《From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled_. 》作者：- Michael Swanwick【EPU

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FROM BABEL’S FALL’N GLORY WE FLED... by Michael Swanwick Readers looking for more of Michael Swanwick’s scintillating work will be happy to know that they have a couple of new options. Last fall, Tachyon Publications released his latest short story collection, The Dog Said Bow-Wow , which contains many stories originally published in Asimov’s , and his new novel, The Dragons of Babel , which is set in the same milieu as last year’s Hugo-Award finalist “Lord Weary’s Empire,” has just come out from Tor Books. Although the title of Michael’s latest story for us shares a place name with his novel, this completely unrelated new science fiction tale departs Shinar for Gehenna. * * * * Imagine a cross between Byzantium and a termite mound. Imagine a jeweled mountain, slender as an icicle, rising out of the steam jungles and disappearing into the dazzling pearl-grey skies of Gehenna. Imagine that Gaudi—he of the Segrada Familia and other biomorphic architectural whimsies—had been commissioned by a nightmare race of giant