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 cycle "Iron Dragons" "Daughter of the Iron Dragon" and "Dragons of Babylon" are two of Swenwick's best-known novels whose genre 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 is dangerously close to ours, so much so that his inhabitants, in general, not distinguished by scrupulousness in matters of morality and morality, have learned to steal from us the most precious thing.