Michael Swanwick The Postutopian Adventures and 12 similar items

THE POSTUTOPIAN ADVENTURES OF DARGER AND SURPLUS By Michael Swanwick. (Burton, MI): Subterranean Press, 2020. First edition: Limited signed edition of numbered 1000 copies. This is copy 38, SIGNED by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Lee Moyer. "Here are five novelettes and four never-before-collected vignettes that describe episodes from the careers of those most charming of con artists, Darger and Surplus, spiritual heirs to Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser and unwitting agents of change in a world where ancient artificial intelligences scheme to destroy the descendants of their makers. The comrades? adventures across a wildly detailed world by turns astonish and delight. The Hugo Award-winning ?The Dog Said Bow-Wow? tells the tale of the redoubtable pair?s first confidence game, played out at the dizzying heights of English society. In ?The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport,? Surplus works to overcome his prejudice against Darger?s new lover, a member of that most contemptible and capricious of races, cats. Gods walk a future Arcadia in ?Girls and Boys, Come Out to Play,? tables are turned by the formidable woman who lends her name as title to ?Tawny Petticoats,? and Darger and Surplus are separated as each attempts to thwart the machinations of a most unique AI ?There Was an Old Woman?? which debuts herein. The collection closes with ?Smoke and Mirrors,? four brief episodes that lend nuance to all that has come before, expanding our understanding and appreciation of this world and of these unforgettable roguish characters."--Fantastic Fiction. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT SIGNED FANTASY BOOKS THANKS!