On Basilisk Station
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Having made him look a fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her.
Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station.
The aborigines of the system's only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens.
Parliament isn't sure it wants to keep the place; the major local industry is smuggling; the merchant cartels want her head; the star-conquering, so-called "Republic" of Haven is Up To Something; and Honor Harrington has a single, over-age light cruiser with an armament that doesn't work to police the entire star system.
But the people out to get her have made one mistake. They've made her mad.
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14 primary booksHonor Harrington
Honor Harrington is a 14-book series with 14 primary works first released in 1993 with contributions by David Weber.
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Honorverse is a 42-book series first released in 1993 with contributions by David Weber, Linda Evans, and Roland J. Green.
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Honor Harrington FRG is a 14-book series with 14 primary works first released in 1993 with contributions by David Weber, Linda Evans, and Jane Lindskold.
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This is the most sci-fi book I've ever picked up. The technobabble and politics are pretty dense and it was hard to keep straight which myth-named thing corresponded to what. Thankfully full understanding isn't really vital to follow the plot.
Honor Harrington, newly-promoted Captain in the Queen???s Royal Manticoran Navy, has taken command of her first space cruiser, Fearless. Sadly, she and her crew have been deployed to Basilisk Station, a low-status drudge assignment that mostly involves checking cargoes for contraband. Morale aboard Fearless is low, but things are about to change. Unbeknownst to Manticore, The Republic of Haven, which hopes to better its economy by conquering resource-wealthy planets, plans to invade Manticore by way of the wormhole junction terminus at Basilisk Station. Can Honor and her crew uncover the plot and save Manticore?
David Weber???s On Basilisk Station is classic space opera loaded with lots of exposition about military tactics, weaponry, hyperspace, calculation of acceleration rates, etc., etc. This isn???t my favorite genre of science fiction, but I was ... Read More: http://www.fantasyliterature.com/reviews/on-basilisk-station/
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