On Basilisk Station
Weber's popularity is almost frightening (particularly to other publishers) as his hordes of readers bombard our website and your stores with demands for more! more! more! And then they start complaining about the first five Honor Harrington novels being available only in paperback. The customer...
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Weber's popularity is almost frightening (particularly to other publishers) as his hordes of readers bombard our website and your stores with demands for more! more! more! And then they start complaining about the first five Honor Harrington novels being available only in paperback. The customer is always right, at least about Honor Harrington, so we now offer On Basilisk Station, the very first Honor Harrington novel, in a special hardcover edition with a pictorial binding. This novel introduced Honor Harrington to science fiction readers and the rest was publishing history.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780671577933 (067157793X)
ASIN: 067157793X
Publish date: April 1992
Publisher: Baen
Pages no: 342
Edition language: English
Series: Honor Harrington (#1)
On Basilisk Station is the first Honor Harrington novel (which is a very long-running series at this point, I believe), and is an example of that species of science fiction generally known as "space opera." It's also clearly modeled on the Horatio Hornblower stories (the author's note thanks C.S. ...
For some reason my writer brain intruded constantly throughout my reading of this book. Certainly my reader brain kept me reading, wondering what would happen next, but my writer brain would not shut up. I think part of that is because this is the first military scifi book I've read (ever? surely no...
This book isn’t good. I was told it was “Space Opera” but this is more like “Military Space Adventure”. Think Star Trek but with more guns death and jargon.Did I mention the jargon. If you aren’t into the military, or care about how big people’s guns are then this book will loose you quick with it’s...
This book isn’t good. I was told it was “Space Opera” but this is more like “Military Space Adventure”. Think Star Trek but with more guns death and jargon.Did I mention the jargon. If you aren’t into the military, or care about how big people’s guns are then this book will loose you quick with it’s...
For my thoughts on the book, plot, characters, etc. please see my review. As can be seen from my review above, I love this series and have revisited Manticore and its universe many times. Most of the books so far have been five stars or high fours. So when this and a later audiobook came up on sal...
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