Wings of Fire

Edited by Jonathan Strahan and Marianne S. Jablon.

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.

Edited by Jonathan Strahan (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Eclipse) and Marianne S. Jablon, Wings of Fire collects the best short stories about dragons. From writhing wyrms to snakelike devourers of heroes; from East to West and everywhere in between, Wings of Fire is sure to please dragon lovers everywhere.

Contents:

• Introduction – Jonathan Strahan and Marianne S. Jablon
• Stable of Dragons (poem) – 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 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 & 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