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OK, I'm enjoying Weber's Honor Harrington novels, although they are in many respects a shocking clone of the Hornblower books (we are meant to notice this, it's homage rather than rip-off) to the extent that the hardware is perversely distorted to be more like 18th century naval combat, but it's all good clean new-style space opera fun, and in the best tradition of drugs the first one's free - thank you, Baen. (Baen Free Library, on their Website - excellent idea.)
However, I notice Weber makes the mistake of having her read Hornblower - never a good idea. No-one in MegaTokyo has seen _Bubblegum Crisis_; no-one in EarthForce has seen _Babylon 5_; and David Bowman never read _2001_.
But my real curiousity - who at the publisher took enough crack to put a flick-book style animation of a spaceship exploding along the top right-hand corners of _Honor Among Enemies_? Eh?
OK, I'm enjoying Weber's Honor Harrington novels, although they are in many respects a shocking clone of the Hornblower books (we are meant to notice this, it's homage rather than rip-off) to the extent that the hardware is perversely distorted to be more like 18th century naval combat, but it's all good clean new-style space opera fun, and in the best tradition of drugs the first one's free - thank you, Baen. (Baen Free Library, on their Website - excellent idea.)
However, I notice Weber makes the mistake of having her read Hornblower - never a good idea. No-one in MegaTokyo has seen _Bubblegum Crisis_; no-one in EarthForce has seen _Babylon 5_; and David Bowman never read _2001_.
But my real curiousity - who at the publisher took enough crack to put a flick-book style animation of a spaceship exploding along the top right-hand corners of _Honor Among Enemies_? Eh?
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I've not actually read Hornblower, but I do remember that it was also mentioned in Star Trek (Quarterdeck-breed).
On an individual basis, she may be much the same - but on a larger scale (the conflict with the peeps and the Silesian confederacy) is right out of 18th Century European politics.
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I'm half-way through reading