If, like us here, you rather love the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik (the Napoleonic Wars with an aerial corps of dragons, fabulous alternative history), and read the first five and wondered when book 6 was coming....
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Northern hemisphere summer of 2010, is the story.
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AND, frillingly for us in Oz, Temeraire and Captain Will Laurence's adventures in book six take place in the colony of New South Wales (the early decades of white settlement in Australia). Novik's editor has some more information and pictures in this blog entry and Novik has a brief mention in her intermittent LiveJournal here.
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Peter Jackson (yup, the Lord of the Rings director) has the film rights, but that project looks to be in very early stages.
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I've been listening to the unabridged audio books of these on my daily commute and enjoying them hugely.
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In order the books are:
- Temeraire (also published as His Majesty's Dragon)
- Throne of Jade
- Black Powder War
- Empire of Ivory
- Victory of Eagles
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Just last week I put Temeraire in the hands of a Year 9 boy who'd devoured the Ken Catran 'Moran' books and wanted more 'war fiction'. He started devouring this, and was very happy.
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Cheers
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Ruth
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PS. The above picture isn't Temeraire (but when the film comes out, I bet you will be able to buy figures of the dragons...) it was a convenient dragon-in-residence and gives you an illustration for this blog entry.
PPS I will add more info on Temeraire books/film as I know them, so search "temeraire" or "novik" on this blog (search window top left) to find more.
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1 comment:
Love the Temeraire series as well, can't wait for the sixth book!!! But how many books will be in the series? I'm kinda itching to know how, when or if Lien will be defeated and if Iskierka and Temeraire will have an egg together.. hehe..
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