penal colonies

Despite their heroic defense of England, Captain Will Laurence and his dragon, Temeraire, are convicted of treason and transported to a prison colony in distant Australia. Several adventures later the theft of a precious dragon's egg turns their trip into a desperate recovery opperation and presents a dangerous new complication in the global war between Britain and Napoleon.

In 2075, exiles living on Earth's penal colony on the moon use a master computer to start a revolution.

An account of the convict settlements in Australia based upon letters, diaries, and documents from the first landing in Botany Bay in 1788 to the last shipload of convicts in 1868.

Richard Morgan, the refined son of a Bristol tavern-keeper finds himself consigned as a convict to the "First Fleet" which brought male and female prisoners to the newly discovered continent of Australia.