The Iron Dragon's Daughter
core novel 1993 The Iron Dragon's Daughter
Record
| First published | 1993 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.66 (4,319 ratings, collected 2026-10-26) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781857980806 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Jane is a human changeling, a child coming of age in a world of violence and monsters, who toils alongside trolls, dwarves, shifters and feys in the dank bowels of a factory in Faerie that builds the massive black iron dragons, sentient flying engines of war. Stolen into a realm of malls and machines and enslaved there, she discovers the secret of the dragons' sentience when a voice from one of them promises her freedom and revenge, and she uses the beast to escape and to challenge the very foundations of her world.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Iron Dragon's Daughter
- Series: The Iron Dragon's Daughter core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Michael Swanwick
Notes
- First published in the UK by Millennium in November 1993; the US AvoNova/Morrow edition followed in January 1994.
- From the series record (The Iron Dragon's Daughter): Three standalone novels in one setting.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Iron Dragon's Daughter: position 1 of 3: next The Dragons of Babel (2008)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Michael Swanwick (The Iron Dragon's Daughter, The Dragons of Babel, The Iron Dragon's Mother in one setting)
- Bookrastinating: The Iron Dragon's Daughter (Millennium, 11 November 1993, ISBN 978-1-85798-080-6)
- Worlds Without End: The Iron Dragon's Daughter (synopsis)
- Black Gate: Vintage Treasures: The Iron Dragon's Daughter (publisher copy)
- EBSCO Research Starters: The Iron Dragon's Daughter
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