![]() ![]() ![]() Swanwick was not prolific in the 1980s, but his short fiction of this decade – assembled as Gravity's Angels (coll 1991) – ran a wide gamut, from "The Man Who Met Picasso" (September 1982 Omni), a slightly sentimental fable of redemption, to "Ginungagap" (Fall 1980 TriQuarterly), a Hard-SF tale set in the Asteroid belt whose imagery and language comprehensively prefigure Cyberpunk the later "A Midwinter's Tale" (December 1988 Asimov's), though making nods to both Wolfe and A E van Vogt, seems in the end to be written in Swanwick's mature voice – warm, cruel, contemplative, moral. ![]() (1950- ) US author who began to publish sf with "The Feast of St Janis" for New Dimensions 11 (anth 1980) edited by Marta Randall and Robert Silverberg, and who became known, very rapidly, as an author of intensely crafted, complex tales whose multiple layering allows his conventional sf plots and venues to be understood as exercises in mythopoesis, somewhat after the manner of Gene Wolfe's shorter works, though less perplexingly. ![]()
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