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. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b at dd-b.net>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>