Glossary of places in david webers honor harrington series this site gathers all the information that is to be found in david webers honor harrington books up to the latest relase. Hi all, i am a longtime reader of the honor harrington novels and for some time ive been trying to create an honorverse setting for the vbam strategic gaming system basically an engine for creating a generic pen and paper 4x game, ala david ws own imperial starfire game. The peoples republic of haven the bad guys who arent entirely unsympathetic. Dec 05, 2006 manticoran navy from david webers honor harrington universe, ranging from the founding and battle histories to detailed class histories and size comparison charts of the ships, to layouts of the pinnaces and rank insignia. The mad wizard weber mww author moves the timeline forward. This is the cover of the honor harringtons novel a rising thunder 2. This is a list of fictional characters appearing in the stories set in the honor harrington universe or honorverse, a bestselling series of over twenty military science fiction novels and anthologies invented and written by david weber. For fans of david webers honor harrington universe. Please sign your comments and questions with four tildes. Complete order of honor harrington books in publication order and.
Gsnrmn missile and launcher sizes included but still under. Manticoran navy from david webers honor harrington universe, ranging from the founding and battle histories to detailed class histories and size comparison charts of the ships, to layouts of the pinnaces and rank insignia. Wed like to discuss your opinions on the battles in the books what worked for you, what. This is intended to be a comprehensive list of the names of even minor fictional character in the honorverse, a series of military science fiction novels written by david weber. We additionally present variant types and as well as type of the books to browse. They are centred on the space navy career of the principal protagonist honor harrington.
Cauldron of ghosts honorverse wages sin 3 david weber. In 663 paragraphs, comprising 3,314 lines, 36,932 words, and 196,403 characters, including a toc and a bibliography, an increasingly despairing fan looks hard at how he did both, considering uneconomies of scale, prose and cons, and dropping the ball, as well as the. David weber is one of todays most popular military science fiction authors. What is the recommended order to read honorverse works. Having read pretty much everything in the honorverse, it is my opinion that the best reading order is chronological, by inuniverse time. If you want to start a mainhonorverse page, just click the edit button above. Honor harrington is a fictional character created by american novelist david weber. The storytelling vividly illuminates the human spirit which can often be very bright or. Both are defense professionals who use their dayjob expertise to help david flesh out the background worlds and ways of the honor harrington series novels. The books have made the new york times best seller list.
Jul 23, 2014 jul 23, 2014 honorverse map recreation by starfleet on deviantart. See the complete honorverse series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. The date of 1998 see portal below has been confirmed to be incorrect by marc laidlaw. I have lots of good things to say about his argument there, too, but that aspect of the book is better handled in.
They are centered on the space navy career of the principal protagonist honor harrington. I was recently notified by fictfact that there was a new honorverse book coming out shadow of victory. Honorverse map recreation by starfleet on deviantart honor. Uncompromising honor by david weber available 10218. Honorverse wages sin 3 david weber cauldron of ghosts honorverse wages sin 3 david weber right here, we have countless books cauldron of ghosts honorverse wages sin 3 david weber and collections to check out. The glossary of places for the honorverse created by the best selling sciencefiction and fantasy author david weber.
Each honorverse novel offers him fewer and fewer plot options. Comments on individual articles belong on the talk page of these articles. I see that there are three or four intertwined series and would like to have a fairly coherent read. For example, the manticore ascendant books take place at the time where. The tenth book is war of honour, this book doesnt revolve around honor, again a war building up between manicore and haven is given in detail. Then the 8th century before some of the sublight ships had even reached their destinations the hyperdrive was invented and ships could at high risk travel the alpha bands of hyperspace to. Hello, we are the developers of an online game based on david webers bestselling honorverse series. A construction ship specialized in the building of structures in. It includes a table of the books that created the honorverse and a box with links to individual components of the honorverse. The main honor harrington series rests on the future history of humankind about 2000 years in the making. Altho to be fair, this book does start either before the. While i know little of honorverse and have not read any books an important thing to me in a game like this is the number of different tactics available to me. Established dates throughout the honor harrington series.
Honor harrington is a military science fiction series by david weber. The peoples navy, on basilisk station, a rising thunder, and several more. A colony ship was a vessel used to transport colonists and materials to colonize a planet. The vast collection of stories and novels make up a single, massive, interrelated narrative and it all just makes more sense when read chronologically. I just finished book three of the honorverse, the short, victorious war. The exasperating case of david weber, or, the slow death of the honorverse kindle edition by lennard, john. Why manticore won the war by pat doyle and chris weuve pat and chris are members david webers honorverse consulting group, bunine. Royal manticoran navy redoubtable class battlecruiser bc homer class battlecruiser bc reliant class battlecruiser bc crusaderprince consort class heavy cruiser ca broadsword class heavy cruiser ca star knight class heavy cruiser ca edward saganami class heavy. The honorverse refers to the military science fiction book series, its two subseries, two prequel series, and anthologies created by david weber and published by baen books. Some are sorted by first name since their last name has not been found in the books or does. Shadow of victory honor harrington saganami island book 4. Honorverse timeline booklist the main honor harrington series rests on the future history of humankind about 2000 years in the making. For example, in a rising thunder this point is directly addressed in dialog with the haven diplomatic.
Peters book is also a polemic for reviving honor as a moral and political motivator. When reading the books in the honorverse series for the. Feb 24, 2015 honorverse ramblings and musings join us in talking discussing all things honor, including but not limited to tactics, favorite characters, and book discussions. Wages of sin series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. The reliantclass, an example of a manticoran battlecruiser honor harrington, david weber. Designing an honorverse strategic level game using vbam. Before the invention of the warshawski sail, all colony ships were sublight craft. David webers honorverse, free the entire series of honor harrington books are now available free on the net in a format exactly the same as the. This is a timeline of the events relevant to the honorverses history. Meanwhile, the united states has mutated into an empire, the imperial states of america, and it encompasses most if not all of north america, some territories in south america, and the philippines, where john hamilton, a us army officer, suffers a mental breakdown after his fellow army officer and girlfriend, laurie hodge, is killed in a firefight between us and filipino forces and muslim rebels. I love david webers writing and im a huge fan of the honor harrington series, which makes it very disappointing that this book is so far from the ideal of his writing and the rest of the series. Both are defense professionals who use their dayjob expertise to help david flesh out the background worlds and ways of. Her full name is honor stephanie alexanderharrington and she is the featured character in his honorverse universe a military science fiction series. The official website of best selling sciencefiction and fantasy author david weber.
But if you figure where in the honorverse timeline the book fits, you will come. As epic scifi, the tenplus novels of the honor harrington saga are engaging and entertaining, in a lighthearted sort of way, without the deeply thoughtprovoking stimulus of a philip k. The primary conflict of the storyline is the kingdom of manticore the good guys vs. The honorverse is a military science fiction book series, its two subseries, two prequel series. Jul 23, 2014 honorverse map recreation by starfleet on deviantart. If you want to discuss the honorverse in general, you can do so in the forum. Alas, in the case of this book, its only real value was the wrapping up and tying together of story lines. The main series of novels is set for the most part on a time line that starts forty years after. The book series is mainly set around the adventures of the titular heroine, although we see a fair amount of the wider universe.
Aug 05, 2015 honor is the currency of the kingdom, and walking in honor it brings the blessings of god down on your head. The main honor harrington series is a saga set in earths future history where the honorverse booklist reading order place books from the several developing. Uncompromising honor earc by david weber baen books he has also had some serious health issues, at one. The next in the series is at all costs, the eleventh book in the series, deals with the drama in honor harringtons life, not professional life, but her personal life. The disapora doesnt really get rolling until the 5th century pd, when safe cryogenics becomes widely available. The honorverse is a military science fiction book series, its two subseries, two prequel series, and anthologies created by david weber and published by baen books. Read this book to find out how to put honor to work in every aspect of your daily life. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the exasperating case of david weber, or, the slow death of the honorverse. Lots of weber books are slow burners, im fully prepares for that and the anticipation of the final payoff makes it worth the weight. The older versions of the glossary were in doc and later in pdf formats, i believe i started doing them after echoes of honor the eigth book in the series and then i.
Royal manticoran navy redoubtable class battlecruiser bc homer class battlecruiser bc reliant class battlecruiser bc crusaderprince consort class heavy cruiser ca broadsword class heavy cruiser ca star knight class heavy cruiser ca edward saganami class heavy cruiser ca courageous class light cruiser cl. All but one timeline places black mesas deployment of the resonance cascade in the unnamed year of 200. Much of this material has never been published elsewhere, and this book is an official concordance of data on the. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The scholarly aspects of peters book will be the goto resource on that question for some time. The second component, of this book, the honorverse companion, written largely by a group of science fiction fans who call themseles bunine but with some more material from weber himself, is a reference guide to the worlds, people and navies of the good guys in the story, manticore and grayson. Like the last few, heavy on the politics with a few space battles intertwined, and with a very confusing timeline.
With over eight million copies of his books in print and twentynine titles on the new york times bestseller list, david weber is the science fiction publishing. Baen has announced the next honor harrington book and it is now available as an earc. David webers honor harrington novels are really a fictionalisation of the ultimate 4x space strategy game. When reading the books in the honorverse series for the first. You take the first steps in how you can begin the discovery of your allure and magic it is there youve got it. On basilisk station is published by baen books, who cannily endeavor. Lets not be about it twentytwo years ago david weber created the honorverse, and in the last ten he has broken it. The honorverse isnt just a fictional world, its the fictional world of the the 4x strategy game that somebody needs to build as epic scifi, the tenplus novels of the honor harrington saga are engaging and entertaining, in a lighthearted sort of way, without the deeply. Her father isnt, at least not generally, as hes for the most part really a very nice guy by caliphate standards action girl. Chung hsiao note lee gen of the celestial kingdoms peoples liberation army air force intelligence division. For example, i knew that hamish and honor were going to wind up together. Weber forums view topic honorverse ramblings and musings.
Honorverse map recreation by starfleet on deviantart. The people and societies face challenges, triumphs, defeats, and conflicts of personal choice and cultural differences. My ebook is full of inspiring information to help you understand the power in how your image, impression, and. The main series novels are set primarily in a timeline beginning 40 years after harringtons birth on october 1, 3962 ad. Honor is the currency of the kingdom, and walking in honor it brings the blessings of god down on your head. If you want to start a main honorverse page, just click the edit button above. Nie mam nic, wszystko poza kapitanem mullerem nalezy do davida webera. The easiest way to contact users is to write on their respective talk pages. Dont put in redirects for shows, books, etc use the right namespace for those. Apr 03, 2018 baen has announced the next honor harrington book and it is now available as an earc. The community portal is for discussions on the wiki in general.
This is a list of fictional characters appearing in the stories set in the honor harrington universe or honorverse, a bestselling series of over twenty military science fiction novels and anthologies invented and written by david weber the stories in the five existing anthologies serve to introduce characters, provide a deeper and more complete backstory, and flesh out the universe, so they. The battle of farleys crossing, the last major action taken by the solarian league navy, where approximately 160 units of the sln, headed by fewer than a dozen shipsofthewall, fought and defeated a force three times its size, mainly composed of lighter units, some rogue elements drawn from the farleys crossing system defense fleet itself. The honorverse refers to the military science fiction book series, its two subseries, and anthologies created by david weber and published by baen books. To amplify some of what hutch already said, id say look at the timeline of the honorverse. Be careful, though, the only things that go in the main namespace are tropes and should be created through the ykttw system. A largescale military science fiction series originally created by david weber. Why is there a delay in david webers next honorverse book. Im having to do more of that now because of the need to coordinate my timeline. Sep 08, 2015 the honorverse isnt just a fictional world, its the fictional world of the the 4x strategy game that somebody needs to build. The focus of the game will be the space battles, so we thought we would check in with you guys. With five subseries, its more complicated than any other cohesive verse i know, with the possible exception of discworld editas mike stork points out, the ring of fire verse, which was created by honorverse collaborator e.
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