Naomi Novik
An avid reader of fantasy literature since age six, Naomi Novik is also a history buff with a particular fascination with the Napoleonic era and a fondness for the work of Patrick O'Brian and Jane Austen. She began writing as a guilty pleasure while studying for her Master's degree in Computer Science at Columbia. She found an opportunity to combine her passions by developing computer games, starting with a multi-player online science fiction game she created in college that has now been in...See more
An avid reader of fantasy literature since age six, Naomi Novik is also a history buff with a particular fascination with the Napoleonic era and a fondness for the work of Patrick O'Brian and Jane Austen. She began writing as a guilty pleasure while studying for her Master's degree in Computer Science at Columbia. She found an opportunity to combine her passions by developing computer games, starting with a multi-player online science fiction game she created in college that has now been in continuous operation for almost a decade. She is also the founder and organizer of Vividcon, the annual convention for digital video enthusiasts who create music videos and other short films based on their favorite television shows and movies, and of the Commonverse, a project dedicated to applying the "open source" approach for software development to the writing of shared-universe fiction. She lives with her husband in New York City. See less
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In His Majesty's Service
Couldn't Put It Down
by Larry G, Sep 22, 2011
This is a great way to get hooked on Temeraire, the first three books in one. Thankfully I ordered all the books in the series so I don't have to wait while the rest are delivered. The truck repairs ... read more
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The Tongues of Serpents
Puzzling
by Ellyb, Sep 5, 2010
"Tongues of Serpents", Naomi Novik's follow-up to her electrifying debut quintet, is an interesting book. For one thing, it feels like just one small part of what was meant to be a longer story. ... read more
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His Majesty's Dragon
Dragon War stories
by BruceHH, Jul 1, 2009
This first volume of a series is an interesting combination of elements reminding one of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series of British Navy stories, Anne McCaffrey's Dragon Riders of Pern and ... read more
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