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Chasing the Phoenix: a science fiction masterpiece from a five-time Hugo Award winner Michael Swanwick!In the distant future, Surplus arrives in China dressed as a Mongolian shaman, leading a yak which carries the corpse of his friend, Darger. The old high-tech world has long since collapsed, and the artificial intelligences that ran it are outlawed and destroyed. Or so it seems. Darger and Surplus, a human and a genetically engineered dog with human intelligence who walks upright, are a pair of con men and the heroes of a series of prior Swanwick stories. They travel to what was once China and invent a scam to become rich and powerful. Pretending to have limited super-powers, they aid an ambitious local warlord who dreams of conquest and once again reuniting China under one ruler.
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I write fantasy and science fiction of all sorts, at lengths ranging from novels to flash fiction. Over the years, I've picked up a Nebula Award, five Hugos and the World Fantasy Award--and have the pleasant distinction of having lost more of these awards than any other writer. I recently finished THE IRON DRAGON'S MOTHER, completing a trilogy begun with THE IRON DRAGON'S MOTHER twenty-five years ago. That's far longer than it took Professor Tolkien to complete his trilogy.In my spare time, I try to keep my blog up to date at www.floggingbabel.blogspot.com. Some of my shorter and more whimsical work can be found at my wife Marianne Porter's "nanopress," Dragonstairs Press at www.dragonstairs.com.
