The Dragons of Babel

The Dragons of Babel
Author	Michael Swanwick
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fantasy
Publisher	Tor Books
Publication date	January 2008
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	320
ISBN	0-7653-1950-0 (hardcover)
OCLC	156818846
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 22
LC Class	PS3569.W28 D73 2008

The Dragons of Babel is a 2008 science fantasy novel by American author Michael Swanwick, set in the same world as his earlier work The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993). It follows the plight of a young man named Will Le Fey after a crippled dragon takes up residence in his town and inside his mind. Like The Iron Dragon's Daughter, the novel subverts fantasy tropes while it explores the extremely dark and gritty world of Faerie.

The Dragons of Babel was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 2009.[1]

Plot

Following the same time period as The Iron Dragon's Daughter; a crippled dragon crawls to a village in Avalon, somewhere in Faerie minor, and crowns himself king. He makes young Will his lieutenant and by night, he crawls in the young fey's mind to get a measure of what his subjects think. But, the dragon’s arrival sets Will on a life-changing adventure where he will encounter danger, deceit, and a truth that was conceived with his birth.

Later on, Will travels with Centaurs, acquires a surrogate daughter named Esme who has no memory of her past and may be immortal, witnesses the clash of Giants, and travels to Babel as a refugee. There, Will rises as underground politician, and finds his one true love, a high elven woman to whom he dare not aspire.

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References

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

External links

Tor Books information page.
The Dragons of Babel at Worlds Without End
The Dragons of Babel title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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[WWE-2009-1] "2009 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-08-05.

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)
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)