The Dragons of Babel

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The Dragons of Babel - Paperback

The Dragons of Babel - Paperback

by Michael Swanwick
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by Michael Swanwick (Author)

A fantasy masterpiece from a five-time Hugo Award winner!

A war-dragon of Babel crashes in the idyllic fields of a post-industrialized Faerie and, dragging himself into the nearest village, declares himself king and makes young Will his lieutenant. Nightly, he crawls inside the young fey's brain to get a measure of what his subjects think. Forced out of his village, Will travels with female centaur soldiers, witnesses the violent clash of giants, and acquires a surrogate daughter, Esme, who has no knowledge of the past and may be immortal.

Evacuated to the Tower of Babel--infinitely high, infinitely vulgar, very much like New York City--Will meets the confidence trickster Nat Whilk. Inside the Dread Tower, Will becomes a hero to the homeless living in the tunnels under the city, rises as an underling to a haint politician, meets his one true love-a high-elven woman he dare not aspire to.

You've heard of hard SF: This is hard fantasy from a master of the form.

Author Biography

MICHAEL SWANWICK lives in Philadelphia, PA. He has won five Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award (for Best Novel).

Number of Pages: 320
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: October 11, 2011
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Dragons of Babel
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 5.8
Point Value: 17
ISBN9780765331144
Author Michael Swanwick
PublisherTor Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages320
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Michael Swanwick is one of the most acclaimed science fiction and fantasy short-story writers of his generation, having received an unprecedented five Hugo Awards in a six year period. He is also the winner of the British Science Fiction and World Fantasy Awards. Swanwick's stories, published in such collections such as Gravity's Angels, Tales of Old Earth, and Not So Much, Said the Cat, have also appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including OMNI, Penthouse, Amazing, Asimov's Science Fiction, New Dimensions. Swanwick's novels include The Iron Dragon's Daughter, a New York Times Notable Book, the Nebula Award-winner Stations of the Tide, the Darger & Surplus series, Dragons of Babel, and City in the Stars. His work has also been translated into more than ten languages. Swanwick lives in Pennsylvania.

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