Reply #16: I can't remember the name of it but

[txlibdem]

I read a book decades ago about a human colony planet that had at some time in the past had a short war with lizard-men. At the end of the war we had many prisoners and used genetic manipulation to turn them into dragons (the European version) to use in gladiatorial type fighting competitions, a human rider strapped onto their back controlling the dragon during the fight and armor and razor sharp metal claws adorning the dragons. It was kind of like a cross between a jousting tournament and cock-fighting with the winning human rider gaining prestige in the society. Later on in the book the aliens returned and we find that they had also genetically manipulated their human prisoners to become huge, muscular brainless slave labor.

Think of the RW buttons such a story line would push!