Each week on 15 Minutes of Fiction…with Fictional Frontiers, Host Sohaib Awan will highlight the best in genre entertainment.
This week…enjoy our segment with the author of the Temeraire Series…Naomi Novik.
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Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith collection
Temeraire series
Will Supervillains Be On the Final? It’s a graphic novel about teens learning to harness their super powers at a private college where not every class is as straightforward as it seems. Naomi found working on a graphic novel to be quite a different experience from writing full-length fiction. Here’s her cute story of how Supervillainscame to be.
So, if you’ve been following the Round 3 match between Jaime Lannister and Temeraire, you’ve probably read Naomi’s excellent imagining of how the fight would go (not surprisingly, it differs somewhat from Suvudu’s). If you haven’t, when you go to the match’s page, click the link that says “Click here to see what author [...]
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Image courtesy of Keith Parkinson
TemeraireCelestial Dragon
Age:
5
Race:
Celestial dragon
Weapons / Artifacts:
Talons, teeth
Special Attack:
The divine wind
Polgara the SorceressDisciple of Aldur
Age:
3000 (or so–it’s impolite to ask a lady her age)
Race:
Human
Weapons / Artifacts:
Her fierce glare
Special Attack:
The Will and the Word
Advantages
Can hover in flight. Did you get that? Can fly.
Ability to learn languages quickly
Is large enough [...]
Prize #2: In His Majesty’s Service
(book details here)
We’re only two days in and already we’re picking up steam. This was one of the many books that really excited us in 2009. In Naomi Novik’s In His Majesty’s Service all three Temeraire books (His Majesty’s Dragon, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War) [...]
Over coffee and snackies the other day Naomi Novik, freshly returned from Australia, reported some of the results of her research for Book 6 of the Temeraire series, which will be published Summer ‘10, God willing and the creeks don’t rise. As the so-far-untitled novel begins, Will Laurence and Temeraire have been deported to the [...]
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Nice! I thought it was the real trailer! I'm a fan of Thunder Cats since I was a kid, and it will...