Temeraire was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Series in 2017. 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. 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. 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'. Temeraire is a series of nine alternate history fantasy novels written by American author Naomi Novik.
