Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr

Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 222 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Michael Swanwick.

His novels include the New York Times notable book, The Iron Dragons Daughter,

and the Nebul Award-winning stations of the tide.

He's also won the World Fantasy and Theodore Storwin. and the Nebula Award winning stations of the tide.

He's also won the World Fantasy and Theodore Sturgeon awards

and is the only author to garner five Hugo awards in six years.

And we'll be speaking with him today about his new short story collection not so much said the cat from

tachion publications and now here's our interview with Michael Swanwick.

All right so we're here with Michael Swanwick welcome to the show.

Thank you very much.

Okay, and so your new book is a short story collection called Not So Much Said the Cat.

So where did that title come from?

Ha ha ha ha ha, well it came from originally people at Kakion Publications.

It just slapped the name the Dollah Horse on it.

But that was the title, when the story is inside it,

and that story was also available in e-book form from tour.com.

So when they put up the site for pre-orders, that came up automatically.

So it looked like you could get an e-copy of the entire collection,

but you could only get that one story.

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