The Dragons of Babel is a 2008 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. Much like the Iron Dragon's Daughter, the Dragons of Babel subverts fantasy tropes while it explores the extremely dark and gritty world of Faerie.
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The Dragons of Babel is a 2008 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. Much like the Iron Dragon's Daughter, the Dragons of Babel 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.
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,...
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