The Flight of Dragons (book)
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Author | Peter Dickinson |
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Illustrator | Wayne Anderson |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Subject | Dragons |
Publisher | Pierrot Publishing Ltd, UK – 1979 Paper Tiger, UK – 1998 Overlook Press, United States – 1998 |
Publication date | August 2, 1979 |
Pages | 142 |
The Flight of Dragons is a 1979 speculative evolution book written by Peter Dickinson and illustrated by Wayne Anderson.
Thesis
According to Dickinson's hypothesis, the chief obstacle to admitting the past existence of
Dickinson states he got the idea for his "pseudo-scientific monograph" after looking at one of
This one had a bulky body and rather stubby wings, which obviously would never get it airborne, let alone with the two people it was carrying on its back, and all its own weight of muscle and bone. Obviously any lift had to come from the body itself. Its very shape suggested some kind of gas-bag. I thought about it for the rest of the journey, and on and off for a couple of days after, and at the end of that time had managed to slot everything I knew about dragons – why they laired in caves, around which nothing would grow and where hoards of gold could be found, why they had a preferred diet of princesses, how and why they breathed fire, why they had only one vulnerable spot and their blood melted the blade of the sword that killed them, and so on – into a coherent theory that explained why these things were necessary accompaniments to the evolution of lighter-than-air flight.[1]
Film
In 1982,
See also
- The Last Dragon (2004 film), a docufiction film which uses similar speculative evolutionary ideas.
References
- ^ "The Flight of Dragons". peterdickinson.com. Retrieved 17 December 2017.