The Iron Dragon's Mother

A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST AND KIRKUS BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF 2019. Award-winning author Michael Swanwick returns to the gritty post-industrial faerie world of his New York Times Notable Book The Iron Dragon’s Daughter with the standalone adventure fantasy The Iron Dragon’s Mother.. Caitlin of House Sans Merci is the young half-human pilot of a sentient mechanical dragon. Returning from her first soul-stealing raid she discovers an unwanted hitchhiker.. When Caitlin is framed for the murder of her brother to save herself she must disappear into Industrialized Faerie looking for the one person who can clear her.. Unfortunately the stakes are higher than she knows. Her deeds will change her world forever.