“The Shortest Night,” like the author’s earlier story, “The Tragedy of Solveig” (December 1996), takes place in the world of Kaleva. This planet is the venue of his recent science fantasy epic The Books of Mauna (comprising Lucky’s...
Ever since finishing his acclaimed new novel, Jack Faust (Avon), Michael Swanwick has had an outpouring of short fiction. We’ve been lucky to be c the receiving end for most of these stories. In his latest tale, he reveals the high cost of...
Michael Kandel occasionally translates science fiction from Polish (Stanislaw Lem’s The Cyberiad), occasionally acquires science fiction for Harcourt Brace and Company (Kage Baker’s In the Garden of Iden), and occasionally writes his own science...