Philip C. Quaintrell

Mar 26, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Michael Miller |Philip C. Quaintrell |Naomi Novik |Christopher Paolini

Dragons are one of the oldest and most ubiquitous mythic creatures, present in almost every culture – a fact that has been variously attributed to fear of snakes, the need to explain dinosaur bones, or convergence of speculation about rain and drought. They’re always somewhat serpentine, but there have been a lot of different types. Could you introduce us to the types of dragons we see in fantasy today? There’s such a broad approach to dragons. In some books, the dragons are quite human.