Puck Aleshire's Abecedary
Puck Aleshire’s Abecedary (2000)[1] by Michael Swanwick, a collection of short-short stories (one for each letter of the alphabet), initially ran in The New York Review of Science Fiction at a rate of one per month for 26 months starting with Issue 111, November 1997.[2] Each story was accompanied by a collage illustration by the journal's editor Kathryn Cramer.[3] Dragon Press collected these stories in a single volume entitled Puck Aleshire’s Abecedary.[4]
There were two editions, a carefully handbound edition produced for Dragon Press by Henry Wessels with linen cloth spine with handmade paper-covered boards and endpapers with deckled edge and a trade paperback edition printed by Odyssey Press in New Hampshire.
Cover art, interior illustration, and book design of both editions are by Kathryn Cramer. Swanwick published a subsequent volume of short-shorts, which initially appeared on the website The Infinite Matrix and were collected as The Periodic Table of Science Fiction.
See also
- Flash fiction
References
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Works by Michael Swanwick
- In the Drift (1984)
- Vacuum Flowers (1987)
- Stations of the Tide (1991)
- The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993)
- Jack Faust (1997)
- Bones of the Earth (2002)
- The Dragons of Babel (2008)
- Dancing With Bears (2011)
- Chasing the Phoenix (2015)
- The Iron Dragon's Mother (2019)
- "Dogfight" (1985)
- "The Dead" (1996)
- "The Very Pulse of the Machine" (1998)
- "Radiant Doors" (1999)
- "Ancient Engines" (1999)
- "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" (1999)
- "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" (2001)
- "Slow Life" (2002)
- "'Hello,' Said the Stick" (2002)
- "Legions in Time" (2003)
- Gravity's Angels (1991)
- A Geography of Unknown Lands (1997)
- Moon Dogs (2000)
- Puck Aleshire's Abecedary (2000)
- The Periodic Table of Science Fiction (2005)
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