Michael Swanwick is an American science fiction writer, a multiple winner of numerous literary awards and prizes (Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy Award, Theodore Sturgeon and John Campbell Memorial Awards, Asimov, Locus, and Analogue", "Science Fiction Chronicle"), creator of the famous "Iron Dragons" series. "Daughter of the Iron Dragon" and "Dragons of Babylon" are two famous novels by Swanwick, the genre of which can be defined as "hard fantasy". This is a unique fusion of science fiction with a carefully and vividly written fantasy world. This full-blooded, ferocious and beautiful world has compelling technological support, a beautiful philosophical basis, it is full of wonderful and creepy places and inhabited by amazing creatures. And it is also dangerously close to ours, so much so that its inhabitants, who are generally not scrupulous in matters of morality and morality, have become adept at stealing our most precious things...