It came in perfect condition. A finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1994 Locus Award, The Iron Dragon's Daughter a is one-of-a-kind melding of grimdark fantasy and cyberpunk grit from the Nebula Award–winning author of Stations of the Tide. Such books and the worlds they create is more like a glimpse in the dark. Highly recommended for folks who feel, and folks who feel like they feel insufficiently. So while The Iron Dragon’s Daughter’s title is intentionally epic, its story a coming-of-age, the imagery fantastically intense, and its characters all manner of dragons, gnomes, elves, trolls, dwarves, zombies, etc., at no time does one feel as though they are stuck in the latest R.R. Nebula Award-winner Swanwick ( Stations of the Tide ) develops a powerful, yet dark and hopeless fantasy that should forever shatter charming illusions of Faerie and its folk. Our heroine, Jane, is a changeling, a human child brought into a dark world of faeries, half-breeds and monsters both natural and technological. Together, then, Jane and Melanchthon escape. Quite likely a deliberate attempt to upset some section of the genre readership – which you’ve got to love, right? This work is a novel. Maybe it's a small box left alone on a table. This book is one of those rarities that make my brain a little bit numb from emotion storm. What begins brilliantly and appears to have the makings of a steam punk classic, wanders off into an unholy mess of disagreeable characters and fantasy cliches existing in a world that is wholly incomprehensible. It engages the reader in a nihilistic world in which nothing is as it seems and everything comes at a steep and often horrific price. If that makes sense. She also suspects that Sirin might have the same soul as Gwen. This was one of the first books that I stumbled upon without anyone ever recommending it to me, and expected the normal fantasy-fare. The only reason I read through to the end was because it was a book club book, otherwise I'd have stopped after the first few pages. I read this book years ago, and it's one of those that really stick with you and rattle around in your head. I’m glad I did because the ending made absolutely no sense. The Iron Dragon's Daughter is grim, intense, and quite overwhelming -- the experience of reading this book is a shock of the first order, and I was left feeling uneasy, and a bit unsure of what to think of the book. Maybe it's a series of lights shone on a wall. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The Iron Dragon's Daughter. The Iron Dragon's Daughter MICHAEL SWANWICK An AvoNova Book William Morrow and Company, Inc. New York. fantastic fiction that is unusually fresh and surprising . Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. The Dragons of Babel (The Iron Dragon's Daughter Book 2), The Iron Dragon's Mother (The Iron Dragon's Daughter Book 3), “Relentlessly bizarre, intricately constructed . Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Does this book contain inappropriate content? They flash before your eyes, they leave you with images, with seeds of desire, and they gone... they don't need our imagination, they are free from us. To see what your friends thought of this book, No-no, no way. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Maybe it's a cake made of plaster. You decide it deserves three stars. Until one of the dragons starts whispering. Refresh and try again. The dark and nihilistic tale follows Jane, a changeling girl who slaves at a dragon factory, building part-magical, part-cybernetic monsters that are used as jet fighters; until she crosses paths with an old, rusted dragon named Melanchthon and escapes. Something went wrong. This was the first adult scifi book I ever read. Audiobook Cup is a free audio book listening platform. Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy (May 31, 2016). I got about half the way through and I had to start skimming to the end. The Iron Dragon's Daughter is a novel by Michael Swanwick, published in 1994. --. Our heroine, Jane, is a changeling, a human child brought into a dark world of faeries, half-breeds and monsters both natural and technological. A New York Times Notable Book: "Combining cyberpunk's grit with dystopic fantasy, this iconoclastic hybrid is a standout piece of storytelling" (Library Journal). Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. You leave the museum in a disoriented state, wondering if you had finally experienced true art and whether you hated it or not. One of the most intriguing books of science fantasy I've ever read, Iron Dragon's Daughter is set in a strange world that is best described as 'faerie cyberpunk.' This book is a mixture of sh** and honey, and as such, the inventive good parts can't overcome the feeling that one has consumed something unpleasant and unhealthy. Withal: enormously impressive, rich, dense, demanding. Wonderful and terrifying in the way that those are not opposites, just flavors of excellence that are usually more than little uncomfortable. There aren't many moments in my life I can look back at and call them fateful, but the cold afternoon in late November when I came to our humble library, which was a great place that tended to all my passions at once (anime and video games included), and, as usual, checked a stand with books for sale to notice something about dragons...that was one of those moments. There was a time, back in the early Seventies when I was in high school, when I read Tolkien, and then lots of other fantasy, including Lord Dunsany (The King of Elfland's Daughter), Clark Ashton Smith, H.P. And holy hell, please do take that warning seriously. Swanwick has created a world of filth, blood, guts mirrored against the high echelon austerity of rothschildean glass towers. Or, if you were one of those who flung it across the room once upon a time, to reread it. And then it strikes you: maybe the artist is just fucking with you. On The Iron Dragon's Daughter and Fantasy. One of the most intriguing books of science fantasy I've ever read, Iron Dragon's Daughter is set in a strange world that is best described as 'faerie cyberpunk.' There was a problem loading your book clubs. Very happy. These "dragons" are enslaved to their pilots, wills broken by technology and magic, as Jane is essentially a slave to the factory. ). This book reads like a fever dream. I honestly have no idea how to rate or review this hot mess of a book. Swanwick ( Stations of the Tide , Avon, 1992) brings his particular brand of elan to the fairy world, where high tech and magic are interdependent and where the denizens of folklore include leather-clad werewolves, half-elven pilots, and brash dwarven mechanics. A human girl stolen from her mother by faeries to serve as a slave worker and brood mare, Jane refuses to become a victim. These "dragons" are enslaved to their pilots, wills broken by technology and magic, as Jane is essentially a slave to the factory. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. The more you read the less sense it makes. Inventive and twisted, this is a dark solipsistic (or perhaps nihilistic) vision of a drug-fueled sex-laced industrial fantasy world. Swanwick's nihilistic tale features a human changeling who tries to make her way in a cutthroat society that mirrors contemporary life. wannabe (J. and George). To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. One day, she discovers a dragon that appears to have been scrapped, but is merely injured and camouflaging itself amongst its broken down brethren. While the players are elves, dwarves, lamies and other "magickal" creatures, they could be 20th-century juvenile delinquents and power politicians in a society ruled by caste snobbery, drugs, a mall culture and child labor. That still didn’t prepare me for how angry this book was going to make me. Please try your request again later. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Seething, brain-bursting, all but indescribable upper-world coming-of-age yarn, from the author of a string of splendid novels (Stations of the Tide; Griffin's Egg, etc.). At once a gleefully bizarre parody and a dazzlingly imaginative tour de force, flawed by the rather distant, uninvolving narrative and an ending equivalent to ``then she fell out of bed and woke up.'' . Michael Swanwick would revisit the world of The Iron Dragon’s Daughter and explore it further with his 2008 novel, The Dragons of Babel about a crippled dragon that crowns itself king as it makes a village in Faerie its home, while taking residence in the mind of a young man named Will le Fey, an event that leads to Fey finds himself on an adventure to find himself and his truth. February 28th 2012 It wasn't my preferred type of setting – I like there to be just a little light somewhere, and I admit I do prefer to like a character or two in what I'm reading – but it was well done and fascinating. I started great but when to teen drama with a lot of sex. EMBED. One of the books on Mieville's list of 50 Scifi and Fantasy Books for Socialists, he tells you that it "completely destroys the sentimental aspects of genre fiction". . This book is one of those rarities that make my brain a little bit numb from emotion storm. Michael Swanwick (Author) › Visit Amazon's Michael Swanwick Page. The main character is Jane, a human girl who's a child slave in a factory that produces parts for Iron Dragons - that world's equivalent to fighter jets. It's staid with me years after I read yet - yet I never felt the urge to read ti again, or tell anyone else they should read it. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? After her lover's tragic death, Jane is taken under the wing of a power-hungry elven lord, Galiagante. Determined to end her slavery in a steam dragon plant, the young human Jane escapes with the help of a rusted old dragon hulk named Melancthon. A central image is the möbius strip, which … His short fiction has appeared in. Jane is a changeling child, enslaved in a factory that makes the iron dragons - terrible engines of war - until she discovers the secret of the dragons' sentience and is able to use one of the beasts to escape. Tue Jun 25, 2019 2:30pm. You can pick up on a few clues as to what concept is being explored and what aesthetic is being showcased, but you get the sense that you might just not be intelligent or cultured enough to grasp the big, profound entirety of it all. I enjoyed the beginning of this, although it confused me. The Iron Dragon's Daughter - Ebook written by Michael Swanwick. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. So, you know the feeling you get when you encounter a difficult piece of artwork in a contemporary art museum? I don't know how to rate this book. The Iron Dragon's Daughter is a 1993 novel by writer Michael Swanwick that combines fantasy and science fiction. Many sci-fi fans including myself are big fans of sci-fi author, Michael Swanwick's award winning The Iron Dragon's Daughter because it surpassed expectations in spite of bad reviews by certain literary reviewers who claim to be sci-fi fans flaming the book for being unfit for YA readers because of the horrible … Named a NEW YORK TIMES notable book of 1994, THE IRON DRAGON'S DAUGHTER tells the heartrending story of a changeling child who is kidnapped to a realm of malls and machines and enslaved in a vast, infernal factory. The Iron Dragon's Daughter is a novel by Michael Swanwick, published in 1994. As soon as I got home I went out with a friend and got into an accident resulting in a severe head concussion. Dark, fast-moving fantasy, but for what audience? Does this book contain quality or formatting issues? I enjoyed the premise, and the dragon, and although the darkness and grimness of the setting had me on edge, I could appreciate the fact that it did so. He has married, with arterial blood and magic cantillations, the fey and the ordinary. Jane is a child-worker in a factory which is building treacherously aware warmachines made of cold iron. I snuck it home from the Eugene, OR public library when I was 12...since I wouldn't have been allowed to read it. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. You'd be surprised how amazingly awesome a book that consists largely of depressing elf sex can be. It's just not my "cup of tea.". These are the questions Michael Swanwick explores with harrowing precision in The Iron Dragon's Daughter. Super disappointing. Jane is a changeling child, enslaved in a factory that makes the iron dragons - te It is a street like any other, ordinary in its fantasticism; monsters are the standard. I had no idea then, buying this book for a price too cheap to believe now, what a journey was ahead of me. Wafts of dope smoke shivering in tinkling exhalations of elvish conversational cantations or the rumble of dwarven antagonism. I'm sure this book will stick with me -- but I can't. the iron dragon's daughter by Michael Swanwick ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 1, 1994 Seething, brain-bursting, all but indescribable upper-world coming-of-age yarn, from the author of a string of splendid novels (Stations of the Tide; Griffin's Egg, etc. Part classic fantasy, part Charles Dickens, The Iron Dragon's Daughter is one of the most unique novels in the genre. The Iron Dragon's Daughter Dave Langford reviews the UK edition: Millennium, 1993, 343pp, £14.99 hardback, £8.99 C-format. I'm sure this book will stick with me -- but I can't in good conscience recommend it. The Iron Dragon's Daughter (SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection #39) Michael Swanwick. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. A finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1994 Locus Award, The Iron Dragon’s Daughter a is one-of-a-kind melding of grimdark fantasy and cyberpunk grit from the Nebula Award–winning author of Stations of the Tide. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Jane starts the book working in a factory that produces dragons, huge flying mechs armed with state-of-the-art weaponry, using her unusual ancestry to practice her skills as a thief. This book is a mixture of sh** and honey, and as such, the inventive good parts can't overcome the feeling that one has consumed something unpleasant and unhealthy. The vivid imagery of darker subjects also brings to mind Catherynne Valente. Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2017. (Season 1 only). Iron Dragon's Daughter, The (The Iron Dragon's Daughter) MP3 CD – Unabridged, May 17, 2016. by. He has written nine novels, among them In the Drift, Stations of the Tide, the New York Times Notable Book The Iron Dragon’s Daughter, Jack Faust, and, most recently, Chasing the Phoenix. Combining cyberpunk's grit with dystopic fantasy, this iconoclastic hybrid is a standout piece of storytelling. Then she meets an iron dragon, and decides to rebel. Not so long ago, I was reading a forum discussion talking about how fantasy worlds never seem to progress past a medieval level of technology; and whether or not it's possible to write a technological fantasy world that is clearly not science fiction. An excellent and unusual dark fantasy book. If they were ripped from their old life and stuck into a game rigged against them, would they survive, and how? Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 24, 2019, Horrible world building and nonsense plot. Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? It's a story about cruelty, betrayal, callousness, depravity, theft, drug use, and ultimately, about remorse. 2 Favorites [+] Determined to end her slavery in a steam dragon plant, the young human Jane escapes with the help of a rusted old dragon hulk named Melancthon. Dark, Twisted, Smut Filled Fantasy Book About Life and Bad Decisions, Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2015. A possible prequel to the Iron Dragon's Daughter, Swanwick returns to Fairee, a world in which magic and industry mix. So much violence, sexual content, scenes of main characters taking drugs and drinking, lot of cruelty. Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils, Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, The Kindle title is not currently available for purchase. So, you know the feeling you get when you encounter a difficult piece of artwork in a contemporary art museum? Such books and the worlds they create is more like a glimpse in the dark. When the damaged dragon Melanchthon tempts Jane with promises of freedom, the stage is set for a daring escape that will shake the foundations of existence. This isn't it, this is the tawdry shirt sleeve cousin. Inventive and twisted, this is a dark solipsistic (or perhaps nihilistic) vision of a drug-fueled sex-laced industrial fantasy world. Jane is a child-worker in a factory which is building treacherously aware warmachines made of cold iron. The main character is an anti-hero so be prepared, remember it's a grim, gritty, nihilist fantasy book. THE IRON DRAGON'S DAUGHTER is an original publication of Avon Books. Swanwick lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Marianne Porter, and their son, Sean. (Sigh)...Another one of those cases where GR's star-rating system doesn't adequately express my reaction to a book. The main character is Jane, a human girl in a world of faeries and magical beings, who's a child slave in a factory that produces parts for Iron Dragons — that world's equivalent to fighter jets. I initially read and finished this book at the age of 13 (I'm now 28) on the car ride home from a trip a few states away. But the misfit Jane finds school horrifying, and she turns to shoplifting to gain friends. This is very likely Swanwick's masterwork. 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