Michael Swanwick, American science fiction writer , Repeated winner of numerous literary awards and prizes ("Nebula" , "Hugo" , World Fantasy Award , Theodore Starjohn and John Campbell Memorial Awards , Azimov Magazine Awards , "Locus" , "Analogue" , "Science Fiction Chronicle" , creator of the famous series "Chronicles of Iron Dragons" . "Mother of the Iron Dragon" - the completion of the trilogy started by the novels "The 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 spelled fantasy world. This full-blooded, ferocious and beautiful world has convincing technological support, a beautiful philosophical foundation, it is full of wonderful and creepy places and is inhabited by amazing creatures. And he's dangerously close to ours... so, meet Caitlin from the House of San Mersey. An officer and pilot of the Troopers Squadron, she returns on Dragon 7708 from her first combat sortie. However, the 7708th (aka Serpent Gorynychna) suddenly refuses to obey . And then Caitlin finds herself under investigation and realizes that she was 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 days of The Lord of the Rings” (The Wall Street Journal) For the first time in Russian!