is one of his posthumous collaborations with Avram Davidson, and gives an intriguing look into the creative process. His other such collaboration, "Vergil Magus: King Without Country," is another chance for the reader to visit with the mage from The Phoenix and the Mirror. The range of his fiction work is represented with the short novel Griffin's Egg, and the award-winning play "The Dead." Among the essays here are the hard-to-find "The Death of the Magus: Two Myths" and "The Hagiography of Saint Dozois," and the bizarre tale of "Jane Swanwick and the Search for Identity." His discussions of the SF field, "A User's Guide to the Postmoderns" and "In the Tradition .," are witty and insightful surveys-so much so that the former has even been pirated in countries around the world. His collaboration with Jack Dann, "Ships" (in its first American publication), and two of his several collaborations with Gardner Dozois, "Ancestral Voices" and "The City of God," are further demonstrations of the range of his fiction.
language: English
title: Moon Dogs
titlecomplete: Moon Dogs
genres: Fantasy, Short Stories, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 33
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Short Story, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Short Story, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: HOMer Award
category: Short Story
publisher: Nesfa Pr