The Dragons of Babel

A fantasy masterpiece from a five-time Hugo Award winner!. A war-dragon of Babel crashes in the idyllic fields of a post-industrialized Faerie and dragging himself into the nearest village declares himself king and makes young Will his lieutenant. Nightly he crawls inside the young feys brain to get a measure of what his subjects think. Forced out of his village Will travels with female centaur soldiers witnesses the violent clash of giants and acquires a surrogate daughter Esme who has no knowledge of the past and may be immortal. . Evacuated to the Tower of Babel--infinitely high infinitely vulgar very much like New York City--Will meets the confidence trickster Nat Whilk. Inside the Dread Tower Will becomes a hero to the homeless living in the tunnels under the city rises as an underling to a haint politician meets his one true love–a high-elven woman he dare not aspire to. . Youve heard of hard SF: This is hard fantasy from a master of the form.