Honorverse Today

This is a unique book within the Honorverse. Mostly it’s a companion to the stories we’ve read, but it also contains a novella written by David Weber. The first third of the book is essentially a biography of King Roger III told through a story, beginning with his time as a young officer in the Royal Manticoran Navy and running through his reign. The story is titled “I Will Build My House of Steel...

At the time of recording, this is the latest (and pretty recent) addition to the collection of anthologies within the Honorverse. David Weber and his co-authors have produced a work in this book that is powerful. Even though one of your hosts was under the weather when we recorded (as you’ll hear), we enjoyed what we read. We can’t wait to hear what you, our traveling companions thought as well.“...

It wasn’t very long ago we discussed A New Clan and in what seems like no time at all, here we are talking about this newest addition to the Star Kingdom series: Friends Indeed . As we’ve become accustomed when we’re enjoying adventures in this story arc, this novel was written by David Weber and Jane Lindskold. The adventures of young Stephanie Harrington continue as she strives to ensure proper...

Here we are at the end of the main series set of novels—sort of. You’ll certainly find this book listed that way by some fans, and that’s just fine. However you bin this book, it’s characterized as a stand-alone novel, but it does what we’ve seen others do previously in the Honorverse: it gives us new information and perspective on events we’ve already seen. It also sets the stage for what is refe...

We know we’ve been enjoying this Honorverse adventure for a while when we realize the book we’re discussing this time wasn’t published when we began the podcast.  David Weber keeps writing and we’re happy to have more content to read, enjoy, and discuss with you, our co-adventurers!  What Price Victory is the seventh book in the Worlds of Honor anthology and brings us five short stories...

It seems too soon, but we’re already talking about the fourth book in the Star Kingdom series:  A New Clan , once again written by David Weber and Jane Lindskold.  If there was a sassy tag line taken from the summary of the book, it’s “Sex!  Drugs!  Rock and Roll!  And Treecats!” Published in June 2022, we’re hit with 420 pages full of fresh, new adventures in the Honorver...

Suddenly we’re here to talk about the fourth novel in the Manticore Ascendant story arc:  A Call to Insurrection . As before, this novel is co-written with Timothy Zahn and Thomas Pope and published by Baen in January 2022.  We’re back in the fight with Travis Long, his wife Lisa and on an adventure following a recent attack on the young Star Kingdom.  What rests behind the recent a...

Here we are, finishing the Crown of Slaves series with the fourth book:  To End in Fire , once again co-authored by David Weber and Eric Flint. Consistent with the title, this story arc ends with a lot of fire.  For the Babylon 5 fans who are also here with us, we can say there’s lot’s of BOOM.  It’s another hefty book, coming in at 704 pages if you read the print version, so there’...

What?!  A Third Awesome Interview with David Weber! Other than the timing, a third interview was probably not a surprise to any of you since we openly mentioned having Mr. David Weber join us again after the second interview, as well as the interview with Jane Lindskold and David. Most of the questions we asked were directly submitted by all of you, our friends who are with us on this journey...

It seems time has passed too quickly in terms of the podcast, but here we are already talking about Uncompromising Honor , the 14th novel in the main story arc.  For those watching where we are relative to what’s left, you know this is technically the last novel in the main series, but that’s only sort of true.  Depending on where you look, you’ll see a fifteenth novel called Toll of Hon...

It’s time for the third novel in the Manticore Ascendant story arc: A Call to Vengeance . Co-written with Timothy Zahn and Thomas Pope and published by Baen in March 2018, this is another of David Weber’s lengthier novels, but with good reason. We’re watching a more mature Travis Long (and colleagues, including Lisa Donnelly) participate in operations of the maturing Royal Manticoran Navy. The Man...

This time, we dive right into the final book in the Saganami Island series:  Shadow of Victory . This chunky novel weighs in at 756 pages and hit the streets in November 2016.  The story covers a date range from February 1921 PD through October 1022 PD.  For those tracking dates, you’ll realize this is one of those times when David covers events we’ve already seen, but from a differ...

As promised, in this episode we discuss the second novel in the Manticore Ascendant series:  A Call to Arms .  Written by David Weber, Timothy Zahn and Tom Pope, the story of Travis Long continues after he’s completed his training to become a commissioned officer.  We join him back in the fleet with a few years of commissioned time under his belt and wearing the bars of an ensign. I...

Lately there are times it seems we’re getting close to the end of our adventure through the Honorverse and then a little reminder like this happens:  we’re discussing the first book in another four-book story arc!  In this episode we’re talking about A Call to Duty , kicking off the Manticore Ascendant series.  This novel was authored by David Weber, Timothy Zahn and Thomas Pope. Yo...

Now it’s time to dive right into the third book in the Crown of Slaves series:  Cauldron of Ghosts , co-authored by David Weber and Eric Flint.  It won’t be a surprise to any of our regular listeners, but this book ties to the previous book we covered based on publication order.  That said, this is a particularly tight coupling as this book is often considered a literal and direct c...

This time we’re looking at the third book in the Saganami Island part of the Honorverse story arc:  Shadow of Freedom . We’re solidly in the year 1922 PD and Admiral Michelle Henke takes care of yet more trouble presented by the Solarian League.  This is tied to a scenario set up to make the Star Empire of Manticore look bad in a way that would cost them the trust of independent star sys...

What a surprise!  Due to a quick turn of events we’re able to interrupt our regularly scheduled program for a very special treat.  Instead of discussing Shadow of Freedom , we were privileged to have Jane Lindskold join us, along with another visit by David Weber.  As far as we can tell, there’s no better reason to interrupt the plan than this.  This was the first time we’ve ha...

We move into the third book in the Star Kingdom series: Treecat Wars , by David Weber and Jane Lindskold.  Published by Baen, this 376-page gem first hit the street in September 2013.   With the brutal fire season over, Stephanie and her friend Anders are heading off to Manticore after being selected to attend Forestry Service ranger school.  Stephanie’s story, along with her three...

Beginnings is the sixth (and second to last) book in the Worlds of Honor anthology set.  It contains five short stories, penned by four talented authors:  David Weber, Charles E. Gannon, Timothy Zahn, and Joelle Presby.  Each of these stories brings us to interesting and important beginnings for many events that we’ve become familiar with in the Honorverse but have often gone with l...

“A Rising Thunder” basically picks up where “Mission of Honor” left off, with events that begin in April 1922 PD and span about five months.  We’re back in the main sequence, and it seems hard to believe that this novel is the second to the last of the core novels!  But we’re not close to being done with the Honorverse content, with lots of material from the related series and anthologie...

We are jumping right into the second book in the Star Kingdom series, this one titled Fire Season .  This one’s a joint venture between David Weber and the now-familiar Jane Lindskold.  Published by Baen, it came out at a comfortable 287 pages in October 2012.  In the previous Star Kingdom novel, we met an 11-year-old Stephanie Harrington in part 1, then moved forward in Stephanie’s...

Well, we’re finally breaking into the Star Kingdom series, starting with the novel entitled A Beautiful Friendship .  While they’re closely related to each other, don’t confuse this novel with the short story by the same name contained in the first anthology we discussed a while back ( More Than Honor ).  The short story and this novel were both written by David Weber, with this novel fi...

“In Fire Forged” is the fifth anthology in the Honorverse, containing three short stories and another technical writing.  We see the return of two favorite co-authors:  Jane Lindskold bringing us the short story “Ruthless” and Timothy Zahn who hits us hard with his short story “An Act of War”.  David Weber brings us the third short story entitled “Let’s Dance”, which is really a nov...

Although the timing wasn’t openly discussed, you all knew we had a second interview with David Weber in the works.  Well, our calendars finally aligned, and we are excited to drop the second interview with the creator of the Honorverse into the feed. We covered somewhere between 15 and 20 questions, including quite a few listener questions.  Even so, it shouldn’t surprise any of you that...

Mission of Honor brings us back to the main series/sequence, as we look at the twelfth novel in that line of the Honorverse story.  The events in this ~600-page gem occur between late 1921 through the middle of 1922 PD.  Having developed the breadth and depth of some significant events in the overall storyline, David moves away from the technique he’s used across several previous books t...