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This is a list of dragons in literature. For fictional dragons in other media, run into the list of dragons in popular culture. For dragons from legends and mythology, run across the listing of dragons in mythology and folklore.

Earlier 1900 [edit]

Artifact (until fifth century Ad) [edit]

• Ballsy of Gilgamesh (2150-1400 BCE): Humbaba, a dragon slain by Gilgamesh.
• Book of Job (5th century BC?): leviathan (affiliate 41).
• Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica (tertiary century BC): the dragon guarding the golden fleece (Book 2), and the dragon whose teeth can be sown like seed to make an army grow (Book iii).^[i]
• Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca (after 1st century BC): the sea monster Perseus slays to rescue Andromeda, and the dragon guarding the apples of the Hesperides (Book 2).^[2]
• John of Patmos, Book of Revelation (1st century AD): Satan equally a dragon (chapters 12-xiii, sixteen:xiii, 20:two).

Middle Ages [edit]

• Beowulf (8th - 11th century): The unnamed dragon from the cease of the Old English epic, which dies by the combined efforts of Wiglaf and Beowulf.
• Life of Efflamm (late 11th-12th century): The dragon defeated by Efflam and Arthur.^{[3] [4]}
• Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae (c.1136): the dragons in the hugger-mugger lake whose fighting upsets Uther Pendragon's tower, as revealed by Merlin.
• Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend (c. 1260): the dragon slain by St. George.
• Fáfnismál in the Poetic Edda (by 13th century): Fáfnir.
• Völsunga saga (late 13th century): Fáfnir.
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (14th century): The "worms" Sir Gawain battles.
• Amadis de Gaula (14th century): Endriago, a monster Amadis battles.
• Jacques de Longuyon, Les Voeux du Paon (1312): Melusine, a beautiful woman who seems faithful only refuses to take communion in church. When confronted, she turns into a dragon and flees. She has been depicted in Russian art of the 18th century every bit a woman's head on a dragon's trunk.^[5]

Early modernistic period [edit]

• Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1590): Unnamed dragon slain by Redcrosse knight (Volume 1, Canto eleven-12).
• Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (1604): The dragons that draw Faustus's chariot.
• Marie Catherine d'Aulnoy, The Greenish Serpent (1698): A handsome king turned into a dark-green dragon by enchantment.

Nineteenth century [edit]

• Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, "The Two Brothers" (1812): A seven-headed dragon who demands maidens in one of Grimm's Fairy Tales.
• Lewis Carroll, "Jabberwocky" in Through the Looking-Glass (1871): The Jabberwock, a fearsome dragonlike beast with "jaws that bite", "claws that grab", and "eyes of flame."
• Richard Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen (1876): Fafner.
• William Morris, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (1877): Fafnir.
• Kenneth Grahame, The Reluctant Dragon (1898): A dragon who does not want to act like a dragon.

Twentieth century [edit]

By publication appointment of beginning installment in a serial.

1900s [edit]

• L. Frank Baum, Country of Oz series (1900): Dragons appear in Dorothy and the Magician in Oz (1908), Tik-Tok of Oz (1914), and The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918).

1910s [edit]

• Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, "Dragon: the Old Potter'due south Tale" (1919): a vague shadowy image which observers believe is a dragon ascending to heaven.

1920s [edit]

• E. Nesbit, The Last of the Dragons (1925): the final dragon on world, who is tired of being expected to fight a prince for a princess, and becomes the princess'southward pet instead. Drinks petrol ("that's what does a dragon skilful, sir") and, at his own request, is eventually transformed by the king into the first aeroplane.

1930s [edit]

• C. S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress (1933): the common cold Northern dragon, slain by John, and the hot Southern dragon, slain by Vertue. The Northern dragon is so greedy that his feet for his gold hardly lets him sleep. He recalls eating his wife, saying, "worm grows non to dragon till he eats worm", a loose translation of the Latin saying, Serpens, nisi serpentem comederit, non fit draco. The Guide explains that dragons ever live lone because they take become dragons by eating their own kind. Lewis reiterates the notion of cannibalistic dragons in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (see below).
• J. R. R. Tolkien, world of Middle-earth (1937):
  • Glaurung is described every bit the Father of Dragons in Tolkien'southward legendarium, and the get-go of the Urulóki, the Fire-drakes of Angband (first introduced in The Silmarillion, 1977; also appears in The Children of Húrin).
  • Ancalagon the Black, who is the largest dragon of Middle-Globe (The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954; The Silmarillion, 1977)
  • Scatha the Worm (The Return of the Male monarch, Appendix A.II, 1955)
  • Smaug the Golden (The Hobbit, 1937): Smaug is a classic, European-type dragon; deeply magical, hoards treasure and burns innocent towns. Contrary to most one-time folklore and literature, J. R. R. Tolkien'southward dragons are very intelligent and can bandage spells over mortals. Encounter also dragons listed at Dragon (Middle-earth).

1940s [edit]

• Ruth Stiles Gannett, My Father's Dragon (1948): a young dragon rescued by a little boy from its abusive creature masters.
• J. R. R. Tolkien, Farmer Giles of Ham (1949): Chrysophylax Dives.

1950s [edit]

• Robert A. Heinlein, Between Planets (1951): the sentient inhabitants of Venus are huge flightless dragons, who are described equally highly intelligent with an enormous aptitude for scientific research, who are very warm and friendly to humans. Since humans tin can't pronounce their real names, they habitually take - while conversing with humans via a special device - the proper noun of a prominent by human scientist (the volume's main dragon protagonist calls himself "Sir Isaac Newton").
• C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952), one of the Chronicles of Narnia: The unnamed elderly dragon who dies, and then Eustace Scrubb, who becomes a dragon by magic when he greedily sleeps on the dragon's hoard. Eustace actually eats much of the expressionless dragon by instinct; Lewis explains that dragons like to swallow other dragons, and are therefore ordinarily alone, echoing his thoughts on dragons in The Pilgrim's Backslide (run across in a higher place).
• Ray Bradbury, "The Dragon" (1955): set up simultaneously in the recent and distant past, the curt story features a pair of knights setting out to fight what they recollect is a dragon. Subsequently they are killed by information technology, information technology is revealed that the "Dragon" is actually a steam railroad train.

1960s [edit]

• Michael Ende, Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver (1960): Nepomuk, half-dragon by nascency – his mother was a hippopotamus –, kind and helpful, later warden of the Magnetic Cliffs. Frau Mahlzahn (Mrs. Grindtooth): A pure-blood dragon and the primary villainess of the story. Very knowledgeable, runs a school for homo children in Sorrowland, likes to torment bottom beings with her power.
• Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, The Water ice Dragon (1962), one of the books in The Saga of Noggin the Nog: an ice dragon whom Noggin intends to fight, only instead helps.^{[half dozen] [7]}
• Ursula M. Le Guin, earth of Earthsea (1964): the portrayal of dragons undergoes significant changes from volume to volume. In the original, they resemble Smaug, with unbounded greed for hoards of precious jewelry; later, they grow in stature and nobility, to become virtual demi-gods who speak the "Linguistic communication of Creation" as their mother tongue. Afterwards still, it is revealed that they share an beginnings with humanity, and that some rare humans (e'er women) can change into dragons at volition (or they may be considered as dragons who tin can take human form at volition). In contrast to the dragons of C.S. Lewis's fiction, the dragons of Earthsea do not eat each other.^[8] Like Tolkien's Smaug,^[9] they are susceptible to drowning.^[ten]
  • Kalessin the creator of the world of Earthsea. (The Farthest Shore, 1972)
  • Orm, the smashing dragon who slew and was slain past the legendary Warrior Mage Erreth-Akbe.
  • Orm Embar, Orm'south descendant, who died battling the evil wizard Cob on the eastern shores. (The Farthest Shore, 1972)
  • Yevaud (A Wizard of Earthsea, 1968)
  • Orm Irian and Tehanu, each of whom was a dragon in human form who acted as a diplomat between her races.
  • diverse dragons
• Ruth Manning-Sanders, A Book of Dragons (1965): 14 fairy tales near dragons.
• Anne McCaffrey, Dragonriders of Pern series (1967): The (genetically engineered) Dragons of Pern. Dragons in Pern (genetically modified burn down-lizards, which were Pernese natives) are ridden by "dragonriders" to protect the planet from a deadly threat, the Thread. The dragons include Faranth, Mnementh, Ramoth, and Ruth.
• Clifford D. Simak, The Goblin Reservation (1968): A beautiful dragon from a previous universe plays a key part in the novel's unexpected denouement.

1970s [edit]

• John Gardner, Grendel (1971): Grendel's all-seeing advisor, revealing to Grendel the meaning of the universe, and enchanting Grendel to be impervious to human being-made weapons. (Based on the unnamed dragon from Beowulf.)
• Astrid Lindgren, The Brothers Lionheart (1973): Katla.
• Gerald Durrell, The Talking Parcel (1974): Tabitha, final remaining dragon and Keeper of the Eggs.
• Gordon R. Dickson, Dragon Knight series (1976):
  • Bryagh, a major character. (The Dragon and The George, 1976)
  • Jim Eckert, main character in the serial: reluctant knight and wizard, part-time dragon and de facto member of the Cliffside dragons
  • Gorbash, major grapheme in The Dragon and The George novel and small grapheme in the rest of the serial: largest dragon of the Cliffside dragons, grandnephew of Smrgol
  • Secoh, major character in the series: a member of the Mere-Dragon clan, which have get diminutive as the result of a bane
  • Smrgol, major character in The Dragon and The George novel: an elderly and respected member of the Cliffside dragons and the paternal granduncle of Gorbash
  • Diverse other dragons.
• Piers Anthony, Xanth novels (1977): Stanley Steamer, the Gap Dragon; and Stella Steamer, Stanley Steamer's female counterpart.
• Diana Wynne Jones, Charmed Life (1977): Chrestomanci'southward pet dragon (rescued from poachers who killed its mother).
• Robert Asprin, MythAdventures series (1978): Gleep.
• Michael Ende, The Neverending Story (1979): Falkor (Fuchur in the original German language version), the luckdragon, and Smerg, an evil dragon.
• Robert Don Hughes, Pelmen the Powershaper series (1979–1985): Vicia-Heinox, the two-headed dragon.

1980s [edit]

• Robert Munsch, The Paper Bag Princess (1980): A dragon who destroys Princess Elizabeth'southward kingdom and kidnaps her beloved Prince Ronald. Princess Elizabeth defeats the dragon past getting him to bear witness off his full skills, exhausting him.
• David and Leigh Eddings, The Belgariad (1982) and The Malloreon series (1988): Unnamed dragons. There used to be 3: 2 males and one female only the males killed each other in the first mating season leaving the female person lonely for millennia.
• Raymond E Feist, Riftwar trilogy (1982–1986): Rhuagh, Ryath, Shuruga and others.
• Laurence Yep, Dragon series (1982–1992): Shimmer the dragon princess.
• Jane Yolen, The Pit Dragon Trilogy series (1982–2009): Heart'south Blood and several others.
• Terry Brooks, Magic Kingdom of Landover novels (1986): Strabo.
• R. A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon (1983) and Twisting the Rope (1986): Mayland Long, who used to exist a Chinese dragon.
• Alan Dean Foster, Spellsinger serial (1983–1994): Falameezar-aziz-Sulmonmee, a friendly Marxist dragon.
• Terry Pratchett, Discworld novels (1983), notably The Colour of Magic (1983) and Guards! Guards! (1989): Errol, Ninereeds and other dragons. Pratchett's Discworld novels describe two types of dragons: Noble Dragons (Draco Nobilis) which are typical European-type dragons, which are extinct by the time the books take place but tin can be summoned by magic or created with a lot of magic and imagination; and the Swamp Dragons (Draco Vulgaris), which are the size of small dogs, bred every bit pets, and, due to their complex, fire-producing anatomy, have a tendency to cocky-destruct.
• Steven Brust, Vlad Taltos novels (1983–present): jheregs, tiny dragon-like creatures, and dragons, huge reptiles that cannot exhale fire simply take tentacles that selection upwardly psychic impressions.
• Steven Brust, To Reign in Hell (1984): Belial, one of the Firstborn angels, takes the form of a jumbo, insane dragon living beneath a volcanic mount range.
• Tracy Hickman, and Margaret Weis, Dragonlance universe (1984): Cyan Bloodbane, a light-green dragon; Khisanth, Skie, Malystryx, Pyros, Flamestrike, Silvara, Khirsah — among others
• Robin McKinley, The Hero and the Crown (1984): numerous small dragons, which cannot speak, and the huge, sentient dragon Maur, which is a malevolent force fifty-fifty subsequently death.
• Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane (1985): Morkeleb, the blackness dragon around whom revolves the plot.
• Paul Edwin Zimmer, A Gathering of Heroes (1987), part of the Dark Border series: Komanthodel, the ancient evil dragon.
• Melanie Rawn, the Dragon Prince series (1985–1994):
  • Azhdeen, a dragon belonging to Pol.
  • Elisel, a dragon belonging to the Sunrunner Sioned.
  • Various unnamed dragons.
• Stephen King, The Optics of the Dragon (1987): Niner, The dragon that Roland killed. Its head is mounted on the wall of his sitting room.
• Donn Kushner, A Book Dragon (1987): Nonesuch, the terminal in a long line of dragons, learns to adjust as humans become more prevalent in the globe. He survives through his unusual ability to change size.
• Lucius Shepard, stories (e.k., The Human Who Painted the Dragon Griaule, 1984; The Scalehunter's Beautiful Girl, 1988): Griaule, a gigantic dragon, paralyzed and moribund yet still capable of casting a baleful influence.
• Martin Baynton, Jane and the Dragon (children'south volume serial, 1988, later adapted into a Tv set testify): features a twist on the conventional tale, with a friendly and chatty dragon who befriends a teenage girl grooming to be a knight.
• R.A. Salvatore, novels fix in the Forgotten Realms (1988–present):
  • Icewind Dale Trilogy (1988–1990): Ingeloakastimizilian, also known every bit Icingdeath, is a White Frost Dragon who fights Drizzt Do'Urden and Wulfgar.
  • Streams of Silver (1989): Shimmergloom the shadow dragon is mentioned.
  • Sojourn (1991), Servant of the Shard (2000): Hephaestus the ruddy dragon is a pocket-sized grapheme.
• Tad Williams, the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn serial (1988–1993): Igjarjuk, the ice dragon. (The Dragonbone Chair, 1988)
• Susan Fletcher, The Dragon Chronicles novels (1989–1996): Byrn, Pyro, Embyr, Synge, and others.
• Gary Gentile, A Time For Dragons (1989), Dragons By (1990), and No Hereafter For Dragons (1990): Various dragons.
• Rick Cook, Sorcerer'southward Bane (1989), LRD, little crimson dragon guards the compiler volume.
• Jean Marzollo, Baby Unicorn and Baby Dragon (1989): A immature dragon named Moon to match the crescent mark on his head. Became a great friend of Star after the Eight-Horn Friendship Spell in the prequel The Baby Unicorn.

1990s [edit]

• Patricia C. Wrede, Enchanted Forest Chronicles series (1990–1993): Various dragons.
• Jackie French Koller, "The Dragonling" series (1990–1998): Zantor and various other dragons
• Robert Hashemite kingdom of jordan, The Wheel of Time series (1990–2011): A depiction of a Chinese dragon as the sigil of the Dragon, Lews Therin Telamon.
• Christopher Rowley, Bazil Broketail book serial (1992–1999): Bazil Broketail and many others.
• Bruce Coville, Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher (1992): Tiamat.
• Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher series (Sword of Destiny novel, 1992): Villentretenmerth, the golden dragon - intelligent shape-shifting creature, the just dragon among others (green, blackness, red and white) that can tolerate humans and fifty-fifty take their course. Also known every bit Borch Three Jackdaws in his human form.
• Tamora Pierce, The Immortals quartet (1992–1996): Skysong, every bit well as Flamewing, Wingstar, Diamondflame, Icefall, Steelsings, Jadewing, Jewelclaw, Moonwind, Rainbow and Riverwind.
• Dick Male monarch-Smith, Dragon Boy (1993), Albertina, Montague, and Lucky Bunsen-Burner, Gerald Fire-Drake and his family
• R.A. Salvatore, The Spearwielder'due south Tale trilogy (1993–1995): Robert (also known every bit Robert the Wretched), the adversary.
• Terry Goodkind, The Sword of Truth (1994): Scarlet, the ruby-red dragon Gregory, Ruby'due south hatchling that Richard saves in Book One.
• Bruce Coville, the serial The Unicorn Chronicles (1994): Ebillan and Firethroat, dragons.
• Daniel Hood, Fanuilh series of books (1994–2000): Fanuilh, a miniature dragon and familiar.
• Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg, "The Dragon on the Bookshelf" (1995): Urnikh.
• Robin Hobb, Realm of the Elderlings series (1995): dragons and humans coexisted in the afar past. Their essences became mixed in some cases, producing scaled humans referred to equally Elderlings, or small, rubbery-skinned dragons, called "Others" and treated as abominations. Humans carved living dragon statues out of special living stone; these statues were subsequently used as a weapon against the Outislanders past King Verity Farseer of the Half-dozen Duchies.
  • Hobb's dragons would begin life as sea serpents, who would swim upriver to a special beach where they would cocoon themselves and hatch as dragons the next twelvemonth. After a natural disaster changed the shape of the land, the serpents could no longer find their cocooning grounds and remained in the ocean, as the cataclysm wiped out all but two of the dragons.
• Graham Edwards, the Ultimate Dragon Saga trilogy (1995–1997): Cumber, Fortune, Wraith and many other dragon characters.
• Frank E. Peretti, The Oath (1995): Giant, silverish, unnamed dragon; a pact was made with this demonic creature past the citizens of a mining town in the northwest
• George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Burn down series (1996–present), and the CCG based on the books: Drogon, Viserion, and Rhaegal, the dragons hatched past Daenerys Targaryen. As well, Balerion the Black Dread, Meraxes and Vhaghar, ridden past Aegon the Conquistador and his sisters in the conquest of Westeros.
• Cornelia Funke, Dragon Rider (1997): Firedrake, Slatebeard, Maia, Shimmertail and several unnamed dragons. The cannibal Nettlebrand from the same volume may besides be considered a dragon due to his appearance.
• Elizabeth Kerner, Song in the Silence (1997): the Kantri, a social club of telepathic dragons, including Akhor, the king; Shikrar, his soulfriend; Kedra and Mirazhe, the first new parents in centuries, and Idai, and old and wise gentleman of Akhor.
• J. K. Rowling, "Harry Potter" series (1997–2007): Various dragons (including Norwegian Ridgebacks, Hungarian Horntails, Swedish Short-Snouts, Common Welsh Greens, Hebridean Blacks, and a Chinese Fireball - come across magical creatures in Harry Potter). Dragons are mentioned throughout the Harry Potter books and a baby dragon appears in the offset installment and dragons afterwards play a significant role in the 4th and seventh. They are portrayed as having potent magic (fifty-fifty in their blood), but they do not exhibit any hints of intelligence or self-awareness. Inside the serial, dragons are considered very unsafe by near characters (Rubeus Hagrid being a notable exception) and individual ownership of dragons is illegal.
  • Norbert, Hagrid's baby dragon, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  • Hungarian Horntail, Welsh Green, Swedish Curt-snout, and Chinese Fireball in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Burn
  • Ukrainian Ironbelly that guards some of the deepest vaults of Gringotts in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• T. A. Barron, The Fires of Merlin (1998), The Mirror of Merlin, and The Wings of Merlin: Valdearg the Wings of Burn and his daughter Gwynnia (named afterward Tiamat).
• Anne Bishop, Black Jewels Trilogy (1998): Lorn, Prince of Dragons and Keeper of the Knowledge of the Blood, Race that created the Race of the Blood and Bestower of the Blood Jewels.
• Joanne Bertin, Dragon and Phoenix (1999): Kelder Orolin, Linden Rathan and other dragonlords (or weredragons) in The Last Dragonlord (1998) and Minue (a h2o dragon).
• Christopher Golden, Strangewood (1999): Fiddlestick, a small musically emotive dragon.
• James Clemens, the series The Banned and the Banished (1999): Various dragons:
  • Ragnar'grand, the stone dragon of A'loa Glen
  • Conch and others, seadragons bonded to the Mer'ai
• Steven Erikson, the Malazan Volume of the Fallen series (1999–present): Soletaken and Warren-ruling dragons.
• Harry Turtledove, Darkness serial (1999): in this magical analogue of the Second World War, the dragons are beasts, highly pugnacious and under consummate human control. In the storyline they are the analogue of fighter planes and dragon riders are obviously intended to represent fighter pilots of the Luftwaffe and the RAF.
• Jeffrey A. Carver, science fiction novels set in the Star Rigger Universe: Dragons in the Stars (1992) and Dragon Rigger (1993); dragons alive in the hyperdimensional "Flux" of interstellar space.

Xx-first century [edit]

Past publication date of first installment in a series.

2000s [edit]

• Chris d'Lacey, "The Last Dragon Chronicles" series, starting with The Burn Inside (2001): Gadzooks, M'reth, Gretel, Gawain, and other dragons. These dragons are made of clay and brought to life by the fire/essence (known as the "auma") of one of Earth's final true Dragons, called Gawain. It is possible that Gawain's line might rise to full draconicity every bit a result of the actions taken past the pupil David Rain, his girlfriend the sibyl Zanna, the clayworkers Liz and Lucy Pennykettle, scientist Anders Bergstrom, and the witch Gwillanna.
• Cressida Cowell, How to Train Your Dragon series (2003)
• Emily Rodda, Deltora Quest'south third installment (2000–2004): Dragons are portrayed as very intelligent and proud; every bit being divided into vii distinct tribes; as having the capacity to reproduce by parthenogenesis; and every bit each having a virtue to which it adheres, such as Strength, Award, Luck, Organized religion, Promise, Joy, and Truth.
• Emily Rodda, Deltora Quest 3 (2000–2004): The various Gem Dragons.
• Neal Asher, several books (e.g., Gridlinked, 2001): The entity Dragon.
• Robin Hobb, The Tawny Human being trilogy (2002–2003): Icefyre and Tintaglia, the concluding remaining dragons; and The Rain Wild Chronicles (2009–2013): Various dragons
• Christopher Paolini, the Inheritance Cycle (2002–2011):
  • Glaedr (Brisingr, 2008)
  • Saphira (Eragon, 2002)
  • Shruikan (Eragon, 2002)
  • Thorn (Eldest, 2005)
  • Fírnen (Inheritance, 2011)
• Robin Wayne Bailey, Dragonkin series (2003): The dragons of Wyvernwood.
• Margaret Weis, Dragonvarld trilogy (2003–2005): Maristara, an evil black dragon; Braun, her grandson; Draconas, the walker, a dragon in human being class; and diverse other dragons.
• Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Blackness, The Spiderwick Chronicles (2003–2004) and Across the Spiderwick Chronicles (2007–2009):
  • In The Spiderwick Chronicles series (2003–2004), Book V, The Wrath of Mulgarath: The snake-like poisonous dragons raised past the ogre Mulgarath every bit his weapons of mass destruction. Mentioned as the European Wyrm diversity.
  • In Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles serial (2007–2009), Book Three, The Wyrm King: A Hydra, a dragon or snake-like animate being with multiple heads and gills appears, called the Wyrm King.
• Mercedes Lackey, the Dragon Jousters series (2003–2006): Avatre and several others.
• Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory, The Obsidian Trilogy (2003–2006): Ancalader, the dragon bonded to Jermayan.
• Keith Bakery, world of Eberron (2004):
  • Eberron, ane of the progenitor dragons. Eberron's basic compose the globe.
  • Khyber, one of the progenitor dragons. Khyber rules the underworld and his children are the demons and monsters of the world.
  • Siberys, one of the progenitor dragons. Siberys is the "Dragon Above", his remnants compose the Ring of Siberys, a gilded band of crystal-like shards that glitters in the night sky.
• Bryan Davis, Dragons in Our Midst series (2004): Clefspeare, Hartanna, Firedda and others.
• Christopher Motorway, Alosha series (2004): Dragons likewise get-go life as legless, wingless, tailless, and without fire; in this form, they are known as Kouls. Later in life, a Koul develops legs, a tail, wings, and fiery breath. To practice this, a Koul must risk its life for protection of others, learn to swim, and take a literal "leap of faith" from a loftier place.
• Donita K. Paul, Dragonkeeper Chronicles (2004–2008): Celisse, Metta, Gymn, Greer and others.
• E. E. Knight, the Age of Burn down series (2005): Auron (afterwards AuRon), the grey, scaleless dragon. Also included are Natasatch (his mate), Irelia (his light-green mother), AuRel (his statuary begetter), Jizara (light-green sister), Wistala (green sis), NooMoahk (blackness dragon), Rugaard (copper dragon), and many others.
• Gareth P. Jones, Dragon Detective Agency (2006): Dirk Dilly.
• Naomi Novik, Temeraire serial (2006): Temeraire and the other dragons of the Napoleonic Wars.
• James A. Owen, The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica serial (Here, At that place Be Dragons, 2006): Samaranth, an Eastern-type dragon who offers guidance to the main characters. Also various other dragons.
• Janet Lee Carey, Dragon's Keep (2008), Dragonswood (2012), and In the Time of Dragon Moon (2016)
• Dave Freer, Dragon'southward Ring (2009): Fionn, a black dragon who plans to destroy Tasmarin.
• Catherine Rayner, Sylvia and Bird (2009).
• Philip Reeve, No Such Thing As Dragons (2009).
• Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson serial
  • The Sea of Monsters (2006): The dragon Peleus guards the Gold Fleece at Military camp Half-Blood.
  • The Titan'southward Curse (2007): The dragon Ladon guards the apples of the Hesperides.
• Jessica Day George, Dragon Slippers series (2006–2009) introduces several dragons who befriend the chief grapheme, Creel, as well as her friends.

2010s [edit]

• Stephen Deas, Memory of Flames series (2009–2011): centered around a world inhabited by dragons, which are ridden by knights. Plot centers around their re-enkindling consciousness.
• Tui T. Sutherland, Wings of Burn series. Follows the adventures of dragons in the globe of Pyrrhia.
• Marie Brennan, Lady Trent series (2013–2015): Lady Trent's memoirs on how she first started studying dragons in a Victorianesque world.
• Laurence Aye & Joanne Ryder, A Dragon'south Guide to the Intendance and Feeding of Humans (2015): told from the bespeak of view of a dragon named Miss Drake.
• Julie Kagawa, Talon series (2014–2018): revolves around dragons with the ability to disguise themselves equally humans and an gild of warriors sworn to eradicate them.
• George R. R. Martin, The World of Burn down and Water ice; The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones (2014): A list of dragons mentioned in the book on page 33; Balerion, Vhagar, Meraxes and page 81; Sunfyre, Dreamfyre, Tessarion, Morghul, Shrykos, Syrax, Caraxes, Vermax, Arrax, Tyraxes, Stormcloud, Meleys, Moondancer, Silverwing, Seasmoke, Vermithor, Sheepstealer, Grey Ghost, The Cannibal, Morning. Brief bios of the dragons on page 81.
• Todd Lockwood, "The Summer Dragon (Evertide #1), released on May iii, 2016, heavily features dragons."
• Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant (March 2015)
• James Bennett, Chasing Embers (September 2016): The Ben Garston novels from Orbit Books, dragons at war in human form.
• Jasper Fforde: The Final Dragonslayer (nov 2010)
• Jillian Boehme: Stormrise (Sept. 2019)
• Rachel Hartman:^[11] Seraphina (2012) and Shadow Scale (2015) describe the story of Seraphina, who is half-dragon and one-half-man. The companion novel, Tess of the Road (2018), tells the story of Seraphina's half-sis, Tess.
• Brandon Mull, Fablehaven (2006-2010) and Dragonwatch (2017-2020) series: Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary and Fablehaven: Keys to the Demon Prison both have dragons in them and the sequel series, Dragonwatch, has many more than.
• David Cartwright, Dragon Fire (The Camelot 2050 Trilogy #ii) (August 2018). A resurgent Morgana le Fay uses a biomechanical dragon as a weapon of mass destruction against the forces of Camelot.

References [edit]

1. ^ Translation of Argonautica, Volume 2 Translation of Argonautica, Book 3
2. ^ Translation of Bibliotheca, Book 2
3. ^ English language translation of the dragon episode from the Life of Efflam
4. ^ Cf. John B. Coe and Simon Young, ed. and trans., The Celtic Sources for the Arthurian Legend. Felinfach, 1995.
5. ^ Jones, David (2002). An Instinct for Dragons. Routledge.
6. ^ "The Ice Dragon." nogginthenog.co.united kingdom
7. ^ After editions on Worldcat.org and Amazon.com
8. ^ " [Arren:] 'Do they... swallow their own kind?' [Ged:] 'No. No more than we practise.' " "The Dragons' Run" (affiliate) in The Farthest Shore
9. ^ "[Smaug's] enemies were on an isle in deep water—too deep and night and cool for his liking. If he plunged into information technology, a vapour and a steam would arise enough to cover all the state with a mist for days; but the lake was mightier than he, information technology would quench him earlier he could pass through." Chapter XIV ("Fire and Water") in The Hobbit
10. ^ Ged says that "plunging into the sea [is] a loathly death for the burn down snake, the beast of air current and fire." "The Dragons' Run" (chapter) in The Farthest Shore
11. ^ "Rachel Hartman". Rachel Hartman . Retrieved 2021-01-21 .

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