Five-time Hugo Award winner Swanwick delivers a fantasy masterpiece in his sequel to The Iron Dragon's Daughter. A smart, stark steampunk fantasy. Original and dashing, The Dragons of Babel is a breath of fresh air.--Starlog.
About the Author :
Michael Swanwick lives in Philadelphia, PA. He has won five Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award (for Best Novel).
Review :
Praise for "The Dragons of Babel"
""The Dragons of Babel" is an unqualified masterpiece representing the pinnacle of modern fantasy. Simply put, it is great fantasy as great literature."
--"SF Site"
"A smart, stark steampunk fantasy. It's gritty and magical and, in sensibility, is similar to Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere" and "MirrorMask."...Original and dashing, "The Dragons of Babel" is a breath of fresh air."
--"Starlog
""This is modern fantasy at its finest and should hold great appeal for fans of Neil Gaiman's "Anansi Boys." . . ."
--"Publishers Weekly," (starred review)
"Dark, subversive, inventive, challenging, outrageous, and very funny... has to be a contender for one of the best fantasy novels of the year."
--"Interzone
""Swanwick's expert craftsmanship gives his fiction a brilliant, highly polished surface."
--"The Philadelphia Inquirer
"""The Dragons of Babel" will immediately capture readers' interest.... Earthy, bawdy, and often brutal, it's a story that will keep science fiction/fantasy fans involved till the end."
--"School Library Journal" (starred review)
"Swanwick's major accomplishment here--aside from his standard authorial equipment of finely honed prose, inventive plotting, engaging characters and clever symbolical patterning--is to instantiate a world where BMWs and motorcycles can be parked side by side with hippogriffs and manticores without rendering either "vehicle" ridiculous...The ride you get from [Swanwick's] dragons will be like no other."
--"Sci Fi Weekly" (grade A)
"Witty, inventive, written with enormous flair, this is one of Swanwick's most complex and rewarding novels."
--"Asimov's
""If you haven't read Michael Swanwick yet, you've been missing some wonderful prose...Con men and ward heelers, cluricauns and hobgoblins, and a stunningly beautiful elf-woman who rides a hippogriff all entire and enrapture Will, and the reader as well."
--"The
Praise for "The Dragons of Babel":
“"The Dragons of Babel" is an unqualified masterpiece representing the pinnacle of modern fantasy. Simply put, it is great fantasy as great literature.”
--"SF Site"
“A smart, stark steampunk fantasy. It’s gritty and magical and, in sensibility, is similar to Neil Gaiman’s "Neverwhere" and "MirrorMask"….Original and dashing, "The Dragons of Babel" is a breath of fresh air.”
--"Starlog
""This is modern fantasy at its finest and should hold great appeal for fans of Neil Gaiman's "Anansi Boys." . . ."
--"Publishers Weekly," (starred review)
“Dark, subversive, inventive, challenging, outrageous, and very funny… has to be a contender for one of the best fantasy novels of the year.”
--"Interzone
"“Swanwick's expert craftsmanship gives his fiction a brilliant, highly polished surface.”
--"The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Praise for "The Dragons of Babel":
""The Dragons of Babel" is an unqualified masterpiece representing the pinnacle of modern fantasy. Simply put, it is great fantasy as great literature."
--"SF Site"
"A smart, stark steampunk fantasy. It's gritty and magical and, in sensibility, is similar to Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere" and "MirrorMask,."..Original and dashing, "The Dragons of Babel" is a breath of fresh air."
--"Starlog
""This is modern fantasy at its finest and should hold great appeal for fans of Neil Gaiman's "Anansi Boys," . . ."
--"Publishers Weekly," (starred review)
"Dark, subversive, inventive, challenging, outrageous, and very funny... has to be a contender for one of the best fantasy novels of the year."
--"Interzone
""Swanwick's expert craftsmanship gives his fiction a brilliant, highly polished surface."
--"The Philadelphia Inquirer
"""The Dragons of Babel" will immediately capture readers' interest.... Earthy, bawdy, and often brutal, it's a story that will keep science fiction/fantasy fans involved till the end."
--"School Library Journal" (starred review)
"Swanwick's major accomplishment here--aside from his standard authorial equipment of finely honed prose, inventive plotting, engaging characters and clever symbolical patterning--is to instantiate a world where BMWs and motorcycles can be parked side by side with hippogriffs and manticores without rendering either "vehicle" ridiculous...The ride you get from [Swanwick's] dragons will be like no other."
--"Sci Fi Weekly" (grade A)
"Witty, inventive, written with enormous flair, this is one of Swanwick's most complex and rewarding novels."
--"Asimov's
""If youhaven't read Michael Swanwick yet, you've been missing some wonderful prose...Con men and ward heelers, cluricauns and hobgoblins, and a stunningly beautiful elf-woman who rides a hippogriff all entire and enrapture Will, and the reader as well."
--"The San Diego Union-Tribune
""I no longer read much fantasy, but would return to it in a Babel minute if I could find more like this: elegant, erudite, slyly funny, hard-nosed, compassionate, propulsive, and capable of punching through overused conventions and sentimentalities and delivering the jolt that restores the form to its primal power."
--"Locus"
Praise for "Dragons of Babel": "Huck Finn, the Lost Dauphin, and all the hosts of Faerie pursuing Destiny through Gormenghast with neon! Fascinating, lucid, logical and enchanting." --Kage Baker on "Dragons of Babel" "(A) marvelous new work . . . a drama of high consequence." --"The New York Times" on "The Iron Dragon's Daughter" "Swanwick shatters fantasy cliches in this highly-charged saga set in a post-Industrial Revolution dreamland. . . . A metaphysical shocker, full of black magic and black humor." - David Langford on "The Iron Dragon's Daughter" "A standout piece of storytelling,""--Library Journal" on "The Iron Dragon's Daughter"
"In "The Iron Dragon's Daughter "Michael Swanwick created what was virtually a new genre of imaginative fiction. "Dragons of Babel" is a brilliant sequel to that book. Well-written, beautifully conceived, it is one of the very few fantasy novels I can unreservedly recommend. I love everything about the book." --Michael Moorcock Praise for Michael Swanwick: "Michael Swanwick is one of the most intellectually astute SF writers of his generation." --"The Washington Post Book World"
Praise for "Dragons of Babel": "If you've already visited the amazing Michael Swanwick's machine-age fantasy universe, you'll be eager to return. If you haven't, this book will make your jaw drop. There's nobody remotely like Swanwick; he is a joyous, jolly, ingenious genre all to himself."--Gene Wolfe on "Dragons of Babel"
"In "The Iron Dragon's Daughter "Michael Swanwick created what was virtually a new genre of imaginative fiction. "Dragons of Babel" is a brilliant sequel to that book. Well-written, beautifully conceived, it is one of the very few fantasy novels I can unreservedly recommend. I love everything about the book." --Michael Moorcock Praise for Michael Swanwick: "Michael Swanwick is one of the most intellectually astute SF writers of his generation." --"The Washington Post Book World"
Praise for "Dragons of Babel" "If you've already visited the amazing Michael Swanwick's machine-age fantasy universe, you'll be eager to return. If you haven't, this book will make your jaw drop. There's nobody remotely like Swanwick; he is a joyous, jolly, ingenious genre all to himself."--Gene Wolfe on "Dragons of Babel"
"In "The Iron Dragon's Daughter "Michael Swanwick created what was virtually a new genre of imaginative fiction. "Dragons of Babel" is a brilliant sequel to that book. Well-written, beautifully conceived, it is one of the very few fantasy novels I can unreservedly recommend. I love everything about the book." --Michael Moorcock Praise for Michael Swanwick: "Michael Swanwick is one of the most intellectually astute SF writers of his generation." --"The Washington Post Book World"
