Not So Much, Said the Cat

The master of literary science fiction returns with this dazzling new collection. Michael Swanwick takes us on a whirlwind journey across the globe and across time and space, where magic and science exist in possibilities that are not of this world. Travel from Norway to Russia, and America to ancient Gehenna. Discover a calculus problem that rocks the ages and robots who both nurture and kill. Meet a magical horse who protects the innocent, a semi-repentant troll, a savvy teenager who takes on the Devil, and time travelers from the Mesozoic who party till the end of time. These are tales intimate in their telling, galactic in their scope, and deliciously sesquipedalian in their verbiage.

Contents:

• Introduction by Michael Swanwick
• Steadfast Castle
• The Man in Grey
• The Dala Horse
• The Woman Who Shook the World-Tree
• Of Finest Scarlet Was Her Gown
• 3 A.M. in the Mesozoic Bar
• Passage of Earth
• From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled...
• For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I’ll Not Be Back Again
• Libertarian Russia
• The Scarecrow’s Boy
• The She-Wolf’s Hidden Grin
• Goblin Lake
• Pushkin the American
• An Empty House with Many Doors
• Tawny Petticoats
• The House of Dreams