Description: Praise forThe Dragons of Babel: "The Dragons of Babelis 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'sNeverwhereandMirrorMask.Original and dashing,The Dragons of Babelis a breath of fresh air." --Starlog "This is modern fantasy at its finest and should hold great appeal for fans of Neil Gaiman'sAnansi 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 Babelwill 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" ridiculousThe 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 proseCon 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

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