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Jack Faust
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Michael Swanwick |
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Avon, 1997 Millennium, 1997 Orion Books, 1997 |
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1997 BSFA Nominated 1998 Hugo Nominated 1998 Locus F Nominated |
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Synopsis
Jack Faust is a breathtaking and masterful new spin on Goethe's story of a scholar who sells his soul to the Devil for the gift of unlimited knowledge.
But unlike the classic Mephistopheles, the seductive demon who approaches Swanwick's Johannes Faust is not the devil as we know him, but rather a representative of a mysterious race that seeks nothing less than the extermination of the hated human animal. And the wisdom this creature offers the disenchanted thinker goes far beyond anything known or imagined in Goethe's day: the secrets of flight and the cosmos, the principles of economics and engineering, the mysteries of medicine and the atom.
And so begins Faust's transition from madman to savior -- from Johannes to Jack -- as he accelerates human progress at blinding speed, setting the mighty gears and pistons of industry in motion to first remake Germany, and then all Europe, in his own image. Ushering in a New Age of Mechanization hundreds of years before its rightful time, he is alternately adored and despised for his accomplishments, as he attempts to elevate humankind from the muck of ignorance, superstition and disease.
Yet it is love that damns Jack Faust and, ultimately, humanity as well. For Mephistopheles has revealed to him the beauty and purity of innocence in the person of Margarete Reinhardt, the daughter of a struggling businessman. To win her heart, Faust will give Margarete power and influence in an age when women are powerless -- and fame in a time when notoriety can be fatal -- and, in the process, blind his beloved, and himself, to the horrors Faust's "progress" has wrought. For brutality and greed will always pervert love and genius in a degenerate world -- a world which now, thanks to Jack Faust, is rapidly sliding into chaos... or something far worse.
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- Connecticut Yankee meets the Iron Dream ~~?Jack Faust?
Jack Faust. Michael Swanwick Avon Books Sales Rank: 2550764. See details at Amazon.de. Connecticut Yankee meets the Iron Dream, 1998-07-13. Michael Swanwick = Mark Twain + Orson Scott Card + Hal Clement + Alfred Bester + Norman Spinrad ... - Just OK Alternate History ~~"Jack Faust"
Jack Faust. Michael Swanwick Avon Books Sales Rank: 2563845. See details at Amazon.de. Just OK Alternate History, 1998-03-16. Swanwick is an all-to-infrequently published author. However, "Jack Faust" is not his best work. ... - jack faust - michael swanwick
miketransreal posted a photo: jack faust - michael swanwick. jack faust was very good. well, not him, personally, he was totally corrupted. the beginning, when faust is re-making the world and being successful is possibly more ... - jack faust by michael swanwick in 15th century ...
jack faust by michael swanwick in 15th century wittenberg, the scientist dr faustus is crazed with discontent at the religious stodge and foolish superstition that is crippling his research and scientific progress as a whole. ... - JACK FAUST MICHAEL SWANWICK (1997) 1ST ED HB/DJ
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Michael Swanwick Photo by Beth Gwinn HEIDI'S PICK SIX 1. Which of your characters is your favorite? Tough call. Johannes Faust in my criminally-underappreciated Jack Faust was my single best-drawn character, though a loathsome human ... - jack faust
amazon blurb: michael swanwick (stations of the tide and the iron dragon's daughter) has long been too innovative for his own good, and jack faust continues that tradition. this story has elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror, ... - Real Holographic Simulated Evil Lincoln
Also, I'll be visiting the public library while I'm over there to check out a book I've been wanting: Jack Faust by Michael Swanwick. It's a modern retelling of Faust, if that's not obvious. Michael Swanwick is an author everyone should ... - Jack Faust
All of which is a long-winded introduction to Michael Swanwick. I've always felt that Swanwick is a short story writer rather than a true novelist. His first novel In the Drift was a traditional fix-up, being constructed from several ... - Michael Swanwick
There's a lot of ways you could label Vacuum Flowers by Michael Swanwick: cyberpunk, post-cyberpunk, pre-transhuman, post-posthuman … and all those other silly labels pretentious science fiction reviewers and nit-picking analysts have ...
