Status Updates From The Best of Michael Swanwick

Slow Life: Who's the slow one again? Haha.

Legions in Time: A complicated bit of time war stuff, but it was fun.

Triceratops Summer: Reread. I really liked this one. What would you do if you had a summer like this?

From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled: An interesting contrast between the humans & the millies. Another very ambiguous ending!

The Very Pulse of the Machine: Reread. An accident on the moon Io leads to a discovery about its nature.

Wild Minds: Optimizing yourselves seems awful, but wow. Thank goodness for Catholic guilt.

Scherzo with Tyrannosaur: What a delightful time travel/dinosaur story, with an appropriate conclusion.

The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O: Annie & Crow! Rather wacky.

The Dog Said Bow-Wow: Darger & Surplus! Also wacky.

Radio Waves: A different take on ghosts and loss and letting go.

The Dead: Corporatized zombies. Dark implications.

Mother Grasshopper: Bizarre civilization living on a giant grasshopper in space, Death comes for us all.

Radiant Doors: Refugees from the future lead to circles within circles. Pretty darn dark, to me (I hate mind control).

The Edge of the World: Reread. Loved the teenaged voices & some of the sadness underneath.

Griffin's Egg: I liked the moon setting & story mostly, sort of mini apoc, but ending made me disappointed.

The Changeling's Tale: Wishy-washy memory stories frustrate me, but I loved the narrator's voice here.

North of Diddy-Wah-Diddy: Riding the train to Hell. Fairly fun, but kinda wish I had the story with Jackie instead.

The Feast of Saint Janis: Janis Joplin lives again, sort of. The Americans are unhinged.

Ginungagap: I really liked the core of the story (loved the dealing with the spider aliens), but why is everyone naked?

Trojan Horse: All about approaching a god state, but not a fan of this story.

A Midwinter's Tale: I really liked this one, with its somewhat confused narrator, though I wonder about the framing.