Reviews
"...wonderful strangeness." -- True Review "Always brilliant, Swanwick shines in these quirky short pieces, with over 70 gathered in this collection, including 'An Abecedary of the Imagination,' with six new entries." -- Locus "Miniaturized, tightly compressed fictions that are alternately startling, funny, and mysterious and often possess the resonance of especially vivid dreams...a whimsical, wonderfully eccentric collection." -- Washington Post Book World "Felicities, surprises, bon-mots, witticisms, epiphanies, goodies of every description." -- Fantastic Metropolis, "Wonderful strangeness." -- True Review "Always brilliant, Swanwick shines in these quirky short pieces, with over 70 gathered in this collection, including 'An Abecedary of the Imagination,' with six new entries." -- Locus "Miniaturized, tightly compressed fictions that are alternately startling, funny, and mysterious and often possess the resonance of especially vivid dreams...a whimsical, wonderfully eccentric collection." -- Washington Post Book World "Felicities, surprises, bon-mots, witticisms, epiphanies, goodies of every description." -- Fantastic Metropolis, ...wonderful strangeness." — True Review Always brilliant, Swanwick shines in these quirky short pieces, with over 70 gathered in this collection, including ‘An Abecedary of the Imagination,' with six new entries." — Locus Miniaturized, tightly compressed fictions that are alternately startling, funny, and mysterious and often possess the resonance of especially vivid dreams...a whimsical, wonderfully eccentric collection." — Washington Post Book World Felicities, surprises, bon-mots, witticisms, epiphanies, goodies of every description." — Fantastic Metropolis, "...wonderful strangeness." -- True Review "Always brilliant, Swanwick shines in these quirky short pieces, with over 70 gathered in this collection, including #145;An Abecedary of the Imagination,' with six new entries." -- Locus "Miniaturized, tightly compressed fictions that are alternately startling, funny, and mysterious and often possess the resonance of especially vivid dreams...a whimsical, wonderfully eccentric collection." -- Washington Post Book World "Felicities, surprises, bon-mots, witticisms, epiphanies, goodies of every description." -- Fantastic Metropolis