The Universe Box

Summary

Discover the vast worlds and pocket universes of Michael
Swanwick (Stations of the Tide), the only author to win science fiction’s most prestigious award, the Hugo, five times in
six years. In his dazzling new collection, the master of speculative short stories returns with tales in which magic and science
improbably coexist with myth and legend. With two stories
original to this collection, Swanwick aptly demonstrates with
poignant humor why he is widely respected as a master of
imaginative storytelling.
In this engaging collection, Mischling the thief races through
time to defeat three trolls before the sun rises for the rst time
and turns the inhabitants of her city into stone. A scientist is on
the run from assassins because her research in merging human
intelligence with sentient AI is too dangerous. An aging veteran
obtains a military weapon from his past: a VR robotic leopard,
through which he rediscovers the consequences of the hunt. In
the biggest heist in the history of the universe, a loser Trickster
(and the girlfriend who is better than he deserves) sets out to
violate every trope and expectation of ction possible.