Honor Harrington Series | First Impressions
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- Опубликовано: 12 янв 2021
- I've read the first 5 books in David Weber's military space opera series Honor Harrington. Here's my first impressions about this series.
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Was turned into the series years ago when the fifth book was just getting released A fantastic series. Honor up and downs as well as the epic drama of space war kept me in the edge. Read every main book and spin off book in the series. Lots of we’ll written characters as well as battles. David paints amazing pictures with his words and I would deeply enjoy seeing this series made into a tv series so long as loads of cash goes into it.
I’ve been reading Honor Harrington since 1994. Love the series and the Honorverse David Weber created.
I've been a fan of Weber since I read Mutineer's Moon. I kept going with his Honor Harrington series which is fantastic. Great, reliable, fun writer. I met Weber at a convention in the late 90s. Really cool guy, very funny.
My Civics teacher from high school got me into these books around 2004. I've read every single book from the main storyline and all of the sub storylines at least 5 times. I can't put them down.
I'm about to start the 7th Harrington book. I'm really enjoying this series so far!
@@sirbooksage That's a good one! The 8th (Echoes of Honor) is probably my favorite. That or the 2nd (Honor of the Queen).
Honor of the Queen was really good. Field of Dishonor is my favorite of the series so far. I'm looking forward to where Weber is going to take this character and this series.
@@sirbooksage the one thing that i like about these books is that battles are not clean not just with ships but with the marines as well he goes to a lot of effort to not romanticizing battles to show that there is a dark side to it and people do get effected by this some more than others and most of the times battles are just out right hell that you will have to endure and hope you come out at the end
@@sirbooksage the means of travel from star to star is by sub space gates witch have four layers of sub space alpha beta delta & Gama one i thing they can not use but if i remember right most ships are equipped with alpha & beta generators that is put through sails witch if they use both they can go into Gama but that is frond a pond most ships will com apart if they go to far into Gama as was explained in honor of the queen
Love the series! I hope it gets adapted well at some point.
Sounds a very interesting series, I loved the Hornblower books when I was growing up so will definitely take a look - thanks for spilling the tea.
Thanks for watching. I'm looking forward to seeing where this series goes.
One thing the Honor Harrington series gets very well is technological paradigm shifts, and how technology can dominate most other factors in civilian and military matters and development, and how any significant technological edge, no matter how peaceful, equates to a military advantage. Weber was very... simplistic in his political dynamics early in HH, but it gets more nuanced over time, notably after Weber co-authored some books with Eric Flint in one of the sub-series (or, as I like to call them, spin-offs).
I enjoy Weber's "soft but firm and consistent" sci-fi, it feels less like space magic and more development, knowledge and advancement of theory that enables all the crazy spacefaring and equipment, and anything that can exceed established limits in certain areas will be a notable technological achievement, and the administration and use of new theories and designs is vital in the wars fought throughout the series.
Hello Sage.
Yes, I have, indeed, read the stories of the 'honorverse'... all of them available at this time (I am avidly awaiting the next in the main Honor story line, as well as the next in the Manticore Ascendant series).
Not only have I read them... I have re-read them several times now.
Yes, there are about 13 or so books in the 'main' story arc. Two additional 'spin off' series. One based around the former Mesan slave world, and the civilization the freed slaves are creating. And the other, following the career of one of Honor's best friends, who happens to be related to the Queen of Manticore.
But that's not it for the 'honorverse'! No, there is Manticore Ascendant... a series about the early years of the Star Kingdom of Maticore and how they deal with others attempting to take their system and gain access and control of the Wormhole Junction, once it is discovered. And then there is the 'Young Adult' series, telling the tales of Honor as a teenager, and her travails to see her dream of becoming an officer of the Manticoran Navy become a reality.
And then, there are the half dozen or so collections of short stories, written by other authors, many of them famous names, all set at various periods of Manticore's history, and the Honorverse in general.
So, a total of over 40 books and novels.
But I am a 'fan' of David Weber's other works as well... I highly recommend the 'Safehold' series, all 10 books, as well as the 'Dahak' novels. Weber is a reader's delight as an author. One that, during his writing of a tale, describes the world and its many intricacies in 'almost' too much detail at times. But, he is an author that builds such 'realistic' backgrounds, that you can almost believe they actually exist... or could in some other parallel universe. I have yet to read a 'bad' Weber novel. And I doubt I ever will.
Enjoy your romp through the Honorverse... I think you, like myself, will enjoy the 'ride', and yearn for more. :)
I really like the honour Harrington series, I just wish that the technical aspect was not as extensive as it is- one thing to refer to a battle and describe firepower et cetera to some extent, but when it goes on, and on, and on then it gets a little overwhelming! Very good series. I have yet to Reid the other side series but plan to do so.
Have read all books except for the last one. It is my all-time favorite space opera series. I love this "Napoleonic Wars in space".
It has taken me decades to get around to reading them. I've read some of Weber's other books and found them entertaining but I wasn't keen on the Honor books because Weber's style indicated a space opera type scenario more than military sci-fi so I passed on it. Well I too have started on them and am onto the 5th book myself so my first impressions. She has very strong Mary Sue proclivities, naval - best of the best, assassin duelist - no problem, master swordsman - she's had some practice, he doesn't have a chance. I find it amusing, sure she has her emotional and psychological traumas but she is sooo good at everything? Don't get me wrong I like my heroes Uber but this is blatant. Anyway as the Sage was saying the military side of things is good and I appreciate any author who can visualize and put into words how a battle will play out and Weber does an admiral job of doing that. Honor has drawn me in and I'll be going through all the books probably and the fact that it has kept me interested so far is a good indicator of the quality of the writing but that was to be expected coming from one of the top Sci-fi writers of the 90's. Oh and Miles Vorkosigan, very good series... up to a point, for me anyway.
Loved this series till the battle of manticore and tell out with it now I read stories with a smaller cast
it is worth to read all of them !!!
you will find that with each book goes on it get more complicated witch when it gets to (at all cost) DW stated that to keep telling the story right that he had to do of shoots to so people did not get over whelmed
Very good synopsis of the series. I have read the series several times. I just can't find another book series like this one. If anyone can suggest another series similar to this one, please let me know. Thank you for a good review. Edit - One of my biggest questions about the HH story is why there hasn't been a movie or PC game adaptation of it. The books themselves lend very well to a PC game that I believe people would play. So much cool stuff in these books.
All those books cover 20 years?
Yes, the 14 books in the main Honor Harrington series span a 22 year period. From 1900 PD to 1922 PD. Though I guess that would be 23 years. There are a bunch of other books set in the same storyverse that span other parts of the timeline.
This is a very interesting review and you've totally sold me on the series, BUT...
Your haphazardly swaying cup is making me incredibly nervous.
Haha! Yes, I remember watching my cup of tea sway precariously when I was editing the video. 🙂
Her career will be far longer than 20 years. Because of the "Prolong" medical treatments she looks to be in her 20s. Her actual age is somewhere between 40 and 60.
Very true about the Prolong and her living a long time. It's definitely a cool and convenient scientific addition to allow for the character to move through the storyline for quite a while. I was guessing the main Harrington series covers about a 20 year period of her career, but, now being 6 books in, I've no actual clue. It will be quite cool if the books do move forward even further than that.
My most favorite military sci-fi. Can you recomend somethink familiar like Honor ?
No specific recommendations, but I plan on reading Elizabeth Moon's Vatta War series and Stephen R. Donaldson's Gap Cycle as my next space opera series reads after I finish reading Honor Harrington and Vorkosigan.
i enjoyed the lost fleet series with "black jack" geary its pretty fun kinda similar to the honor harrington books
Try the Commonwealth Saga series by Peter F Hamilton. Start with Pandora's Star. There's about 8 books now in the whole series. Enjoy!
janissaries. by pournelle. king david's space ship. by pournelle.
7:35 well, i have some bad news for you. Got pretty old and stale to me. At some point it was more than 1/3 just people fawning over Honor and the Havenites turning more and more into this TV show villain that tries and fail every week with another vaguely similar world dominance plan.
Some of the "nods" in the series are more on the nose than others. Honor Harrington and Horatio Hornblower sharing initials is more subtle than others. Like the fact that the head of Haven's revolutionary government's name is Robert (often called Rob) S. Pierre....no way that has to do with Robespierre, right? :P
If you're on book 6 (maybe finished by now?) you're getting into the slower paced entries in the series, as Honor is moving high enough in rank to no longer command single ships. Things also get a lot more political and much, much grander in scale. Try to slog through some of the....less thrilling parts....it's well worth the time.
I've just recently restarted the series for, I think, the third time. Keeps pulling me back in.
Good writing tends to do that.
It doesn't even end there for the Haven stuff. The Committee of Public Safety is a direct lift from the French revolution as well. "State Security" is often abbreviated to "SS", and is both a reference there and also to the "Stasi" (Staatsicherheit/State Security) of East Germany. It's not exactly subtle, but it doesn't stop me loving it.
Generally, the format sees Honor early in each book being let down by politics and the venal nature of certain politicians. Manticore gets new technological toys, while Haven pulls together numbers (in fact, targets). Honor has wealth showered upon her, has crazy skills, is uncommonly attractive and strong, has a psychic supercat... and Weber has to work hard to make his heroine face sufficient difficulty to create tension necessary for an exciting book.
I still like the early ones. Call it a guilty pleasure... though as I re-read I skip a lot of the planetside stuff in some books and just jump to the exciting bits. Poor old Haven keeps scraping up new fleets and sending them to do mischief, and Honor keeps on foxing them.
Wait until the later books the Solarian League has some warship so old by honeverse standards they still use a rail gun point defense.
I read a lot, mostly science fiction and fantasy. I read probably most of military science fiction that exists in eBook form. And one thing I can say about David Weber‘s fiction, especially Honor Harrington series: he is one of the very few authors who manage create a full picture for strategic and tactical aspects of fighting in space. Without loosing the Human side.
When the laser/Graser punch through a ship, I can almost smell the burning insulation. I am always cognisant about stakes. I have almost always a full picture of force distribution and challenges the protagonists have to overcome without relying on arbitrary plot armour.
I started this series back in 1993 after I read a review of the first book in Dragon Magazine. I love the series for the characters and the Naval battles. I was a little sad after the main series ended, but I have hope that maybe someday Weber might take care of the few loose ends with the second generation of characters.
where oh where is part one?
The 002 is actually meant to be episode 2 of an ongoing First Impressions series where each video is about a different series. But I can see how numbering them that way can look as though this is #2 in an Honor Harrington first impressions series. I'll probably drop the episode numbers off the titles since each entry is meant to be a standalone video.
The first books were really fun. When she returns from Hades (I think this was the name) and was made an admiral within the RMN it lost a lot of its drive. The first book on Hexapuma was good again.
The latest books have turned mostly unreadable.
On one side a caballe of bad people who do bad things, a group of highly intelligent Manticoran heros who are on their heels and different groups of ignorant idiots who do not believe a word of what the all-knowing Manties say and become secondary opponents.
The books mostly play in conferences, where we hear the members of these groups discuss options and actions. There is no Horation Hornblower anymore. None at all. Stop with the end of the Manti-Havenite war.
It really is not fun to read the latest books anymore. I want to know how it ultimately ends, so I quickread them, going into a new chapter, check who is talking, jump a page to get what they are talking about, jump a bit further, and only read those chapters that are really driving the story without unfunny people chuckling about unfunny jokes drinking cocoa.
Need to reread. You are off on so many things.
The series is good for tactical battles and political intrigue, but oh goodness, the characters suck up so much to and for Honor and all the people that dislike her are cartoonishly evil. Everyone loves honor and there are no grey characters. If there are, they always learn to love her. I really wish her character had some kind of flaw beyond "she was too dedicated to her work". Love the action but the characters are fairly poorly written.
I would highly suggest the Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell. It has pretty simple characters but the book series isnt about the characters, its about the naval aspect of very hard sci fi war
Not everone disliking her is cartoonishly evil, people like Lady Sonjy Hemphill, or Edward Janacek exist. The first was not evil in any form, the other is just a corrupt slef dealing politician, but not a cartoonishly evil one.
Hauptmann is just a heradstrong industrialist, except of that ONE lapse with threatening her parents (he is not even actually corrupt). and Reg Houseman, well, he IS good at something and he is loyal to crown.
And Honor HAS a major, major, flaw. She is a murder machine that HAS to have that incredible selfdiscipline.
Spoiler territory from now on.
Honor is as close to treecat made human as you are going to get.
She usually get away with it because either someone interferes before she really starts murdering folks she should not, or because folks she dispatched are so bad that EVERYONE is willing to look the other way.
But she got kicked out of RMN for duelling.
Very NEARLY got a court martial and dishonourable discharge for murdering a POW (Yes, he was an extreme shitstan, yes, she would still get a dishonourable for it).
She exterminates pirates and slavers (again, not that anyone protests over much).
She almost executed entire squadron of innocent sailors who were guilty of nothing worse than being solarians).
And she was going to carry out further muirder and wholesale destruction to and above call of duty if given a thinest pretext to do so.
"Please, feel free to disobey me, nothing else would please me more"
Honor is that one person that either treats you with utmost profesionalism and dignity, or just kill you, with almost NOTHING in between.
You need to reread you are so wrong bout so