Fans of this venerable space opera will rejoice. Travis Long is about to find that out. I have browsed through the rest of the book. Listen to BuNine and David Weber discuss the book here or here on the Baen Free Radio Hour. The only good thing I can say about it is that it made me want to re-read the Honor Harrington series.
The rest of the book gives a lot of background about the settlement of the Manticore system, as well as the Grayson system, as well as almost anything else you could think to ask. David Weber makes his home in South Carolina with his wife and children. Until, that is, a lunatic named Raibert Kaminski knocks on his door one afternoon with an impossible and horrifying story about alternate realities, time travel, temporal knots, and more than a dozen doomed universes which must inevitably die if the temporal storm front rushing towards the distant future isn't stopped. This is followed by an enormous amount of technical specifications on made-up space navies and background on the history and economics of the Haven Sector. The good news is that Travis is one of those rare people who may like rules but has a talent for thinking outside them when everything starts coming apart.
But what if he's not a madman after all? But those factions are mistaken. Have you ever finished the latest Honor Harrington novel from David Weber and wished you could linger in WeberÂs Honorverse just a bit longer? Unfortunately, he lives in the real universe. Lieutenant Travis Long of the Royal Manticoran Navy is the sort of person who likes an orderly universe. The first book in the Cobra War series hits all those marks in admirable style and makes for a quick, entertaining sci-fi novel. This is where the story truly shines because for me the real point of this story is the adaptation of Manticoran society to prolong.
Unhappily for them, the edge of the explored galaxy can be a far more dangerous place than they think it is. Now all Roger has to do is hike halfway around the entire planet, then capture a spaceport from the Bad Guys, somehow commandeer a starship, and then go home to Mother for explanations. Boot camp is rough and frustrating; his first ship assignment lax and disorderly; and with the Star Kingdom of Manticore still recovering from a devastating plague, the Navy is possibly on the edge of budgetary extinction. But the color plates in the middle! Use it as a reference work and when you get to something you want more detail on then look it up. Wulfra of Torfo doesn't know those answers, either, but she does know Wencit of Rm is her implacable foe and that somehow Kenhodan is one of the weapons he intends to use against her.
Whether he acts or refuses to act, Benjamin Schröder is the one man who will decide which universe lives and which dies, along with every star system, every galaxyâand every single human beingâin it. Excellent ĂŁ plenty of action. This is a short, dull, novel that reads like a transcript of 20-year-old C-Span budget debates. The second part is a collection of information on the universe of the Honor Harrington stories. In which there was still a Soviet Union. Weber builds Shadow of Freedom to an exciting and unexpected climax.
The psychotic episode that turned his entire world upside down struck with absolutely no warning, and it was more terrifying than anything he should have been able to imagine, leaving him with a complete, incredibly detailed set of false, nightmare memories. Fans of this venerable space opera will rejoice. What he does have are a lot of scars and a lot of skills some exhilarating and some terrifying and a purpose. I bought a paperback version for a penny, plus shipping. With only modest interstellar trade, no foreign contacts to speak of, a plague-ravaged economy to rebuild, and no enemies looming at the hyper limit, there are factions in Parliament who want nothing more than to scrap the Navy and shift its resources and manpower elsewhere. And then there is all the background stuff that follows. What if he's actually telling the truth? Wencit of Rm, the most powerful wizard in the world, knows the answers to Kenhodan's questions, but he can't or won't share them with him.
There is only one short story with Honor on how she gets her tree cat. I skipped most of the military hardware parts, but enjoyed reading about the dreadnoughts, and super dreadnoughts. Weber, you know we Marines always have the best dress uniforms! But, when you have presently check this out book and you really are willing to help make their results well ask you to be tied to to leave an overview on our site we can easily post each bad and good evaluations. Fans of this venerable space opera will rejoice. It's very important for people that all true regarding David Weber. It's not easy to face the future when you can't even remember your own past, but if saving an entire world from evil sorcerers, demons, devils, and dark gods was easy, anyone could do it.
Listen to BuNine and David Weber discuss the book or on the Baen Free Radio Hour. Excellent ã plenty of action. But the Navy is overruled by the politicians, and Honor finds herself aboard a Peep battlecruiser, bound for a prison planet aptly named 'Hell' ⊠and her scheduled execution. The Honorverse Companion The companion itself is : a gigantic. The colour plates illustrating uniforms, award ribbons, ships, etc are excellent. Then warships of the Empire of Man's worst rivals shoot his crippled vessel out of space and Roger is shipwrecked on the planet Marduk, whose jungles are full of deadly predators and barbarian hordes with really bad dispositions.
After all, what does a sleepy little single-system star nation on the outer edge of the explored galaxy need with a navy? Post the idea to all of us! For an Honorverse junkie like me this is nothing but great. Click Download or Read Online button to get house of steel the honorverse companion book now. Orbital characteristics of key planets, regimental orders of the Royal Navy, backstory on the history and drama of the Star Kingdom's birth and early days - you'll find it all here, thoughtfully arranged by the Bureau 9 Weber research group, and overseen by David Weber himself. My only complaint is that the color plates had no Marine uniforms. Not just of his own life, but of an entire, ghastly world in which Operation Oz had never happened. And, as the novella is stunning, the rest is astounding.
Cowriters Zahn and Weber do an excellent job alluding to events known to longtime fans. In the hugely-popular Honor Harrington series, the spirit of C. The last chapter seems word for word, for the most part, from a later Honor Harrington novel, but was appropriate in context. Weber's collaboration with alternate history master Eric Flint led to the bestselling 1634: The Baltic War, and his planetary adventure novels with military science fiction ace and multiple national best-seller John Ringo includes the blockbusters March to the Stars and We Few. I immensely enjoyed the House of Steel novella. Including the woman he's discovered he loves more than life itself. Fortunately, Roger has an ace in the hole: Bravo Company of Bronze Battalion of The Empress' Own Regiment.