Do you see the little one?
This one could almost be Daenerys from A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones)
This was my desktop background for ages and ages.
Cover to another one of my favorite series dealing with dragons.
Aren't the colors on this one just gorgeous?
Ruth, the white dragon of Pern.
The last three pictures are covers from fantasy book series involving dragons. The last is from All the Weyrs of Pern which is one of the first books to ever make me cry. All three covers were created by the same artist, Michael Whelan. I love that he makes each dragon-type unique to the series and gets all the details right.
Growing up I did the typical teenager thing and plastered the walls of my bedroom with images from magazines. Most of the walls were devoted to pictures of bands I liked, but one wall was forever reserved for my collection of dragon pictures.
I used to beg my mom to let me print pictures in color I found off the internet. If I'd had my way I would have printed them all, but ink was expensive and my mom was trying to run her own business so I had to content myself with picking only my most favorite ones.
I would count how many dragon-related items I had in my collection and sigh with pleasure at the many examples of draconic beauty.
How I wished I had a dragon of Pern! To be bonded to such a noble creature for life, someone who was constantly with you, a part of your thoughts, someone who would always love you utterly and completely, no matter what happened. To be able to leap on your dragon's back and soar into the sky, the wind in your face and the earth rushing below...!
Pernese dragons have the ability to teleport themselves not only anywhere on the planet by going between but also can go between times for traveling in the past. As long as your dragon had a clear picture of where and when you wanted to go, it could take you there!
Can you imagine going anywhere you like in 8 seconds? The gold dragons on Pern are the queens and the largest of the dragons, growing as big as an airplane at times. That would mean plenty of room to bring your friends along wherever you wanted to go. As long as you could picture it in your mind clearly, you could be there.
While a teleporter from Star Trek would be excellent, I'll take a Pernese dragon any day. The ability to teleport anywhere on the planet, be able to time travel, breathe fire, and provide constant companionship to their rider trumps a mechanical contraption any day.
Sorry Scotty. But I know Dr. McCoy would agree with me.
