I finished reading [The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick](http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=The+Iron+Dragon's+Daughter+Michael+Swanwick). It was an interesting book because of the premise: Industrial revolution has reached Faery. The iron dragons are like fighter jets in our time, there is a riot police, there’s universities, and scolarships. Another nice point is that in faery, mythical science is just as real as our science is in our world: Alchemy is a true science. The main plot, a human changeling suffering through the labyrinthine complications and set-backs of faery is interesting, but after a while it gets repetitive. While this is part of the plot, it also got on my nerves after a while. I don’t like reading too depressing books.
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There’s an interesting review on Michael Swanwick Online, digging deeper into the mechanisms at work here. I must say that I don’t agree with the essence of it: “she has the chance to make things right, and each time she takes the easier root of sacrificing her friends” – that’s not how I saw it. The way the story is told, there is little alternative for her. For her, there truly is little choice. But then again, maybe that’s Swanwick’s skill as a story teller...
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