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The Periodic Table of Science Fiction

Michael Swanwick

First published 2005
Publisher PS Publishing
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages 274
Price £50.00
ISBN 1904619010

Notes

Limited edition of 200 slipcased copies, signed by the author and introducer. Contents include 118 short-shorts based on the elements of the periodic table.

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Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Periodic Table of Science Fiction Cover 2005 PS Publishing Hardcover Collection vii+274

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 The Hindenburg Michael Swanwick Short Story
3 Jane Carter of Mars Michael Swanwick Short Story
5 Lithium for God Michael Swanwick Short Story
7 A Beryl As Big As the Ritz Michael Swanwick Short Story
9 Francis, Child of Scorn Michael Swanwick Short Story
11 They're Made of Carbon Michael Swanwick Short Story
13 Nitrogen: An Introduction Michael Swanwick Short Story
15 Oxygen Planets Michael Swanwick Short Story
17 The Message Michael Swanwick Short Story
19 House Rules Michael Swanwick Short Story
23 Electric Pickles Michael Swanwick Short Story
25 Under's Game Michael Swanwick Short Story
29 Aluminium Foil Michael Swanwick Short Story
31 Programmable Breasts Michael Swanwick Short Story
33 Blockade Runners Michael Swanwick Short Story
37 Vitriol Michael Swanwick Short Story
39 Seven Days of Creation Michael Swanwick Short Story
41 The Eye of Argon Michael Swanwick Short Story
43 Bananas Michael Swanwick Short Story
45 Angels of the Apocalypse Michael Swanwick Short Story
47 Bingham's Folley Michael Swanwick Short Story
49 Killer Robots Michael Swanwick Short Story
51 Vanadium Michael Swanwick Short Story
53 Babe Michael Swanwick Short Story
57 Graffiti Michael Swanwick Short Story
59 The Era of the Iron Horse Michael Swanwick Short Story
61 Merfolk Michael Swanwick Short Story
63 What This Country Needs— Michael Swanwick Short Story
65 Lucky Penny Michael Swanwick Short Story
67 Brass Michael Swanwick Short Story
71 Space Pirates Michael Swanwick Short Story
73 Germanium Michael Swanwick Short Story
75 Lucrezia Borgia Michael Swanwick Short Story
77 H.G. Wells on the Moon Michael Swanwick Short Story
79 Try Not To Think of Elephants Michael Swanwick Short Story
83 Man of Steel Michael Swanwick Short Story
85 Glass Beads Michael Swanwick Short Story
87 Fallout Michael Swanwick Short Story
89 It: A Preliminary Account Michael Swanwick Short Story
91 It's Not Virtual Anything—It's Real Zirconium! Michael Swanwick Short Story
93 Woman of Stone Michael Swanwick Short Story
95 Living in the Shadow of the Molly-Be-Damned Michael Swanwick Short Story
99 Claimjumper and Ting Michael Swanwick Short Story
103 Land of Our Fathers Michael Swanwick Short Story
105 Cecil Rhodes in Hell Michael Swanwick Short Story
107 War of the Worlds Michael Swanwick Short Story
109 Dark Secrets of the Western Heroes Michael Swanwick Short Story
111 Starry Night Michael Swanwick Short Story
113 On the India Line Michael Swanwick Short Story
115 The Man with a Clock for a Heart Michael Swanwick Short Story
117 Money and Its Opposite Michael Swanwick Short Story
119 A Change of Seasons Michael Swanwick Short Story
121 In Loco Parentis Michael Swanwick Short Story
123 Warrior Princess Michael Swanwick Short Story
125 Castles in the Air Michael Swanwick Short Story
127 What to Expect from Your Barium Enema Michael Swanwick Short Story
129 Immortality Michael Swanwick Short Story
131 Cerium—At Last! Michael Swanwick Short Story
133 Absolute Zero Michael Swanwick Short Story
135 Retirement Day Michael Swanwick Short Story
137 Foresight Michael Swanwick Short Story
139 Singular Cities Michael Swanwick Short Story
141 Europa and the Bull Michael Swanwick Short Story
143 Tattoos Michael Swanwick Short Story
145 Morphobots Michael Swanwick Short Story
147 A Letter from Hell Michael Swanwick Short Story
149 Nanotechnologist's Lung Michael Swanwick Short Story
151 Tarzan of the Periodic Table Michael Swanwick Short Story
153 Conan the Elemental Michael Swanwick Short Story
155 Elements Day Michael Swanwick Short Story
157 Dragon Star Michael Swanwick Short Story
161 Riding the Rods Michael Swanwick Short Story
165 Consider Poor Doris! Michael Swanwick Short Story
167 Light Bulb Jokes Michael Swanwick Short Story
169 Beads and Trinkets Michael Swanwick Short Story
171 Everything Your Mother Wants You to Know About Osmium Michael Swanwick Short Story
173 Don't Look to the Skies! Michael Swanwick Short Story
175 Platinum Blonde Michael Swanwick Short Story
177 Crown of Beauty Michael Swanwick Short Story
179 The Outriders Michael Swanwick Short Story
181 A Perfect Murder Michael Swanwick Short Story
183 A Polite Society Michael Swanwick Short Story
185 The Pepto-Bismol Hour Michael Swanwick Short Story
187 Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be (Polonius Updated) Michael Swanwick Short Story
189 Bad Brains Michael Swanwick Short Story
193 Monster in the Basement Michael Swanwick Short Story
195 Vive la Francium! Michael Swanwick Short Story
197 The Ghost of Pierre Curie Reminisces Michael Swanwick Short Story
199 The Case of the Purloined Actinium Michael Swanwick Short Story
203 Mjolnir Michael Swanwick Short Story
205 Forge Star Michael Swanwick Short Story
207 Cooking with Uranium Michael Swanwick Short Story
209 The Oceans of Neptune Michael Swanwick Short Story
213 Pure Science Michael Swanwick Short Story
215 Nuclear Blackmail Michael Swanwick Short Story
217 Holy Mother Church Michael Swanwick Short Story
219 Vindicating Bishop Berkeley Michael Swanwick Short Story
221 Nuclear Handguns Michael Swanwick Short Story
223 The Dark Lady of the Equations Michael Swanwick Short Story
225 The Fermi Paradox Michael Swanwick Short Story
227 The Feast of Saint Mendeleyev Michael Swanwick Short Story
229 My Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (Presented Here Against the Unlikely Chance I Never Get to Deliver It) Michael Swanwick Short Story
231 Lawrence of America Michael Swanwick Short Story
233 "Radioactive" B. Hayes Michael Swanwick Short Story
235 George "Dubna" Bush Michael Swanwick Short Story
237 The Sea Borg Michael Swanwick Short Story
241 Boring Niels Michael Swanwick Short Story
243 To Hass and Hass Not Michael Swanwick Short Story
245 Lise Meitner, Physicist Michael Swanwick Short Story
247 Science Made Ugly Michael Swanwick Short Story
249 Defining Our Terms Michael Swanwick Short Story
251 Don't Blink! Michael Swanwick Short Story
253 What We Talk About When We Talk About Ununtrium Michael Swanwick Short Story
257 Island of Stability Michael Swanwick Short Story
259 Uup, Uup, and Awaaaaaaay! Michael Swanwick Short Story
261 Spanish Witches Michael Swanwick Short Story
265 The Dragon Lady at the End of Time Michael Swanwick Short Story
269 Now You See It Now You Michael Swanwick Short Story
271 Afterword (The Periodic Table of Science Fiction) Michael Swanwick Essay
v Introduction (The Periodic Table of Science Fiction) Theodore W. Gray Essay