I absolutely love Honor Harrington series! It has everything a space opera should be. Intergalactic wars scary battle scenes. Politics mixed with royalty and religious leaders. Details spacecraft description by Weber is amazing. Who doesn't love Honor's treecat companion Nimitz!
The first trilogy covered is typically called Empire from the Ashes (The title of the collected volume), it's also been dubbed the "Dahak Series." I own a "Hardcover, First Printing" of it.
I am loving the safehold series so far. I got all the ebooks and audiobooks. If i end up liking them as much as I think I will probably get the paperbacks too for a bookshelf im working on.
I remember buying that Tesla album. The cover was great and it had a couple of cool songs. If I remember correctly, it was kind of grungy. I wish they would put something out in the vein of Mechanical Resonance or Great Radio Controversy. If you want to hear an 80s band that's still shredding in top form, check out the latest Winger album. Get well Brian! Hang Tough.
The Honor Harrington series when originally published had different covers especially the very early books. As they went to the later publishing’s the covers were changed. Not unusual considering On Basilisk Station was first published almost 30 years ago. There are other offshoots of this series besides the colaboration with Eric Flint. One other great read is his “Prince Roger” series of four books with John Ringo March Upcountry, March to the Sea, March to the Stars and We Few
I will say this about the Honor Harrington series, books 1-13 were great, but after A Rising Thunder I wanted and expected book number 14 to be a continuation of the story but instead, The Shadow of Freedom sort of took this bizarre shift in the story, focusing not on Honor Harrington or the coming war, but instead focusing on the Talbot cluster, it was very confusing (of course it was my own fault for having not read The Shadow of Sanganomi or Storm from the Shadows) but it was still irritating, and then Shadow of Freedom just really pissed me off, because it barely moves the plot along at all from A Rising Thunder, I didn’t know any of this until I read them and realized that Weber was basically stringing me along, fortunately, he got the main story back on track with Uncompromising Honor, but for a good two books there, I was very confused
I've read all of Larry's stuff. In fact Larry and I did a panel at Comic Con together with Jim Butcher. I filmed the panel and put it on my channel. Just type in Durfee, Butcher, Correia and it should come up. WRITING Fantasy tropes is the name of the panel
I really wanted to start the first one in Safehold and try one of his books til one review stated he spent 5 pages talking about cannon barrell rifling. What? Sounds like these could lose 30% of each book and not suffer. Can't stand ridiculous long descriptions or data dumps, on anything. Hand pass. To bad because my search for good epic spare opera continues. But I do agree on cover art and design. Awesome.
My problem with the Honor Harrigton series is that the space opera is kind of pasted on. The series needed not be sci fi. The first novel involved alien species, and a plot by the Havens, and some criminal smuggling cartel. The novel delved to much in character relationships and somehow one or maybe two dimensional characters. The novels became long and boring unless you really enjoyed space battles and politics. The weapons, ships and space naval structure is well developed. The sci fi aspect was extremely weak, because is was just limited to “war among humans”.
Interesting summary of that amazingly prolific series. Treating spaceships similarly to sea vessels seems to me like it should be a logical problem... You don't need power to keep going in space, so I think, in a dedicated fighting spaceship, you'd drop non essentials like main engines and fuel to leave them away from battle... The one thing that makes bringing everything sensitive into battle believable is if the ship is NOT a dedicated fighting spaceship, as in Star Trek... But as soon as the subject is a professional military, things would be stripped down. Maybe even of crews... Also, having large planetary bodies nearby to slingshot back home would be a major issue without main engines. It's just that in my view the "Navy in Space" concept needs re-working if the environment is considered seriously...
I have a love hate relationship with the H Harrington books. I've read about 12 of them and they are utterly bizarre in some ways, weird relationships between men and women, loads of heavy handed religion and general odd behaviour but I can't say I didn't enjoy them.
You need to read “The Empire of Man” series he did with John Ringo. Absolutely amazing, one of my top 10 series ever!
I absolutely love Honor Harrington series! It has everything a space opera should be. Intergalactic wars scary battle scenes. Politics mixed with royalty and religious leaders. Details spacecraft description by Weber is amazing. Who doesn't love Honor's treecat companion Nimitz!
The first trilogy covered is typically called Empire from the Ashes (The title of the collected volume), it's also been dubbed the "Dahak Series." I own a "Hardcover, First Printing" of it.
At this point, I tune in to see what t-shirts you have too. 🤘TESLA🤘
I am loving the safehold series so far. I got all the ebooks and audiobooks. If i end up liking them as much as I think I will probably get the paperbacks too for a bookshelf im working on.
I read all the Honor Harrington series for Space Opera September. Love them books
I remember buying that Tesla album. The cover was great and it had a couple of cool songs. If I remember correctly, it was kind of grungy. I wish they would put something out in the vein of Mechanical Resonance or Great Radio Controversy. If you want to hear an 80s band that's still shredding in top form, check out the latest Winger album. Get well Brian! Hang Tough.
The Honor Harrington series when originally published had different covers especially the very early books. As they went to the later publishing’s the covers were changed. Not unusual considering On Basilisk Station was first published almost 30 years ago. There are other offshoots of this series besides the colaboration with Eric Flint. One other great read is his “Prince Roger” series of four books with John Ringo March Upcountry, March to the Sea, March to the Stars and We Few
Good author.love the honor books
I will say this about the Honor Harrington series, books 1-13 were great, but after A Rising Thunder I wanted and expected book number 14 to be a continuation of the story but instead, The Shadow of Freedom sort of took this bizarre shift in the story, focusing not on Honor Harrington or the coming war, but instead focusing on the Talbot cluster, it was very confusing (of course it was my own fault for having not read The Shadow of Sanganomi or Storm from the Shadows) but it was still irritating, and then Shadow of Freedom just really pissed me off, because it barely moves the plot along at all from A Rising Thunder, I didn’t know any of this until I read them and realized that Weber was basically stringing me along, fortunately, he got the main story back on track with Uncompromising Honor, but for a good two books there, I was very confused
Great video! Do you read any books by Larry Correia (another Baen author)? Would love to see a video, if you do enjoy his books.
I've read all of Larry's stuff. In fact Larry and I did a panel at Comic Con together with Jim Butcher. I filmed the panel and put it on my channel. Just type in Durfee, Butcher, Correia and it should come up. WRITING Fantasy tropes is the name of the panel
@@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS Thanks for the reply. I’m going to check out the panel. Look forward to seeing more videos on your favorite series.
I really wanted to start the first one in Safehold and try one of his books til one review stated he spent 5 pages talking about cannon barrell rifling. What? Sounds like these could lose 30% of each book and not suffer. Can't stand ridiculous long descriptions or data dumps, on anything. Hand pass. To bad because my search for good epic spare opera continues. But I do agree on cover art and design. Awesome.
I recomend Sun Eater series, same epic space opera "swords and spaceships" feeling
I was going to click like on the video but it sits at 69 and I don't want to fuck that up.
Understandable!!
My problem with the Honor Harrigton series is that the space opera is kind of pasted on. The series needed not be sci fi. The first novel involved alien species, and a plot by the Havens, and some criminal smuggling cartel. The novel delved to much in character relationships and somehow one or maybe two dimensional characters. The novels became long and boring unless you really enjoyed space battles and politics. The weapons, ships and space naval structure is well developed. The sci fi aspect was extremely weak, because is was just limited to “war among humans”.
Interesting summary of that amazingly prolific series. Treating spaceships similarly to sea vessels seems to me like it should be a logical problem... You don't need power to keep going in space, so I think, in a dedicated fighting spaceship, you'd drop non essentials like main engines and fuel to leave them away from battle... The one thing that makes bringing everything sensitive into battle believable is if the ship is NOT a dedicated fighting spaceship, as in Star Trek... But as soon as the subject is a professional military, things would be stripped down. Maybe even of crews... Also, having large planetary bodies nearby to slingshot back home would be a major issue without main engines. It's just that in my view the "Navy in Space" concept needs re-working if the environment is considered seriously...
War among humans is our entire history, though. Nothing would change if we colonized space.
I have a love hate relationship with the H Harrington books. I've read about 12 of them and they are utterly bizarre in some ways, weird relationships between men and women, loads of heavy handed religion and general odd behaviour but I can't say I didn't enjoy them.
Yeah, back in the days when artists painted great covers, not these designs they do now. A shield, a sword, a serpent . . . please!