Dragaera

Flying Lizards and Napolean

Wed May 17 15:25:40 PDT 2006

----- 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