Secrets of the Dragon Riders
Your Favorite Authors on Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Series: Completely Unauthorized
Edited by James A. Owen
Millions of readers adore Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle: its earnest hero, its breathtaking battles and, of course, its awe-inspiring dragon Saphira. But there’s so much more to the series than meets the eye–and Secrets of the Dragon Riders, edited by today’s second hottest dragon-writer James A. Owen, shows readers what they’re missing.
Why might Roran be the real hero of the Inheritance Cycle? What does Paolini’s writing have in common with role-play games and modern action films? Are teenage writers judged more harshly than their adult counterparts? The YA authors in Secrets of the Dragon Riders–some of them no older than Paolini when he wrote Eragon–each take on a different aspect of the series to engage and entertain Paolini fans.
Read Excerpts
- Introduction: Secrets of the Dragon Riders
- Ten Things About Christopher Paolini
- Riding the Dragon
- Roran: The Reluctant Hero
- The Magic of Anthropomorphic Animals
- My Dragon, Myself
- Eldest Does Not Equal Wisest
- Q: How Does a Fifteen-Year-Old Do This?
- The Modern-Day Perceval
- It's in His Character
- The Thing About Elves Is...
- How the Inheritance Cycle Differs from Fantasy Epics in the Past
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