Rachel Swirsky Books In Order
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January Fifteenth | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
A Memory of Wind | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Eros, Philia, Agape | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Monster's Million Faces | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fields of Gold | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Grand Jeté (The Great Leap) | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Placed into Abyss | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Also, the Cat: A Tor.Com Original | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
How the World Became Quiet | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Conversation Pieces Books
Alien Bootlegger | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Counting on Wildflowers | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Ordinary People | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Candle in a Bottle | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Absolute Uncertainty | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Knots | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Aliens of the Heart | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Voices from Fairyland | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Three Observations and a Dialogue | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Through the Drowsy Dark | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Slightly Behind and to the Left | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
With Her Body | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Red Rose Rages | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Grand Conversation | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Distances | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Shotgun Lullabies | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Of Love and Other Monsters | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
De Secretis Mulierum | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
A Brood of Foxes | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Adventures of the Faithful Counselor | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Writing the Other | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Bone Spindle | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Talking Back | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Last Letter | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Making Love in Madrid | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
We Wuz Pushed | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Traveling Tide | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Receptionist | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Birds and Birthdays | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Naomi Mitchison | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Spring in Geneva | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The XY Conspiracy | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Myths, Metaphors, and Science Fiction | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Numa: An Epic Poem with Photo Collages | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
NoFood | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Haunted Girl | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Three Songs for Roxy | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Ghost Signs | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Prince of the Aquamarines | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Back, Belly, and Side: True Lies and False Tales | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
A Day in Deep Freeze | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Marginalia to Stone Bird | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Unpronounceable | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Sleeping Under the Tree of Life | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Other Places | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Monteverde | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Adventure of the Incognita Countess | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Boundaries, Border Crossings, and Reinventing the Future | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
A Field Guide to the Spirits | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Liberating the Astronauts | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
In Search of Lost Time | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
We, Robots | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Cosmovore | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Helen's Story | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Liminal Spaces | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Feed Me the Bones of Our Saints | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
If Not Skin | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Changeling | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Adventure of the Dux Bellorum | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
People Change | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Invocabulary | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Green and Growing | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Everything is Made of Letters | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Midnight at the Organporium | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Algorithmic Shapeshifting | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Rampant | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Mary Shelley Makes a Monster | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Articulation | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
City of a Thousand Feelings | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Adventure of the Naked Guide | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Ancient Songs of Us | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Sacred Summer | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Disease | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Goddess Bandit of the Thousand Arms | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Resistance and Transformation | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Silences of Ararat | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Cabinet of Wrath | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Adventure of the Golden Woman | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Fricatives | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
We’ve Been Here Before | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Bilabials | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
When Home, No Need to Cry | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Apollo Weeps | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
To the Woman in the Pink Hat | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
From Voyages Unreturning | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of Oz Reimagined Books
Dorothy Dreams | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Boy Detective of Oz | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
A Meeting in Oz | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Off to See the Emperor | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Cobbler of Oz | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Lost Girls of Oz | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Blown Away | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
A Tornado of Dorothys | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Veiled Shanghai | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Dead Blue | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Great Zeppelin Heist of Oz | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Beyond the Naked Eye | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
City So Bright | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
One Flew Over the Rainbow | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of Uncanny Magazine Books
Uncanny Magazine Issue 1: November/December 2014 | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 2: January/February 2015 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 3: March/April 2015 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 4: May/June 2015 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 5: July/August 2015 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 6: September/October 2015 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 7: November/December 2015 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 8: January/February 2016 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 9: March/April 2016 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 10: May/June 2016 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 11: July/August 2016 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 12: September/October 2016 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 13: November/December 2016 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 14: January/February 2017 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 15: March/April 2017 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 16: May/June 2017 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 17: July/August 2017 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 18: September/October 2017 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 19: November/December 2017 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 20: January/February 2018 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 21: March/April 2018 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 22: May/June 2018 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 23: July/August 2018 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 24 September/October 2018 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 25: November/December 2018 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
A Catalog of Storms | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 29: July/August 2019 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 32: January/February 2020 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 35: July/August 2020 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 37: November/December 2020 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Colors of the Immortal Palette | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 38: January/February 2021 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Unseelie Brothers, Ltd. | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 40: May/June 2021 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 42: September/October 2021 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 43: November/December 2021 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 44: January/February 2022 | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 50: January-February 2023 | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 55: November/December 2023 | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncanny Magazine Issue 59: July/August 2024 | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of Doctor Who Anthologies
More Short Trips | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Short Trips and Side Steps | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Companions | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Reprecussions | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Tales from the TARDIS: Volume 2: Multi-Doctor Stories | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Doctor Who: Short Trips: 2040 | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Solar System | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Centenarian | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Ghosts of Christmas | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Doctor Who: Short Trips: Transmissions | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Doctor Who Stories | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Queers Dig Time Lords | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Summer Falls and Other Stories | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Heroes and Monsters Collection | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Red White and Who: The Story of Doctor Who in America | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of Solaris Rising Anthology Books
Solaris Rising | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Solaris Rising 1.5 | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Solaris Rising 2 | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Solaris Rising 3 | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of The WisCon Chronicles Books
The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2 | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4 | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The WisCon Chronicles 11 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Rachel Swirsky
Rachel Swirsky was born in San Jose, California on April 14, 1982 into a Jewish family.
She is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she taught undergrad science fiction and fantasy writing as a teaching assistant at the University of Iowa. In 2005, she went to the Clarion West Writers workshop.
Rachel, in addition to her fiction writing, also writes critical reviews, essays, and other non fiction.
She has donated her writing to a number of charity anthologies. “Heat Engine” appeared in “Last Bird, Drink Head”, which is a flash fiction anthology supporting the ProLiteracy charity. In September of 2010, she contributed this story to the online chapbook story collection “Clash of the Geeks”, presented by Subterranean Press and supporting the Lupus Alliance of America.
This comes after she grew up with a very volunteer-minded ethos growing up. Her parents have always worked incredibly hard to support their communities, from the high school where Rachel’s mom worked as a librarian (where she spent three nights a week and Saturdays keeping the fickle computer labs running), to their hobbies like AMICA (an organization for automated musical instrument enthusiasts) and square dancing. When Rachel’s able, she likes to pitch in where she can.
Volunteering is good, she finds, but so is offering up individual or small group support and mentorship to those that need it. That’s definitely Rachel’s favorite part.
Rachel has been published in literary publications that include the Konundrum Engine Literary Review, PANK, and the New Haven Review. Her speculative fiction work has appeared in various markets include Subterranean Magazine, Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Interzone, and Realms of Fantasy. It’s also been collected in numerous year’s best anthologies, which includes Rich Horton’s “The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy”, Gardner Dozois’ “The Year’s best Science Fiction”, Jeff & Ann VanderMeer’s “Best American Fantasy”, and Jonathan Strahan’s “Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year”.
When she is crafting a story, it’s a mix between imagery and sometimes it’s ideas that she starts with. Often with ideas it is a science fiction story, but images is almost always fantasy. Rachel began “Love Is Never Still” as a poem, and then the imagery seemed to lend itself into prose and expansion.
Since this story went through such a particularly long draft process, the imagery and the story heavily influenced one another while she worked this story into the shape that she wanted. Rachel was using imagery in order to convey the metaphors that in turned conveyed character. When she put Aphrodite and Hephaestus into this basalt palace, this suggests desolation and things gone cold, which in turn creates the sense of alienation in their marriage. She looked up ancient Greek gold-working, and learned all about techniques which could describe Hephaestus’ multi-faceted abilities as a smith, and these in turn shape the characterization.
Then the main core of her revision process was about directing her story. She was trying to subtract, add, and condense point of view sections in order to make the plot the correct shape, and to give the Aphrodite thread the necessary weight that it needed in order counterpoint Galatea, who draft one was mostly about. While she was pursuing structural goals, which was the majority of the time, she had to work with the imagery she could mine out of the plot.
“If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” won the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Short Story.
“Through the Drowsy Dark” is a short story collection that was released in 2010. This collects together nine poems and ten stories by Hugo- and Nebula-nominee Rachel Swirsky, who’s a terrific writer that has been making her name with a string of perceptive and intelligent stories.
In “Through the Drowsy Dark”, her characters struggle with too much and too little emotional control, with heartbreak, with grief which has gone deep underground; they search for difference, nothingness, for oneness.
One commits this terrible crime since she believes that it is the moral thing to do, as another one digs a dead dog up because the mere thought of kissing it on the lips makes her clitoris throb. Rachel’s exploration of the mind and heart are fearless, and dangerous fictions indeed.
“How the World Became Quiet” is a short story collection that was released in 2013. After this powerful sorceress gets murdered, she is summoned through the centuries to witness all of the devastating changes to the land where she was born. There is a series of apocalypses which leaves the world quiet. A man is searching for the memory which is going to overwrite his childhood abuse. A woman that lives by scavenging corpses in the Japanese suicide forest is haunted by her deceased lover. Helios is left at the altar.
From the politics and riveting emotion of ‘The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window’ (a Nebula Winner) to the melancholy family saga that is ‘Eros, Philia, Agape’ (Theodore Sturgeon and Hugo finalist), this critically acclaimed collection of stories have rapidly made her one of the rising stars in the field. Her work is (by turns) engaging and clever, quietly devastating and unflinching, often in the space of the exact same story.
“How the World Became Quiet: Myths of the Past, Present, and Future” collects together the body of Swirsky’s short fiction to date for the very first time. With these stories envision presents, pasts, and futures which never existed at all, offering revealing examinations of humanity which readers are going to find undeniably true.
Her character is rather stubborn yet still likable. As short as these vignettes are, they nevertheless give a valid feeling about the setting and still bind the reader to the situation. Each part could be extended into a whole entire novel and fans of the book would love to read even more. This is a lovely and haunting set of stories. This was well executed and it’s great to see that the main character was not what you would expect her to be.
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