THE IRON DRAGON'S DAUGHTER

by Michael Swanwick

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Millennium An Orion Book, 1993 . Octavo, boards. First edition. Swanwick's fantastic tale counters conventional approaches to fantasy that fail to consider the full implications of their tropes, instead offering escapism. In contrast, here the normal world is what the female protagonist seeks in trying to escape the dark and chaotic fantasy landscape she traverses. Thus the story takes her through a series of

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