Comments on: Anthology Review: The Dragon Book edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois

By: Marg

Marg — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:40:11 +0000

Why are you not reading Naomi Novik?

I don’t know how I missed this last week, but I am now adding it to my TBR list to get sooner rather than later.

By: Books for November « Me and My Books

Books for November « Me and My Books — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:52:08 +0000

[...] for guessing the main character). Oh, and Diana Gabaldon. Ana from The Book Smugglers reviewed it last week, and I pretty much ordered it [...]

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:23:04 +0000

Wow! This sounds great.

I read a lot of anthologies, and this is one of THE MOST STELLAR line-ups of contributors I have EVER seen.

By: Li

Li — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:49:28 +0000

Oh gosh yes, WHY are you not reading Naomi Novik and Tamora Pierce?

Thanks for the review – am definitely getting this.

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:52:02 +0000

I’m so glad you loved this anthology, Ana. I’m adding it to my wish list.

By: Jaime W

Jaime W — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:52:37 +0000

I think Temeraire will always be my favorite dragon. I have listened to all the book on cds for that series this year and fell in love. Naomi Novik is a genius. A lot of thought provoking issues are raised and it is interesting to see how Temeraire and the other dragons reason things out. Plus Simon Vance does an excellent job with voices.
This book sounds great! Thanks for the review.

By: Ana

Ana — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:10:11 +0000

Maya – gosh, I have huge problems answering that question. I have no idea, I guess it depends on the kid? I would say 12????

AnimeJune – would you believe if I told you that this was first with all these authors? Gaah. I know, I suck.

By: AnimeJune

AnimeJune — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:54:31 +0000

Oh, I wants this collection, I wantsssss it. I adore Beagle, Pierce, Tad Williams (even his verboseness which at times puts Dickens to shame), and Liz Williams (whose Detective Inspector Chen novels are a MUST read, absolutely phenomenal worldbuilding, humour, and horror).

I should be reading Naomi Novik, but we lost the 1st book in the series at home and I’ve been too lazy to get the first one at the library. Bad me!

Also good dragon books – Robin Hobb’s Farseer, Liveship Traders, and Tawny Man trilogies. Brilliant stuff, and a really interesting take on how dragons are born and develop.

By: Maya M.

Maya M. — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:19:24 +0000

Question: from what age do you think the Dragon book would be appropriate?

By: Maya M.

Maya M. — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:17:27 +0000

Holy Lots of Stories, Batman!

You encourage me, because I’ve been turned off of anthologies after reading a recent historical romantic one that shall remain nameless in which I was bored by or actively disliked 5 out of 5 stories, and a fantasy romance one which shall remain equally nameless in which I thought three were ‘meh’, one was pretty good but didn’t leave me panting to seek out the author’s backlist, and loved 1 – but that was from an author I already knew I loved.

So in terms of collecting previously unknown to me authors I wanted to read in more depth, I came up with 0 out 9.