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Dragons

Lemme try.

Want dragons who fly around terrorizing townships, but spares a moment to chitchat with wizards with the ability to speak the Old Tongue? The Earthsea cycle, by Ursula Le Guin.

Want to see how little dragons hatch into dragonlings, grow into cute little winged things that singe a hair or five, and occasionally kill a man? George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire.

Want a man-turned-dragon (well, technically it wasn't man turned into a dragon, but it's close enough, and let's not get too technical here). Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy.

There is one other book. It's famous beyond all comprehension, but I didn't like it because when I was so perplexed by the ending. I mean, the hero didn't have anything at all to do with the ending. :D That book is, of course, The Hobbit, but JRR Tolkien.

Kidding aside, I really recommend the first two I listed. Earthsea is my first love, and GRRM writes the best fantasy epic now, IHMO.

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Well I'll give you some authors who have written several or at least one book about dragons or that have dragons in them.
Christopher Paolini
Shana Abe
Mary Brown
Margaret Weis
Margaret Weis with Tracy Hickman
Patricia C Wrede
Ed Greenwood
Sean McMullen
Jean Rabe
Joe Dever


Hope that helps!
 
Coincidently, today I just put up my review of a brand new book kicking of a brand new series centering around a dragon entitled His Majestys Dragon by Naomi Novik (called Temeraire in the UK)

If interested, Check it out here .

It also has a brief sumamry of other books with dragons - most of whijc (many listed above) are absolutely dire.
 
I agree with the Earthsea suggestion, and you should also try The Enchanted Forest Chronicles if you're looking for more lighthearted, fractured fairytale type stuff. I forget who they're by.
 
veggiedog said:
...you should also try The Enchanted Forest Chronicles if you're looking for more lighthearted, fractured fairytale type stuff. I forget who they're by.
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Patricia Wrede. I loved those books. They're really more young adult reading, but still totally worth picking up. As an adult I find it hard to enjoy the Pern books as much as I did when I was younger. These books I still like to read.
 
Surprised Ainulindale didn't mention it - The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick (probably not what you're expecting, though). Other than that, Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and Erikson's Malazan's series, I can't think of many decent fantasy novels with dragons in.
 
E.E.Knight

Dragon Champion:book one of the age of fire, from a dragons point of view

High in the mountains, deep in the saftey of a cave, a brood of dragons is born. the four young ones are among the last of a dying breed--the final hope for dragons' survival. but hope shatters when a murderous group of slave-trading dwarves brakes into the cave, leaving death and destruction in its wake...

http://s12.invisionfree.com/NUTHOUSE/index.php?act=idx​
 
theres another book by Joanne Bertin called the last dragonlord. its primarily about individuals who can shape change into dragons but also has real dragons in it as well
 
Ainulindale said:
Coincidently, today I just put up my review of a brand new book kicking of a brand new series centering around a dragon entitled His Majestys Dragon by Naomi Novik (called Temeraire in the UK)

If interested, Check it out here .

It also has a brief sumamry of other books with dragons - most of whijc (many listed above) are absolutely dire.
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I just bought that one at the begining of this month.:D Do you know how many books are in the Temeraire series?
 
The Last Unicorn. Peter S Beagle. It's about Unicorns mostly, but they have every other fantasy animal in it.

It's been made into a film, I haven't seen that but the book is great.

Anyone reading this who's into fantasy and never read him - please do so he's fantastamagorrical.

A Fine and Private Place - that's my all time favourite. No dragons, but loads of talking ghosts, a talking Jewish Raven and an eccentric man who lives in a city graveyard.
 
I just bought that one at the begining of this month. Do you know how many books are in the Temeraire series?
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Well, I'm reading the second book (Throne of Jade - which I think jsut came out) and third book (Black Powder War whcih comes out at the end of next month) now. Those are U.S. releases, in the UK ,Throne of Jade comes out in August. The nice thing about the UK versions are that they are hardcovers.

Novik has stated that she envisions this series to span several books, and has no set number in mind.
 
Big thumbs up for the Temeraire books. LOTR director Peter Jackson has the rights to do the movies. I'm a verra happy person!!:D
 
Dragons:

Check out the Dragon Keeper series by Donita K. Paul. Books include: DragonSpell, DragonQuest, and DragonKnight. DragonFire is due out in July 2007.
 
I've been looking for great dragon books for a long time. I read Bertin's The Last Dragonlord just this last week and loved it. I'm now starting on Mercedes Lackey's Dragon Jousters series, but her dragons aren't as intelligent as I would like. I read Dragonworld by Byron Preiss and really enjoyed it as well. I have A Game of Thrones from the library and I'm planning on reading that within the next couple of weeks.

Are there any others out there? Maybe I'll just have to write my own...
 
PSYCO said:
Check out the Dragon Keeper series by Donita K. Paul. Books include: DragonSpell, DragonQuest, and DragonKnight. DragonFire is due out in July 2007.
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Coincidentally I just started reading Dragonspell 2 days ago, and it's just phenomenal. The only thing I don't like about it so far, is that the characters in the book seem to be privy to information about pre-existing characters that the author hasn't quite filled me in on.

I'm a little over halfway through it and there are references to Wulder (who seems to be God), Pretender (Who seems to represent the Devil), and Paladin (who as near as I can tell is a "Jesus" character, but also a warrior, he shares thoughts with Wulder), but I'm really just piecing together who these characters are because they really aren't explained.

Also, there are many races in this book (I think it mentions seven just of the "high races"), and yet I don't know them all, and I really don't have good descriptions of all of them.

The main character, Kale, is an "o'rant" and I keep picturing her as a human, for lack of a description.

A few of the characters are described. A donelly seems to be a 3 foot character with a dog-like face. An emerlindian seems to be very similar to an elf, with some distinct differences, and a kimen seems to be something like a fairy or pixie.

But beyond these little nuisances, this story is just wonderful. It has a lot of similarities to Eragon, but also a lot of very unique elements.

I can't wait to pick up the other books by this author.


I also read "The Last Dragon Lord" a few years ago. I remember it being very original as well, and quite good, but IIRC it was the only book in that particular setting.

Mathius
 
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