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A dazzling blend of military history, high-flying fantasy, and edge-of-your-seat adventure, Naomi Novik's Temeraire novels, set in an alternate Napoleonic era in which intelligent dragons have been harnessed as weapons of war, are more than just perennial bestsellers--they are a worldwide phenomenon. Now, in Tongues of Serpents, Naomi Novik is back, along with the dragon Temeraire and his rider and friend, Capt. Will Laurence. Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon's invasion of England, Temeraire and Laurence--stripped of rank and standing--have been transported to the prison colony at New South Wales in distant Australia, where, it is hoped, they cannot further corrupt the British Aerial Corps with their dangerous notions of liberty for dragons. Temeraire and Laurence carry with them three dragon eggs intended to help establish a covert in the colony and destined to be handed over to such second-rate, undesirable officers as have been willing to accept so remote an assignment--including one former acquaintance, Captain Rankin, whose cruelty once cost a dragon its life. Nor is this the greatest difficulty that confronts the exiled dragon and rider: Instead of leaving behind all the political entanglements and corruptions of the war, Laurence and Temeraire have instead sailed into a hornet's nest of fresh complications. For the colony at New South Wales has been thrown into turmoil after the overthrow of the military governor, one William Bligh--better known as Captain Bligh, late of HMS Bounty. Bligh wastes no time in attempting to enlist Temeraire and Laurence to restore him to office, while the upstart masters of the colony are equally determined that the new arrivals should not upset a balance of power precariously tipped in their favor. Eager to escape this political quagmire, Laurence and Temeraire take on a mission to find a way through the forbidding Blue Mountains and into the interior of Australia. But when one of the dragon eggs is stolen from Temeraire, the surveying expedition becomes a desperate race to recover it in time--a race that leads to a shocking discovery and a dangerous new obstacle in the global war between Britain and Napoleon.

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"""A joy to read.""--""The Star-Ledger "" ""I'm more excited about [Naomi] Novik's series than I ever have been. . . . ""Tongues of Serpents ""might just be the best.""--Clay Kallam, ""Contra Costa Times "" Praise for the novels of Temeraire ""Completely involving and probably addictive.""--""San Francisco Chronicle "" ""Enthralling reading.""--""Time "" ""Gripping adventure.""--""Entertainment Weekly "" ""From the Paperback edition."" ""A joy to read.""--""The Star-Ledger "" ""I'm more excited about [Naomi] Novik's series than I ever have been. . . . ""Tongues of Serpents ""might just be the best.""--Clay Kallam, ""Contra Costa Times "" Praise for the novels of Temeraire ""Completely involving and probably addictive.""--""San Francisco Chronicle "" ""Enthralling reading.""--""Time "" ""Gripping adventure.""--""Entertainment Weekly "" ""From the Paperback edition."""

A joy to read. -- The Star-Ledger I'm more excited about [Naomi] Novik's series than I ever have been. . . . Tongues of Serpents might just be the best. --Clay Kallam, Contra Costa Times Praise for the novels of Temeraire Completely involving and probably addictive. -- San Francisco Chronicle Enthralling reading. -- Time Gripping adventure. -- Entertainment Weekly From the Paperback edition.

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Naomi Novik received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the 2007 World Science Fiction Convention. Along with the three novels in this collection, she is the acclaimed author of Empire of Ivory and Victory of Eagles, the fourth and fifth volumes in the Temeraire series, which has been optioned by Peter Jackson, the Academy Award--winning director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. A history buff with a particular interest in the Napoleonic era, Novik studied English literature at Brown University, then did graduate work in computer science at Columbia University before leaving to participate in the design and development of the computer game Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide. Novik lives in New York City with her husband and six computers.

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