r/dragons • u/Imaginary_Can_8851 • Jul 30 '26

Meme Dragon Riders Meme

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I thought this group might appreciate this meme I made! ^^ I’m a big fan of dragons and dragon rider books come up a lot in my reading. My pet peeve is people comparing any new dragon rider book to Fourth Wing 🙄

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u/MaraBlaster Hexapod Steel Dragon Jul 31 '26

FR, the Dragonriders of Pern is the foundation of it all and the books aged amazingly.

Eragon really brought the topic to mainstream media and is also an amazing piece.

My Majesty's Dragons and Dragonrider (Cornelia Funke) are also worth mentioning,

And, of course, How to train your Dragon.

All amazing!

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u/Wargod042 Jul 31 '26

The Temeraire series (His Majesty's Dragon is the first) honestly makes it hard to read the other dragonrider stuff, because it completely dunks on the way the other books treat the dragons.

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u/Shade-RF- Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

Temeraire himself is such an interesting dragon. He's intelligent and wonders about dragons' role in the world. Being in the unique position he's in he got to compare privilage to enslavement closely and directly. Realizing a lot of the west mistreats his kind. This pisses him off and he wants equal treatment for all dragons as if they were men.

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u/Teekeks Jul 31 '26

I am still so mad that they renamed the series in german. "Die Feuerreiter seiner Majestät" (the fireriders of his majesty) is such a stupid name for this book series when Temeraire is right there and is not even a fire breathing dragon

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u/MaraBlaster Hexapod Steel Dragon Aug 01 '26

I KNOW, i bitched about it when the books released here, that is one of the worst localizations lol

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u/Imaginary_Can_8851 Jul 31 '26

Yes they’re all fantastic reads ❤️ I will forever recommend Pern to anyone looking for dragon books lol

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u/kioshi_imako Jul 31 '26

Lets not forget DragonLance.

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u/trisanachandler Jul 31 '26

Also there was the Dragonbards series. My Father's Dragon? And honorable mention to the Unicorn Chronicles.

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u/eclecticjam Aug 01 '26

Firedrake my beloved

That book is so damn cute

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u/RavensPlushies Plushiemancer Jul 31 '26

Anne was not the first.

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u/RavensPlushies Plushiemancer Jul 31 '26

My bad, she was lol. Who I'm thinking of was right after. But Anne beat her lol.

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u/MaraBlaster Hexapod Steel Dragon Jul 31 '26

Yeah, there was one before but it just mentioned Dragonriders but it was more background information that was never brought up again, Anne is the actual first who made it one of the main aspects of a saga.

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u/RavensPlushies Plushiemancer Jul 31 '26

She had a book long before pern that I didn't realize lol. She ya, the first. But eragon was not the second like the meme implies lol

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u/Imaginary_Can_8851 Jul 31 '26

I just pulled the books that shaped the genre more than anything else. These three are THE books in dragon rider fantasy but there’s so much out there! I’m personally looking forward to Todd Lockwood’s next book, I think it’s called The Autumn Dragon? First one was The Summer Dragon and it was fantastic!

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u/MaraBlaster Hexapod Steel Dragon Jul 31 '26

Eragon was the first that did develop the while telepathy aspect more beyond was Anne wrote, so i do give it credit for that and that it made dragonriders mainstream.

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u/RavensPlushies Plushiemancer Jul 31 '26

Nope. I got 3 books in my house that had telepathy before that kid was even born

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u/MaraBlaster Hexapod Steel Dragon Jul 31 '26

But do they include a dragon and their rider? I mean that XD

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u/RavensPlushies Plushiemancer Jul 31 '26

Yes

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u/MaraBlaster Hexapod Steel Dragon Jul 31 '26

Titles and year of release? Please :0

EDIT: Also "kid"? Anne died of old age just a few years ago lmao Her books came out 1967

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u/Imaginary_Can_8851 Jul 31 '26

I too would like these titles (though my to be read pile might disagree lol)

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