----- Original Message ----- From: "David Dyer-Bennet" <dd-b at dd-b.net> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 2:56 PM Subject: Re: Flying Lizards and Napolean > 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/> I would tell, you, but that would be a spoiler. jeff