Additional Honorverse collaborations include the spin-off miniseries Manticore Ascendant with New York Times best-selling author, Timothy Zahn and with Eric Flint, Crown of Slaves and Cauldron of Ghosts contribute to his illustrious list of New York Times and international bestseller lists.īest known for his spirited, modern-minded space operas, Weber is also the creator of the Oath of Swords fantasy series and the Dahak saga, a science fiction and fantasy hybrid.

Books in the Honor Harrington and Honorverse series have appeared on 21 bestseller lists, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and USA Today. Forester's Horatio Hornblower and Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander lives on-into the galactic future. In the vastly popular Honor Harrington series, the spirit of C.S. Taking it further, we have to wonder how much of On Basilisk Station actually played out as described.With more than eight million copies of his books in print and 33 titles on the New York Times bestseller list, David Weber is a science fiction powerhouse. I'm currently also reading Book of the New Sun (also due to recommendations from this sub), so that may have influenced my feeling that Harrington is the unreliable narrator of her own story. Why those rivals appear to be so irredeemably villainous (history is written by the victors, after all) Is (eventually) universally loved and respected by all - except for her rivals who hate and underestimate her, only to then be beaten by her How she's able to come up with numerous great ideas for fixing any problem, at the drop of a hat How she is perfectly honourable, and never lets emotion or personal gain ever get in the way of Duty Why she never gets anything wrong (though in effort to at least appear humble, she admits to not being great at maths) However, some of those flaws begin to make more sense if we imagine that Honor Harrington herself was the narrator - obviously writing her own POV in the third person, and reconstructing other POVs based on available evidence or speculation. I've just finished On Basilisk Station (based on recommendations from this sub), and I really enjoyed it - despite agreeing with its many flaws described here and elsewhere.

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