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It's phunny, them spheres shooting missiles look strangely Dahak-like, although much smaller. Some sort of new superweapon? I wonder on whose side...
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25� Celsius here in the land of loins. In the shade, too. The waters at my countryhouse are at about the same temperature too, it's uncanny. It usually don't get that high until August... Strange things are happening.
Yep, yep yep, no polarbears roaming the streets around here! More like fat german tourists, fat american tourists and thin chinese tourists with fat cameras.
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Couls someone please post a list of the Honor Harrington novels in order? Amazon comes up with them in some kind of really confused order. Thanks.
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Hi guys - back again (Very busy - just got a job).
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Honor Harrington: On Basilisk Station - 4/92 Honor Harrington: Honor of the Queen - 6/93 Honor Harrington: Short Victorious War - 4/94 Honor Harrington: Field of Dishonor - 10/94 Honor Harrington: Flag in Exile - 9/95 Honor Harrington: Honor among Enemies - 2/95 Honor Harrington: In Enemy Hands - 7/97 Honor Harrington: More Than Honor (Anthology) - 1/98 Honor Harrington: On Basilisk Station (Limited Edition) - 10/98 Honor Harrington: Echoes of Honor - 10/98 Honor Harrington: Worlds of Honor (Anthology 2/99) Honor Harrington: Ashes of Victory (3/00) _____________________________________
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Thanks! Just need to do three more exams then I can start reading .
Just a brief word about Starship Troopers; I liked the movie. It was good fun and incredibly gory. I didn't actually get around to reading the book until a few months after and it is so much better. The biggest dissapointment was the lack of powered suits (and tactics) in the film. They just seemed to be a mob with guns. I also thought that the rapid (to say the least) promotions of the main characters was ridiculous. I also think there are sections of the book a few modern politicians should read...
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And shit what a wonderful model!!! He needs to put a bulb inside, plaster red transparent film over the insides of the missile ports and light it up in a dim setting.
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The limited edition had nothing new - it's just that many latecomer fans couldn't find the first one in the series.
I agree the model is pretty - but it is also wrong. The ship should be a narrow spindle - with a small hammerhead. I'm presently working up a CGI.
BTW - apologies for my occassional disappearances from this and other threads. I'm now working a full time job plus various part time gigs. All this keeps me fairly busy - I sneak time on FLARE when I can.
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"The ship should be a narrow spindle - with a small hammerhead"
I seem to recall that the ships in the scale print of the last book looked pretty much like the model. If anything, I think the hammerhead sections should be MORE prominent.
The whole design-theme is efficient but more boring than a borg cube. No creative aesthetics whatsoever, might as well be the whale cylinders of ST:IV.
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Yes I know this is a really old topic and I apologise for resurrecting it, but didn't think it worth creating a whole new one to talk about a subject I now also love very much.
I can't believe that you lot have let this thread go un-posted for over 6 years! I got into Honor Harrington about 18 months ago and just can't stop reading and re-reading the books - David Weber rocks!
However...I now have a problem of my own. I've been trying to write my own novel, but want to keep the ships as realistically as possible - somewhere along the lines that David Weber has achieved...but I can't figure out how he works out his tonnage. I've used the formula for Gross Tonnage fouond on Wikipedia but if I try and compare to Mr Weber's tonnage values...they're way off. I don't suppose anyone knows of where I could find how Mr Weber worked it all out? I know there's some brief blurb in the back of Jayne's Manty Navy book, but it doesn't go into any detail - which is what I need. Of course if you wonderful people (from which I have been away from for far too long) know of an alternative source, I'll happily accept that also.
Many thanks and here's to me hopefully being more active here!
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