I haven't read Hornblower either! I don't know what you found sufficient
about Temeraire, but the thing that most delights me is the working-out of
"everyone except Australia has air power" in terms of the inequities of
1800s geopolitics, which is pretty much not apparent from the first book,
and certainly I'm not recommending you read something you disliked.
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Date: 2014-07-17 02:25 am (UTC)I haven't read Hornblower either! I don't know what you found sufficient about Temeraire, but the thing that most delights me is the working-out of "everyone except Australia has air power" in terms of the inequities of 1800s geopolitics, which is pretty much not apparent from the first book, and certainly I'm not recommending you read something you disliked.