Rachel Swirsky Books in Order
Rachel Swirsky is a critically acclaimed author, holding an MFA from the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop and a graduate of the esteemed Clarion West. Her work consistently garners recognition, being short-listed for the Nebula, Hugo, and Sturgeon Awards. She also secured second place in the 2010 Million Writers Award. A prolific writer, Swirsky has published numerous stories in prominent magazines and anthologies, with three of her short stories available as e-books: "Eros, Philia, Agape," "The Memory of Wind," and "The Monster's Million Faces." Her debut collection, THROUGH THE DROWSY DARK, was published by Aqueduct Press in 2010, and her second collection, HOW THE WORLD BECAME QUIET: MYTHS OF THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE, is forthcoming from Subterranean Press.
Bibliography verified: January 2026
Book Series by Rachel Swirsky
- #1AmazonAlien Bootlegger (By: )(1993)
- #2AmazonCounting on Wildflowers (By: Kim Antieau)(2005)
- #3AmazonOrdinary People (By: Eleanor Arnason)(2005)
- #4AmazonCandle in a Bottle (By: Carolyn Ives Gilman)(2006)
- #5AmazonAbsolute Uncertainty (By: Lucy Sussex)(2006)
- #6AmazonKnots (By: Wendy Walker)(2006)
- #7AmazonAliens of the Heart (By: Carolyn Ives Gilman)(2007)
- #8AmazonVoices from Fairyland (By: Theodora Goss)(2008)
- #9AmazonThree Observations and a Dialogue (By: Sylvia Kelso)(2010)
- #10AmazonThrough the Drowsy Dark(2010)
- #11AmazonSlightly Behind and to the Left (By: Claire Light)(2010)
- #12AmazonWith Her Body (By: Nicola Griffith)(2011)
- #13AmazonThe Red Rose Rages (By: L. Timmel Duchamp)(2011)
- #14AmazonThe Grand Conversation (By: L. Timmel Duchamp)(2011)
- #15AmazonDistances (By: Vandana Singh)(2011)
- #16AmazonShotgun Lullabies (By: Sheree Renée Thomas)(2011)
- #17AmazonOf Love and Other Monsters (By: Vandana Singh)(2011)
- #18AmazonDe Secretis Mulierum (By: L. Timmel Duchamp)(2011)
- #19AmazonA Brood of Foxes (By: Kristin Livdahl)(2011)
- #20AmazonThe Adventures of the Faithful Counselor (By: Anne Sheldon)(2011)
- #21AmazonWriting the Other (By: Cynthia Ward)(2011)
- #22AmazonThe Bone Spindle (By: Anne Sheldon)(2011)
- #23AmazonTalking Back (By: E.C. Myers)(2011)
- #24AmazonThe Last Letter (By: Fiona Lehn)(2011)
- #25AmazonMaking Love in Madrid (By: Kimberly Todd Wade)(2012)
- #26AmazonWe Wuz Pushed (By: Lee Mandelo)(2012)
- #27AmazonThe Traveling Tide (By: Rosaleen Love)(2012)
- #28AmazonThe Receptionist (By: Lesley Wheeler)(2012)
- #29AmazonBirds and Birthdays (By: Christopher Barzak)(2012)
- #30AmazonNaomi Mitchison (By: Lesley A. Hall)(2012)
- #31AmazonThe Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others (By: Richard Bowes)(2013)
- #32AmazonSpring in Geneva (By: Sylvia Kelso)(2013)
- #33AmazonThe XY Conspiracy (By: Lori Selke)(2013)
- #34AmazonMyths, Metaphors, and Science Fiction (By: Sheila Finch)(2014)
- #35AmazonNuma: An Epic Poem with Photo Collages (By: Katrinka Moore)(2014)
- #36AmazonNoFood (By: Sarah Tolmie)(2014)
- #37AmazonThe Haunted Girl (By: Lisa M. Bradley)(2014)
- #38AmazonThree Songs for Roxy (By: Caren Gussoff)(2015)
- #39AmazonGhost Signs (By: Sonya Taaffe)(2015)
- #40AmazonThe Prince of the Aquamarines (By: Ruth Berman)(2015)
- #41AmazonBack, Belly, and Side: True Lies and False Tales (By: Celeste Rita Baker)(2015)
- #42AmazonA Day in Deep Freeze (By: Lisa Shapter)(2015)
- #43AmazonMarginalia to Stone Bird (By: R.B. Lemberg)(2016)
- #44AmazonUnpronounceable (By: Susan diRende)(2016)
- #45AmazonSleeping Under the Tree of Life (By: Sheree Renée Thomas)(2016)
- #46AmazonOther Places (By: Karen Heuler)(2016)
- #47AmazonMonteverde (By: Lawrence Schimel)(2016)
- #48AmazonThe Adventure of the Incognita Countess (By: Cynthia Ward)(2017)
- #49AmazonBoundaries, Border Crossings, and Reinventing the Future (By: Beth Plutchak)(2017)
- #50AmazonA Field Guide to the Spirits (By: Jean LeBlanc)(2017)
- #51AmazonLiberating the Astronauts (By: Christina M. Rau)(2017)
- #52AmazonIn Search of Lost Time (By: Karen Heuler)(2017)
- #53AmazonWe, Robots (By: Sue Lange)(2017)
- #54AmazonCosmovore (By: Kristi Carter)(2017)
- #55AmazonHelen's Story (By: Rosanne Rabinowitz)(2017)
- #56AmazonLiminal Spaces (By: Beth Plutchak)(2018)
- #57AmazonFeed Me the Bones of Our Saints (By: Alex Dally MacFarlane)(2018)
- #58AmazonIf Not Skin (By: Toby MacNutt)(2018)
- #59AmazonChangeling (By: Nancy Jane Moore)(2018)
- #60AmazonThe Adventure of the Dux Bellorum (By: Cynthia Ward)(2018)
- #61AmazonPeople Change (By: Gwynne Garfinkle)(2018)
- #62AmazonInvocabulary (By: Gemma Files)(2018)
- #63AmazonThe Green and Growing (By: Erin K. Wagner)(2019)
- #64AmazonEverything is Made of Letters (By: Sofía Rhei)(2019)
- #65AmazonMidnight at the Organporium (By: Tara Campbell)(2019)
- #66AmazonAlgorithmic Shapeshifting (By: Bogi Takács)(2019)
- #67AmazonThe Rampant (By: Julie C. Day)(2019)
- #68AmazonMary Shelley Makes a Monster (By: Octavia Cade,Crista Kempton)(2019)
- #69AmazonArticulation (By: Cesi Davidson)(2019)
- #70AmazonCity of a Thousand Feelings (By: Anya Johanna DeNiro)(2020)
- #71AmazonThe Adventure of the Naked Guide (By: Cynthia Ward)(2020)
- #72AmazonAncient Songs of Us (By: Jean LeBlanc)(2020)
- #73AmazonSacred Summer (By: Cassandra Clarke)(2020)
- #74AmazonDisease (By: Sarah Tolmie)(2020)
- #75AmazonGoddess Bandit of the Thousand Arms (By: Hal Y. Zhang)(2020)
- #76AmazonResistance and Transformation (By: Mari Ness)(2021)
- #77AmazonThe Silences of Ararat (By: L. Timmel Duchamp)(2021)
- #78AmazonCabinet of Wrath (By: Tara Campbell)(2021)
- #79AmazonThe Adventure of the Golden Woman (By: Cynthia Ward)(2021)
- #80AmazonFricatives (By: Cesi Davidson)(2021)
- #81AmazonWe’ve Been Here Before (By: Anne Carly Abad)(2022)
- #82AmazonBilabials (By: Cesi Davidson)(2022)
- #83AmazonWhen Home, No Need to Cry (By: Erin K. Wagner)(2022)
- #84AmazonApollo Weeps (By: Xian Mao)(2023)
- #85AmazonTo the Woman in the Pink Hat (By: LaToya Jordan)(2023)
- #86AmazonFrom Voyages Unreturning (By: Deborah L. Davitt)(2023)
- #1AmazonMore Short Trips(1999)
- #2AmazonShort Trips and Side Steps(2000)
- #3AmazonCompanions(2003)
- #4AmazonReprecussions(2004)
- #5AmazonTales from the TARDIS: Volume 2: Multi-Doctor Stories(2004)
- #6AmazonDoctor Who: Short Trips: 2040(2004)
- #7AmazonThe Solar System(2005)
- #8AmazonThe Centenarian(2006)
- #9AmazonThe Ghosts of Christmas(2007)
- #10AmazonShort Trips: Transmissions(2008)
- #11AmazonThe Doctor Who Stories(2009)
- #12AmazonQueers Dig Time Lords(2013)
- #13AmazonSummer Falls and Other Stories(2013)
- #14AmazonHeroes and Monsters Collection(2015)
- #15AmazonRed White and Who: The Story of Doctor Who in America(2017)
- #1AmazonDorothy Dreams (By: Simon R. Green)(2013)
- #2AmazonEmeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust (By: Seanan McGuire)(2013)
- #3AmazonThe Boy Detective of Oz (By: Tad Williams)(2013)
- #4AmazonA Meeting in Oz (By: Jeffrey Ford)(2013)
- #5AmazonOff to See the Emperor (By: Orson Scott Card)(2013)
- #6AmazonThe Cobbler of Oz (By: Jonathan Maberry)(2013)
- #7AmazonLost Girls of Oz (By: Theodora Goss)(2013)
- #8AmazonBlown Away (By: Jane Yolen)(2013)
- #9AmazonA Tornado of Dorothys (By: Kat Howard)(2013)
- #10AmazonThe Veiled Shanghai (By: Ken Liu)(2013)
- #11AmazonDead Blue (By: David Farland)(2013)
- #12AmazonThe Great Zeppelin Heist of Oz (By: C.C. Finlay,Rae Carson)(2013)
- #13AmazonBeyond the Naked Eye(2013)
- #14AmazonCity So Bright (By: Dale Bailey)(2013)
- #15AmazonOne Flew Over the Rainbow (By: Robin Wasserman)(2013)
- #1AmazonJanuary Fifteenth(2022)
- #2AmazonA Memory of Wind(2009)
- #3AmazonThe Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window(2010)
- #4AmazonEros, Philia, Agape(2010)
- #5AmazonThe Monster's Million Faces(2010)
- #6AmazonFields of Gold(2011)
- #7AmazonPortrait of Lisane da Patagnia(2012)
- #8AmazonIf You Were a Dinosaur, My Love(2013)
- #9AmazonGrand Jeté (The Great Leap)(2014)
- #10AmazonPlaced into Abyss(2020)
- #11AmazonAlso, the Cat: A Tor.Com Original(2024)
- #12AmazonAfter the Invasion of the Bug-Eyed Aliens(2025)
- #13AmazonHow the World Became Quiet(2013)
- #1AmazonThe Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF (By: Yoon Ha Lee)(2009)
- #2AmazonThe WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4 (By: Sylvia Kelso)(2010)
- #3AmazonThe Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5 (By: Nisi Shawl)(2011)
- #4AmazonThe WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom (By: Alexis Lothian)(2012)
- #5AmazonThe Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives (By: JoSelle Vanderhooft)(2013)
- #6AmazonThe WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9 (By: Mary Anne Mohanraj)(2015)
- #7AmazonThe WisCon Chronicles 11 (By: Nisi Shawl,Jaymee Goh)(2017)
- #8AmazonPeople of the Book(2007)
- #9AmazonThe WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1(2007)
- #10AmazonFast Ships, Black Sails(2008)
- #11AmazonFantasy: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition(2008)
- #12AmazonThe WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2(2008)
- #13AmazonThe Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009(2008)
- #14AmazonThe Best of Abyss & Apex Volume One(2009)
- #15AmazonTriangulation: Dark Glass(2009)
- #16AmazonTime in a Bottle, Volume 1(2010)
- #17AmazonBloody Fabulous(2010)
- #18AmazonNebula Awards Showcase 2012(2010)
- #19AmazonHeiresses of Russ 2011: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction(2011)
- #20AmazonThe Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5(2011)
- #21AmazonThe Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2011(2011)
- #22AmazonThe Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities(2011)
- #23AmazonThe Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Two(2011)
- #24AmazonUnstuck #1(2011)
- #25AmazonWhen the Villain Comes Home(2012)
- #26AmazonChicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who(2012)
- #27AmazonRobots: The Recent A.I.(2012)
- #28AmazonZombies Vs Robots: This Means War!(2012)
- #29AmazonThe Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012(2012)
- #30AmazonThe Best of Electric Velocipede(2012)
- #31AmazonLightspeed Magazine, January 2015(2012)
- #32AmazonSome of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 Edition(2013)
- #33AmazonNebula Awards Showcase 2015(2013)
- #34AmazonOz Reimagined(2013)
- #35AmazonTelling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology(2013)
- #36AmazonGlitter & Mayhem(2013)
- #37AmazonThe Dark Magazine, Issue 1, October 2013(2013)
- #38AmazonThe Book of Apex: Volume 4(2013)
- #39AmazonTor.com: Selected Original Fiction, 2008-2012(2013)
- #40AmazonLightspeed Magazine, February 2014(2014)
- #41AmazonLightspeed Magazine, June 2014: Women Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue(2014)
- #42AmazonThe Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Nine(2014)
- #43AmazonSolaris Rising 3(2014)
- #44AmazonUpgraded(2014)
- #45AmazonChoose Wisely: 35 Women Up To No Good(2015)
- #46AmazonJews vs Aliens(2015)
- #47AmazonSisters of the Revolution(2015)
- #48AmazonThe Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2015 Edition(2015)
- #49AmazonLetters to Tiptree(2015)
- #50AmazonThe Long List Anthology(2015)
- #51AmazonLightspeed Magazine, December 2015(2015)
- #52AmazonNebula Awards 49 (2015)(2015)
- #53AmazonGlitterShip Year One(2017)
- #54AmazonWorlds Seen in Passing(2018)
- #55AmazonMythic Journeys(2019)
- #56AmazonTor.com Short Fiction: September-October 2020(2020)
- #57AmazonSome of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition(2021)
- #58AmazonFar Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy(2021)
- #59AmazonShattering the Glass Slipper(2022)
- #60AmazonSome Of The Best From Reactor: 2024 Edition(2024)
About Rachel Swirsky
Rachel Swirsky is a critically acclaimed author, holding an MFA from the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop and a graduate of the esteemed Clarion West. Her work consistently garners recognition, being short-listed for the Nebula, Hugo, and Sturgeon Awards. She also secured second place in the 2010 Million Writers Award. A prolific writer, Swirsky has published numerous stories in prominent magazines and anthologies, with three of her short stories available as e-books: "Eros, Philia, Agape," "The Memory of Wind," and "The Monster's Million Faces." Her debut collection, THROUGH THE DROWSY DARK, was published by Aqueduct Press in 2010, and her second collection, HOW THE WORLD BECAME QUIET: MYTHS OF THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE, is forthcoming from Subterranean Press.
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