Below is a list of david webers honorverse books in order of. The honorverse is a military science fiction series created by david weber and published by baen books. And nova corps was in an earlier point in the timeline from the book, which we are discussing. Are there any books in the battletech universe worth reading. The honorverse refers to the military science fiction book series, its two subseries, and anthologies created by david weber and published by baen books. List of organizations in the honorverse wikilists fandom. Apr 15, 2014 for example more than honor, the first anthology, was published in jan 1998.
How well the honorverse would hold up in a crossover depends partly upon where in the timeline you set things. Apr 03, 2018 baen has announced the next honor harrington book and it is now available as an earc. If youre looking for a free scheduling app to help you book meetings without the backandforth, check out hubspots meetings tool. The main honor harrington series is a saga set in earths future history where the honorverse booklist reading order place books from the several developing series on a rough timeline of events. Contentsshow concepts beowulf code the beowulf code is a code of ethics for medical practictioners within the honorverse, a series of military science fiction novels written by david weber. For fans of david webers honor harrington universe. Contentsshow brotherhood of maccabeus the brotherhood of maccabeus is a fictional covert organization in the honorverse, a series of military science fiction novels written by david weber. Jan 16, 20 we all know how the rest of the honorverse story will pan out. These are things ive actually seen people do to give honor to whom honor is due. The universe of honor harrington, a detailed description of the honorverse, by david weber. Joe buckleys infodump, includes maps, a timeline and a collection of webers forum posts relating to the honorverse. Massacre of dolist protest marchers by agents of the office of internal security for the peoples republic of haven.
Both are defense professionals who use their dayjob expertise to help david flesh out the background worlds and ways of. The next in the series is at all costs, the eleventh book in the series, deals with the drama in honor harringtons life, not professional life, but her personal life. A true chronological reading of the last 10 honorverse. For example, i knew that hamish and honor were going to wind up together. See the complete honorverse series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. Before you see my compilations have a look at the book originals, where you will find every map from the books and maps posted on varius forums by david weber himself. Remainder mark a remainder mark is usually a small black line or dot written with a felt tip pen or sharpie on the top, bottom, side page edges and sometimes on the upc symbol on the back of the book.
Honorverse timeline is the real timeline, which should read almost. They are centered on the space navy career of the principal protagonist honor harrington. The solarian league, mesa, and other characters not falling into one of the other categories. The series is set primarily after honor harringtons birth. Worldbuilding the honorverse honorcon 20 by ocwajbaum. This is the cover of the honor harringtons novel a rising thunder 2. Did mondays message about what ever happened to honor in the church hit home with you, but youre not sure what to do about it. Shuttle edit the shuttle was a type of small intrasystem vessel that used to ferry officers, crewmembers, and equipment between spacecraft, space stations, planets, and other locations hh1. For example, the manticore ascendant books take place at the time where. Weapons of older design are still found in some places in the honorverse. Looking for an rpg set in the honorverse i am a huge fan of the honor harrington books as well as an avid gamer who loves scifi settings so i thought, why not combine the two. You do not need to finish one full series in a path for example, siarmn0001 to siarmn0006 to start another one if you meet the prerequisites.
This is due to them having a laughably weak level of armament on their ships. The books have made the new york times best seller list. Royal manticoran navy at bubonicon 47 the honorverse. Weber is too unimaginative, too chicken, or too much of both to introduce a credible threat to the honorverse heroes once again. The peoples navy, on basilisk station, a rising thunder, and several more. Weber forums view topic honorverse timeline getting. The rmn is the navy of the small but wealthy commercial power, the star kingdom of manticore, an interstellar power with striking resemblances to the united kingdom. Uncompromising honor earc by david weber baen books he has also had some serious health issues, at one.
Within the continuity of the series, honor harrington was born on october 1, 1859 3961 ce post diaspora, at. A largescale military science fiction series originally created by david weber. The honorverse refers to the military science fiction book series, its two subseries, two prequel series, and anthologies created. When reading the books in the honorverse series for the. The main honor harrington series rests on the future history of humankind about 2000 years in the making. Detailed universe map art current as of actd 3400x2600 detailed map after art. The honorverse is a military science fiction book series, its two subseries, two prequel series, and anthologies created by david weber and published by baen books. A beautiful friendship was set roughly 390i years prior. Two thousand years in the future, it remains true that humans will devise ever more ingenious ways of causing death and destruction. This article covers various concepts and terminology related to honorverse, a series of military science fiction novels written by david weber. Date formats before christ bc or before common era bce dates increase as you go back in time 1 bc is the year before 1 ad, anno domini ad or common era ce both begin with year 1 of the gregorian calendar, post diaspora pd first human colonization ship leaves earth 1 pd 2103 ce, ante diaspora ad. This is the same kind of book as war of honor which some readers hated because it was about setting up a major war, not fighting one.
David weber is one of todays most popular military science fiction authors. At first in cassette 90 min format by library of congress, narrated by madelyn buzzard books 110, later by audible. Why is there a delay in david webers next honorverse book. The primary conflict of the storyline is the star kingdom of manticore the good guys vs. Honor books books list of books by author honor books. Im having to do more of that now because of the need to coordinate my timeline. In other words, im assuming and you know how much salt to take this with that cog goes through september 1922, possibly early october 1922 in the honorverse, and that there will be a separate book that carries the haven sector earth part of the conflict forward. Below is a list of david webers honorverse books in order of when they were originally published and in chronological order. The main series novels are set primarily in a timeline beginning 40 years after harringtons birth on. Look at how this timeline example uses an icon of a body as the background image. What is the recommended order to read honorverse works. Honorverse vs protoss and terrans page 3 spacebattles. See more ideas about honor harrington, david weber and manticore.
With five subseries, its more complicated than any other cohesive verse i know, with the possible exception of discworld editas mike stork points out, the ring of fire verse, which was created by honorverse collaborator e. Audiobook fire season by david weber full by im audiobooks. Everyone is free to create a new page or edit an existing one. The honorverse is a military science fiction book series, its two subseries, two prequel series. A complete story timeline of the honor harrington series. Honorverse the online game, an online game in development set in the honorverse, including ship art and discussions of ingame features. Established dates throughout the honor harrington series.
Oh yes, and catalyst games labs, the current publisher of battletech is making an effort to get the classic novels back as ebooks, as well as publishing new books in both electronic and physical formats. But if you figure where in the honorverse timeline the book fits, you will come. Rfc stated in the book s preface it was in storm from the shadows that he had originally intended to carry the story through the pov of honors children, likely implying a timeskip of around 2025 years so they grew up and passed through saganami island, at wich point i suppose the mesan alignment would come into play, and the solly league. Honorverse timeline booklist the main honor harrington series rests on the future history of humankind about 2000 years in the making. Sep 14, 2010 heres a view of the complex events of the honorverse, contributed by joe buckley. Also while honorverse is an apt overall name, the original as intended by the author series which basically consists of books 110 plus at all costs is done and finished, just that the new series that was intended to start later was moved back to flow from this one, so in a very definite sense we are now in honorverse 2 where honor herself. List of organizations in the honorverse universe, created by david weber. So in publication order it comes between book 7 in enemy hands and 8 echoes of honor. On basilisk station is published by baen books, who cannily endeavor. All pages can be edited and you are welcome to join us and contribute to this wiki.
I found myself skimming over the first half of the book which is badly bogged down by complex scheming in planets we dont really care. Royal manticoran navy redoubtable class battlecruiser bc homer class battlecruiser bc reliant class battlecruiser bc crusaderprince consort class heavy cruiser ca broadsword class heavy cruiser ca star knight class heavy cruiser ca edward saganami class heavy. It appears that since at all costs the author has lost his way, and is continuously rehashing old content from different point of views, trying to tie down loose ends. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. For events which personally affect characters in the honorverse, refer to the characters respective articles see list of honorverse characters.
This is a timeline of the events relevant to the honorverses history. The people and societies face challenges, triumphs, defeats, and conflicts of personal choice and cultural differences. Complete order of honor harrington books in publication order and. The main series of novels is set for the most part on a time line that starts forty years after. In 663 paragraphs, comprising 3,314 lines, 36,932 words, and 196,403 characters, including a toc and a bibliography, an increasingly despairing fan looks hard at how he did both, considering uneconomies of scale, prose and cons, and dropping the ball, as well as the. Mar 06, 2012 a rising thunder is the thirteenth book of david webers series of novels chronicling the adventures of honor harrington.
Having read pretty much everything in the honorverse, it is my opinion that the best reading order is chronological, by inuniverse time. In the enemy hands is the seventh book of the series, where honor harrington is promoted as commodore, and now she is the commander of a group of ships. Contentsshow starship and space weapons small craft such as shuttles and pinnaces do not use starship weapons, but larger versions of. Post diaspora and ad anno dominithis article is for major events affecting star nations in the honorverse, a series of military science fiction novels written by david weber. Lets not be about it twentytwo years ago david weber created the honorverse, and in the last ten he has broken it. The primary conflict of the storyline is the kingdom of manticore the good guys vs. Proper suggested reading order for all honorverse novels. Sep 08, 2015 the honorverse isnt just a fictional world, its the fictional world of the the 4x strategy game that somebody needs to build. This is a time line of how to read the book of the honor universe in order so that u do not get loose between the different books authors and. For example, on the planet grayson, gunpowder firearms were stateoftheart until shortly before the events in the honor of the queen. Concepts beowulf code the beowulf code is a code of ethics for medical practictioners within the honorverse, a series of military science fiction novels written by david weber. Early honorverse loses against any but the most primitive hard science settings ie. It is similar in many respects to the hippocratic oath. The books have made the the new york times best seller list.
The battle of farleys crossing, the last major action taken by the solarian league navy, where approximately 160 units of the sln, headed by fewer than a dozen shipsofthewall, fought and defeated a force three times its size, mainly composed of lighter units, some rogue elements drawn from the farleys crossing system defense fleet itself. An honorverse books template could be used on its own on author pages, instead of both templates, which probably should be there. Manticores allies, including the protectorate of grayson, the kingdom of torch, and the andermani empire honor harrington haven. Simply add it at the beginning of the respective article and fill it out. It includes a table of the books that created the honorverse and a box with links to individual components of the honorverse. The first novel david weber brought out in the honor harrington series, this book was initially published in 1993 and was to mark the start of a longrunning franchise featuring the titular protagonist. The storytelling vividly illuminates the human spirit which can often be very bright or. Each honorverse novel offers him fewer and fewer plot options.
The honorverse is the ultimate 4x space strategy game. For example, chapter six of this book, about the trip back home from mesa of two superspies who discovered in the book the torch of freedom an outline of what the mesans are really up to, is a wordforword recapitulation of chapter four of a rising thunder. Much of this material has never been published elsewhere, and this book is an official concordance of data on the. As epic scifi, the tenplus novels of the honor harrington saga are engaging and entertaining, in a lighthearted sort of way, without the deeply thoughtprovoking stimulus of a philip k.
Honor harrington is born at craggy hollow, county duvalier, in the duchy of shadow vale, sphinx. Honor harrington is a military science fiction series by david weber. The official website of best selling sciencefiction and fantasy author david weber. Honor harrington made her debut in the novel on basilisk station, which was published in 1993. The ouraganclass was an example of a pinnace deployed by the peoples republic of haven around 1905 pd. This is the cover of the honor harringtons novel a rising thunder 2 written by david weber, by courtesy of latalante publishing. I have been looking for a game system or setting book specific to the honorverse but havent found. Haven, both the peoples republic of haven and the restored republic of haven honor harrington solarian league, mesa, and others. Ive now finished reading the honor harrington honorverse space opera series. So it falls to us, brave spacebattlers, to take that task to term. The honorverse companion is the most recent honor harrington series book from author david weber.
The second component, of this book, the honorverse companion, written largely by a group of science fiction fans who call themseles bunine but with some more material from weber himself, is a reference guide to the worlds, people and navies of the good guys in the story, manticore and grayson. I was recently notified by fictfact that there was a new honorverse book coming out shadow of victory. The vast collection of stories and novels make up a single, massive, interrelated narrative and it all just makes more sense when read chronologically. The book series is mainly set around the adventures of the titular heroine, although we see a fair amount of the wider universe. Welcome to the honorverse wiki, an encyclopedia of david webers honor harrington universe, which includes books, reference materials, and games. I thought some books were better than others, and like many fans, i became impatient with sections that were repeated between books. The peoples republic of haven the bad guys who arent.
Why manticore won the war by pat doyle and chris weuve pat and chris are members david webers honorverse consulting group, bunine. Similarly chapter twenty of this book recapitulates chapter seventeen of a rising. If so, i wanted to share some concrete examples of what honor looks like. Publishers use these marks when books are returned to them. They are centred on the space navy career of the principal protagonist honor harrington. Both are defense professionals who use their dayjob expertise to help david flesh out the background worlds and ways of the honor harrington series novels. Uncompromising honor by david weber available 10218. Weapons technology in the honorverse is hugely capable, and starships must carry similarly impressive defenses. Dec 05, 2006 manticoran navy from david webers honor harrington universe, ranging from the founding and battle histories to detailed class histories and size comparison charts of the ships, to layouts of the pinnaces and rank insignia. An article on a battle should feature the battle infobox. But chronologically none of its three stories appear to fall quite into that spot in the timeline. The tenth book is war of honour, this book doesnt revolve around honor, again a war building up between manicore and haven is given in detail. And in a worse situation, honor harrington and her crew get in custody, and she is sentenced to death for a past mistake.
When reading the books in the honorverse series for the first. The reliantclass, an example of a manticoran battlecruiser honor harrington, david. For example, the fourth enlisted course siarmn0004 is a prerequisite for the first officer course siarmn0101 so members that want to take the officer courses or go the officer route will. Join us in talking discussing all things honor, including but not limited to tactics, favorite characters, and book discussions. The brotherhood of maccabeus was a fifth column, working for religious conservatives e. An article on a book should feature the book infobox.