How much published Dragonriders fanfic is there?

[snarp]

My definition of "Dragonriders fanfic" here being "fiction wherein people somehow mentally bond with dragons." That I can think of:

His Majesty's Dragon series, by Naomi Novik
Dragon's Blood series, by Jane Yolen
Havemercy series, by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett
A Song of Ice and Fire series, by George RR Martin
The Dragon Prince series, by Melanie Rawn
Guards! Guards!, by Terry Pratchett. Plus a Rincewind short story, which I’m not sure I want to count, because I remember it as being an explicit parody of Dragonriders.

Mercedes Lackey gets an honorary award for writing the series about people who magically bond with most things - horses, swords, other people, trees, their hats, the internet - but never actually with dragons.

I note that only the first two of these could, as Dragonriders generally is, be classified as sci-fi; the rest are straight fantasy. Clearly this is unbalanced. My soulbonded dragon book will be some sort of dystopian cyberpunk future thing.

Comments

[nagaina]

...Your dragon will BE the internet? ^_~

[estara]

So I take it you don't count Alta, Joust et al. because those Lackey dragons don't mindspeak their riders? Fair enough. It did seem more like raptor raising or adoption, or something.

[snarp]

I did not count them because I have not read them. But if individual dragons bond to individual people in some exclusive manner, I think it counts. Do they?

[estara]

Well, the dragons do if raised in the way invented by the hero's idol - they have a lot more agency then, but they remain animal like and there is not dialogue between rider and dragon. I especially enjoyed the fact that one of the empires in that series was based on Egypt. Something different ^^.

[royalarchivist]

"My soulbonded dragon book will be some sort of dystopian cyberpunk future thing."

I will read that!! XD

[wealhtheow]

"My soulbonded dragon book will be some sort of dystopian cyberpunk future thing."

I would read the hell out of that. Speaking of which, Michael Swanwick's The Iron Dragon's Daughter fits description a bit--human slave working in an elvish factory starts getting telepathic messages from one of the dragons they're building/servicing. Dark, imaginative, and deeply weird.

[snarp]

I shall take it under advisement!