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The Dragons of Babel (Tom Doherty Associates Book)

By: Michael Swanwick
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 0765319500
ISBN-13: 9780765319500
Released: 08 Jan 2008
RRP: £16.98
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Fairytale of New York - By: Tristan Fitzgerald, 11 Feb 2008
Ignore the title & cover painting. This isn't some sub-Tolkien fantasy nonsense. It's a brilliant satire of life in the modern capitalist society & skewers many of the tired tropes of Swords & Sorcery along the way. The adventures of Will, the angry, confused half-human foundling, as he makes his way to a Manhattan-like Babel are like a fairy tale filtered through the brain of a crystal meth-addled New York Doll. At the same time as Swanwick is having fun playing with the clichés in fantasy, the story also has an emotional centre - in fact it made me cry at the end. This is the real deal - a genuinely great work of speculate fiction by a massively under-valued writer.