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Loading... DragonFly (Missions of the DragonFly Squadron) (Volume 1)by Charles A Cornell
None No current Talk conversations about this book.  Ronnie293 | May 2, 2017 |    ) mmoj | Mar 2, 2017 | Veronica Somerset is an RAF pilot trying to navigate the male dominated military. She is an experience pilot and would like to fly in combat instead of boring mail routes. When Ronnie is assigned to Enysfarne Naval Base in Cornwall, she finally gets a chance to prove herself. Engineer Nigel Pennbridge has discovered a crystalline, quadra-hydrogen fuel system with strange crystals that only seem to be at Enysfarne. With this new technology, Nigel has built the DragonFly, a plane that has the ability to win the war for the British against HItler's sorcerers and mechanically enhanced warriors. DragonFly begins with action and may seem to be like any WWII novel, Veronica's train is being attacked on her way to the Naval base. Right away we get to see her bravery and intuition in a combat situation. I was very pleased that there is a female pilot as the main character and her story is not dominated by romance, but action and heroism. Ronnie proves herself over and over as a good pilot and good soldier throughout the story. The alternate history and science fiction aspects of DragonFly were really different and kept me reading. All of the new types of planes were interesting (the pictures helped with this!) as well as the crystal technology that fueled the DragonFly. The Druidism and Sorcery inclusion made for a nice spin and managed to make Hitler and the Nazi's even more terrifying. ( ) Mishker | Aug 29, 2014 | no reviews | add a review
A young woman with the fate of a nation in her hands. An aircraft designed by science, fueled by magic and flown with passion. A World War re-imagined like never before. Strap yourself in for a wild ride as award-winning author Charles A. Cornell takes you on his science fantasy adventure, DragonFly, into an alternative World War Two. In 1942, an unlikely heroine changes the course of history. On the eve of invasion by the Nazis, twenty-two year old RAF pilot Veronica ??Ronnie?? Somerset is fighting another battle??winning respect within the stuffy, male-dominated British military. She??s feisty and brash and determined to overcome every obstacle to become Britain??s first female combat pilot. When Ronnie is re-assigned to Enysfarne, a mysterious Royal Navy base off the coast of Cornwall, fate places her inside the cockpit of the most revolutionary aircraft ever invented. Brilliant engineer, Dr. Nigel Pennbridge has discovered quadra-hydrogen, an element that powers the DragonFly, a remarkable fighter-bomber that carries the hopes of Britain on its blue and silver wings. Across the English Channel, Nazi Germany is busy planning its next conquest. Reichsführer Bernhardt Morax, Hitler's personal sorcerer and leader of the Third Reich??s Zauber Korps is preparing his Blutskriegers for invasion; bio-mechanical warriors created by a depraved occult science whose dark secrets cross the boundaries of evil. The Nazi invasion fleet gathers off the shores of England. Morax, with help from his spies, is determined to seize the DragonFly and unlock the secrets of Enysfarne??s Druid past. Will the Druid wizard, Affodill??whose ancestral castle has been expropriated by the Royal Navy??join forces with the British, or will he make a pact with the evil Morax? Can Princess Victoria and Ronnie Somerset convince Affodill to place his magic in the service of a nation that has betrayed his Druid ancestors for centuries? Can the heroic pilots of the DragonFly Squadron repel Morax's invasion to save No library descriptions found. |
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Veronica ‘Ronnie’ Somerset, an RAF pilot, is sent to Enysfarne, a Navy coastal outpost.
”The castle of Enysfarne was a dark and towering force that hovered over what was left of my innocence. It contained my destiny, of that I had no doubt whatsoever; a fate that threatened to wipe the blush off my face and turn me into the man my father always wanted me to be.” - Pilot Officer Ronnie Somerset.
The station Commander has already written her off as a scatterbrain female and of no use to them.
”There may be a shortage of pilots but if it was up to me, I wouldn’t let you fly a kite for the Royal Navy!” - Station Commander Commodore K C Lowndes
However, when the situation becomes desperate Ronnie and her two best friends, also accomplished pilots, are given the opportunity to prove their worth and take the three DragonFly planes into battle.
Ronnie proves herself as a top pilot and a great female lead – asserting herself at all the right times.
Ronnie and her co-pilot Dr Nigel Pennbridge, creator of the DragonFly, have a great chemistry and I applaud Cornell for not pushing their partnership into a romance.
Planes, their workings and aerial combat figure highly in this reimagining of WWII with metal wasps, planes that run on water, telepathy, cyborgs and druids this is a highly recommended read for both WWII and Science Fiction fans alike.
”It’s magic”, I said. “Not magic, Ronnie. Science.” - Dr Nigel Pennbridge. (