Wings of fire /
edited by Jonathan Strahan and Marianne S. Jablon.
- 1st ed.
- San Francisco : [London : Night Shade ; Diamond (distributor)], c2010.
- 499 p. ; 23 cm.
Stable of dragons / Peter S. Beagle -- The rule of names / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The ice dragon / George R. R. Martin -- Sobek / Holly Black -- King Dragon / Michael Swanwick -- The laily worm / Nina Kiriki Hoffman -- The harrowing of the dragon of Hoarsbreath / Patricia A. McKillip -- The bully and the beast / Orson Scott Card -- Concerto Accademico / Barry N. Malzberg -- The dragon's boy / Jane Yolen -- The miracle Aquilina / Margo Lanagan -- Orm the beautiful / Elizabeth Bear -- Weyr search / Anne McCaffrey -- Paper dragons / James P. Blaylock -- Dragon's gate / Pat Murphy -- In autumn, a white dragon looks over the wide river / Naomi Novik -- St. Dragon and the George / Gordon R. Dickson -- The silver dragon / Elizabeth A. Lynn -- The dragons of Summer Gulch / Robert Reed -- Berlin / Charles de Lint -- Draco, draco / Tanith Lee -- The dragon on the bookshelf / Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg -- Gwydion and the dragon / C. J. Cherryh -- The George business / Roger Zelazny -- Dragon's fin soup / S. P. Somtow -- The man who painted the dragon Griaule / Lucius Shepard.
"Dragons: Fearsome fire-breathing foes, scaled adversaries, legendary lizards, ancient hoarders of priceless treasures, serpentine sages with the ages? wisdom, and winged weapons of war? Wings of Fire brings you all these dragons, and more, seen clearly through the eyes of many of today?s most popular authors, including Peter S. Beagle, Elizabeth Bear, Holly Black, Orson Scott Card, Charles de Lint, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tanith Lee, George R. R. Martin, Anne McCaffrey, Michael Swanwick, and many others" --Cover, p. 4.
9781597801874 (pbk.) 1597801879 (pbk.)
Dragons--Fiction.
Fantasy fiction, American. Fantasy fiction, English. Short stories, American. Short stories, English.