It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books.

- Michael Swanwick

Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our gen…

- Michael Swanwick

I'm going to move to Theory someday. Everything works there.

- Michael Swanwick

This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, …

- Michael Swanwick

Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy

- Michael Swanwick

Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language …

- Michael Swanwick

The bureaucrat fell from the sky.

- Michael Swanwick

You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them aside in disgust at what they fanc…

- Michael Swanwick