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Summary: This is NOT a new book...
Review: If you like the Honor Harrington books, you will like this one. However, note that it was originally published in the early 1990's; the 2000 publication date is just for this re-issue. So if it looks familiar, it probably is.
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Summary: Grayson or Captain Harrington? Read it and find out...
Review: In this, the second book of the Honor Harrington series, Mr. Weber has shown us another side of Captain Harrington. The social conflict is even more intriguing than the white-knuckle naval engagements, as Honor comes up against a society that is fundamentally against who and what she is - a woman who is a tough, capable naval officer.
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Summary: About THE HONOR OF THE QUEEN
Review: It can no longer be denied: David Weber is The Next Big Name. Hordes of fans have been bombarding our website and your stores with demands for more! more! more! David Weber. And then they started complaining about the first five Honor Harrington novels being available only in paperback. It seems that after the ninth or tenth time they reread the books, they start falling apart. The customer is always right, at least about Honor Harrington, and in February 1999 we offered a special limited collector's hardcover edition of ON BASILISK STATION. The response was successful, to say the least, and we followed up with a hardcover edition of FIELD OF DISHONOR, and now present THE HONOR OF THE QUEEN, again in a special hardcover edition with a pictorial binding, and at a special paperback-sized price.Remember, this is no ordinary hardcover. This is the one the readers have been demanding.
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Summary: tremendously exciting, with plenty of surprises
Review: It's fair to call this (the second in the series) a very pivotal book, because the main character's entire future is completely transformed by its events. While the books are designed to stand alone well enough, the only way to understand some of the key relationships is to read them in sequence. Religious and gender issues come to the forefront here, with Honor experiencing attitudes almost unheard of in her homeland. This is the only part of the book that is questionable in its consistency: Honor's emotional reaction to the situation is a little too emotional for someone supposedly raised in such an egalitarian society. Even allowing for a couple of very bad experiences in her career, and that words can hurt some people more than pulser fire, I can't see a character as strong as Honor taking her ball and going away--even briefly--just because the nasty sexists are rude to her. She's too strong a woman for that. However, that said, the remainder of the personal interaction picture in the book is creative, sensible and richly interesting. Weber is not afraid to have permanent consequences to characters and no one's future and health, not even Honor's, are certain. Although Weber takes an awkward turn once in awhile, this is still some of the most engrossing space opera out there--especially in terms of a well-developed heroine who enjoys a growing position of authority and respect. This series will be of special interest to persons of the Christian faith; while the opening pages of this book make you think that you're on the way down the path of stereotyping, as the portrait of Grayson develops, even someone of entirely different beliefs (such as myself) comes to respect and like a lot about Graysons and their faith. Good stuff.
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Summary: Honor Harrington returns
Review: Let me reiterate: I despise science fiction. The authors can make up any dilemma they wish for the characters, and make up any solution, and there's nothing to keep them honest. Also the writing tends to be mediocre at best, full of silly metaphors that mean nothing to you and much wooden prose. And I dislike pastiches, especially when I enjoyed the basis for the imitation. So this is strange. I like Honor Harrington, and the series of books about her, which imitate my old favorite Horatio Hornblower (notice the initials?). In this, the second of Honor's adventures, she's been sent from her home system of Manticore to Grayson, an outlying system inhabited by a society of misogynistic religious fanatics from earth. Their problem is that their neighbors, on the planet of Masada, are even more fanatical than they are, and consider anyone who disagrees with them "apostates" and think them better off dead. The People's Republic of Haven has decided to take advantage of that, and sent a small fleet of warships to Masada, where they join the Masadan navy and completely upset the balance of power. Both Grayson and Masadan societies were originally very luddite, so their own fleets are nothing compared to what the Havenites and the Manticorans can put into the mix. When the Masadans and their Havenite allies attack, the result is a test for Honor and her ships, as the Havenites fleet is larger than hers, and contains a battlecruiser she can't hope to match at anything like even odds. There are many things for Honor to deal with along the way. She has an uncomfortable dinner with the chief of state of Grayson, winds up badly injured herself, has to deal with a very self-important diplomat, and the like. Hanging over everything is the overtly sexist society she's been ordered to protect. Honor, of course, survives and handles it all with aplomb. The book's plot slides right along, and it's a good afternoon read. I would recommend it.
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Summary: not good
Review: not good. I mean what Sci-fi is coming to. Even as a eleven year old I have read better Science fiction. Basilisk Station, don't even start. Honor as a character is flawless. she is not at all realistic. As for this book it is bigoted. it puts down Christians and over-amplifies the prejudice against women. The story, if it were set in that time, would not at all happened that way.
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Summary: Mr. Probst, sci-fi is NOT...
Review: Science fiction is many things, but one thing it is NOT is intended to reaffirm the "traditional" way of things. Sci-fi is intended to "burn the motherhood statement" - meaning that well-written science fiction challenges, rather than reaffirms, the old-style traditional values that people normally cling to.
To say that a science-fiction novel offends your oh-so-traditionalist values is actually a considerable compliment even if you aren't aware of it; it means the writer's doing his JOB.
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Summary: Good 2nd book
Review: Solid follow up to On Basilisk Station. Fleshes out Honor. Yes, she is too good to be true sometimes, but that's part of what makes the novels fun.
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Summary: A strong story and an absorbing adventure.
Review: The appearance of his Honor Of The Queen in a new hardcover limited edition is required reading for any who would enjoy Ashes Of Victory with an introduction to the character of Honor and her world: readers receive an excellent strong story of Honor's struggles with political enemies in this absorbing adventure.
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Summary: Honor's Back
Review: The Honor Of The Queen Live up to it's name. it's 5 years Later and Honor has been given A newship named aptly Enough the Fearless. And Honor Makes it up to that name. Fighting not Only the Havenites or PEEPS as they are called she has to fight a millienium of Religious Misogyny. not only from they new enemy of Masada but the very people she is there to help. so she has to prove her worth not only for the Manticorian navy but seeminly women as well. and Prove it she does in one exciting scene. which leaves it's mark in more ways than one. a good read for those who liked the first book. it moves simiarly but is totally different.
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