Millions of readers adore Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle: its
earnest hero, its breathtaking battles and, of course, its awe-inspiring
dragon Saphira. But there's so much more to the series than meets the
eye--and Secrets of the Dragon Riders, edited by today's second hottest
dragon-writer James A. Owen, shows readers what they're missing.
Why might Roran be the real hero of the Inheritance Cycle? What does
Paolini's writing have in common with role-play games and modern action
films? Are teenage writers judged more harshly than their adult
counterparts? The YA authors in Secrets of the Dragon Riders--some of
them no older than Paolini when he wrote Eragon--each take on a
different aspect of the series to engage and entertain Paolini fans.