Temeraire is a series of nine alternate history fantasy novels written by American author Naomi Novik. The novels follow the adventures of Captain William Laurence and his dragon, the eponymous Temeraire, and reimagine events of the Napoleonic Wars with "an air force of dragons, manned by crews of aviators". His Majesty's Dragon, the first entry in the series, won the Compton Crook Award in 2007 and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel the same year. Temeraire: In the Service of the King, an omnibus volume collecting the first three novels, won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 2007. Temeraire was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Series in 2017. Novels His Majesty's Dragon (2006) / Temeraire (UK) Throne of Jade (2006) Black Powder War (2006) Empire of Ivory (2007) Victory of Eagles (2008) Tongues of Serpents (2010) Crucible of Gold (2012) Blood of Tyrants (2013) League of Dragons (2016) Additionally, Novik published two omnibus volumes collecting the first three novels of the series. Temeraire: In the Service of the King (2006) won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 2007. In addition the same first three books were published by Del Ray as In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (2009). This omnibus volume also includes the Temeraire short story "In Autumn, A White Dragon Looks Over the Wide River". In 2017, Novik published Golden Age and Other Stories, an anthology of Temeraire short stories inspired by fanart of the series. Plot overview The series revolves around William Laurence and his dragon Temeraire. Laurence is a Captain in the British Royal Navy, serving in combat against Napoleon I's navy when he recovers a dragon egg unlike any other known to the British. The egg soon hatches, and Temeraire, a Chinese dragon, is born. Under the impression that an "unharnessed" dragon will become feral and unmanageable, Laurence becomes Temeraire's companion. Despite the difficulties this causes, Laurence begins to think of the dragon as his dearest friend. This forces a change in the officer's life, drawing him from the prestigious Royal Navy to the less desirable Royal Aerial Corps. The remainder of the original trilogy follows the adventures of Laurence and Temeraire as they do battle with the forces of Imperial France and the diplomatic fallout caused by Captain Laurence's adoption by the Emperor of China. The fourth novel, Empire of Ivory, deals with