During his annual solo spring holiday in Teocinte, maritally disgruntled numismatist George finds the scale of a young dragon. When he starts cleaning the scale he's briefly on a hot, grassy plain. When he does it again, pressing harder, he and the young hooker Sylvia are both transported, then chased by a 25-foot dragon. The dragon Griaule has gathered them and some 60 others to witness something.

Welcome to Ansullivan Dragonar Academy, a school with a difference: the students are all dragon riders, each contracted with their own personal dragon. Ash Blake has the unique ability to ride anyone's dragon, but he's been waiting for what feels like forever for his own dragon to be born. He's thrilled when his dragon, Eco, finally appears--but she inexplicably takes the form of a beautiful human girl. Eco's peculiar appearance is only the first...

Follows the tale of a bookish young woman whose passion for learning leads to revolutionary new understandings about dragons and defies the stifling conventions of her world.

This comprehensive biography of geek and gaming icon Gary Gygax chronicles his life from his childhood in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, to his creation of the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons to his untimely death in 2008.

Now, with all of Pern imperiled by the aftereffects of a plague that killed scores of dragons and left the planet helpless against the fall of deadly Thread, the only hope for the future lies in the past. There, on an unexplored island, a group of dragon-riders led by Xhinna, a brave young woman who rides the blue dragon Tazith, must battle lethal Mrreows and voracious tunnel snakes to build a safe home for themselves and the dragons, whose offspring...