While I do enjoy these novels, what I'm really looking for is something more Star Trek like with space exploration, first contact with aliens, and wondrous and dangerous things. There seem to be quite a lot of sci fi novels which revolve entirely around interstellar war. I've had some difficulty finding the sorts of novels I'm really looking for within that genre, however. I do, however, greatly enjoy science fiction novels. So I've given up on novels about dragons that were written by humans. I don't enjoy them for the same reason cat lovers don't enjoy stories about kittens being fed into meat grinders.
Either dragons aren't portrayed anywhere near accurately, and/or they're portrayed as a dying race with the last of them dying off, and/or they're pretty much always fated to die in any story written by humans. I don't read them because I get much too involved. This may be surprising, but I don't read dragon novels.