On Basilisk Station

"On Basilisk Station" is the first book in a truly wonderful space opera series about a space navy set three thousand years in the future and featuring David Weber's best fictional heroine, "Honor Harrington." The books are best read in sequence and I strongly recommend that you start with this one. Despite the futuristic setting, there are strong parallels with Nelson's navy. The assumed technology in the Honor Harrington... Read Full Review

What happens when you are given command of a ship that has been "gutted" in a naval experiment and are sent out to wargame against the big boys? Furthermore, what happens when you use your new system to take them all by surprise, ONCE, and then get demolished each time after that because everyone is now ready for the trick? Just to make matters worse, you embarass the admiral who came up with the one time gimmick. The answer... Read Full Review

Excellant Military Sci-Fi. But it's much more. Intrigue, gun-play, treachery, galactic politics, broadsides, covert ops, exotic alien life-forms, and Commander Honor Harrington, if you need something else, you're just being picky;) As usual for me, I bought a new paperback which caught my eye at the local bookseller, read the first chapter, put the book down utterly impressed (which is not usual), and sought out the rest... Read Full Review

This books marks the beginning of the Honor Harrington series. David Weber has managed to translate the napoleonic wars into a space setting, justifying it all with careful detail on the technology that makes it possible. The details are legion: ships and detachments months out of communications range, broadside battles, and the interspace war between a monarchy and a corrupt republic.But that isn't all. Although Weber... Read Full Review

While I would rate Weber and Honor Harrington slightly below Lois McMaster Bujold and her continuing stories of Miles Vorkosigan that still leaves room for most other current SF to fall below the standard set here. (It's interesting that Bujold, a woman, writes about a male protagonist and Weber, a male, has a female hero.) And I haven't read the rest of the Honor series, so I still might have to revise my overall estimation... Read Full Review