The remainder of the original trilogy follows the adventures of Laurence and Temeraire as they do battle with the forces of Imperial France and the diplomatic fallout caused by Captain Laurence's adoption by the Emperor of China. This forces a change in the officer's life, drawing him from the prestigious Royal Navy to the less desirable Royal Aerial Corps. Despite the difficulties this causes, Laurence begins to think of the dragon as his dearest friend. Under the impression that an 'unharnessed' dragon will become feral and unmanageable, Laurence becomes Temeraire's companion. The egg soon hatches, and Temeraire, a Chinese dragon, is born. Laurence is a Captain in the British Royal Navy, serving in combat against Napoleon I's navy when he recovers a dragon egg unlike any other known to the British. The series revolves around William Laurence and his dragon Temeraire. In 2017, Novik published Golden Age and Other Stories, an anthology of Temeraire short stories inspired by fanart of the series.

This omnibus volume also includes the Temeraire short story 'In Autumn, A White Dragon Looks Over the Wide River'. In addition the same first three books were published by Del Ray as In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (2009). Temeraire: In the Service of the King (2006) won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 2007. His Majesty's Dragon (2006) / Temeraire (UK)Īdditionally, Novik published two omnibus volumes collecting the first three novels of the series.Temeraire was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Series in 2017. Temeraire: In the Service of the King, an omnibus volume collecting the first three novels, won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 2007. His Majesty's Dragon, the first entry in the series, won the Compton Crook Award in 2007 and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel the same year. The novels follow the adventures of Captain William Laurence and his dragon, the eponymous Temeraire, and reimagine events of the Napoleonic Wars with 'an air force of dragons, manned by crews of aviators'. Temeraire is a series of nine alternate history fantasy novels written by American author Naomi Novik.

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