SWANWICK, MICHAEL — Vacuum Flowers

New York: Arbor House, 1987. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 087795870X. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Swanwick's fiction writing began with short stories, starting in 1980 when he published "Ginungagap" in TriQuarterly and "The Feast of St. Janis" in New Dimensions 11. Both stories were nominees for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 1981. His published novels are In the Drift (an Ace Special, 1985) , a look at the results of a more catastrophic Three Mile Island incident, which expands on his earlier short story "Mummer's Kiss". This was followed in 1987 by Vacuum Flowers (1987) , an adventurous tour of an inhabited Solar System, where the people of Earth have been subsumed by a cybernetic mass-mind; Stations of the Tide (1991) , the story of a bureaucrat's pursuit of a magician on a world soon to be altered by its 50-year tide swell." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .