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As a reader, I love dragons if they're well done--but they must be well done, whether it's fantasy or SF. The Pern dragons, of course; and Patricia Wrede's Dealing with Dragons series were great read-aloud books when my kids were about at the YA stage. Tim Zahn did an SF series that started well about a young man with a dragon that in its resting state looked like a giant tattoo on the kid's shoulder. (I'm blanking on the title.)
As a writer, I wrote two SF novels about dragons in interstellar space, and I had a great time with it. I also found it challenging to do well--to combine the SF elements with the mythic components of the dragons--and to write from the dragons' points of view. But I felt, at least, that it made for a good story in the end. (That's not always a sure thing, when I criticize my own work.)
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