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, " Analog, Science Fiction Chronicle), creator of the famous Chronicles of the Iron Dragons series. Mother of the Iron Dragon is the completion of the trilogy begun by the novels Daughter of the Iron Dragon and Dragons of Babylon. The genre of these books 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. It's also dangerously close to ours... So, meet Caitlin from San Mercy House. An officer and pilot of Corpse Eater Squadron, she returns on Dragon 7708 from her first combat mission. However, the 7708th (aka Snake Gorynychna) suddenly refuses to obey. And then Caitlin finds herself under investigation and realizes that she has become the victim of a large-scale and carefully planned conspiracy... “The long-awaited return to the world of iron dragons is perhaps the most original and carefully crafted imaginary world since The Lord of the Rings” (The Wall Street Journal). A first. in Russian!