ON BASILISK STATION / David Weber / Book Review / Brian Lee Durfee (spoiler free) Honor Harrington
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Wherein our hero Durfee reviews On Basilisk Station book #1 in the Honor Harrington military science fiction series by David Weber. 440 #OnBasiliskStation #HonorHarrington #DavidWeber
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I started reading these last August, and I'd been putting them off for years because I've traditionally been very wary of men writing women main characters, and back in the day like every guy I knew who read them were the most annoying kind of gatekeeping nerds in a very "oh you like sci-fi, name 5 series" way that just made me want nothing to do with it. But in the end my interest in Horatio Hornblower in Space won out and I'm really glad it did, I'm having a lot of fun with them.
I love this book! Am currently on the nth reread of this series.
People often complain about info dumps, and to be perfectly honest, I skim over them after the first couple of books. But after 30+ years reading science fiction. I can with certainty say that nowhere else do you get this feeling of all those ships being real things. The space is this waste expense, and nowhere else can you almost smell burning insulation when ships get mangled in combat, as in his Honorverse series.
P.S. he is also very consistent in his worldbuilding. Here is a simple example: a lone destroyer is hanging around a planet. Suddenly, a battlecruiser squadron comes over the alpha wall. And most of the authors fail to create a sense of dread for this lone destroyer because their worldbuilding is arbitrary, and you as a reader just know that the author will pull a solution out of their ass.
But in David Weber books, you just know that the destroyer is f*ed, and even if it escapes, it will be something 100% according to the rule book. And not some Deus ex Machina. And it is fun to be surprised by a solution.
I wondered about that series. Now I must read it! Love you my friend ❤
You should check out his Mutineers' Moon trilogy. That was my introduction to DW in the early 90's and I've been hooked ever since.
Hey. I haven't read a David Weber novel since the 90's but never finished. In fact, I think I only read two of them. Thanks for reminding me of these.
David Weber's On Basilisk Station and Oath of Swords were one of the first sci-fi and fantasy book I have ever read. Great author, but sometimes the detailed descriptions in his books are little too much for me. :(
Great read, working on the safehold books currently.
I’ve got the entire series … awesome books!
Looking forward to reading this !
I enjoyed his book 'In Fury Born' which is 'Path of the Fury' republished with a shorter prequel novel he wrote a long while after. Been thinking of picking up his Honor series after reading Safehold. Thanks for helping make my mind up!
I just ordered In Fury Born
Those are excellent, excellent fun. First gives a bit of a "space marine" feel, and then it's just ... fun.
You should check out his fantasy series, the War God series, humorous, irreverent and FUN!
From today's perspective it's such a cliché plot. Captain gets a new command, has got to "sort things out", deal with politics that of course get in the way of the oh-so-sensible protagonist, the jealous rival, the final confrontation requires that willingness for personal sacrifice, and then the heroes get celebrated for succeeding.
But effectively it's a genre-defining book. It's especially notable how popular female lead characters are in military scifi - heck, I know more milscifi with female leads than with male leads. Despite nearly all of them being written by men, and I'd assume primarily having a male readership. I have zero doubts that's down to Weber and Honor, which just shows its influence.
I would very much reccomend Webers co-write with Eric Flint that is in this world.
Think he co-wrote something with John Ringo. It's more about the ground based Marines supporting this space opera world he built.
What if psychic space cats were space psychic platypus? :)
I've read about 9 of the Honor Harrington books. They are utter rubbish and yet I kept on reading them so they ended up as a guilty pleasure. They have a 50s Astounding tales type vibe to them but with heavy-handed Christian overtones. I won't pretend that they were not kind of fun reads though.
Remember due to prolong technology she is not as young as she looks.