Preface / Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois -- Dragon's deep / Cecelia Holland -- Vici / Naomi Novik -- Bob Choi's last job / Jonathan Stroud -- Are you afflicted with Dragons? / Kage Baker -- The Tsar's dragons / Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple -- The Dragon of Direfell / Liz Williams -- Oakland dragon blues / Peter S. Beagle -- Humane killer / Diana Gabaldon and Samuel Sykes -- Stop! / Garth Nix -- Ungentle fire / Sean Williams -- A stark and wormy knight / Tad Williams -- None so blind / Harry Turtledove -- JoBoy / Diana Wynne Jones -- Puz_le / Gregory Maguire -- After the third kiss / Bruce Coville -- The war that winder is / Tanith Lee -- The Dragon's tale / Tamora Pierce -- Dragon storm / Mary Rosenblum -- The Dragaman's bride / Andy Duncan. Whether portrayed as fire-breathing reptilian beasts at war with humanity or as noble creatures capable of speech and mystically bonded to the warriors who ride them, dragons have been found in nearly every culture's mythology. In modern times, they can be found far from their medieval settings in locales as mundane as suburbia or as barren as post-apocalyptic landscapes-and in The Dragon Book, today's greatest fantasists reignite the fire with legendary tales that will consume readers' imaginations. With original stories by New York Times bestselling authors Jonathan Stroud, Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Diana Gabaldon, Tamora Pierce, Harry Turtledove, Sean Williams, and Tad Williams as well as tales by Naomi Novik, Peter Beagle, Jane Yolen, Adam Stemple, Cecelia Holland, Kage Baker, Samuel Sykes, Diana Wynne Jones, Mary Rosenblum, Tanith Lee, Andy Duncan, and Bruce Coville.