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The Honor Harrington Series is a really great read. A firend introduced em to me. I read all he had, then went out and slowly built up my collection untill I now have em all! The "guest writers" books are accually quite good IMHO. They fill in a lot of the stuff that wasnt covered thoroughly in Webbers books, like how the Commitee(sp?) of Public Safety came to power and how McQueen's attempted coup worked out. There are also good stories that give us more info on treecat lives and thier society. Though they may not be as great as the series itself, they provide lots of usefull info for fleshing out Honor's universe and some are a pretty good read in their own right. To anyone who hasn't read any of Weber's work, go get one now! Very few will come away disapointed. I also really like the 3 books that David Weber has done with Steve White ("Insurrection", "Crusade", and "In Death Ground"). Heres to hoping that the Honor Harrington series continues for years to come!
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I sincerely hope so too. I'm very close to the end of "Ashes of Victory" now, right when the Masadan freighter captain has fired his stealth missiles at Honor and her entourage. I don't want to read more than one chapter per day now, I don't want the book to end so soon.
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*two hours of shameless reading later* Well that was fun! I am now in love with Shannon Foraker and want to marry her much. "Oops" indeed. But the last chapters really increased my curiosity in manticoran domestic politics, the backstory about poor "rock-and-a-hard-place" Queen Elizabeth alone could spawn a lot of good stough. And I am delighted in Weber's strategy when ending the book.
The way I see it, he's got more room to continue in different scenarios in the next episode(s). There's so much that could be done, and I hope such seldomly used cards as the Andermani, San Martin and the Guild will be used more.
I was a bit surprised by Weber's note about continuity in the end of the book, but it's certainly nice to know he takes it so seriously.
Hmm, I'll go back to bed now.
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Aaah. What have we here? I seldom go to "Design..." nowadays, and the title didn't give any hints about the Honor universe. I'll go have a peek.
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Well, Treknophyle, if you're still with us, I recently bought the third Dahak-volume, "Heirs of Empire". I'm at 50% now, it's real good. The whole series was great, you were right.
Anyhow, since I waited extra long for the book, they had to order a whole new batch to my favorite shop 'cause it's s popular, I got the newest, eighth print, January, 2002! And guess what was printed in the second page?
"Other books by David Weber Honor Harrington blah-1 blah-2 blah-3 blah-4 blah-5 blah-6 blah-7 blah-8 Ashes of Victory (blah-9) War Of Honor (Forthcoming)!!!!
They didn't even have that info on his own website. How do you like them apples, Happy and Phyle?
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Yes, it is not listed as either an "anthology" or "written with Blah Blaherson".
Furthermore, I have now finished Heirs of Empire (they really "went medieval on their asses") and although it was written in -96 I have confidence he'll continue on the theme, since the Achultaani threat still is there, and there are a couple of more loose ends.
I don't know where he's heading with his new fantasy books, though, they are said to be rather mediocre. But I haven't tried them myself, so...
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Yes, I am grateful for the recommendation, it wouldn't have stood out against the other pocket books in the shop, had I judged it by its cover.
It's funny, I loved reading "Lord of the Rings" but there are some things and emotions in HH that just can't be compared to anything else. At least, I don't want to compare it to anything else. :-)
The Dahak-tip was good too. ("You won't look at the moon the same way again", whyIoughtta...)
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Goddamn shit though, that it is scheduled for November release. I wanted to read it on the summerhouse porch, like the last one. Well, should be enough of a sacrifice.
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I snese a visit to amazon coming on... I have 10 weeks of summer holiday this year ; the upside of exams. So, plenty of time for reading. Has anyone read The Outward Urge by John Wyndham and Lucas Parkes? It is really good, though slightly dated now.
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