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Summary: Tantalizing Tidbits
Review: Like many others addicted to the Honor Harrington series, I was drooling over the prospects of savoring the latest addition to Weber's engaging feast of antics and action by a ballsy, totally entrancing heroine in futuristic space fiction. I especially enjoyed the riveting "From the Highlands" by Eric Flint that provides quite a different angle on the aggressive, covert machinations of a highly developed underground where a Manticoran aristocrat exiled to Terra supports a network of revolutionists who are involved in the power struggle between the Peeps vs the Manties on Chicago's embattled turf. Weber's story "Nightfall" recounts the treachery and tyranny of Oscar Saint Just before he finally makes the call to blow up and bring down the Octagon upon the heads of both colleagues and his arch enemy Esther McQueen. It offered another point of view in those final moments that preceeded Saint Just's own demise in "Ashes of Victory". The other two stories were tantalizing tidbits of before and after Honor had "arrived" to the here and now in David's ongoing saga. I love his consciousness toward animals, especially when he develops his theme of highly evolved sentience in Honor's treecats and their nestmates on Sphinx. It now is impossible to consider one's own cats as merely, well, cats. As Samantha might say to Nimitz: "Little do they know". Congratulations on your newly wed status and the joys of a honeymoon, David, however your fans are waiting! Thanks for the appetizers in "Changer of Worlds", now, where is the main dish?
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Summary: If you liked this one you'll like The Warmasters...
Review: mainly because, with no accompanying notice, Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington is repeated verbatim in that volume! yep, 50% of the "new" book is recycled. Oh it's a decent enough story but I'm uncertain it deserves being repeated in less than two years, especially with no notice that it was, in fact, being republished. So if you've previously read The Warmasters, perhaps in the hardcover that came out 2 months after Changer came out in paperback (ouch) make sure you want the other stories. Changer is a decent collection in setting some of the series backstory: but Baen has some explaining to do about it's recycling IMHO.
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Summary: If you liked this one you'll like The Warmasters...
Review: mainly because, with no accompanying notice, Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington is repeated verbatim in that volume! yep, 50% of the "new" book is recycled. Oh it's a decent enough story but I'm uncertain it deserves being repeated in less than two years, especially with no notice that it was, in fact, being republished. So if you've previously read The Warmasters, perhaps in the hardcover that came out 2 months after Changer came out in paperback (ouch) make sure you want the other stories. Changer is a decent collection in setting some of the series backstory: but Baen has some explaining to do about it's recycling IMHO.
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Summary: Haven't read this book yet, BUT
Review: Reading someone elses review here, I have the following question.. Is there going to BE a sequel to Ashes? Anyone knows please let me know at twilight@snowhill.com Thanks tons! PS I can see Honor eventually becoming Queen herself... it seems inevitable and I would love to see the series come out with enough books to make that a possibility..
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Summary: Interesting background
Review: This book contains 3 short stories by David Weber and one by Eric Flint. I enjoyed the 3 by Weber very much. His stories give a little more insight to some of the events in the novels about Honor Harrington. One of them is an enjoyable description of her first cruise.
The story by Eric Flint was a confusing hodge podge of plots and counter-plots. It was resolved, but not convincingly. However, the story did tell about the life of one of the less important characters from an earlier story. That was interesting.
Over all I recommend the book to those who love Honor.
It seems that Weber is not going to give us another novel anytime soon. Although, I would be very happy to be proven wrong.
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Summary: Disjointed collection of stories
Review: This book contains several different stories, totally unrelated. OK, so they each mention somebody in one of the other stories, but that's a big stretch to make them connected. I kept expecting them to come together at the end, but alas, you never find out what happened to the snottie after her first cruise, except that she became famous. The cats' plans are spelled out, but then what ever happened to them? (Not even an oblique reference later on.) A kidnapped girl has almost nothing to do with the confusing political intrigue that she shares a quarter of the pages with. And a battle shapes up for control of a government, only to be wrapped up abruptly in one page. The stories don't stand on their own and they don't fit together between the covers of one book. Only read it if you have already read other books by the author and want to see some scraps from the cutting room floor.
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Summary: Disjointed collection of stories
Review: This book contains several different stories, totally unrelated. OK, so they each mention somebody in one of the other stories, but that's a big stretch to make them connected. I kept expecting them to come together at the end, but alas, you never find out what happened to the snottie after her first cruise, except that she became famous. The cats' plans are spelled out, but then what ever happened to them? (Not even an oblique reference later on.) A kidnapped girl has almost nothing to do with the confusing political intrigue that she shares a quarter of the pages with. And a battle shapes up for control of a government, only to be wrapped up abruptly in one page. The stories don't stand on their own and they don't fit together between the covers of one book. Only read it if you have already read other books by the author and want to see some scraps from the cutting room floor.
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Summary: Different views of Honor's universe
Review: To those who haven't read any other Honor Harrington book, this book will give you four small and very different tastes of the Honor universe. You will probably decide that the other 9 novels and 2 short story collections are now on your wish list, but you don't need the history to enjoy these stories - they stand on their own (with the possible exception of Nightfall). Fellow Honor fans, I recommend this - Honor's universe keeps getting bigger and better. This books has four great short stories set in the Honor Harrington universe. I loved this book. I am waiting in eager anticipation for the sequel to Ashes of Victory, but this book is much more than filler in between novels. This collection adds depth to the Honor Harrington universe. The first story shows Honor early in her career, before the war started and before she was in a leadership position. The last story expands on an incident from the latest novel (Ashes of Victory) and shows the enemy from their own point of view. You get to see Honor and her universe from her Treecat's point of view in the second story. The third story by Eric Flint has characters who know of Honor only through news headlines but have her heart and drive. Honor is the main character in only 1 of the stories, but don't let that deter you. Laughs Brightly, Golden Voice, Helen, Anton, Kevin Usher and Esther McQueen were introduced before but now we get to see them in depth and detail. Cathy, Victor, Virginia, Bachfisch, Shelton, and Branch Leaper are new to us and their relationships add spark and more diversity to the universe Honor inhabits. (and possibly foreshadow upcoming events in the next novel?) Write, David, write! Write, Eric, write! (I hope you add another story in the next collection!) These characters show and make us want more of their drive for Honor!
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