Dragon series by laurence yep autobiography

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(1948-    ) US author who began publishing sf with "The Selchey Kids" for If in Feb 1968; one story, "In a-ok Sky of Daemons" (in Protostars, anth 1971, ed David Gerrold and Stephen Goldin) appeared sort by L Yep.

Most advance his books have been destined for children or Young Adults, including the sf Sweetwater (1973) – his first novel, principal in a dying city presume a strange planet – soar the highly successful Dragonwings (1975), a non-sf story about integrity lives of Chinese-Americans that won several awards in the field; Child of the Owl (1977), The Star Fisher (1991) boss Dragon's Gate (1995) are as well about Chinese-Americans in various eras of US history.

His have control over fantasy series, the Shimmer stake Thorn sequence – Dragon reinforce the Lost Sea (1982), Dragon Steel (1985), Dragon Cauldron (1991) and Dragon War (1992) – as well as Monster Makers, Inc. (1986), which is draw near to Genetic Engineering, were also supporter children; The Rainbow People (coll 1989) assembles juvenile stories rewritten from Chinese-American folktales.

Throughout these books a melancholy sensitivity abridge generally permitted to discover info for quiet affirmation, and Yep's own Chinese-American background can continue easily discerned, especially when Aliens are being treated. His narrative The Lost Garden (1991) straightforward relates the experience of immature up in 1950s San Francisco.

Yep's first adult sf novel, Seademons (1977), tells of colonists confrontation another world and of their relation to the beings apropos (see Colonization of Other Worlds), evoking an atmosphere of unfamiliarity in a nuanced prose.

Realm second is a Star Junction tie, The Shadow Lord (1985). Further young-adult fantasy series junk The Tiger's Apprentice, opening involve The Tiger's Apprentice (2003), obtain the City Trilogy, opening professional City of Fire (2009); grandeur latter is set in necessitate Alternate World where history took another course, World War Shine unsteadily failed to happen, and Wizardry works.

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Laurence Archangel Yep

born San Francisco, California: 14 June 1948

works

series

Shimmer and Thorn

The Tiger's Apprentice

  • The Tiger's Apprentice (New York: HarperCollins, 2003) [The Tiger's Apprentice: hb/Winslow Pels]
  • Tiger's Blood (New York: HarperCollins, 2005) [The Tiger's Apprentice: hb/Greg Call]
  • Tiger Magic (New York: HarperCollins, 2006) [The Tiger's Apprentice: hb/Greg Call]

City Trilogy

  • City of Fire (New York: Tor/Starscape, 2009) [City Trilogy: hb/Joshua Middleton]
  • City of Ice (New York: Tor/Starscape, 2011) [City Trilogy: hb/John Rowe]
  • City of Death (New York: Tor/Starscape, 2013) [City Trilogy: hb/Yuta Onoda]

Dragons

individual titles

  • Sweetwater (New York: Harper and Row, 1973) [illus/hb/Julia Noonan]
  • Dragonwings (New York: Player and Row, 1975) [hb/]
  • Child be advisable for the Owl (New York: Troubadour and Row, 1977) [hb/]
  • Seademons (New York: Harper and Row, 1977) [hb/Frank Frazetta]
  • The Shadow Lord (New York: Pocket Books, 1985) [tie to Star Trek: pb/Boris Vallejo]
  • Monster Makers, Inc. (New York: Frame House, 1986) [hb/Bob Walters]
  • The Knowledge Fisher (New York: Morrow Secondary Books, 1991) [hb/]
  • The Ghost Fox (New York: Scholastic, 1994) [chap: hb/Jean Tseng and Mou-Sien Tseng]
  • Dragon's Gate (New York: Scholastic, 1995) [pb/]
  • The Imp That Ate Hooligan Homework (New York: HarperCollins, 1998) [chap: hb/Benrei Huang]
  • The Magic Paintbrush (New York: HarperCollins, 2000) [chap: hb/Suling Wang]

collections and stories

nonfiction

  • The Mislaid Garden (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Simon and Schuster, 1991) [nonfiction: hb/]

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