Martin Rundkvist on Nostr: Naomi Novik's 2006 novel "His Majesty's Dragon" is set during the Napoleonic Wars, ...
Naomi Novik's 2006 novel "His Majesty's Dragon" is set during the Napoleonic Wars, but the armed forces have air forces in the form av talking dragons. These dragons are described as huge, beautiful and non-scary. But in order for this to work, Novik has to gloss over their feeding habits.
The dragons are fed live cows that they "hunt" for themselves inside enclosures. Imagine the constant panicked stampeding whenever a dragon flies over, the broken fences, the tortured lowing of dying cows.
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