Dragonstairs Press

Dragonstairs Press Dragonstairs Press is a nanopublishing house, dedicated to the creation of hand-made, small print-run, signed and numbered chapbooks.

Dragonstairs Press is a nanopublishing house, dedicated to the creation of hand-made, small print-run, signed and numbered chapbooks, focusing primarily on the writing of Michael Swanwick. Other authors have included Tom Purdom and Gardner Dozois. While focused primarily on text, Dragonstairs is also interested in visual images, especially those associated with text works. Dragonstairs produces two to four works a year, which are available for sale on our website.

10/02/2025

. Among the many reasons why readers of the 1920s were in awe of James Branch Cabell was his scholarly erudition. I just learned that in Be...

Clever boots.
10/02/2025

Clever boots.

. Among the many reasons why readers of the 1920s were in awe of James Branch Cabell was his scholarly erudition. I just learned that in Be...

05/31/2025

Singular Interviews is a collection of one question interviews conducted by Michael Swanwick, with a variety of science fiction and fantasy's best and brightest. The interviews were carried out over many years, and have previously been published in the New York Review of Science Fiction. They are collected here for the first time.

The eleven subjects include Greer Gilman, John Crowley, Mike Resnick, David Hartwell, and Samuel R. Delany, among others. The questions range from insightful probes into professional intentions to bits of whimsy about Jules Verne's appearance as Guest of Honor at Philcon.

Offered in an edition of 60, Singular Interviews are hand stitched, bond in Indian 100% cotton paper in various colors, numbered and signed by Swanwick. They will be available at noon, Philadelphia time (eastern daylight savings) on June 7, 2025 at www.dragonstairs.com.

10/25/2024
10/08/2024

On my mind? Milton. I have Dragonstairs clients who seem to be in harm's way. Please: go be safe.

09/29/2024

When Avram Davidson died, he left behind notes for a Dr. Esterhazy novel. These notes were expanded and formatted by Grania Davis, his one-time wife and several-times collaborator. Unfortunately, the novel did not sell and so was never written.

Recently, Grania's son, Seth Davis, shared the proposal with people he thought would find it interesting. Dragonstairs Press pounced.

The Avram Davidson estate has kindly allowed the one time use of this material.

A Goat for Az**el is essentially a reproduction of the novel proposal, formatting and idiosyncratic spellings preserved, and is offered as a tribute to Avram Davidson, one of the foremost short fiction writers of the 20th century, and to Grania Davis, his collaborator and passionate supporter. Michael Swanwick, a huge fan and appreciator of Avram, has added a brief, signed afterword to the work. It is produced in an edition of 80, roughly 6” x 7”, numbered and hand-stitched, with wrappers made of Mexican amate bark paper, chosen to commemorate Avram's and Grania's years in Mexico.

It will be offered for sale on Saturday, October 5, 2024, at noon, Philadelphia time (Eastern Daylight Savings) at www.dragonstairs.com. $15 domestic, $18 international.

A new video recording of the poetry Albert Hodkinson wrote about the war.
06/26/2024

A new video recording of the poetry Albert Hodkinson wrote about the war.

Albert Hodkinson, DFM, was a navigator in a Halifax bomber during world war II. Twenty years later, frustrated by a popular narrative of the war being fough...

You should all wonder over to www.dragonstairs.com and check out the Dragonstairs checklist, everything Dragonstairs ha...
06/26/2024

You should all wonder over to www.dragonstairs.com and check out the Dragonstairs checklist, everything Dragonstairs has published. Read it and weep.

The War with the Zylv Ariel Cinii was prominent in New York fannish circles as a filk singer, artist, apa-hack, and writer. She won a significant stake on the quiz show, the $10,000 Question, which she used to finance the medical treatment she needed as one of the first openly trans women in

06/15/2024

Ariel Cinii was prominent in New York fannish circles as a filk singer, artist, apa-hack, and writer. She won a significant stake on the quiz show, the $10,000 Question, which she used to finance the medical treatment she needed as one of the first openly trans women in science fiction.
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> When she passed away in 2020, she left behind over 1,300 works of visual art. Her friends and heirs very generously offered the works for free to her fellow fans. Michael Swanwick encountered her art at Boskone in 2024, and brought home three pieces that particularly spoke to him.
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> One of these pieces inspired Swanwick to write a story about it. The image is reproduced as the cover illustration for The War with the Zylv. Dragonstairs Press is deeply grateful to Ms. Cinni's estate for allowing it to be used.
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> The War with the Zylv is printed in an edition of 100, of which 96 are offered for sale. Each copy is 5½ x 8½ inches, hand stitched, numbered, and signed by the author.
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> They will be available at www.dragonstairs.com, on Saturday, June 22, 2024, at noon Philadelphia time.
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The ChengDu Worldcon news doesn't get better.
06/10/2024

The ChengDu Worldcon news doesn't get better.

In Search Of…The 2023 Hugo Awards       By Chris M. Barkley: On February 17, 2024, I received the following email: Feb 17, 2024, 4:25 AM Dear Hugo and Related Award Wi…

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