On Apr 4, 5:03=A0pm, Andrew Plotkin <erkyr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I have read a lot of Swanwick and enjoyed it variably. I think he
> comes up with fantastic setups and fantastic events to follow them
> and then, some of the time, fantastic excuses to avoid wrapping his
> story up in any kind of resolution.
>
> _The Iron Dragon's Daughter_ went that way; it was vivid and
> overwhelming and I still have no idea what happened in it.
> _The Dragons of Babel_ is vivid and overwhelming and totally
> satisfying at the end. It's got all of Swanwick's *sneakiness* (and he
> is a sneaky bastard) but he has it harnessed to making the book go.
>
> (I now have painful visions of Swanwick reading this post and saying
> "Yeah, I *thought* this was my least interesting and clever book, and
> now I have proof." I struggle forward in the face of my fears.)
>
While I quite enjoyed the _Iron Draon's Daughter_, I still regret that
I'll never see the Neo-Dickensian fantasy the first few chapters had
prepared me for. Glad to see he's written a sequel, but after the way
the first ended, it's a little surprising.
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