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Also by Gardner Dozois
Nightmare Blue (with George Alec Effinger)
Strangers (as Gardner R. Dozois)
Hunter’s Run (with Daniel Abraham and George R. R. Martin)
COLLECTIONS
The Visible Man
Slow Dancing Through Time
Geodesic Dreams: The Best Short Fiction of Gardner Dozois
Morning Child and Other Stories
When the Great Days Come
AS EDITOR
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year (volumes 6–10)
Under African Skies
Under South American Skies
The Good Old Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition
The Good New Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition
The Good Stuff
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction (magazine) (1986–2004)
Old Mars (with George R. R. Martin)
Old Venus (with George R. R. Martin)
The Exclamatory Series (with Jack Dann)
The Year’s Best Science Fiction (volumes 1–35)
Warriors (with George R. R. Martin) (volumes 1–3)
plus many more anthologies, far too numerous to list
NONFICTION
The Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr.
Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy (with Tina Lee, Stanley Schmidt, Ian Randal Strock, and Sheila Williams)
Sense of Wonder: Short Fiction Reviews (2009–2017)
Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois
Also by Michael Swanwick
THE IRON DRAGONS SERIES
The Iron Dragon’s Daughter
The Dragons of Babel
The Iron Dragon’s Mother
In the Drift
Vacuum Flowers
Stations of the Tide
Jack Faust
Bones of the Earth
Dancing with Bears
Chasing the Phoenix
COLLECTIONS
Gravity’s Angels
A Geography of Unknown Lands
Tales of Old Earth
Moon Dogs
The Dog Said Bow-Wow
The Best of Michael Swanwick
Not So Much, Said the Cat
The Postmodern Adventures of Darger and Surplus
Puck Aleshire’s Abecedary
Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures
Michael Swanwick’s Field Guide to the Mesozoic Megafauna
The Periodic Table of Science Fiction
NONFICTION
The Postutopian Archipelago
What Can Be Saved from the Wreckage?: James Branch Cabell in the Twenty-First Century
Hope-in-the-Mist: The Extraordinary Career and Mysterious Life of Hope Mirrlees
Being Gardner Dozois (an interview)
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The City of God copyright © 1995 by Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick
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