About the Author

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

Reviews

Praise for "The Dragons of Babel"
""The Dragons of Babel" is 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's "Neverwhere" and "MirrorMask."...Original and dashing, "The Dragons of Babel" is a breath of fresh air."
--"Starlog
""This is modern fantasy at its finest and should hold great appeal for fans of Neil Gaiman's "Anansi 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 Babel" will 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" ridiculous...The 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 prose...Con 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

Praise for "The Dragons of Babel":
“"The Dragons of Babel" is 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’s "Neverwhere" and "MirrorMask"….Original and dashing, "The Dragons of Babel" is a breath of fresh air.”
--"Starlog  
""This is modern fantasy at its finest and should hold great appeal for fans of Neil Gaiman's "Anansi 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
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Praise for "The Dragons of Babel":
""The Dragons of Babel" is 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's "Neverwhere" and "MirrorMask,."..Original and dashing, "The Dragons of Babel" is a breath of fresh air."
--"Starlog
""This is modern fantasy at its finest and should hold great appeal for fans of Neil Gaiman's "Anansi 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 Babel" will 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" ridiculous...The 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 youhaven't read Michael Swanwick yet, you've been missing some wonderful prose...Con 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"

Praise for "Dragons of Babel": "Huck Finn, the Lost Dauphin, and all the hosts of Faerie pursuing Destiny through Gormenghast with neon! Fascinating, lucid, logical and enchanting." --Kage Baker on "Dragons of Babel" "(A) marvelous new work . . . a drama of high consequence." --"The New York Times" on "The Iron Dragon's Daughter" "Swanwick shatters fantasy cliches in this highly-charged saga set in a post-Industrial Revolution dreamland. . . . A metaphysical shocker, full of black magic and black humor." - David Langford on "The Iron Dragon's Daughter" "A standout piece of storytelling,""--Library Journal" on "The Iron Dragon's Daughter"
"In "The Iron Dragon's Daughter "Michael Swanwick created what was virtually a new genre of imaginative fiction. "Dragons of Babel" is a brilliant sequel to that book. Well-written, beautifully conceived, it is one of the very few fantasy novels I can unreservedly recommend. I love everything about the book." --Michael Moorcock Praise for Michael Swanwick: "Michael Swanwick is one of the most intellectually astute SF writers of his generation." --"The Washington Post Book World"

Praise for "Dragons of Babel": "If you've already visited the amazing Michael Swanwick's machine-age fantasy universe, you'll be eager to return. If you haven't, this book will make your jaw drop. There's nobody remotely like Swanwick; he is a joyous, jolly, ingenious genre all to himself."--Gene Wolfe on "Dragons of Babel"
"In "The Iron Dragon's Daughter "Michael Swanwick created what was virtually a new genre of imaginative fiction. "Dragons of Babel" is a brilliant sequel to that book. Well-written, beautifully conceived, it is one of the very few fantasy novels I can unreservedly recommend. I love everything about the book." --Michael Moorcock Praise for Michael Swanwick: "Michael Swanwick is one of the most intellectually astute SF writers of his generation." --"The Washington Post Book World"

Praise for "Dragons of Babel" "If you've already visited the amazing Michael Swanwick's machine-age fantasy universe, you'll be eager to return. If you haven't, this book will make your jaw drop. There's nobody remotely like Swanwick; he is a joyous, jolly, ingenious genre all to himself."--Gene Wolfe on "Dragons of Babel"
"In "The Iron Dragon's Daughter "Michael Swanwick created what was virtually a new genre of imaginative fiction. "Dragons of Babel" is a brilliant sequel to that book. Well-written, beautifully conceived, it is one of the very few fantasy novels I can unreservedly recommend. I love everything about the book." --Michael Moorcock Praise for Michael Swanwick: "Michael Swanwick is one of the most intellectually astute SF writers of his generation." --"The Washington Post Book World"