I love books and I have recommended some series in the past the Kencyrath
chronicles the October daye series and Grand Central Arena the sequel to which
is coming out October but today's fodder is the book which my then-boyfriend gave
me when I demanded quote awesome female protagonists kicking ass that book is on
Basilisk station by David Weber the awesome female protagonist is Honor
Harrington who kicks ass takes names and does Navy things of course we're now
in space so naval concepts like ships of the line are replaced by ships at the wall
and everyone is suddenly having to navigate in three dimensions but I'm
really not much of a sci-fi buff so unless there is a truly glaring internal
inconsistency it's quite likely I'm not going to notice of any way on
basilisk station is about commander honor Harrington who the age of 40
something but they all have prolong so everyone looks about 19 has finally got
herself the Royal Manticore Navy ship fearless to command and she is so happy
about it yeah she gets a big ship all to herself
well ish I mean in the hierarchy of ship sizes she's yep that that one right
there yeah good but man is she happy about it at
least until she finds out that one most of her armament has been gutted and
replaced with new fangled super-dee duper-dee crappy things to she gets sent
to the back end of nowhere because Navy politics and three when she gets there
there are some people who they're eventually gonna end up at war with
acting sneaky so Honor overcomes challenges inspires her crew and takes
part in a climactic naval battle in which lots of people die because David
Weber doesn't write military porn the wider context of the universe is
basically what would happen if we took a certain period of history and set it in
space it's kind of like the opposite of an historical a you I suppose if you
wish to guess which period of history it is then you will need no further
information than the Haven system capital is called Nouveau Paris and is
stony broke and run by aristocrats yep history but with faster-than-light
travel and gender equality and tree cats treecats are awesome they're sort of
six legged sentient cat beings and
so cute and adorable and I want one and why don't they exist the early books
clock in around the 400 page mark which is the sort of snappy length I
appreciate the later books get longer and longer and more political and spend
less time with honor so I kind of like them less because of that my noted bias
for this of course is that honor is my absolute favorite character and so if I
had been the editor of the last book I would have gone through every hundred
pages and if I hadn't seen her I would have written in a big red pen where is
honor which might have made me sound bizarrely like Prince Zuko but never
mind I would have gotten my point across that said we never did spend all our
time in a book with honor because the Honor Harrington series has many
characters I mean loads and loads of characters
which is a good thing because as previously mentioned they do die off at
quite an alarming rate and also because some of them are really awesome while
time spent away from Honor is always a wrench spending pages with Harkness and
Scottie Tremaine or protector Benjamin or Shannon Foraker really isn't too much
of a hardship while the later books are much longer and more politically focused
the earlier books especially are just really good solid character driven
military sci-fi the first book however does contain one small hint at the
digressions to come and to properly elaborate on this point
have composed a little song Exposition exposition rush it out ASAP maybe they won't notice if I put it in this
battle scene missiles flying people dying 2,000 words of history get back to the plot
please David spare us from this agony chapter 28 ends with screaming and
dying in agony and general drama everywhere
chapter 29 begins with 16 paragraphs on the development of faster-than-light
travel 16 paragraphs but don't let that put you off because the honor Harrington
series is an amazing set of books with a fabulous sense of humor a fantastic
primary character many brilliant and awesome secondary characters reams of
history jokes and enough in the way of military sci-fi for people who like
military sci-fi I guess so go read in fact you can read it for free that link
is in the description because David Weber is published by Baen looks and Baen
books are my favorite publishers in the whole world even though their cover
artists well let's call it variable and leave it at that shall we so yeah if you
want to try it the first book in the honor Harrington series as I said the
link to on buzz less extension is in the description you can read it online you
can download it to your e-reader whatever you fancy