I’ve finally started reading Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series, which makes me probably the last person in the science fiction community to do so. I’m liking it a lot, so I was interested to see Novik had released a book of short stories, Buried Deep (Del Rey, 2024). Two of these stories, “Vici” and “Dragons & Decorum,” are set in the Temeraire universe—I’ll admit I read those first. They are both delightful, one being the story of how a Roman ended up with the first dragon to be harnessed in Europe, and the other a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, but

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