Michael Swanwick
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Michael Swanwick is an American fantasy and science fiction author who began publishing in the early 1980s.
Swanwick in 2019
At the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005
At the Avram Davidson tribute, NYC, 2007
Vacuum Flowers
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Vacuum Flowers is a science fiction novel by American writer Michael Swanwick, published in 1987. It is an early example of the cyberpunk genre, and features one of the earliest uses of the concept of
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…the results of a more catastrophic Three Mile Island incident, which expands on his earlier short story "Mummer's Kiss". This was followed in 1987 by Vacuum Flowers, an adventurous tour of an inhabited Solar System, where the people of Earth have been subsumed by a cybernetic mass-mind. Some characters’ bodies…
First edition (publ. Arbor House)