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A Tale of Ethshar


Welcome to the page for "Sirinita's Dragon."

"Sirinita's Dragon" is the story of a young girl whose beloved pet is getting too large to keep around the house. It first appeared in The Ultimate Dragon, an anthology edited by Byron Preiss, John Betancourt, and Keith R.A. DeCandido, published by Dell, October 1995, ISBN 0-440-50630-1. It was written specifically for the anthology, and was accompanied by a line illustration by Lars Hokanson and Frances Cichetti.

The story is part of the Ethshar series, which consists of ten novels and eight shorter works as of November 2008. It was included in the February 2006 issue of the webzine Son and Foe and may still be available in their archives. It's been reprinted as a chapbook, in a numbered edition of 200 copies, with illustrations by Kiri Evans.

And I've put the entire story online, where you can read it for free.

"Sirinita's Dragon" is copyright 1995 by Lawrence Watt Evans.

What's here:

How I came to write the story.

The story's publishing history.

Some relevant links:

The original cover of The Ultimate Dragon.
(Cover art by Bruce Jensen.)

The cover of the mass market edition
of The Ultimate Dragon.

A FAQ about Ethshar.

Exits.

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An e-book edition of The Ultimate Dragon, including the story "Sirinita's Dragon," is available from Fictionwise.
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Origins:

Back in the first published Ethshar story, The Misenchanted Sword, I established two things: That Ethsharitic dragons are large and dangerous, and that wealthy Ethsharites keep baby dragons as pets. Obviously, I needed to reconcile these two facts at some point.

Then John Betancourt called and invited me to write a story for The Ultimate Dragon.

Actually, I wrote a completely different, unrelated, non-Ethshar story at first, but nobody was very impressed with it -- it was very short, for one thing, and John had hoped for something longer, and something more like my usual work, which that first story wasn't.

My usual work is fantasy, particularly Ethshar. So I wrote "Sirinita's Dragon," and John bought it, and there we are. Very simple history on this one.

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Publishing History:


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The Legends of Ethshar

The Misenchanted Sword

With A Single Spell

The Unwilling Warlord

Taking Flight

The Blood of A Dragon

The Spell of the Black Dagger

Night of Madness

Ithanalin's Restoration

The Spriggan Mirror

The Vondish Ambassador

"Portrait of a Hero"

"The Guardswoman"

"The Bloodstone"

"Night Flight"

"Weaving Spells"

"Ingredients"

"The God in Red"

Other Exits

That's it; here's your list of handy exits:


The World of Ethshar | The Misenchanted Page | Guestbook | E-mail me
An Introduction to Ethshar | Frequently-Asked Questions About Ethshar | The Ethshar Novels
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Created: Saturday, November 16, 1996
Last Updated: Monday, November 24, 2008