Автор - Michael Swanwick

A Midwinter's Tale

Ancient Engines

Bones of the Earth

Paleontologist Richard Leyster has achieved professional nirvana: a position with the Smithsonian Museum plus a groundbreaking dinosaur fossil site he can research, publish on, and learn from for years to come. There is nothing that could lure him away—until a disturbingly secretive stranger named Griffin enters Leysters office with an ice cooler and a job offer. In the cooler is the head of a freshly killed Stegosaurus.Griffin has been entrusted with an extraordinary gift, an impossible technology on loan to humanity from unknown beings for an undisclosed purpose. Time travel has become a reality millions of years before it rationally could be. With it, Richard Leyster and his colleagues can make their most cherished fantasy come true. They can study the dinosaurs up close, in their own time and milieu.Now, suddenly, individual lives can turn back on themselves. People can meet, shake hands, and converse with their younger versions at various crossroads in time. One wrong word, a single misguided act, could be disastrous to the project and to the world. But Griffin must make sure everything that is supposed to happen does happen—no matter who is destined to be hurt… or die.And then there’s Dr. Gertrude Salley—passionate, fearless, and brutally ambitious—a genius rebel in the tight community of “bone men” and women. Alternately both Leyster’s and Griffin’s chief rival, trusted colleague, despised nemesis, and inscrutable lover at various junctures throughout time, Salley is relentlessly driven to screw with the working mechanisms of natural law, audaciously trespassing in forbidden areas, pushing paradox to the edge no matter what the consequences may be. And, when they concern the largest, most savage creatures that ever lived, the consequences may be terrifying indeed.

Legions In Time

Dancing with Bears

Domani il mondo cambierà

Domani il mondo cambierà è un romanzo affascinante e ricco d’azione, ma che si presta a molte letture. Siamo su un pianeta distante anni-luce dalla Terra, in un’epoca in cui l’umanità si è ormai stabilita fra le stelle: ma la grandiosa tecnologia che permette all’uomo di imbrigliare le forze dell’universo qui non è mai arrivata. Non è un caso: il pianeta è tenuto in isolamento artificiale, una specie di “quarantena” tecnologica che potrà essere spezzata solo con un gesto disperato, un furto di sapore prometeico… L’avvincente storia raccontata da Swanwick è quella di tale furto, della caccia all’uomo che ne segue e di un mondo intero sull’orlo di un cambiamento epocale: quello promesso dalla nuova scienza e quello a cui il pianeta va periodicamente incontro a causa delle sue insolite caratteristiche climatiche. Un libro d’avventura con una storia diversa, per scoprire uno dei migliori romanzieri americani affacciatisi alla scena negli anni Ottanta. Vincitore del premio Nebula in 1991. Nominato per i premi Hugo e Campbell in 1992. Nominato per il premio di Arthu Clarke in 1993.

Griffin's Egg

Radiant Doors

Radio Waves

Scherzo with Tyrannosaur

Slow Life

The Dog Said Bow-Wow

Hugo Best Short Story winner (2002).