Books by David Weber and Complete Book Reviews

David Weber, Author . Tor $25.95 (510p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1501-4
In this eagerly anticipated sequel to 2007’s Off Armageddon Reef , the sheer scale of the Kingdom of Charis’s naval victory against corrupt forces of the Church of God Awaiting has the Church newly wary of Charis’s technological...
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David Weber. Baen, $26 (480p) ISBN 978-1-4516-3806-6
Intrigue and counter-intrigue heighten the tension in Weber's 13th Honor Harrington novel (after Mission of Honor). Two wary interstellar nations, the monarchical Star Kingdom of Manticore and the oligarchic, Earth-based Solarian League, have often...
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David Weber, Author Baen Books $24 (592p) ISBN 978-0-671-87892-4
Extrapolating Horatio Hornblower into a rousing far-future galactic conflict, sex-changing him into Admiral Lady Dame Honor Harrington and setting in motion a myriad of teeth-baring space-naval commanders make Weber's military SF (In Enemy Hands,...
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David Weber, Tor, $25.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2412-2
Expanded from a short story that first appeared in George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois's anthology Warriors, this trilogy kickoff blends elements of military science fiction and dark fantasy. In the very near future, Earth has been targeted for...
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David Weber, Baen, $27 (608p) ISBN 978-1-4391-3361-3
Weber (Storm from the Shadows) combines realistic, engaging characters with intelligent technological projection and a deep understanding of military bureaucracy in the long-awaited 12th Honor Harrington novel. The long war between the Star Empire...
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David Weber, Author Baen Books : $26 (869p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3545-1
In previous installments of David Weber's bestselling space opera series featuring the intrepid Honor Harrington, she's won the sometimes unwilling admiration of friend and foe alike in her battles with the brutal and corrupt People's Republic of
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David Weber, Author . Subterranean $45 (609p) ISBN 978-1-59606-177-4
This hefty and moving reprint collection of nine novellas written between 1995 and 2007 fills in the corners of Weber's celebrated Honor Harrington series (most recently 2005's At All Costs ) and offers several other variations on...
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Naval SF is the common theme in this solid collection consisting of a short novel, Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington, and three stories, all set in the same universe that Weber (Ashes of Victory) created for his popular series heroine, Honor Harrington....
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David Weber, Author . Tor $25.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-765-31500-7
Weber (At All Costs ) launches an epic series with this gripping far-future saga, which springboards off the near-destruction of humanity in a massive war with the alien Gbaba. The survivors of the human race retreat to the planet Safehold, where...
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David Weber, Author . Baen $26 (855p) ISBN 978-1-4165-0911-0
Nobody does space opera better than Weber, and his heroine, Honor Harrington, introduced in On Basilisk Station (1993), remains as engaging as ever in the latest tome to chronicle her adventures. At the start, intelligence agents of the newly...
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David Weber, Author . Baen $21 (320p) ISBN 978-0-671-31860-4
In the latest SF adventure novel from the creator of Honor Harrington, Weber (On Basilisk Station; Ashes of Victory; etc.) expands a short story, "Sir George and the Dragon," which appeared in the David Drake anthology Foreign Legions (2001)
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David Weber, Author . Baen $26 (736p) ISBN 978-0-7434-8852-5
In his long-running saga of the Manticoran Space Navy and its battles (War of Honor , etc.), Weber has chronicled the career of Honor Harrington, a distaff Horatio Hornblower transplanted into a futuristic conflict based loosely on the Napoleonic...
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David Weber, Author, George Ed. Weber, Author Baen Books $21 (352p) ISBN 978-0-671-57786-5
It is Weber's wondrous treecats, not his popular woman warrior, Honor Harrington, who ultimately dominate this five-story collection. The book features the work of four authors, despite the solo cover credit, and is an obvious attempt to provide...
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David Weber, Author, George Ed. Weber, Author Baen Books $22 (544p) ISBN 978-0-671-87793-4
In a surprisingly dreary outing, Weber (Honor Among Enemies) continues the military adventures of his perennial heroine, Honor Harrington. The most powerful officials in the People's Republic of Haven (at war with Manticore and its Royal Navy, for...
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David Weber, Author, George Ed. Weber, Author Baen Books $21 (538p) ISBN 978-0-671-87723-1
Packing enough punch to blast a starship to smithereens, the first hardcover in Weber's Honor Harrington series (Field of Dishonor, etc.) includes such an abundance of tactical and political maneuvering that only fierce fans of military SF are...
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David Weber, Author, George Ed. Weber, Author Baen Books $7.99 (544p) ISBN 978-0-671-87707-1
As guilty pleasures go, the sequel to The Armageddon Inheritance probably isn't the equal of a cholesterol-laden hot fudge sundae--but it's close. In this installment, Humanity's Emperor Colin has to deal with subjects who want to overthrow him and...
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David Weber, Author, George Ed. Weber, Author, Charles Keegan, Illustrator Baen Books $22 (320p) ISBN 978-0-671-57782-7
In the year 2007, two UFO formations--one helmed by alien Kangas, the other by humans--burst into sight over the Atlantic. Both groups are from the future; the humans have been pursuing the Kangas through time in a desperate effort to stop them from
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David Weber, Author, David Drake, Joint Author, Eric Flint, Joint Author . Baen $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3534-5
This anthology contains three novellas of future or alternate war by three of the acknowledged experts in the field, so the title satisfies any reasonable truth-in-packaging requirements. The book should also satisfy most fans of the authors. David...
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David Weber, Author, Oliver Wyman, Read by , read by Oliver Wyman. Audio Renaissance $59.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-427-20065-5
Weber's latest opus is a complex tale of action and intrigue set early in the 25th century, hundreds of years after the near total annihilation of humanity by the Gbaba, an alien race hell-bent on eradicating humans from the universe. After...
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David Weber, Author, Steve White, Author . Baen $25 (688p) ISBN 978-0-671-31848-2
Fans of space opera who have been eagerly awaiting this sequel to Weber and White's In Death Ground (1997) won't be disappointed, to put it mildly. Humanity and its various allies find themselves under attack by an enemy with whom no...
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David Weber, Author, John Ringo, Author . Baen $26 (544p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3562-8
In their third outstanding military SF novel about a spoiled, foppish princeling's coming of age while marooned on the primitive planet of Marduk after a bungled assassination attempt, Weber and Flint (March Upcountry; March to the Sea) show...
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David Weber, Author, John Ringo, Author . Baen $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-684-03540-6
In the thoroughly satisfactory fourth and final installment in the interplanetary bildungsroman that Weber (The Shadow of Saganami ) and Ringo (When the Devil Dances ) began with March Upcountry (2001), Prince Roger and his Marine bodyguards, who
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David Weber, Author, John Ringo, Author, John Ringo, Joint Author . Baen $24 (544p) ISBN 978-0-671-31826-0
In this admirable continuation of the authors' March Upcountry (2001), Prince Roger McClintock and his diminishing band of Royal Marines are still on the soggy, hot planet Marduk and still having an interesting time. Their way to the sea and...
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An established master of military SF, Weber, and a fast-rising comer in the genre, Ringo, combine forces in the first of a new series sure to please their fans. Prince Roger Ramius Sergei Alexander Chiang MacClintock has a problem. Thanks to...
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David Weber, Author, Linda Evans, Author . Baen $26 (801p) ISBN 978-1-4165-0939-4
Magic and high tech collide in this exciting military SF novel from bestseller Weber (War of Honor ) and Evans (Far Edge of Darkness ), the first of a new series. Two human societies, the Sharona and the Union of Arcana, have evolved in parallel...
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David Weber, Author, Eric Flint, Author, James P. Baen, Author . Baen $25 (512p) ISBN 978-0-7434-7148-0
Fans of Weber's Honor Harrington series know that one of its more intriguing aspects is the "Honorverse," the historical, political and astrophysical foundation upon which he builds his plots. They will be delighted with this offshoot in
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Eric Flint, Author, David Weber, Author . Baen $28 (728p) ISBN 978-1-4165-2102-0
The exciting eighth entry in the Ring of Fire saga, about a temporally displaced West Virginia mining town and its impact upon 17th-century Europe, neatly wraps up two plot threads left unresolved by Flint and Weber's 1633 (2002). A mission is...
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David Weber. Baen, $18.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4516-3747-2
Weber, the bestselling creator of the Honor Harrington books, digs into prequel territory with this series launch starring Stephanie Harrington, Honor's ancestress. While Weber's adult fanbase will find much to enjoy, teenage readers may find the...
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David Weber. Baen, $28 (768p) ISBN 978-1-4814-8350-6
This juggernaut of military science fiction moves slowly but inexorably as the Star Kingdom’s Grand Fleet, commanded by series protagonist Honor Harrington, faces the space navy of the Solarian League as well as the shadowy cabal of the Mesan...
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David Weber. Tor, $27.99 (784p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2187-9
Weber’s strong eighth Safehold military SF novel (after Like a Mighty Army) is certainly not a suitable entry point into the series, but confirmed fans will appreciate the battlefield action and political maneuvering that fill these pages. On a...
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David Weber. Tor, $27.99 (672p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2156-5
Weber’s seventh far-future Safehold novel (after Midst Toil and Tribulation) is a complex and fascinating epic about change, identity, and the nature of faith. The empire of Charis and its allies are valiantly attempting to end the corrupt Church of
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David Weber. Baen, $26 (608p) ISBN 978-1-4516-3835-6
Weber returns to the fantasy realm of Norfressa and his barbarian hero Bahzell Bahnakson (last seen in 2004’s Wind Rider’s Oath) with an intricately plotted (albeit formulaic) story that sees the endearing hradani giant transition into a new stage...
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David Weber, Author . Tor $27.95 (492p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1503-8
In this tangled follow-up to 2008's By Schism Rent Asunder , the corrupt Church of God Awaiting has ruthlessly suppressed technology on the planet Safehold for the past 800 years. Merlin Athrawes, a cybernetic avatar bodyguard serving the king...
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David Weber and Jacob Holo. Baen, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-1-4814-8396-4
This fun and thrilling standalone from Weber (Uncompromising Honor) and Holo (Disciples of the Dead) finds a 30th-century historian at odds with a world unfamiliar to him, and the fate of his universe rests in the mind of a 20th-century history...
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David Weber & Jacob Holo. Baen, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-1-982192-15-0
The third in Weber and Holo’s Gordian Division series (following 2020’s Valkyrie Protocol), this sci-fi police procedural is only loosely dependent upon previous installments, instead setting up a satisfying, self-contained mystery for its...
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David Weber and Chris Kennedy. Tor, $28.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3145-8
Weber and Kennedy (The Progenitors’ War series) offer an intelligent and unconventional variation on the familiar setup of humanity repelling an alien invasion in this well-crafted sequel to Weber’s Out of the Dark. Earth has been devastated by the...
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David Weber and Richard Fox. Baen, $27 (496p) ISBN 978-1-982125-40-0
Ending the 56-year space war between the Terran Federation and the Terran League proves less than rewarding for the stalwart protagonist of this fervent adventure from veteran military SF authors Weber (the Honor Harrington series) and Fox (the...
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David Weber and Timothy Zahn. Baen, $25 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4767-3684-6
A new series set in the universe of Weber’s popular heroine Honor Harrington gets off to a solid start. Travis Long’s life is aimless until he opts to join Manticore’s dying Navy. Soon he and his half-brother Gavin, a low-level lord, are drawn into...
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David Weber, Timothy Zahn, and Thomas Pope. Baen, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4767-8085-6
A plot to overthrow Manticore’s government brings brilliant but insufferable Lt. Travis Long and his former shipmates together against a common foe in the second book of the Manticore Ascendant series (after A Call to Duty), set in the early years...
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