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Summary: Another winner from David Weber
Review: Another excellent book in the Honor Harrington series. Well written with good character development. The only problem is how much more can the main character do? The entire series has been great, but each new novel requires Honor to do bigger and bigger things, which is beginning to put a strain on the credibilty. Still, a good read especially to all Starfire players
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Summary: Best Book of the Best Series!
Review: David Weber's Harrington series is probably the most fun set of stories i have ever read. I have read all 9 titles (up to Ashes of Victory) and the 2 anthologies. All have provided at the very least 4 star entertainment, and usually better. But this book was above even those standards. There were many intertwined storylines, and the depth he gives the characters makes you actually care about them. Do yourself a favor and read all books in this series. And David Weber, please, PLEASE keep 'em coming.
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Summary: Battling Captains
Review: Honor is brought back from her exile to lead anti piracy operatations in the Silisian Confederacy where the Royal Manticoran Navy had been forced to withdraw as the fighting against the Peeps hots up. What she did not realise was that her recall was engineered by her enemies who, having failed to destroy her politically intend for her to fail militarily. Unfortunately for them, the word failure is not in Honor's vocabulary. It's from this book that the series really transforms itself from space opera to a more character lead style of writing. Much appreciated!
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Summary: Superbly thought-out presentation of future naval warfare
Review: I am a great fan of Honor Harrington, and must take issue with a.oppenheim's opinion that the science, technology, and military logic is contrived and unrealistic. On the contrary, I believe the technology and logic to be extremely well thought-out. Very few science fiction writers today are this careful with technology, and virtually NONE display such a wonderful mastery of how technology can influence naval tactics and operations. Mr. Weber clearly knows his naval military history, from Trafalgar to Jutland to Guadalcanal to the Falklands. The Harrington series closest to the early 20th Century dreadnought era in overall concept, but his mastery of how time and distance influence tactics indicates a perfect understanding of modern plane-and-missile naval combat. I'd lay odds that Weber has read everything from Keegan's "The Price of Admiralty" to USNI's "Fleet Tactics." I recommend reading the appendix to "A Short, Victorious War" (third in correlaries. The actions in that book are reminiscent of the battlecruiser action at Jutland in 1916, while in this volume Harrington's exploits seem vaguely related to German 1914 commerce raiders, such as the Emden, but with a healthy dose of WWII "Q ship" concepts as well.- Arnold Hendrick
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Summary: Wow!
Review: I have been following this series ever since it came out. All I can say is WoW! I stayed up until 1:30 in the morning reading it because I couldn't put it down.David Weber is doing a very nice job filling out the personality of Honor, and answering questions about her.
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Summary: Honor Harrington 6 -The Win -Win Lose Situation
Review: In HH6 (Honor Among Enemies) Honor's Critics Have decided to bring her back to fix a situation no else wants to do.(If she succeds they look good, if she fails they get rid of her) Given an untested Ship as well as an Untested crew. Honor must patrol a section of space overrun by pirates. Meanwhile the peeps are also in the area for their own reasons. The PRH(people's Republic of Haven) is having problems of their own. In the PRH a literal DO OR DIE Philosophy starting where the captain has to do his job(win) or Die. When a Honorable Peep Captain goes to the rescue of a commercial ship he finds a suprise in store and so does Honor. The Title you'll find refers to the relationship between the two captains. a good read but if you're not use to Weber by now you'll never be.
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Summary: Career Development
Review: It is with trepidation that I pick up successive Harrington novels, wondering how it can possibly get any better and becoming more fearful of completing the series before this prolific author completes the next sequel. Honor Among Enemies is a strategic and tactical success as it sets the stage for escalation in both Honor's unique professional career and provides intriguing character development on myriad levels - the amorous 'cats, the underestimated Andermani, the Peep dynamic between captain and political commissar, Manticorean commercial moguls, and various heroes who don't need Captain's regalia to reach out to the readers' hearts and minds. Whether a sci-fi guru, a political intrigue afficionado, or a military buff, Weber delivers. Staging the novel in a galactic backwater, far from the frontlines, is deceptive as Honors reveals yet again that Clausewitz's maxims about war still bear truth. Political intrigue and commercial verities enmesh Honor in extracurricular learning curves, quite distinct from her naval training regime at Saganami. These grey areas reveal new dimensions of the 'enemy' and of 'duty' to one's nation. Most importantly, the human element of Honor (and her 'cat) and their interactions with aspiring privates, nefarious pirates, and competent foes reveals the depth of Weber's analysis into the human condition. Values remain core despite the awesome technologies and the geopolitics of the distant future. The battle scenes are fantastic but it is the communication and personal development between so many well-woven characters that makes this book impossible to put down. I pass on these books to my father when I'm finished and he passes it on to my brother. I don't know what we shall do when we've caught up to the current book in the series. We're totally hooked and we know it!
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Summary: good stuff
Review: My first Honour Harrington novel and what a ride! I have discovered a new favourite author and a guaranteed good read. I now intend to return to the early Honour Harrington novels to catch up. In the mean time, I am currently the reading: "In Enemy Hands" the next in sequence after "Honour Among Enemies". There is a lot of this about at the moment: Elizabeth Moon's Serrano Legacy and David Feintuch's Seafort saga -- military SF following the careers of Navy officers through their exploits. It is a credit to Weber that I was able to start at effectively volume 6 with no apparent disadvantage. This kind of story can go on for years while fans and readers stay interested. When I was a teenager I use to read Alexander Kent's Bolitho novels (18 century historical British Navy) following the career of a young officer from midshipman to Admiral. After 20 plus books, Kent is still going strong and I can see Weber going a lot further with Honour Harrington also. At first, Weber's aristocratic flavour of the Manticorian Navy reminded me of Niven's & Pournell's "The Mote in God's Eye" and for a moment I thought I was in for a StarTrek treatment of near-perfect career officers, but the "bad-apple" sub-plot of the crew, put pay to that. Action is handled well as is his "realistic" U-boat long-range flavour of the space combat. I don't yet know if I have completely grasped Weber's pseudo-science yet, but it is beginning to sink in. Psychology is handled in detail (a couple of pages "thinking" between spoken words) but not laboriously. In short: good stuff.
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Summary: Cliche? Or not?
Review: Note for people unfamiliar with David Weber series, this is the sixth book in the Honor Harrington series, which began with On Basilisk Station. While reading this book by itself is possible, you lose a lot of background. Now, for those who read the previous five books... A friend of mine once complained that all HH books (he had read until then) followed the same pattern: Honor gets a new command, her "home" enemies sabotage and undermine her, she finds herself fighting against huge odds, she saves the day. Well, this book most definitely fits this pattern. As the war with Haven comes to a stalemate, more and more ships are directed to the front or to patrol and pickets among Manticore's allies. This results in a big withdraw of forces from anti-piracy patrols in the Silesian Confederacy, and the pirates lose no time in taking advantage of it. Pressed by the merchant cartels, the Royal Manticore Navy sends some of Horrible Hemphill's new toys: armed merchant ships. But instead of the designed-from-the-scratch Q-ships Haven has, these are just normal merchant ships with weapons. Meaning it can't run and if anyone shoot at it, it is going to hurt. Our old friend Hauptmann, depressed with the prospects, decides to take the most advantage of it possible, and manipulates the opposition parties into giving the job to Honor Harrington. After all, he might not like her, but he is no fool either. Well, these armed merchants might give the pirates a good run for their money, when they actually find them, but the Silesian Confederacy is a big place, and Honor has only four ships under her command. Worse, some pirates are not exactly pirates, and some, unknown to Manticore, are actually Haven warships! Well, the rest, as they say, is history. BUT, that's not *all* that there is to this book. First, Hemphill's new toys, for a change, actually are quite good. These ships might hurt when hit, but they have a hell of a bite, and are the first active employment of some systems that will bring a *real* revolution in tactics later in the series. Second, while the people who brought Honor back to command these ships fully expect her to die in action, the Royal Manticore Navy has no intention of making this just a token and useless attempt at curbing piracy. While she has to complete her crew with the dregs other captains are all too willing to get rid of, the Admiralty also see fit to give her the cream of the people just out of the academy. Also, many experienced officers and nco who served with her before sign up for this tour. Third, another treecat! Fourth, parts of the book tell the story of some of the Havenite officers, given insight and background on people who will have very important parts to play in later books. So, while the story does have the same feeling as many of the previous books, it also adds a lot.
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Summary: Book six is a ten!
Review: This is my faveorite of the series, it introduced several new things to the series, as well as giving us a look at other parts of the ship than the bridge, and the CO's cabin. I don't want to spoil the book but there are a few people who swith teams. The best of the series.
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