No, actually, I haven't read Robin Hobb, though I've heard good things about her. (I don't actually generally read many dragon stories--if I weren't already a fan of NN, I never would have picked up Temeraire). And I can't remember if I've read Carol Berg or not--I think I may have read one of her stories a long time ago.
I'm now closer to my fiction bookshelf, and see I neglected to recommend my absolute favorite fantasy author of all time: Connie Willis. Well, maybe she's less fantasy than sci-fi speculative fic. What she's most famous for is time-travel/ alternate history; her Doomsday Book, about a historian sent back to the 14th century just as the Black Plague struck, is just an unbelievably amazing book, and probably the most heartbreaking thing I've ever read. She uses the same premise, to much more comic effect, in To Say Nothing About the Dog , which is a light-hearted time-travel romp to the 19th century. And I absolutely adore her novel about near-death experiences, called Passages .
And I see I also forgot to mention R.A. McAvoy and Elizabeth Lynn and Robin McKinley and Patricia McKillip, but they're such big names I'm sure you've read them. McAvoy has even written about dragons, and I'm looking at the title of one of the Elizabeth Lynn's I haven't read in a long time and realize it features shape-shifters, one of whom is a dragon. So I guess I have enjoyed some dragon stories before NN's.
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I'm now closer to my fiction bookshelf, and see I neglected to recommend my absolute favorite fantasy author of all time: Connie Willis. Well, maybe she's less fantasy than sci-fi speculative fic. What she's most famous for is time-travel/ alternate history; her Doomsday Book, about a historian sent back to the 14th century just as the Black Plague struck, is just an unbelievably amazing book, and probably the most heartbreaking thing I've ever read. She uses the same premise, to much more comic effect, in To Say Nothing About the Dog , which is a light-hearted time-travel romp to the 19th century. And I absolutely adore her novel about near-death experiences, called Passages .
And I see I also forgot to mention R.A. McAvoy and Elizabeth Lynn and Robin McKinley and Patricia McKillip, but they're such big names I'm sure you've read them. McAvoy has even written about dragons, and I'm looking at the title of one of the Elizabeth Lynn's I haven't read in a long time and realize it features shape-shifters, one of whom is a dragon. So I guess I have enjoyed some dragon stories before NN's.