战龙无畏 (2006)

《战龙无畏》（英语：His Majesty's Dragon，在英国发行时所用的书名为Temeraire），美国小说家娜奥米·诺维克创作的一部虚构小说。

故事大纲

在十九世纪初的英法战争中，从空中袭击英国的战士们不是开飞机......而是乘在一只只巨大战龙的背上！

皇家海军信赖号俘虏了一艘法国巡防舰，得到船上珍贵的货物—一颗即将孵化的龙蛋！劳伦斯船长的海军生涯因此画上了句点，并领他走入深不可测的未来......

主要人物

人类

劳伦斯

本作的主角，英国人，原为海军，在被他所俘虏的法国船上发现龙蛋，意外地驯服了破壳而出的龙，因而转投空军。

龙

队长劳伦斯，品种天龙，雄性，攻击能力为‘神风’，中文名字叫“龙天祥”。曾因为劳伦斯的身份，而更换队长，最后失败让劳伦斯继续与无畏搭挡。原为中国欲送给拿破仑的天龙(劳伦斯和艾德华爵士等人原以为是帝王龙)，因为运送时遭遇意外，因而没有送到法国，被劳伦斯从俘虏的船上找到并驯服，拥有极高的智能，会说五种语言(到第三集为止：英文、法文、中文、土耳其语、龙语)。

瞬翼(小翼)

队长詹姆士，品种灰翼龙，雄性，负责邮务。

队长波特兰，品种皇铜龙，雌性。

队长书中未提，品种黄色收割者，雄性。是无畏等人/龙的长官。

队长兰金，品种温彻斯特龙，雄性。

巨无霸

队长柏克力，品种皇铜龙，雄性。

队长哈克特，品种长翼龙，雌性，攻击能力为吐酸液。为领队龙(后面升为旗龙)。

其他

已由《魔戒》导演彼得·杰克森签下电影版权，但最后因为没有开过拍而回到作者处。

His Majesty's Dragon, published in the UK as Temeraire, is the first novel in the Temeraire alternate history/fantasy series by American author Naomi Novik. The story is set during an alternate-history version of the Napoleonic Wars, in which dragons not only exist but are used as a staple of aerial warfare in Asia and Europe. The dragons of the story are portrayed as sapient and intelligent, capable of logical thought and human speech. The series centers primarily on events involving Temeraire (the titular dragon) and his handler, Will Laurence.

The first book of the series tells how Laurence, formerly a Captain in the Royal Navy, becomes Temeraire's handler, and of their early training in preparation for battles against Napoleon's aerial fleet. It was first published in 2006. It won the 2007 Compton Crook Award for best novel in the science fiction/fantasy genre during 2006 by a first-time author.

Plot summary

In the winter of 1804 ("the year four" as the characters call it) or thereabouts, during the War of the Third Coalition, HMS Reliant under Captain William Laurence seizes the French Amitie, a 36-gun frigate. Laurence and the crew of the Reliant find an unhatched dragon-egg on board and declare it a prize captured from the French. Unfortunately, the egg is near hatching, and in order to bring the resulting dragonet into service with Britain's Aerial Corps, it must accept harness and a handler as soon as possible. Laurence orders every officer aboard to prepare to make the attempt, but the dragonet, unusual with all-black hide and six spines on his wings, chooses Laurence, who names him Temeraire, after a second-rate itself named for a French ship likewise brought into service of Britain. Despite Laurence's reluctance to leave polite society and join the Aerial Corps, whose men are almost married to their dragons and who are known for grievous informality, he and Temeraire develop a deep affection.

The Reliant lands in Madeira, where Laurence and Temeraire await the Aerial Corps' response concerning their enlisting in the Corps; they are eventually ordered to a training camp at Loch Laggan in Scotland. Meanwhile, the naturalist Sir Edward Howe identifies Temeraire as a rare Chinese Imperial, a breed rarely seen outside China, much less in Britain; only the Celestials are rarer. The Corps also attempt to reassign Temeraire to a more experienced handler, Lieutenant Dayes; Laurence is surprised at how close he has grown to Temeraire in this short time and rejoices when Temeraire rejects Dayes entirely.

After a brief stopover at his father Lord Allendale's estate, where Laurence reveals his new profession to his family, Temeraire and Laurence arrive in the covert of Loch Laggan. Here Laurence meets Celeritas, the dragon training-master; Catherine Harcourt, the young female captain of the Longwing Lily (Longwings, the only acid-spitters in Britain, insist on female captains), whose formation they will join; Berkley, the captain of the Regal Copper Maximus; and Rankin, a captain of noble family, and his abused Winchester Levitas. Temeraire sees his first action when Victoriatus, a Parnassian, is injured in combat and must be carried back to base. Laurence and Temeraire also adopt their flight and ground crew, headed by Lt. John Granby; Granby, a friend to Dayes, showed initial hostility to Laurence, but the two overcome their difficulties during the mission to aid Victoriatus. Finally, Laurence meets Jane Roland, mother of one of his runners, Emily Roland, who is being groomed to captain the Longwing Excidium after Jane herself retires; Jane and Laurence eventually become lovers.