A review by nigellicus
The Iron Dragon's Mother by Michael Swanwick

5.0

Returning from a soul raiding mission, Caitlin, a half-elvish dragon-pilot picks up an unexepected guest in her head, the dying human Helen. In short order she is framed for her brother's murder and on the run with only the woman in her head and an ageless waif she picks up alng the way for company. There's a massive, somewhat top-heavy and incorporated conspiracy at work, and Caitlin travels through a modernosed but perilous Faerie in search of answers and her brother and her lost commission.

Witty, sly, savage, wildly imaginative in places, constantly turning down unexpected but delightful narrative branches, this is Swanwick in absolutely top, and somewhat gleeful, form.