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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.

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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."”
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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.

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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.

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  1. Michael Swanwick (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 0688131743
Page Count: 424

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