Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 10:13:57 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: What color Dragon are you?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>
>I was a Ralph Nader colored dragon, which suits me:  my Dad
>occasionally still claims to be Ralph's twin brother Yuri.
>
>I can't remember what color Joe's dragon was, that derived
>his power from books (one hidden under each scale) and
>suffered grievously when Owen the vegetroll began to eat
>his library.  Oh, for the days of Huw and his voyage to Mars
>in his talking space tub, the tetrahedron shaped Earth,
>Tom, with his injured wing, desperate to get back to the
>fairy-base before roll call after an SF con, and all the
>other foolishness of the many-times-rewritten Trollogy.
>
>And Poor Little Lucius's dragon as environment ("Manon of the
>Dragons," anyone?  Naw-w-w).  Perhaps my favorite dragon,
>though, is Swanwick's Dickensian industrial revolution dragon;
>he kinda gets the feeling of power and mystery of dragons while
>keeping the grittiness of the overall setting and moving
>things along their satirical way.  A real achievement.  I bet
>Michael is a green dragon, too.

 . . . and those folks who pick up the US edition of Swanwick's "The Iron =
Dragon's Daughter" expecting a nice comfort book based upon the cover are =
in for quite a rude shock.

& speaking of Lucius & dragons, he has written my favorite closing line:

" . . . from that day forward she lived happily ever after. Except for the =
dying at the end.  And the heartbreak in between."

mjw