Bücher von Naomi Novik

Winner of the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novel Winner of the 2016 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Winner of the 2016 British Fantasy Society Award for Best Novel Shortlisted for the 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best NovelShortlisted for the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel A dark enchantment blights the land in the award-winning Uprooted - a enthralling, mythic fantasy by Naomi Novik, author of the Temeraire series.Agnieszka loves her village, set deep in a peaceful valley. But the nearby enchanted forest casts a shadow over her home. Many have been lost to the Wood and none return unchanged. The villagers depend on an ageless wizard, the Dragon, to protect them from the forest's dark magic. However, his help comes at a terrible price. One young village woman must serve him for ten years, leaving all they value behind. Agnieszka fears her dearest friend Kasia will be picked at the next choosing, for she's everything Agnieszka is not - beautiful, graceful and brave. Yet when the Dragon comes, it's not Kasia he takes.

Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the Sunday Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate.The one thing you never talk about while you're in the Scholomance is what you'll do when you get out - not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way.But that impossible dream has somehow come true for El and her classmates. And what's more, she didn't even have to become the monstrous dark witch she's prophesised to become to make it happen. Instead of killing enclavers, she saved them, and now the world is safe for all wizards. Peace and harmony have enveloped all the enclaves of the world.Just kidding.Instead, someone else has picked up the project of destroying enclaves in El's stead, and everyone she saved is at risk again with a full-scale enclave war on the horizon. And so, the first thing El needs to do after miraculously escaping the Scholomance, is to turn straight around and find a way back in.

Return to the Scholomance - a school of magic unlike any you have ever encountered - in the stunning sequel to the Sunday Times bestselling A Deadly Education, the start of Naomi Novik's ground-breaking crossover series. There are no teachers, no holidays, friendships are purely strategic, and the odds of survival are never equal. Once you're inside, there are only two ways out: you graduate or you die. El, Orion, and the other students are faced with their final year - and the looming spectre of graduation. El is determined that her chosen group will survive, but it is a prospect that is looking harder by the day as the savagery of the school ramps up. Until El realizes that sometimes winning the game means throwing out all the rules...

A thrilling anthology of short stories from the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Scholomance Trilogy and Uprooted, spanning each of her realms and including a sneak peak into the world of her next series.From the dragon-filled Temeraire series and the gothic, magical halls of the Scholomance trilogy, through the realms next door to Spinning Silver and Uprooted, this stunning collection takes us from fairy tale to fantasy, myth to history, and mystery to science fiction as we travel through Naomi Novik's most beloved stories. Here, among many others, we encounter: A mushroom witch who learns that sometimes the worst thing in the Scholomance can be your roommate. The start of the Dragon Corps in ancient Rome, after Mark Antony hatches a dragon's egg and bonds with the hatchling. A young bride in the middle ages who finds herself gambling with Death, for the highest of stakes. A delightful reimagining of Pride & Prejudice, in which Elizabeth Bennet captains a Longwing dragon. The first glimpse at the world of Abandon, the setting of Novik's upcoming epic fantasy series-a deserted continent populated only by silent and enigmatic architectural mysteries.Though the stories are vastly different, there is a unifying theme: wrestling with destiny, and the lengths some will go to find their own and fulfill its promise.

A Deadly Education. "Pervyj urok Sholomanchi" - pervaja chast' trilogii-bestsellera "Smertel'noe obrazovanie" ot Naomi Novik v zhanre fjentezi. Sholomancha - ochen' neobychnaja shkola. Zdes' net ni uchitelej, ni kanikul, ni druzhnyh odnoklassnikov. Zato v tjomnyh koridorah vsegda polno zlydnej - opasnyh sushhestv, gotovyh nabrosit'sja na tebja v ljuboj moment. Iz sten jetoj shkoly smogut vybrat'sja tol'ko sil'nejshie magi. Cel' kazhdogo uchenika - perezhit' vypusknoj, no jeto pod silu daleko ne kazhdomu. I, kazhetsja, v jetom godu vse namnogo slozhnee. Junyh magov zhdet ispytanie, kotoroe nevozmozhno projti. S chem jeto svjazano? I kak spasti sebja i vseh ostal'nyh? Unikal'nyj sjuzhet, predstavljajushhij soboj nechto srednee mezhdu "Golodnymi igrami" i "Garri Potterom" v velikolepnom oformlenii s zolotom na oblozhke. " Tak vygljadel by Hogvarts, esli by ego pridumal Lavkraft" Marija Pokusaeva - avtor populjarnogo knizhnogo videobloga BadLibrarian.

Eine Magierschule, in der Versagen den sicheren Tod bedeutet ... Scholomance ist eine Magierschule, wie es sie noch nie gegeben hat: keine Lehrer, keine Ferien, Freundschaft nur als Mittel zum Zweck und sehr ungleiche Überlebenschancen. Es gibt nur zwei Wege heraus aus der Schule - die Abschlussprüfung oder den Tod. Galadriel, genannt El, ist bestens vorbereitet auf die Gefahren der Schule: Sie hat zwar niemanden, der ihr hilft, aber eine starke dunkle Gabe, mit der sie problemlos auf einen Schlag die Monster auslöschen könnte, die überall in der Schule lauern. Aber das würde auch ihre Mitschüler treffen. Anders als der unerträgliche Schulstar Orion, der ständig Leben rettet, tut El deshalb alles, um diese Gabe nicht zu nutzen - es sei denn, sie hat keine andere Wahl ... Unzählige Fans sind von den bildgewaltigen und genial erzählten Geschichten der Bestsellerautorin Naomi Novik begeistert. Ihre starken Heldinnen widersetzen sich Konventionen und zeichnen sich durch Komplexität aus. »Scholomance« bietet dunkle und gewitzte Abenteuer voller unerwarteter Wendungen. Alle Bände der »Scholomance«-Trilogie: Scholomance - Tödliche Lektion (Band 1) Scholomance - Der letzte Absolvent (Band 2) Scholomance - Die goldenen Enklaven (Band 3)

"From the New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education comes the seventh volume of the Temeraire series, as the Napoleonic Wars bring Will Laurence and Temeraire to South America."An absorbing adventure." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)The French have invaded Spain, forged an alliance with Africa's powerful Tswana empire, and brought revolution to Brazil. Captain Will Laurence and his indefatigable fighting dragon, Temeraire, must travel to South America to negotiate with the Incas, who are also being wooed by the French.If they fail, Napoleon may conquer yet another continent in his campaign for world domination, and the tide of the war may prove impossible to stop." -- Provided by publisher.

Laurence and the dragon Temeraire pursue a defeated French army, only to discover that Napoleon has returned unharmed to Paris and that the French have stolen Temeraire and Iskierka's egg.

Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate.The one thing you never talk about while you're in the Scholomance is what you'll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. But it's all we dream about: the hideously slim chance we'll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls. And now the impossible dream has come true. I'm out, we're all out-and I didn't even have to turn into a monstrous dark witch to make it happen. So much for my great-grandmother's prophecy of doom and destruction. I didn't kill enclavers, I saved them. Me and Orion and our allies. Our graduation plan worked to perfection: We saved everyone and made the world safe for all wizards and brought peace and harmony to all the enclaves everywhere.Ha, only joking! Actually, it's gone all wrong. Someone else has picked up the project of destroying enclaves in my stead, and probably everyone we saved is about to get killed in the brewing enclave war. And the first thing I've got to do now, having miraculously gotten out of the Scholomance, is turn straight around and find a way back in.

Tragedy has struck His Majesty's Aerial Corps, as an epidemic of unknown origin and no known cure is decimating the dragons' ranks. Only Temeraire and a pack of newly recruited dragons remain uninfected and must stand as the only means of airborne defense against France's ever bolder sorties. As Bonaparte's dragons harrow Britain's ships, Temeraire and his captain, Will Laurence, take wing to Africa in search of a cure for the deadly contagion.

"For Britain, conditions are grim: Napoleon's resurgent forces have breached the Channel and successfully invaded English soil. Napoleon's prime objective is the occupation of London. Unfortunately, the dragon Temeraire has been removed from military service--and his captain, Will Laurence, has been condemned to death for treason. Separated by their own government and threatened at every turn by Napoleon's forces, Laurence and Temeraire must struggle to find each other amid the turmoil of war. If only they can be reunited, master and dragon might rally Britain's scattered resistance forces and take the fight to the enemy asnever before, for king and country--and for their own liberty"--

Glitzernd, grandios und geheimnisvollMirjem ist die Tochter eines gutherzigen Pfandleihers, der es nicht über sich bringt, Schulden einzutreiben. Als die Familie deshalb hungern muss, übernimmt Mirjem das Geldeintreiben. Sie hat Erfolg, und bald heißt es, sie könne Silber zu Gold machen. Die Kunde davon dringt bis tief in die Wälder, zum gefürchteten Volk der Staryk. Deren König entführt sie in sein eisiges Reich, sie soll für ihn Silber zu Gold machen. Tut sie das nicht, wird der Staryk sie töten. Doch nun versinkt die Menschheit in Kälte ...

Glitzernd, grandios und geheimnisvollMirjem ist die Tochter eines gutherzigen Pfandleihers, der es nicht über sich bringt, Schulden einzutreiben. Als die Familie deshalb bittere Armut leidet, tritt Mirjem an die Stelle ihres Vaters. Unnachgiebig fordert sie zurück, was ihr zusteht. Sie ist erfolgreich, und bald heißt es, sie könne Silber zu Gold machen. Die Kunde davon dringt bis tief in die Wälder, zum gefürchteten Volk der Staryk - magische Wesen, die mehr aus Eis bestehen als aus Fleisch und Blut. Der König der Staryk entführt sie in sein Reich. Dort soll sie für ihn Silber zu Gold machen. Tut sie das nicht, wird der Staryk sie töten. Doch gleichzeitig versinkt die Menschheit nun in Kälte ...

Es stimmt nicht, dass der Drache die Mädchen, die er sich holt, verspeist. Ganz gleich, was für Geschichten man sich außerhalb unseres Tales erzählen mag ...Agnieszka liebt ihr Dorf und das Tal, in dem sie lebt. Doch jenseits des silbernen Flusses im Dunklen Wald lauert eine böse Macht. Nur der »Drache«, ein mächtiger Zauberer, kann sie unter Kontrolle halten. Dafür fordert er alle zehn Jahre ein Mädchen, das ihm dienen muss. Der Zeitpunkt der Wahl naht, und alle wissen, dass es Kasia treffen wird, Agnieszkas beste Freundin. Sie ist schön, anmutig, tapfer - das Gegenteil von Agnieszka. Als der Drache aber kommt, wählt er nicht Kasia, sondern Agnieszka.

Feuerreiter Lawrence und sein Drache auf ihrer entscheidenden Mission im Kampf gegen Napoleon.Der Russland-Feldzug war für Napoleons Armee vernichtend. Doch auch die Russen und ihre Verbündeten wurden stark geschwächt. Kapitän Will Laurence und sein Drache Temeraire verfolgen die Überreste der französischen Armee zurück nach Westen. Dennoch gelingt es Napoleon, unversehrt nach Paris zurückzukehren. Und es kommt noch schlimmer für Temeraire, denn die Franzosen haben sein Ei gestohlen! Nun heißt es handeln oder sterben, denn die Freunde müssen nicht nur Temeraires Nachkommen retten, sondern endlich auch Napoleon stoppen ...

Die Fortsetzung der SPIEGEL-Bestseller-SagaNach einem Schiffsunglück hat Kapitän Will Laurence alles verloren. Doch sein größter Verlust ist ihm nicht einmal bewusst. Denn durch den Unfall hat er keine Erinnerung mehr an seine Zeit als Feuerreiter oder an seinen Drachen Temeraire. Allein muss er sich den Intrigen und Machtkämpfen der mächtigen Familien Japans stellen. Währenddessen fliegt Temeraire ohne seinen Kapitän nach Moskau, um die Stadt gegen das größte Heer, das die Welt je gesehen hat, zu verteidigen. Im Schatten des Kremls werden sich der Kapitän und sein Drache wiedersehen - und es wird sich herausstellen, ob es tiefere Bande gibt als bloße Erinnerungen ...

The specter of graduation looms large as Naomi Novik's groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling trilogy continues in the stunning sequel to A Deadly Education.

Naomi Novik's beloved Temeraire series, a brilliant combination of fantasy and history that reimagines the Napoleonic wars as fought with the aid of intelligent dragons, is a twenty-first-century classic. From the first volume, His Majesty's Dragon, readers have been entranced by the globe-spanning adventures of the resolute Capt. William Laurence and his brave but impulsive dragon, Temeraire. Now, in Blood of Tyrants, the penultimate volume of the series, Novik is at the very height of her powers as she brings her story to its widest, most colorful canvas yet.Shipwrecked and cast ashore in Japan with no memory of Temeraire or his own experiences as an English aviator, Laurence finds himself tangled in deadly political intrigues that threaten not only his own life but England's already precarious position in the Far East. Age-old enmities and suspicions have turned the entire region into a powder keg ready to erupt at the slightest sparka spark that Laurence and Temeraire may unwittingly provide, leaving Britain faced with new enemies just when they most desperately need allies instead.For to the west, another, wider conflagration looms. Napoleon has turned on his former ally, the emperor Alexander of Russia, and is even now leading the largest army the world has ever seen to add that country to his list of conquests. It is there, outside the gates of Moscow, that a reunited Laurence and Temerairealong with some unexpected allies and old friendswill face their ultimate challenge . . . and learn whether or not there are stronger ties than memory.BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Naomi Novik's Uprooted.Praise for Blood of Tyrants ';A first-class entry in a remarkable and appealing series.'Kirkus Reviews (starred review)';Novik's plots and characterizations get more intricate and plausible with each novel. . . . Novik's re-creation of much of world history based on the existence of intelligent dragons has been so well crafted that all eight books in the series are highly recommended.'Booklist (starred review) ';Novik combines dragons . . . with period history to achieve a brilliantly realized re-creation of military history laced with the fantastic. . . . Well-crafted.'Library Journal';If you've never read these novels, now is the time to start.'io9 ';A fun, action-packed read.'San Antonio Express-News

Naomi Novik's triumphant debut, His Majesty's Dragon, introduced a dynamic pair of heroes to the annals of fantasy fiction: the noble fighting dragon Temeraire and his master and commander, Capt. Will Laurence, who serves Britain's peerless Aerial Corps in the thick of the raging Napoleonic Wars. Now they soar to new heights of breathtaking action and brilliant imagination. It is a grim time for the dragon Temeraire. On the heels of his mission to Africa, seeking the cure for a deadly contagion, he has been removed from military serviceand his captain, Will Laurence, has been condemned to death for treason. For Britain, conditions are grimmer still: Napoleon's resurgent forces have breached the Channel and successfully invaded English soil. Napoleon's prime objective: the occupation of London. Separated by their own government and threatened at every turn by Napoleon' s forces, Laurence and Temeraire must struggle to find each other amid the turmoil of war and to aid the resistance against the invasion before Napoleon's foothold on England's shores can become a stranglehold. If only they can be reunited, master and dragon might rally Britain's scattered forces and take the fight to the enemy as never beforefor king and country, and for their own liberty. But can the French aggressors be well and truly routed, or will a treacherous alliance deliver Britain into the hands of her would-be conquerors? BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Naomi Novik's Tongues of Serpents.

The fifth instalment of the New York Times bestselling series, Temeraire. Laurence waits to be hanged as a traitor to the Crown, and Temeraire is confined to the breeding grounds as Napoleon invades Britain, and takes London.Laurence and Temeraire have betrayed the British. They have foiled their attempts to inflict death upon the French dragons by sharing the cure they found in Africa with their enemy.But following their conscience has a price. Laurence feels he must return to face the consequences, and as soon as they land they are taken into custody. Laurence is condemned to the gallows and Temeraire faces a life of captivity in the breeding grounds. None of their friends or allies can come to their aid, for every hand is needed elsewhere.Britain is completely unprepared for Bonaparte invasion and the advanced tactics of his own celestial dragon - Temeraire's mortal enemy - Lien.