Best-selling fantasy author Naomi Novik--who won the 2007 John W. Campbell Award for best new writer--told SCI FI Wire that she traveled to Africa to research the latest entry in her popular Temeraire series, Empire of Ivory.
At the end of the Empire of Ivory, Temeraire and Laurence became traitors to England. Now, they are paying for it; Temeraire has been confined to the breeding grounds in Wales and is bored while Laurence is a prisoner aboard the warship Goliath.
Sun, Jan 10 | from Bright Lilim's journal