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Description edit
Jane, a young human changeling, decides to escape servitude in a factory manufacturing enormous flying dragon-machines and undertakes to obtain necessary artifacts and a mastery of her abilities. By the author of Stations of the Tide. Reprint. NYT.
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Jane: Main hero, human in a magic world
- Melanchthon: Dragon
- Rooster: Add a description of this character.
- Puck
- Rocket
- Peter
Quotes edit
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“"Bitch of a view, ain't it?"She turned. The speaker crouched on the lip of the stone railing. He was monkey-browed, chinless, squint-eyed, loose-lipped, pugnosed, bat-winged, potbellied, goat-horned, hunchbacked, sphinx-haunched, and altogether charming. A thuggish light gleamed in his slitted eyes. A gargoyle."Yes," she said. "Yes, it is."”
Jane
First Sentence edit
The changeling's decision to steal a dragon and escape was born, though she did not know it then, the night the children met to plot the death of their supervisor.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 42 of 37 in Millennium/Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks. (edition-based publisher list)
Preceded by Grendel, and followed by Was.
This is book 39 of 40 in SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection. (edition-based publisher list)
Preceded by Steel Beach, and followed by A Fire Upon the Deep.
This book is in Significant Speculative Fiction (Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror). (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Michael Swanwick (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 0688131743
Page Count: 424
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 0688131743
Page Count: 424
Awards edit
- Arthur C. Clarke Award (Finalist, 1994)
- World Fantasy Award (Finalist, 1994: Novel)
- Locus Fantasy Award (Finalist, 1994, Nominee)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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