Гарднер Дозуа - City Under the Stars

The Good New Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition

The Good Stuff

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction (magazine) (1986–2004)

Old Mars (with George R. R. Martin)

Old Venus (with George R. R. Martin)

The Exclamatory Series (with Jack Dann)

The Year’s Best Science Fiction (volumes 1–35)

Warriors (with George R. R. Martin) (volumes 1–3)

plus many more anthologies, far too numerous to list

NONFICTION

The Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr.

Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy (with Tina Lee, Stanley Schmidt, Ian Randal Strock, and Sheila Williams)

Sense of Wonder: Short Fiction Reviews (2009–2017)

Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois

THE IRON DRAGONS SERIES

The Iron Dragon’s Daughter

The Dragons of Babel

The Iron Dragon’s Mother

In the Drift

Vacuum Flowers

Stations of the Tide

Jack Faust

Bones of the Earth

Dancing with Bears

Chasing the Phoenix

COLLECTIONS

Gravity’s Angels

A Geography of Unknown Lands

Tales of Old Earth

Moon Dogs

The Dog Said Bow-Wow

The Best of Michael Swanwick

Not So Much, Said the Cat

The Postmodern Adventures of Darger and Surplus

Puck Aleshire’s Abecedary

Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures

Michael Swanwick’s Field Guide to the Mesozoic Megafauna

The Periodic Table of Science Fiction

NONFICTION

The Postutopian Archipelago

What Can Be Saved from the Wreckage?: James Branch Cabell in the Twenty-First Century

Hope-in-the-Mist: The Extraordinary Career and Mysterious Life of Hope Mirrlees

Being Gardner Dozois (an interview)

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CITY UNDER THE STARS

The City of God copyright © 1995 by Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick

This expanded edition copyright © 2020 by Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick

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Edited by Ellen Datlow and Lee Harris

The first part of this book was first published in OMNI 1995 as The City of God.

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