Dragon Quintet

All-new novellas from five of today's top authors! ong present in myth, the dragon has been reborn in twentieth-century fantasy fiction. Editor Marvin Kaye has skillfully gathered brand-new contributions to the horde of dragon lore by five top fantasy authors. Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game, offers 'In the Dragon's House,' a gothic yarn set in contemporary suburbia. A mysterious dragon lives in the wiring of an old house, known only to a young boy who in dreams shares its body and feels its true size and power. But what does it really want? Mercedes Lackey, author of the Valdemar saga, writes of a slave boy who is chosen to care for a warrior's dragon. In 'Joust,' Vetch will learn much about dragon behavior . . . and the dragon's secrets may be the key to his freedom. Tanith Lee is no stranger to dragons, which appear often in her award-winning fantasies. 'Love in a Time of Dragons' is imbued with her signature atmosphere-old world, moody, erotic-as a kitchen maid goes a-questing with a handsome champion to slay the local drakkor. But the tale takes a surprising twist . . . . Elizabeth Moon, author of the popular Esmay Suiza and Heris Serrano series, gives us the tale of a young man forced by lies to flee his village-into an adventure of dwarfs and dragonspawn, of trust and wisdom, and, ultimately, 'Judgment.' Michael Swanwick's 'King Dragon' is a strange amalgam of twentieth-century technology and faery magic. The award-winning author invokes a truly sinister and repellant creature with the soul of a beast and the body of a machine: part metal, part devil . . . all-merciless.Card, Orson Scott is the author of 'Dragon Quintet' with ISBN 9780765310354 and ISBN 076531035X.