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1997 novel by Michael Swanwick This article is about the novel by Michael Swanwick. For the attorney and television personality, see Jack Faust (attorney).

Jack Faust
Cover of first edition (hardcover)
Author	Michael Swanwick
Cover artist	Nadine Badalaty & Greg Spalenka
Language	English
Genre	Steampunk, science fiction
Publisher	Avon Books
Publication date	September 1997
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	337
ISBN	0-380-97444-4 (hardcover)
OCLC	247029490
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 21
LC Class	PS3569.W28 J33 1997

Jack Faust (1997) is a science fiction novel by American writer Michael Swanwick. It was nominated for the BSFA Award in 1997, and for both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1998.

Plot introduction

The plot is a modernization of the classic German tale of anti-hero Dr. Johannes Faust, who struggles with his growing discomfort with modern thought and questions how and why things happen without scientific explanation. After Faust burns his library and contemplates suicide, a mysterious being named Mephistopheles comes to Faust and offers him all the information of the universe. With Mephistopheles' help, the madman Dr. Johannes Faust becomes the savior Jack Faust by accelerating human progress at a blinding speed, reshaping Germany and then all of Europe in his own image.

References

"1998 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-08-05.

External links

Jack Faust at Worlds Without End

Works based on Faust

Folk legend

Seminal works

Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1587 chapbook)
Doctor Faustus (1592 play)
Cenodoxus (1602, play)
Goethe's Faust (1808 play)
- Faust, Part One
- Faust, Part Two

Prose

"Bearskin"
"Daniel and the Devil"
Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)
"The Devil and Tom Walker" (1824)
St. John's Eve (1830)
Auriol (1844)
Chasse-galerie (1892)
The Sorrows of Satan (1896)
Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (1898)
The Master and Margarita (1929–1940)
Mephisto (1936)
"The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1937)
None but Lucifer (1939)
Doktor Faustus (1947)
The Devil in Velvet (1951)
The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (1954)
Gimmicks Three (1956)
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956)
That Hell-Bound Train (1958)
For a Breath I Tarry (1966)
The Damnation Game (1986)
Eric (1990)
The Devil's Own Work (1991)
Jack Faust (1997)
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (2009)
The Last Faust (2019)

Plays

Gretchen (1879)
Damn Yankees (1955)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955)
The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon (1965)
Temptation (1986)

Operas

Faust (1816, Spohr)
La damnation de Faust (1846, Berlioz)
Faust (1859, Gounod)
Mefistofele (1868, Boito)
Le petit Faust (1869, Hervé)
Faust and Marguerite (1855, Lutz)
Faust up to Date (1888, Lutz)
Doktor Faust (1916–1925, Busoni)
Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938)
The Rake's Progress (1951, Stravinsky)
Reuben, Reuben (1955)
Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1994)
Faustus, the Last Night (2006)

Ballets

Faust ballets

Classical music

Gretchen am Spinnrade (1814, Schubert)
Faust Overture (1840, Wagner)
Grande sonate 'Les quatre âges' 2nd movement "Quasi-Faust" (1847, Alkan)
Scenes from Goethe's Faust (1853, Schumann)
Part II of Symphony No. 8 (1906–07, Mahler)
Faust Symphony (1854–1857, Liszt)
Mephisto Waltzes (Liszt)
Gothic Symphony (Brian)
Bagatelle sans tonalité (Liszt)

Other music

Albums	Epica Saga Epica The Black Halo Beethoven's Last Night The Black Rider
Songs	"Mephisto Polka" (1859–1885) "Cross Road Blues" (1936) "Friend of the Devil" (1970) "Bohemian Rhapsody" (1975) "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" (1979) "Faustian Echoes" (2012) "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" (2015)

Films

The Laboratory of Mephistopheles (1897)
Faust and Marguerite (1900)
The Damnation of Faust (1903)
Faust and Marguerite (1904)
The Student of Prague (1913)
Rapsodia satanica (1915)
The Student of Prague (1926)
Faust (1926)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Alias Nick Beal (1949)
The Legend of Faust (1949)
Beauty and the Devil (1950)
Marguerite de la nuit (1955)
Damn Yankees (1958)
Faust (1960)
Bedazzled (1967)
Doctor Faustus (1967)
El extraño caso del doctor Fausto (1969)
Mephisto (1981)
Doctor Faustus (1982)
Oh, God! You Devil (1984)
Crossroads (1986)
Faust (1994)
Bedazzled (2000)
Faust: Love of the Damned (2000)
Fausto 5.0 (2001)
I Was a Teenage Faust (2002)
Shortcut to Happiness (2007)
Goat Story (2008)
Faust (2011)
The Last Faust (2019)

Television

Episodes	"Printer's Devil" (1963) "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" (2003)
Other	The Devil and Daniel Mouse (1978) When the Devil Calls Your Name (2019)

Musicals

Damn Yankees (1955)
Randy Newman's Faust (1995)
Success! (1993)
Faust (2003)
Disco Inferno (2004)

Comics

Gods' Man (1929)
Faust (manga) (1950)
Doctor Faustus (comics) (1968)
Faust (comics) (1987)
Frau Faust (2014)

Art

Category

v t e Works by Michael Swanwick
Novels	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)
Short stories	"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)
Short story collections	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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