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HarperVoyager (2020), 576 pages
Description
From China to Europe, Africa to North America, dragons have long captured our imagination in myth and legend. Whether they are rampaging beasts awaiting a brave hero to slay or benevolent sages who have much to teach humanity, dragons are intrinsically connected to stories of creation, adventure, and struggle beloved for generations. Bringing together nearly thirty stories and poems from some of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers working today.
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LibraryThing member SweetKokoro
Anthologies are just not something that I seem to enjoy. I nabbed this as an audiobook.
While I appreciate the diversity of stories and types of dragons, overall I was just really bored. Each story is about an hour or shorter and if you can’t pull me into your story within 5-15 minutes, then I’m
Pretty lack luster overall for me though, which is rough for me to admit as I love dragons, these just didn’t do it for me.
While I appreciate the diversity of stories and types of dragons, overall I was just really bored. Each story is about an hour or shorter and if you can’t pull me into your story within 5-15 minutes, then I’m
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not gonna finish it. I skipped over quite a few stories and out of the ones I did listen to fully I only really enjoyed “Where the River Turns to Concrete” by Brooke Bolander, as well as most of the poems.Pretty lack luster overall for me though, which is rough for me to admit as I love dragons, these just didn’t do it for me.
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LibraryThing member quondame
A large number of interesting well told stories, full of imagination, many very good and no bad ones. The poetry could be worse. Unless you met variants I missed during the deluge of dragon books of first decade of the 21st century, you may find some unique and delightful depictions in these
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stories, and where the dragons are closer to tradition, well the dragon hunters show variations as well as the circumstances of the encounters. A dragon poses two riddles in the last story and I'm only satisfied with my answer to one of them - afaik no answers are given. Show Less
LibraryThing member catseyegreen
A collection of short stories about-surprise!- dragons. Usual mix of good and bad pieces. I mostly read this because of the included pieces of poetry.. I particularly enjoyed the poem The Dragons by Theodora Goss.
Awards
World Fantasy Award (Nominee — Anthology — 2021)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2020-07-07
Physical description
9.45 inches
ISBN
0008331472 / 9780008331474
Local notes
A collection of nearly thirty never-before-seen short stories and poems, written by modern masters of science fiction and fantasy, with (too few) b&w illustrations by Rovina Cai.
• What Heroism Tells Us by Jane Yolen
• Matriculation by Elle Katharine White
• Hikayat Sri Bujang, or, The Tale of the Naga Sage by Zen Cho
• Yuli by Daniel Abraham
• A Whisper of Blue by Ken Liu
• Nidhog by Jo Walton
• Where the River turns to Concrete by Brooke Bolander
• Habitat by K. J. Parker
• Pox by Ellen Klages
• The Nine Curves River by R. F. Kuang
• Lucky’s Dragon by Kelly Barnhill
• I Make Myself a Dragon by Beth Cato
• The Exile by JY Neon Yang
• Except on Saturdays by Peter S. Beagle
• La Vitesse by Kelly Robson
• A Final Knight to her Love and Foe by Amal El-Mohtar
• The Long Walk by Kate Elliot
• Cut Me Another Quill, Mister Fitz by Garth Nix
• Hoard by Seanan McGuire
• The Wyrm of Lirr by C. S. E. Cooney
• The Last Hunt by Aliette de Bodard
• We Continue by Ann Leckie and Rachel Swirsky
• Small Bird’s Plea by Todd McCaffrey
• The Dragons by Theodora Goss
• Dragon Slayer by Michael Swanwick
• Camouflage by Patricia A. McKillip
• We Don’t Talk About the Dragon by Sarah Gailey
• Maybe Just Go Up There and Talk to It by Scott Lynch
• A Nice Cuppa by Jane Yolen
• What Heroism Tells Us by Jane Yolen
• Matriculation by Elle Katharine White
• Hikayat Sri Bujang, or, The Tale of the Naga Sage by Zen Cho
• Yuli by Daniel Abraham
• A Whisper of Blue by Ken Liu
• Nidhog by Jo Walton
• Where the River turns to Concrete by Brooke Bolander
• Habitat by K. J. Parker
• Pox by Ellen Klages
• The Nine Curves River by R. F. Kuang
• Lucky’s Dragon by Kelly Barnhill
• I Make Myself a Dragon by Beth Cato
• The Exile by JY Neon Yang
• Except on Saturdays by Peter S. Beagle
• La Vitesse by Kelly Robson
• A Final Knight to her Love and Foe by Amal El-Mohtar
• The Long Walk by Kate Elliot
• Cut Me Another Quill, Mister Fitz by Garth Nix
• Hoard by Seanan McGuire
• The Wyrm of Lirr by C. S. E. Cooney
• The Last Hunt by Aliette de Bodard
• We Continue by Ann Leckie and Rachel Swirsky
• Small Bird’s Plea by Todd McCaffrey
• The Dragons by Theodora Goss
• Dragon Slayer by Michael Swanwick
• Camouflage by Patricia A. McKillip
• We Don’t Talk About the Dragon by Sarah Gailey
• Maybe Just Go Up There and Talk to It by Scott Lynch
• A Nice Cuppa by Jane Yolen