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Clifton R Liles

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 28, 2022

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Michael Lynch

Where's the Beef?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 18, 2015

Weber needs an editor that can ignore his status as the most/best selling author in science-fiction. I love his characterizations and live for his battle scenes but the data dumps!
[Character 1 "I've got a new way to fire these torpedoes" <intervening four pages of useless tactical specs> Character 2 "I think that means we can"...<four more pages of bloviating stuff> Character 1, "That means we can..... (Or "why don't you tell me why you stopped in." (8 pages ago) )
It's teeth-pulling to get to the meat through the extra prose that a good editor would have pared away allowing the action to move.
Oh for Hemingway!
Weber's series' seem to start out pretty good in their first volume and get bigger and more data-filled as they go on. He has a great imagination for
innovations that could drive the plot. I just wish someone would sit on him and keep him to it.
Stirling has some of these issues but I find I care more about his characters and his writing less filled with stuffing. Guys, take a page (or three!) from Heinlein.

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Clifton R Liles

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 28, 2022

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J. Sexton

Deserves 3.5 stars -- I rounded up because of the first story

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 2, 2019

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This collection of short stories/novelettes was very uneven.

"A Beautiful Friendship" by David Weber was excellent. It tells the story of the first encounter between treecats and humans. I fell in love with the characters and want to read more.

"A Grand Tour" by David Drake was just horrid. It really had nothing to do with the "Honorverse" other than a few trappings. He could have used "Federation," "warp drive," and "impulse engines" just as easily and it would have had as much to do with the Star Trek universe. Furthermore, I was taught that "Melungeons" was a less-than-polite word. To have all the stereotypes present for those people (and they straightened up and did well under the supervision of the superior Manticoreans) was offensive.

"A Whiff of Grapeshot" by S. M. Stirling told the story behind the Leveler Uprising. I'm not much for the Havenites, but this did fill in plenty of background and was well-written.

"The Universe of Honor Harrington" by David Weber was at times more technical than I liked and my eyes glazed over. However, I am glad I stuck with it as I learned more about the political background of the worlds.

This collection is for fans of the series.

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John A Lee III

The Background Builds

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 11, 2005

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This is the second collection of shorts built around the "Honorverse" of David Weber. In this one, Honor Harrington does not appear at all but that doesn't stop it from being a good read. It consists of 3 short fiction stories and 1 "background" essay.

"A Beautiful Friendship" is by Weber. It details the story of Stephanie Harrington, Honor's ancestor, and her place as the first human to be adopted by a treecat. It is a good adventure story of an intelligent but headstrong young girl on a frontier planet. The genes that will eventually be passed on to Honor are present and visible.

"A Grand Tour" is the work of David Drake. It tells the story of an aristocratic scholar form Manticore who learns of an act of piracy by a Havenite ship. Since he has a reserve naval commission, he takes matters into his own hands using, of all things, a light cruiser won in a poker came. It comes across much more believably than it sounds.

"A Whiff of Grapeshot" is from S. M. Stirling. It takes place entirely on Haven and tells the story of the suppression of the Leveler revolt alluded to in some of the Honor Harrington stories.

"The Universe of Honor Harrington" is the background essay from Weber. In it, he details humanities march to the stars, describes the technology that makes it possible and looks at the political systems of Manticore and some of the other polities encountered in his series. It is well worth the read for fans.

This is an excellent little volume.

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Michael Lynch

Where's the Beef?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 18, 2015

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 24, 2020

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Enjoyed this background filler for the honor verse. It’s full of information and leads you in thee different directions of thought. Enjoy

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Kerry

A great Honorverse anthology!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 16, 2014

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This is a great addition to the Honorverse. Each story is well written and blends into the world of Honor Harrington without a hitch. These authors have contributed excellent work to Honorverse.

The first story was about the first treecat and human adoption - this of course was David Weber and it was great! The last of the book deals with the intricacies of the world, such as space travel, settlements, timelines, etc.

I love David Weber, David Drake and S.M. Stirling on their own, but together they were fantastic!

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Michael J. Kauspedas

... first story about the original treecat adoption was so good I bought the whole treecat series and read that ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 3, 2014

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The first story about the original treecat adoption was so good I bought the whole treecat series and read that before moving onto the other two stories. The other two stories were so bad I don't even remember what they were about and I just finished it last night.One was something about Mexicans and someone named mince meat helping to scare a Havenite cruiser with an even crappier ship that they ran an 80's montage too while fixing it up. No really, an 80's montage plays on your kindle while reading that part. Mine played the Transformers one, "You've got the touch, you've got the power!"

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Shagar2

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 4, 2020

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Another out of the park hit!! Couldn’t put it down!! Can’t wait to read the next one!!! Thank you very much!!

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Darian 🌸

Yet one more excellent entry to this rich saga. The history alone fills in the gaps of true understanding about the how, what, when and why of the progression from settlements onto the leadership by Manticore. I truly enjoyed the history of the treecats.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 6, 2018

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I have been a fan of this series and the off shoots since my brother discovered if and recommended it for my reading list. I hunger for all additional content that David releases as that becomes my next good read

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Cheryl Beldin

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 26, 2019

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