![]() ![]() The novel begins with the now old first-person narrator announcing that as an addendum to her scientific publications, which she assumes the reader to be familiar with, she proposes to tell the adventures that form the basis for the scientific discoveries that have made her famous. The author had me at this passage in the prologue: “Be warned, then: the collected volumes of this series will contain frozen mountains, foetid swamps, hostile foreigners, hostile fellow countrymen, the occasional hostile family member, bad decisions, misadventures in orienteering, diseases of an unromantic sort, and a plenitude of mud. So I jumped at the opportunity to review Marie Brennan’s A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent, the first installment in a series of fantasy novels set in an alternative 19th century. ![]() I grew up with Anne MacCaffrey’s Pern books, and Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series of historical fantasies is among my favorites. ![]()
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