It was exactly what I wanted, only once I was in it, I didn… - Naomi Novik

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It was exactly what I wanted, only once I was in it, I didn’t want it after all.

Naomi Novik

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Naomi Novik is an American writer of speculative fiction, including the Temeraire series (2006–2016), an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars involving dragons. She was a co-founder in 2007 of Archive of Our Own (AO3) an online archive of fan fiction.

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It was exactly what I wanted, only once I was in it, I didn’t want it after all. - Naomi Novik

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