You're going to be. So, Welcome to the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy,ed by John Joseph Adams and David Barr

Kelly.

Hi, this is Dave.

And this is John.

And welcome to episode 17 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today we'll be interviewing Naomi Novick, author of the Temeraire series of fantasy novels about an alternate

world Napoleonic Wars, where dragons are real and are used for air power.

Actually you know when I was at USC there was a student that I knew there and she's good friends with Naomi and so when these books first came out the

student Latifah told me you know she knew that I liked fantasy and said that I should

check him out and so I you know I looked at the website and I mentioned it to John and

so he thought it looked interesting and so he got his hands on the first book and read it and really liked it and you know gave it I think a really good review and so at the time I sort of imagined that I was I was going to give this huge boost to this new writer,

you know having this this really positive review come out. And it was it was really staggering how quickly

Naomi went from a brand new author to just a huge superstar and probably I think that

review didn't have a whole lot to do with that.

Yeah I mean actually you know in her first the first year that her books came out you know the first three all came out,

the first three all came out in the same year. So I mean that had a lot to do with her sort of early success, I think,

just because fans were able to sort of pile on, you know, and see the three different books all in the store made

it made it seem less like a new author. But also, you know, I mean, she got nominated for the

Hugo and the Campbell in that first year and you know she won the

Campbell Award so you know that didn't hurt but yeah no I mean I love those books

you know actually you know I have very little time to read novels these days just because

I'm reading so much short fiction and she's one of the few authors who have actually, you know, made the time to read her new books as they've come out. So, you know, I have read everything that she's written so far.

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