I've owned this book--purchased new in its first edition--for a long while now, without having ever read it. Then I recently read "King Dragon", which was incorporated into Iron Dragon's sequel, and loved it, so I figured it was time to go back and finally read the thing.The book started quite s...
Swanwick is one those rare authors who - I believe - deserves more recognition than he gets. He is certainly not for everyone (yes, yes, I realize I'm balancing precariously on the very edge of eternal hipsterdoom here); Stations of the Tide lacks that solid straightforwardness which popular boo...