David Weber
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 458 pages Rating: 4.13 | 39932 Users | 1905 Reviews
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| Title | : | On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington #1) |
| Author | : | David Weber |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 458 pages |
| Published | : | July 26th 2005 by Baen Books (first published April 1992) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Space. Space Opera. Fiction. War. Military Fiction |
Explanation To Books On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington #1)
Honor Harrington in trouble: Having made him look the fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her. Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station. The aborigines of the system's only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens. Parliament isn't sure it wants to keep the place; the major local industry is smuggling, the merchant cartels want her head; the star-conquering, so-called "Republic" of Haven is Up to Something; and Honor Harrington has a single, over-age light cruiser with an armament that doesn't work to police the entire star system.But the people out to get her have made one mistake.
They've made her mad!
Present Books As On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington #1)
| Original Title: | On Basilisk Station |
| ISBN: | 1416509372 (ISBN13: 9781416509370) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.baenebooks.com/p-304-on-basilisk-station.aspx |
| Series: | Honor Harrington #1, Honorverse, Honor Harrington FRG #1 , more |
| Characters: | Honor Harrington |
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Ratings: 4.13 From 39932 Users | 1905 ReviewsCrit Out Of Books On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington #1)
Honor Harringtona very obviously virtuous name for a woman who is going to be all about her own personal integrity. I liked Honor as a character because Weber depicts her as a strong, decisive leader. Mind you, he throws in a few stereotypes as wellshes not good at math, she has striking good looks but thinks shes lumpy and unattractive, and shes single, so she has to have a cat (because we single women are always just steps away from being crazy cat ladies). Nevertheless, if anyone can makeFirst of all I don't read science fiction. When I was younger it was pretty much all I read but that was 30 years ago. So I'm not this books target audience and the 4 Star rating with more than 16,000 5 Star ratings is pretty much all you need to know about what sci/fi readers think of the book. But I'm not a sci/fi reader and there are a few things I didn't like. One of the challenges for genres like science fiction and high fantasy is the info-dump. In most books you can just say a 'police car
Book Info: Genre: Sci-Fi/Military Sci Fi/Space OperaReading Level: AdultDiversity: multicultural, women as leadersTense, Person, POV: Past tense, third person, POV variesRecommended for: fans of sci-fi, military or space operaTrigger Warnings: violence, attempted and actual murder, historical mention of rape attempt, drug pushing, duelingOffensive Wording: offensive wording used to label the Medusans; on character calls another faggot as an insultMy Thoughts: This is my 3rd time reading this
Supposedly CS Forster set in space, this novel is more Mercedes Lackey. Honor Harrington is the new captain of an old warship. Within a few paragraphs of meeting her we're told she has a psychic connection with her alien cat, is beautiful and looks far younger than her age, graduated top of her class and is oh so much more sensible than any of her commanding officers. From then on, she's the bestest captain ever. All the good characters love and admire her, and all the bad characters hate her
Honor Harrington is a smart and feisty Commander in the Royal Manticoran Navy. She's just been given her first command, the lightship HMS Fearless. Unfortunately she is a bit too clever in simulated war games and upsets the wrong people and is banished to the backwaters of Basilisk Station. Her crew resent her, the senior officer on the station takes off as soon as she gets there, leaving her in command. She discovers that as well as a lot of unchecked smuggling, there is something else very
The first book of the Honor Harrington saga may be light on action, but there's still plenty of wonder and intrigue to be found On Basilisk Station!When Honor Harrington became a Captain in the Royal Manticorian Navy, she never imagined her first assignment would turn out like this! A spoiled senior officer shifts the blame for her own failures onto Honor. As a result, Honor and her crew aboard the light cruiser Fearless have been banished to Basilisk Station, an unpopular dumping ground for
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