#honor harrington series - david weber

[shannon-foraker]

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[deepspaceboytoy]

What are your fave scifi books/series/etc? Biggest influences?

Well obviously stuff like Star Wars and Halo and Warhammer 40k are in there but my favorite sci fi series and biggest influence in that it’s what made me really want to actually buckle down and write a book is David Weber’s Honor Harrington series. They’re. Well it’s complicated, I do think they’re good (up until near the end of the series when the spinoffs started piling up and it’s clear Weber just wanted to end it to move on to stuff like Safehold), Honor is maybe my favorite sci fi character. I think the political machinations and set piece writing is very good, but it’s hard for me to put into words what it was about that series that stuck with me so much.

Other influences include David Drake’s Hammer’s Slammers stories, Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers, the Destiny games, and some other stuff I’m sure I’m forgetting that’s more ephemeral.

[theseventhoffrostfall]

So I'm making my way through Through Struggle, The Stars slowly, because it's exceptionally dry so far. And you guys know me, half my all time favorite books are slow, boring weird sci-fi that consist of people walking around weird locations and sitting in rooms. The characters are all very grounded, which is good normally, but in this case they're so grounded they're like the sort of people that get three lines in another person's story, now recast as the main characters. They're like an entire military made of the impressions you get of people interviewing them for five minutes for the press.

The biggest conflict thus far (that the characters are involved in, humankind's first interstellar war is happening elsewhere and the protagonists are kinda watching at the fringes) is this guy getting caught in the tense interservice rivalry between the military and civilian intelligence service; and remember, the author was a reporter involved with reporting on the CIA at some point, so this is coming straight from the tap of gritty real life intrigue. Which, yeah, I 100% believe that in real life it mostly boils down to petty passive-aggressiveness and the greatest danger is that crossing that line carelessly can slightly hinder your career at some point.

I've become convinced that the book was written exclusively for the sort of people the author associates with, that being boring political legacy people who've never read a science fiction book in their lives and probably were adjacent to the military for most of their lives but never served. It would explain why it's quite near-future with shitty little starships and mentions of a blue-water naval war on earth, in a world where we have artificial wormholes and fusion drives but no fusion power; it was probably considered creativity past the point of bursting the audience's frontal lobes that a political (America has gone from sole superpower to third place) and military (starships and lasers) paradigm shift has occurred. It would also explain why concepts from panspermia and parallel evolution to deceleration burns and even faster-than-light travel and terraforming, basic concepts to anyone who's even brushed past a sci-fi novel in the library, are defined extensively and repetitively.

As a sidenote, the book's blurb proclaimed it to have "the most scientifically-realistic space combat ever put to page" or something to that effect. Now, I've never read Honor Harrington, because nothing I've ever read of David Weber's gives me any hope that it's worth even one novel of my time, let alone 576 or whatever, but that's a pretty influential series that features ships having some weird analogue to force fields and hyperspace drives and shit. It's also the only one that springs to mind that both features that and can reasonably be called military science fiction, and it's decades old. Maybe I look in the wrong places but every modern milsci series I know of is grounded in fusion torches and physical armor and waves of missiles, usually to the detriment of making the battle actually engaging. With most of the few examples of series featuring them at all being on average military-adjacent, I actually can't think of a modern milsci series with space naval combat as a focus where the captain ordered the crew to power up the shields and fire full ahead on the reactionless drive. I'm not saying one's better than the other, it's just an odd boast to have about a book these days. They're only exceptionally "realistic" in that they're exceptionally shitty, and can manage like .03 G's of acceleration in a genre where 2 G's is a leisurely cruise for most ships in most settings.

I'm not dropping it just yet, because I've been doing that too much recently and I feel like I should reserve it for shit that's vile and intolerable instead of just kinda lame, but I'm losing hope it's gonna get much better

[xenosaurus]

huh. my parents named me after some david weber novels - the honor harrington series - so it's weird seeing his name in a context that's not, like, their house

have you ever fought dracula

[litcityblues]

"On Basilisk Station" --A Review

Last year, I plunged headlong into the delights of the Vorkosigan Saga (I'm still going to be working on that one this year) but I wanted to add a series that's been lurking on the bookshelves of my parents for years now that I've never gotten around too- and that's the Honor Harrington series by David Weber.

(My Dad has a ton of Eric Flint books, so I've read a lot of the 1632 books-- though I'm way behind on those as well, as there seem to be more and more every year. But, a long-time collaborator of Flint's in multiple universes? David Weber.)

One thing that I found surprising right off the bat is that a brief dive into David Weber's wiki page reveals that he hasn't (at least from what I can find) ever been in the Navy. That both surprised me and impressed me. Granted, we're talking about space navies with the Honorverse, but the level of detail about ships, command structure and philosophy, and basic procedures seems like it should come from someone who's experienced it firsthand, but I guess not. That Weber lists C.S Forester and Patrick O'Brian, as influences on his writing is unsurprising and honestly, makes me want to put both authors on a future TBR list because what Weber has crafted with On Basilisk Station is the beginning of an immersive and well-crafted universe that I found to be compulsively readable and I know after one volume, I'm going to get through every one of these I can get my hands on.

On Basilisk Station introduces us to Commander Honor Harrington, newly graduated from the Royal Manticoran Navy's advanced tactical course and awarded her first commander, the light cruiser HMS Fearless that's undergoing a major weapons refit. Harrington discovers, much to her displeasure that most of her normal weapons have been stripped out and replaced by an experimental 'grav lance' commissioned by Admiral Sonja Hemphill.

Unhappy, but always ready to do her duty and expecting her new crew to do the same, Harrington and the Fearless use the grav lance to great effect in one round of war games, but taste crushing defeat after crushing defeat in the subsequent rounds as the grav lance, while devastatingly effective at close range is less effective once people know what to look for.

Admiral Hemphill, embarrassed by the failure of her experiment has the HMS Fearless assigned to picket duty on distant Basilisk Station, a posting generally regarded by the fleet as where the screw-ups and embarrassments get sent so they're out of the way. There, Harrington meets an old nemesis- Captain Lord Pavel Young, a spoiled son of a nobleman, whose career has been stuck in neutral due to an attempt to rape Honor at the Academy several years earlier. He is using her arrival as a ploy to ruin Honor's career and takes his heavy cruiser Warlock back to Manticore for some 'emergency refits' leaving Honor and her light cruiser as the only military presence in the system.

Harrington (unsurprisingly) sees this as a challenge and not a setback and to the surprise of local officials on Basilisk Station and the planet Medusa itself actually starts doing her job and finds out all kinds of interesting things. She cracks down on smuggling, and finds a drug manufacturing ring planetside that's selling hallucinogenic drugs to the sentient species of the planet inciting them to furious violence and whoever is behind that is arming them as well.

What the Fearless finds begins to cause a political stir back home on Manticore as well- and forces who want to discredit an isolationist faction who wants to withdraw from Basilisk Station work to delay the higher-ranked Lord Captain Young's return to the system to let Honor and the Fearless continue her work.

Eventually, they find out whose behind it all: the People's Republic of Haven, intent on gaining a strategic foothold in the system to drive Manticore out attempting a coup de main. Honor's complement of marines handles the native uprising planetside, while the Fearless runs down the Sirius, a Havenite Q-ship disguised as a freighter, who is running to signal the rest of their forces to move in. Harrington sends a message to Manticore advising them that the invasion is imminent and moves to engage.

The subsequent battle is costly to the Fearless in terms of damage to their ship and crew, but Honor manages to get the Sirius within range of their grav lance and uses it to destroy the Sirius.

Honor returns home to a hero's welcome, and a promotion, but unfortunately, the HMS Fearless is too damaged to salvage, but a newly constructed heavy-cruiser, christened as the new HMS Fearless is her new command.

Overall: When can one achieve mastery of any given subject? I don't know if a debut novel is enough to declare Weber a master of military science fiction, but for sure, On Basilisk Station confirms that Weber knows what he's doing and is pretty damn good at it to boot. I like that we don't get lost in world-building-- Weber drops us into the political situation from the word go and builds out as necessary from there. We don't get a sprawling history of humanity's diaspora out to the stars or anything like that- we're in the story and off and running.

I also like that Honor is presented as a character who is not morally flexible (at least so far in the series.) When given orders, she follows them to the letter and expects her crew to do otherwise. She recognizes the importance of when to push and when not to get the best out of her people and while her Executive Officer Commander McKeon struggles with her arrival and his own feelings about it, eventually, she wins him over as well. As a character, she leaps off the page.

My Grade: **** out of ****, a strong debut for this series. Send me volume two and sign me up for the next posting, because I'm all in on Honor Harrington.

[phlebasphoenician]

I don’t know how to phrase this ask properly 😭 but how do you like… know nart and write fics when u’ve not read or watched it? I’m so confused. (I don’t mean this rudely or anything I’m genuinely????? Because there is So much. How????? Im actually flabbergasted this is so wild to me😭 😭 😭)

Don't worry, I'm not offended! I've been asked this before and I'm always happy to talk about it.

The short answer is that I don't need to know canon to feel comfortable in a fandom space or to consume the works made by and for that fandom.

The long answer is much, much longer so I'm putting it behind a cut.

There are two parts to why I'm like this, and the first one is the fandom I started out in.

My first fandom was the X-Men and I began with the very first X-Men comic - The X-Men #1. (Yes, it was published in 1963. Yes, I'm fandom old… 🤣) From there I jumped to the wider Marvel comics universe as a whole.

And with every new storyline, with every change in the creative team, I just accepted the stories as they came.

When people died, often several times over (Jean Grey, I am looking at you), when they time travelled, met their alternate selves, became villains, became heroes, changed their costumes/personalities/de-aged/became old/got married/forgot they were married/pretended they forgot they were married (Vision, whyyyyyy), I just kept reading.

I got used to the idea that the characters were always the same characters but that they'd be constantly changing, be written differently by every new writer, and that they were always in flux.

This meant that - to me - canon wasn't a stable static thing. No, it was a fluid amorphous collection of ideas, simultaneously recognised by creators, publishers, and fans alike.

Because fans have always had an impact on comics.

Dead characters come back because fans want to read about them again and creators are keen to make it happen. Characters are redeemed to become heroes or fall to become villains because fans want to read those stories and creators want to tell them. Characters get spin off mini-series (and sometimes whole series) because fans will buy those comics.

Fans are a crucial part of the creative process.

I've always accepted transformative work - because what else is a new creative team coming in to make Jane Foster the new Thor but a stunning piece of transformative work? - as an equal to canon.

Because, to me, it is.

I consume both kinds with equal facility and ease, without thinking of either as less than the other.

Here's the second part - I will follow professional creators from story to story, from series to series, and enjoy it because I like their style.

I won't like every work, probably not, but there's a high probability that I will enjoy at least some of them and I'll buy those works because of it.

Because I like Honor Harrington, I've also read David Weber's Safehold series. Because I like the Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey, I've also read her Heirs of Alexandria series and her Five Hundred Kingdoms stories. Because I love Sandman, I've also read Good Omens (multiple times, it is excellent), Neverwhere, Stardust, and American Gods. Because I love Summer Wars, I've also made it a point to watch other films by Mamoru Hosoda, including Wolf Children and Mirai. I fell in love with Inception and then went on to watch other Christopher Nolan films - some were to my taste (Dunkirk, The Dark Knight Rises) and others were not, but I still try and catch them in cinemas where I can.

I don't think that's unusual behaviour.

But I also treat fan work in exactly the same way.

I'll follow a fan author from fandom to fandom, reading stories to see if the new fandom is to my taste. Sometimes, it's not - no harm, no foul, kink tomato - but all to often it is, and that is entirely because of the strength of that author's writing.

Most of the time I don't even touch canon - why would I when I'm here for this author's particular interpretation of it? I don't need to know canon when the author builds the world of their story so beautifully it stands on its own.

And, if by chance the fandom is so much to my taste that I want to consume other works in it, there are other fan work creators! All of them easily accessible! It's marvellous!

I never worry that the works I'm reading are out of character for canon, because I don't care about canon.

For me, reading fanfiction is just like reading original fiction.

Now writing it is quite another matter.

I didn't know that I was going to be writing in the Naruto fandom. My first story in this fandom was supposed to be a 1600 word joke fill for a prompt that wouldn't leave me alone.

But hey, somehow, people asked me what happened next, I knew the answer so I wrote it, and then the whole thing snowballed.

That meant that my ideas of how the world of Naruto worked and what the characters were like was entirely based around fanfiction I'd read.

I acknowledged that at the end of Escape and Evade:

I always intended for this to be a little story, written just for me, because I couldn’t get a drabble from nirejseki and a comment from YumiStar out of my head.

But, along the way, it’s become a bit more than that for me.

I haven’t written fan fiction since 2005 and this has stretched me in ways that I’m not even sure I know yet.

And it’s in a fandom whose cannon I have never actually watched or read.

Which means that my understanding of these characters who I have come to love, is based entirely on the amazing work of the authors who put their time and effort into sharing their stories with the world.

This story is quite literally my love letter to Founders Era Naruto Fandom.

Truly, my little effort stands on the shoulders of giants.

So here I am, and Courting Culture Confusion has become a 648,934 word reboot of Naruto (it's still not over, I'm still publishing a new chapter daily) which means that I have to think about canon! Because how can I reboot it when I don't know what's going on?

And the answer to that is I ask other fans.

As with most fandoms, all I have to say is "I'm thinking about writing this character, would anyone care to tell me what they're like?" and at least six people will pop up to give me their opinions. From there, I'll try and figure out how to make them into a cohesive whole that also matches with what's available in narutopedia (thank you to everyone who works on that, I could not write without it as a handy reference!) and then I sit down to write.

It's really that simple.

So how can I write without knowing canon?

Because you know canon and you're willing to tell me.

Thank you. 💚

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Waiting For The Blade To Fall

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by Jedi_Knight_Leia_Skywalker

Tom finds the bar from Five times Tom Theisman met Aral Vorkosigan, by Franavu again, after Beatrice's failure.

Tom replies softly, “I sent over three hundred powerful ships to take the enemy home system, and the operation failed. Two thirds of them were destroyed, most of the rest were captured, and one of my last surviving friends got captured. And, we didn’t achieve anything besides maybe slowing them down.”

Words: 329, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Honor Harrington Series - David Weber, Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Gen

Characters: Aral Vorkosigan, Thomas Theisman

Relationships: Thomas Theisman & Aral Vorkosigan

Additional Tags: Suicidal Thoughts, Suicidal Eloise Pritchart, (or more like she doesn't plan to be taken alive), Alcohol, Drinking & Talking, Drinking to Cope, Set after At All Costs but before Mission of Honor, Post-Battle of Manticore, Post-Operation Beatrice, Prisoner of War

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/RWi1nC5

[anotheruserwithnoname]

Book series that would make good movies/TV shows if done properly

With all this talk about Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones and now Harry Potter being remade for TV, there are a number of popular book series that I am surprised no one has (by now) done a proper film or TV series about. Here are a few that I think are overdue for adaptation on screen. Spoiler break here as this will be a bit long:

(n.b. all cover scans are from my collection)

1. Honor Harrington

This post was inspired by the fact David Weber’s military SF series Honor Harrington - which traces the career and exploits of the titular character - turns 30 this year. There is some immense world-building by Weber here, more than enough to sustain a TV series and spin-offs. And Honor had the “tough hero with cute cat” look down pat while Brie Larson was still in her crib. I feel old because I read On Basilisk Station when it first came out!

2. Killashandra Ree

I’m surprised there haven’t been movies adapting Anne McCaffrey’s novels. The Killashandra Ree trilogy - about a young woman who uses her singing voice to mine a precious commodity called crystal. This would be a perfect role for a singer-actress.

3. Illuminatus!

Shea and Wilson’s Illuminatus! trilogy has been called the ultimate fairy tale for paranoids. Most of not all references to “the Illuminati” which appears in films from time to time take some notes from the Illuminatus! Trilogy. It would have to be NC-17 if done for movies, so this is more likely a Netflix-friendly concept. And once the trilogy is done, Wilson went on to write a number of novels called The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, another semi-related trilogy, Schrodinger’s Cat, and also Masks of the Illuminati. 

4. Vatta’s War

If they don’t want to do Honor Harrington, there are other female-led military sci-fi series available, such as Elizabeth Moon’s Vatta’s War series focusing on space academy dropout Ky Vatta’s attempts to redeem herself as she commands a trading vessel caught in the middle of a war.

5. Modesty Blaise

It’s true, there have been 3 attempts at adapting Peter O’Donnell’s comic strip for the movies: indeed, his very first full-length novel adapted his original script for the 1966 movie version that threw everything out the window in favour of goofy comedy. A 1980s TV pilot was Americanized. A 2004 prequel movie called My Name is Modesty failed because it was a prequel. But if properly cast (Gal Gadot), and properly written, a Modesty Blaise movie would make everyone forget the entire notion of casting a woman as James Bond - they don’t need to do so with retired crime lord-turned-unofficial MI6 spy Modesty Blaise around.

6. Old Man’s War

I was going to include John Scalzi’s amazing Old Man’s War series next, but apparently they are doing a TV series of that one.

7. Harvard Lampoon’s Bored of the Rings

OK, maybe not - but it would be funny to see someone release this as counter-programming to Rings of Power!

[phlebaswrites]

Phlebas Fandom Year in Review (2022)

Continuing on from the Fandom Year in Review that I did last year, this was me in 2022.

The Basics

New stories: 85 Word Count: 235,783 Events: 9 Event stories: 58

Fandom Event Breakdown

TobiIzu Week 2022: 2 stories Naruto Polyamory Appreciation 2022: 12 stories Three Sentence Ficathon 2022: 10 stories febuwhump 2022: 3 stories Naruto Polyamory Appreciation Week 2022: 2 stories Prompts for Pride 2022: 9 stories Kisame Week 2022: 4 stories Naruto RarePair Week 2022: 9 stories MadaTobi Week 2022: 7 stories

Fandom & Top 5 Ship Breakdown

Naruto: 79 stories Senju Hashirama/Uchiha Madara/Uzumaki Mito: 12 Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara: 10 Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Izuna: 7 Senju Hashirama/Uchiha Madara: 5 Hoshigaki Kisame/Uchiha Itachi: 5

Honor Harrington Series - David Weber: 2 stories Gen

Hannibal (TV): 1 story Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter

Shakespeare: 1 story Gen

Books of Magic/Sandman - Neil Gaiman: 1 story Gen

Old Kingdom - Garth Nix: 1 story Gen

(All of the statistics here are taken from AO3 - I don't keep a personal count.)

[Image ID: 6 images, cumulatively showing twelve sample snippets of my writing - one for each month. End ID]

[biblioflyer]

Raffi & JL before the fall, The Raffi Controversy, Picard s1e3 Rewatch.

Who was Raffi before she became the messy person we meet fourteen years after Mars? One flashback isn’t much, but it may be richer in detail than one might expect at first glance. Of course this is also a story that is still being written and those caveats definitely apply.

This is part of a series of essays reevaluating Star Trek Picard and interrogating the widely held fandom criticism that Picard made the Federation into a Dystopia.

It is worth recalling that season three is apparently exploring Raffi’s backstory to some degree or another and a more fuller picture of the character and her place within the narrative and the setting is coming into view.

The Raffi we see immediately after Mars seems extremely impressive. She correctly anticipated every objection Starfleet Command would raise to a renewed effort to evacuate Romulan space. She seems like a very effective aide de camp to Picard. As nicknames go, I wasn’t super fond of J.L., but the familiarity hints at a strong working relationship and that Picard allows Raffi a degree of latitude that perhaps other subordinates haven’t had.

Why might that be? My theory is that Picard’s secret hobby is adopting strays. That is to say, he’s the sort of classical command officer who is defined by his ability to spot talent in rough crewmen who are struggling to apply their gifts in Starfleet and for Starfleet to recognize those gifts. 

This archetypal character loves to rehabilitate troubled officers less through force of unrelenting discipline, but by recognizing that some people need to not just be told what the rules are and be punished for breaking but instead need to understand them and believe in the rules (and themselves.) See also Commander William Adama and Kara Thrace, or Honor Harrington and….everyone she encounters (don’t @ me about David Weber, I’m well aware he and his body of work are.....a bit complicated, I just think the character of Honor embodies this archetype well.)

This is precisely the situation that defines Seven and Shaw’s relationship in Season 3. Seven knows the rules but doesn’t value them, Shaw understands the rules but is so submissive to authority that it makes him incredibly reluctant to act outside his mandate or follow his conscience.

While the timeline of Raffi’s life is vague, when she is questioning Picard about the outcome of the meeting with Starfleet Command and anticipating his success, she presents as oriented, intelligent, and driven. Season three provides a bit more context as well for the circumstances in which she found herself in Starfleet, but I am on the fence as to whether including it here represents “cheating” and if it makes judging season one on its own merits unfair.

To allude to season three without spoiling it, it's implied that Raffi has always possessed an inner darkness inclined towards quickly becoming irritated with small minds who can’t see what she sees and Starfleet seems to have been an opportunity to either start over or put her skills towards a higher purpose.

Her breaking point, at least in this scene, seems to be Picard’s resignation and the collapse of the Romulan relief effort. She quickly becomes angry and turns on Picard, infuriated by the hubris of him believing he was indispensable. She lashes out, citing a future for him comfortably retiring to Chateau Picard and writing his memoirs and compares it to her own future, which she immediately assumes to be bleak.

One might be justified in assuming that Raffi has not had the best of luck with commanding officers, whereas Picard had the finesse to coax her talents out of her while tolerating or disarming her more difficult traits. Alternately, Raffi is a person adrift without a clear purpose to focus her energies upon.

As I've alluded to a few times, I've known and loved a few Raffis. Getting through the outer defenses is challenging. Riding the maelstrom even tougher. They are more deserving of patience and compassion than they know, but they'd be a whole lot easier to appreciate if they could know it.

[nieithryn]

GETTING TO KNOW YOU

Respond to the prompts below, and tag fellow writers that you’d like to get to know better.

FAVORITE COLOR(S): Dark/Navy Blue, Metallic Gray/Silver, Metallic Yellow/Gold, Heraldic Red.

FAVORITE MOVIE(S): Pirates of Penzance (1983), Attack of the Clones (2002), The Greatest Showman (2017), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Walking With Dinosaurs/Beasts, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002), The Lord of the Rings Trilogy,The Hobbit (1977) & The Return of the King (1980).

FAVORITE BOOK(S): Shatterpoint (Matthew Stover), Jingo (Terry Pratchett), Reaper Man (Terry Pratchett), Night Watch (Terry Pratchett)....do the Open Seasons comics count?

FAVORITE SERIES: Hands-down Discworld by Terry Pratchett as far as bookseries, followed closely by Honor Harrington by David Weber. Dresden Files by Jim Butcher; The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer (but I know the author personally, so, I'm biased). For tv series, The Clone Wars, Good Omens, Hogan's Heroes, uh....there's more I am simply blanking.

FAVORITE MUSICIAN(S): Elton John, Billy Joel, Mary Black, Roger Whittaker, Malukah, Enya, Loreena McKennitt, Josh Groban, Aurelio Voltaire, Blackmore's Night, the Seekers, Peter Paul and Mary, John Denver, Glen Yarbrough.....

FAVORITE MUSIC: Celtic Folk, Folk (in general, especially 60s folk tho), TV/Videogame/Film Scores, Musical Theatre, Classic Rock, Soft Rock, Pre-9/11 Country Music, Classical Orchestra, Disco...a little bit of it all really.

LAST SONG: Let Your Love Flow by the Bellamy Brothers

LAST SERIES: The Clone Wars....I am predictable, okay.

LAST MOVIE: Take the Lead

CURRENTLY READING: Lots of old Star Wars comics, Off Armageddon Reef, and a reread of the Dresden Files (Grave Peril currently). Whatever takes the mood of the moment lol.

CURRENTLY WATCHING: Trying to get myself to rewatch Bad Batch season 1 and then start season 2, or watch Book of Boba Fett.

CURRENTLY WORKING ON: Recovering from a toxic relationship and some old old fanfics I wanna finish. And making my way back to the lovely Tumblr SWRPC after a long absence.

[shannon-foraker]

a yank of the brush (132 words) by Jedi_Knight_Leia_Skywalker Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Honor Harrington Series - David Weber Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Elizabeth Hanks Additional Tags: Grayson - Freeform, Community: fan_flashworks, child character, Implied/Referenced Character Death Summary: A scene from the preparation for one of the parties celebrating Honor's resurrection, with a character we've seen before

[michael6618]

David Weber is another outstanding science fiction writer. He wrote the HONOR HARRINGTON SERIES and my most beloved book IN FURY BORN. And wrote what I think is the abridged edition, PATH OF THE FURY.

I have both of these and my Kindle library.

Path of the Fury and the later re-issuance with new material and a full prequel novel as In Fury Born are stand-alone science fiction novels by American writer David Weber, covering the life and times of female protagonist Alicia DeVries.

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[systlin]

For the anon who asks about David Weber: my mom read his honor Harrington series. She liked them enough to read all of them but was disappointed by the amount of soul-searching and hand-wringing of the female protagonist. I read the safehold series and thought the women and the (pretty sure accidentally) trans protagonist surprisingly well-written, and the world building disappointing. Humans stranded on a distant planet, robbed of their memories of earth... recreate 14th century Europe. You can tell he's a straight white man.

Ah gotchya, many thanks!

[ltwilliammowett]

Given that the Honor Harrington series is (so I've been told) basically "Horatio Hornblower IN SPACE", how well does David Weber do at adapting Age of Sail culture/traditions/etc. to the new genre? Things like the Marine Captain being given an honorary and temporary promotion to Major so there's no confusion over who's "Captain" on the vessel, etc.

Hi, Unfortunately I can't say much about it because I don't know the series. I would have to read it to make a real statement. But what I can tell you is that a Marine Captain was not promoted temporarily so that there was no confusion with a ship's captain. They were both on board and there was only one official captain, the ship's captain. The captain of the Marines was also addressed by his rank, but in the eyes of the Navy he was not on a par with a Navy captain but with a Navy lieutenant. I hope I was able to explain it to some extent.

But I can't tell you if I'll ever read the series, it's not really my genre.