What is the most iconic representation of dragons in literature?

For an example of a good dragon, I'll show my age and say Mayland from Tea With the Black Dragon. Very nice slender book, quite old now I suspect.

Unusual approach to dragons, though I think we'd still call them evil, Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton.

I do like the Temeraire books by Naomi Novik too.

I haven't read The Dragon and the George in too long; but I remember enjoying it when I did.

Read all of those minus the Temeraire books and Walton, and I was reading Dickson's books before they were cool. They are good. Haven't read them all yet, but the ones I did read had nice interactions between Jim and his dragon.

edited 30th Apr '12 6:53:18 PM by TamH70

While I appreciate the help, this project is waaaaay over and done with, so the necro doesn't really help at all. A thread-hop necro, too, judging by the looks of it, since it seems like no one read my explanation for why I was looking for book-based dragons instead of myth-based ones.

How did it go? Are you happy with the way it turned out?

Pretty well! I ended up going with a kind of Smaug-y dragon. That was a fun day at the library.

I suspect that you hit upon a latent need to talk about dragons, Freezair! Which is no problem if the thread turns to that, since you already had what you needed.

I like the dragons in Diane Duane's The Tale Of Five, personally.

Very well. I was gonna ask a mod to lock this, but hey, if people wanna talk dragons, go for it. 8D

It's been so long since I've encountered Diane Duane's dragons. I should re-read Young Wizards sometime soon...

Mine. They're azhdarchid pterosaurs.