 August 8, 2013 - 8:49pm | I'm most of the way into House of Steel, a new David Weber, et al., collection. The primary element is a novella of King Roger III's life, which ends almost 20 years before the HH novels start. The other half of the volume is The Honorverse Companion, a lot more detail than you imagined might exist about the setting, the principal navies of its heroine, sketches of politics and personalities and star systems and starships and uniforms and medals and on and on. There's 25 pages or so of "Building a navy in the Honorverse," which I am saving for last. A lot of this seems to be fan-made, by the group "BuNine." What has this to do with Star Frontiers? Well, either not a lot, or whatever we want to make of it. I know there's at least a few Honor-fans here, as well, so I thought this is a place to post it. |
 August 8, 2013 - 9:12pm | Sounds like an interesting book. I've only read a couple of the free honorverse ebooks from the publisher. One of these days I plan to buy the print editions of the follow on books. I met the peeps behind the honorverse based rpg at Seattle Comicon this year, looks interesting. http://www.adastragames.com/ |
 August 9, 2013 - 5:28am | I just took a look at their British fleet box miniatures set and these ships would work well with KHs minis IMO. Didn't know there was a new novel out, looks like I'm dropping some money for it. @First Citizen, well worth buying into the HH series. stop by a use book store or ebay, you might just come up with a good deal on some especially on ebay. Infact I just checked and there are several 6-11 book lots for $12-$20 on ebay I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
August 9, 2013 - 6:27pm | @Jedion357, yeah I think I will stop by the local used book store soon for the HH books. I prefer that over supporting some faceless corporation, well, and I am near Powells City of Books (new/used store that is one whole city block square and 3 stories tall). I try to buy new books to support the author directly, depends on the cost/quality of the used versions available. |
 August 18, 2013 - 2:25pm | If you are looking for HH eBooks you can google "Bean free CDs". At one point Baen was publishing some of the hard cover belonging in a series of novel with a CDROM containing all of the previous novels in the series plus a few extra title in various ebook formats. On the CDROMs there was a disclaimer that the cd and its contents could be shared. So now there are few sites on the net that have the contents of the CDs posted for all read. I know that you can find all of HH novel upto and including Mission of Honnor. I used the site to see if like new authors, if so then I buy the eBooks directly from Baen. |
August 18, 2013 - 8:18pm | Thanks for the reference to the "Bean free CDs". Lots of good content. The first HH book I read was off the baen free ebook site but I didn't know about all the other content out there. I prefer buying traditional paperback books, but it's always good to have some e-content for my tablet (I never buy ebooks). :) |
February 28, 2016 - 7:20pm | I'm going to raise this thread from the shadows, because I'm reading more Honor-verse. This time, it's A call to duty: Manticore ascendant, book 1 by David Weber and Timothy Zahn (and they give credit to Thomas Pope, too). This one (and presumably the series to follow) look the Royal Manticore Navy starting from 1529 PD, or nearly 400 years before On Basilisk Station. The central character is a young enlistee in the RMN, Travis Long. This is NOT the RMN that we know from the other books, it's a sad-sack planetary militia. In addition to Long, we get to see the political maneuvering that we can expect from a Weber/Honorverse book-- Long's half-brother is a member of the House of Lords. I'm about halfway through it, having my usual trouble putting down an Honorverse book. Seems this came out in late 2014, but I didn't pick up on it until this week. I ask the same question as above: What has this to do with Star Frontiers? Well, if you want to see a high-tech navy/militia that's in its doldrums, this is it. The RMN is riddled with political/noble officers, crewmen who aren't well-trained, low morale, and short of budget, here we go. Could be any planetary militia, or even the SpaceFleet? Just as interesting, the plot center of the second half (just started) is a sale on used warships, and planets from far and near are converging on the sale site. Now that sounds like something intriguing for an RPG plot! |
 February 26, 2016 - 9:19pm | HH is awesome... lots of good material for use in SF
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March 3, 2016 - 1:17pm | I just finished book 2 of the Manticore Ascendant series written D Webber, Timothy Zahn (you might have to turn in your geek card if you don't know who he is) and the head of BuNine. Good series set back in time with more primitive teck and at a time when the Star Kingdom doesn't know about the worm hole junction. And the Havenites are not the bad guys. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 March 5, 2016 - 11:00am | I don't have time to read, besides the English translation of Legend of Galactic Heroes is coming out soon. Not sure if I'll find time to read it, but I already know how the story goes so I should be able to just run through it. I'd love to hear audiobooks of it though, been through a lot of classic books like that. Read the Lensman series and Starship Troopers so long ago I listen through the audiobooks of them quite a number of times. In every age, in every place, the deeds of men remain the same. |
March 5, 2016 - 11:17am | Just listened to the audio book of Into the Tall Grass by Stephen King and his son though his son goes by a pseudonym so I didn't initially know he was King's son read by Stephen Lang (Avatar- "You're not in Kansas anymore") it was freaking creepy and damn near Cathulu-ish. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
March 6, 2016 - 8:16pm | I finished book 2 of Manticore Ascendant this weekend, as well. I thought I was burning out on the Honor-verse, but these 2 dragged me right back into it! Even the politics held me, and several secondary characters and their motivations held water. |
