Dragaera

Flying Lizards and Napolean

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Wed May 17 14:56:49 PDT 2006

Gaertk at aol.com writes:

> Considering the interest here in Patrick O'Brien's books, I'd like to
> recommend Naomi Novik's _His Majesty's Dragon_ (_Temeraire_ in the 
> UK) which is also about the Napoleanic Wars (plus dragons).  The 
> first 45 pages take place at sea, during which the main character 
> hatches and bonds with a flying lizard.  After that there isn't much 
> naval action, but the dragons are treated just like small ships (with 
> obvious parallels to Hobb's Liveship books).  And like Brust's books, 
> the deadly flying lizards have better manners than the humans.

I need to read this, clearly.  I've had it recommended to me by a
number of people with thoroughly incompatible taste in fiction (all of
whom overlap me in some area or other), and it sounds interesting from
every single on of their descriptions.  

I deduce that the dragons don't breathe fire in this world -- basing
them on ships (of that period's technology) would be kind of a problem
otherwise, and for that matter they'd clear the enemy navy off the
ocean pretty quick otherwise.
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