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A Dragon-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic

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4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Very enjoyable stories, but light weight reading.

The inclusion of the first few chapters of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern disguised as a short story was disappointing though.

Dragon lovers: marvel at the some of the most enchanting dragon stories ever written! Could have used a few more serious tales, though with dragons as heroes.

Some of the stories are quite similar to others. Of course, they all have to do with dragons, but several fall in the Hero goes to slay Dragon formula. The Orson Scott Card does not seem to fit in the traditional dragon formula and is the outstanding story. The Anne MaCaffrey is good but overwritten at points. I expected more from the Zelazny. It was very good, but Zelazny has done such mind-blowing work that this seems to be a bit trite. The Friesner is hillarious and the best of the funny stories in this book. The Martin and Tilton are quite good, but not estradordinary. The rest were merely okay, except for The Ever-After which had horrid prose.

This was a fairly good book. It gave a lot of information that someone might use while reading any of Anne McCaffrey's books. I liked this book because of that. Anyone who likes dragons could use this book.

Not too bad anthology. It is actually a bit more varied than I expected, giving the impression of your garden variety fantasy type story to start with, but then I saw it opened with McCaffrey's excellent Weyr Search, so there was hope.

There is plenty of the former, but some nice variety to be found, some sf or horror stories, and some of the amusing variety to go along with the rest.

The story average is only 3.10 though.

Dragon-Lover's Treasury : Weyr Search - Anne McCaffrey
Dragon-Lover's Treasury : Cockfight - Jane Yolen
Dragon-Lover's Treasury : The Storm King - Joan D. Vinge
Dragon-Lover's Treasury : The Fellowship of the Dragon - Patricia A. McKillip
Dragon-Lover's Treasury : The Champion of Dragons - Mickey Zucker Reichert
Dragon-Lover's Treasury : Two Yards of Dragon - L. Sprague deCamp
Dragon-Lover's Treasury : Saint Willibald's Dragon - Esther M. Friesner
Dragon-Lover's Treasury : A Drama of Dragons - Craig Shaw Gardner
Dragon-Lover's Treasury : The George Business - Roger Zelazny
Dragon-Lover's Treasury : The Dragonbone Flute - Lois Tilton
Dragon-Lover's Treasury : The Ice Dragon - George R. R. Martin
Dragon-Lover's Treasury : The Hidden Dragon - Barbara Delaplace
Dragon-Lover's Treasury : Last Dragon - Steve Rasnic Tem
Dragon-Lover's Treasury : The Wizard's Boy - Nancy Varian Berberick
Dragon-Lover's Treasury : A Hiss of Dragon - Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw
Dragon-Lover's Treasury : A Plague of Butterflies - Orson Scott Card
Dragon-Lover's Treasury : The Ever-After - Eluki Bes Shahar
Dragon-Lover's Treasury : Dragons' Teeth - David Drake
Dragon-Lover's Treasury : The Trials and Tribulations of Myron Blumberg Dragon - Mike Resnick
Dragon-Lover's Treasury : St. Dragon and the George - Gordon R. Dickson


Teleportin' time-shiftin' meteor shootin' dragon recruitin'.

4.5 out of 5


Dragon punting break-in.

4 out of 5


Dragon power request.

2.5 out of 5


Harper rescue.

3 out of 5


Slice decision.

3 out of 5


Draco travel inspiration.

3 out of 5


Treasure and other legend.

2.5 out of 5


Draco-damsel dodgy double act.

3.5 out of 5


Stage fight.

3.5 out of 5


Piping them down.

2 out of 5


I'm melting.

3 out of 5


Weredragon kill.

3 out of 5


Exodragon disease search.

4 out of 5


Stuff being a thief, be a wizard. People still won't like you, regardless. You also get to be almost killed by dragons, if you are lucky.

4 out of 5


Crimelord recruiting is a sticky situation.

3.5 out of 5


Bump 'em all off.

2 out of 5


One petulant despoiler of a magic sword? I'm definitely woman enough for that.

4 out of 5


Shoot that poison arrow... well, given he is so big, lots of places as well as the heart perhaps a good idea.

3.5 out of 5


The turning of me, one shrew.

3 out of 5


Human, dragon and knight team-up vs the bad guys.

3.5 out of 5

I LOVED this book! I've never in my life read stories of this calliber!I couldn't put this book down.It was delightful from cover to cover.I highly recommend this book to anyone who has fallen in love with the world of dragons.

Some of the stories are boring in my opinion or should have been either longer or shorter. I would not recommend this unless you are a big fan of any of the authors.