On Basilisk Station
Ratings90
Average rating3.8
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Ratings90
Average rating3.8
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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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.
Goodness, these books have horrible covers. Honor Harrington (space-bound Horatio Hornblower with lady parts) has the makings of an interesting character but she's annoyingly perfect (I don't consider being bad at math when she thinks too hard to be an endearing character trait, but that's just me). Other characters either think Honor is amaze-balls (and are thus good guys) or hate her because she's too darn efficient (and are thus the bad guys), along with the occasional character who “while he wanted her dead he had to admire her dogged determination.” But, even though I really didn't care one way or another about the plot, I still did more or less enjoy the book
A fantastic start to a military science fiction epic series! I can see now why people are always recommending these books. Great writing, interesting characters.
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