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 Beagle, Holly Black, Orson Scott Card, Charles 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 Beagle, Holly Black, Orson Scott Card, Charles De Lint, Diana Wynne Jones, Wings of fire Lackey, Ursula K Le Guin, Dean R Koontz, George R. Martin, Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Moon, Garth Nix, and many others. A collection of stories about dragons. I thought too many were old, from collections or novels published long ago. I wanted more stories that were new to me and to the world. A not very good poem in the sense that it seems to be prose with line breaks about a breeder of dragons who hopes to have a half-dragon son someday. Underhill is the only wizard on Sattins Island. He's not particularly powerful, and in fact he's a A collection of stories about dragons. I thought too many were old, from collections or novels published long ago. I wanted more stories that were new to me and to wings of fire world. A not very good poem in the sense that it seems to be prose with line breaks about a breeder of dragons who hopes to have a half-dragon son someday. Underhill is the only wizard on Sattins Island. He's not particularly powerful, and in fact he's a bit comical, with his timidity, bow legs and puffing breath. But then another wizard sails in, and Mr. Underhill finally truly reveals himself. A wonderful mixture of cozy charm think of the Shire and merciless natural cruelty. Adara was born in the dead of winter, and she still has some of the cold that killed her mother in her. She smiles little, and all her affection is given to the little ice lizards and dragon that come out when the winter is at its coldest. On the other hand, the kingdom is the usual pseudo-European feudal medieval type without anything to distinguish it from all the fictional fantasy kingdoms out there, and I am exhausted by stories that include rape and the horrors of war in this kind of casual way. Amaya's mom is acting wings of fire little crazy about a crocodile god she believes lives in the sewers, wings of fire Amaya's used to her mom being a little off. Holly Black writes some of my very favorite characters: the kind who are used to taking care of themselves, who find clever solutions to weird problems, who have emotional vulnerabilities and wings of fire make bad choices but are still good brave people nevertheless. An enemy dragon wings of fire near Will's village. It has just enough power left to threaten the whole low-tech village into declaring him their king. Thanks to a hint of human in Will's ancestry, he's able to successfully interface with the iron dragon, and is used as the dragon's mouthpiece. One day the dragon goes too far, and Will devises a desperate plan to end his tyrannical reign. This short story is actually part ofwhich is, btw, set in the same universe as. I'm torn: on the one hand the writing is great and everything in this story is totally interesting and fascinating to me. I love the way Swanwick writes the intersection of tech and magic; no one else does it quite the same way. But I hate that terrible things always happen in Swanwick stories. Also, I'm not sure I like the idea of cutting out a section of a published novel and putting it in a short story collection published years later, even if the story does stand alone. After their royal mother dies, Masery and Perry get a stepmother, who at first seems kindly and then reveals her true nature. She transforms her step children into animals: Masery into a fish, Perry into a dragon. Through her enchantment, Perry is forced to guard a tree against all comers, killing many knights and despairing of his morality and freedom. I really liked the way this story was told; it's got a great fairy tale rhythm to it. A Dragon Harrower comes to wings of fire tiny island of Hoarsbreath, where winter lasts 12 months of the year, and convinces the islanders that their winter is caused by a dragon curled around the mountain deep under the snow. Peka Krao, a miner who loves the cold isolated darkness of Hoarsbreath as it is, nevertheless promises to guide the Dragon Harrower. The story is beautiful; the writing, perfection itself. Every sentence in this story is like a multi-faceted gem: gorgeous, and slightly different depending on how you look at it. Bork is a giant of a man. He has a gentle heart and a trusting soul, and so he is used by everyone. At last he is ordered to slay a dragon, but in their first confrontation Bork sees the truth of his life and is ashamed of it. A dragon enters an orchestra hall while a symphony orchestra practices. The musicians are all shocked and confused, since wings of fire of them knew dragons existed, but then decide to play for the dragon. Not my kind of writing or story at all. Young Artos is looking for a lost hound, but finds a dragon's cave instead. The dragon promises him wisdom, and so day after day Artos returns to the cave to hear its odd but strangely helpful lessons. I liked the earthy little details about life in the Dark Ages of Britain, and I especially liked Artos and his feelings toward the dragon. A woman witnesses a series