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Reddit mentions of On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington)
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We found 12 Reddit mentions of On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington). Here are the top ones.
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Specs:
| Height | 6.75 Inches |
| Length | 4.1875 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | August 2002 |
| Weight | 0.48942622164 Pounds |
| Width | 0.9 Inches |
Well you asked for big series
 
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Honor Harrington by David Weber
 
 
Wild Cards Series by George R. R. Martin
 
Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
 
To Say Nothing of the Dog is another time travel nobel by the same author as The Doomsday Book and is a bit lighter fare if you think the black plague is too dark for a recovery read.
As long as I'm here I'll also throw out On Basilisk Station as fun military sci fi with a strong female protagonist.
Honor Harrington series by David Weber.
Military SF plus politics. There is also religion, but no angels or mysticism.
First book in the series is On Basilisk Station -
http://www.amazon.com/Basilisk-Station-Honor-Harrington/dp/0743435710/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_10
The Devil and Daniel Webster is short. Though if you're interested in recommendations for books that are longer that you may like check out these:
The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut's Windlass
On Basilisk Station
The Hobbit
The Dresden Files 1, 2, 3. (The first two books of the series are the weakest, the quality jumps tremendously in Book 3 and each one is better then the last after that.)
The Lost Fleet
On Basilisk Station - David Weber
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Honor Harrington has been exiled to Basilisk station and given an antique ship to police the system. The vindictive superior who sent her there wants her to fail. But he made one mistake; he's made her mad. . . .
taken from Amazon review:
This is a really clever story with wonderful and believable characters, brilliantly described space battles, and a well crafted set of explanations of how the tactical situations which the characters find themselves in relate both to the technology their ships use and the political dynamics which set up the conflicts they find themselves in. Because this is the first book of the series Dave Weber has to devote a fair amount of time to explaining the how faster than light travel and space weapons work in the series, but the explanations are reasonably interesting, internally consistent, and not too hard to follow.
tl;dr - military fiction + space opera
Be forewarned, there are 10+ books in the series, which I got hooked into. willingly.
Young Miles
I love the Vorkosaigan series. Miles is like a whirlwhind of chaos, dragging awesomeness and interesting events wherever he goes behind him.
I also love the Honor Harrington series.
Honor is a bit like a female Miles, but more awesome, because she has a telepathic tree cat, and can singlehandly kick your ass, and the army you brought with you.
The City That Fought.
This one is a bit older, and is harder to find, but worth it. The story revolves around a city run by a person who's basically the ship's computer, and his Brawn. (Girl who does all the manual type things because he's literally stuck in a tube monitoring things). Just about anything by Ann McCaffery is good, though. I was introduced to her via her "Dragonriders of Pern" series, which is the best damn sci fi disguised as Fantasy I've read.
My favorite book is On Basilisk Station by David Webber. It is based on the Horatio Hornblower series and is a really great adaptation. Can be either a once and done or the start of a great series.
David Weber's Honorverse. go read this, it's a really fucking good book. http://www.amazon.com/On-Basilisk-Station-Honor-Harrington/dp/0743435710/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333411021&sr=1-1
Quick follow up:
If you want to also read like 20K pages of awesome, then go get yourself a copy of "On Basilisk Station." It's the first book in the series, and if this chapter doesn't already hook you, that book certainly will. (The excerpt in from "The Shadow of Saganami," but you're going to want more context than just starting with this book.) I haven't listened to the audio book, they're not really my thing, but the paperback can be had for $7.
Paperback on amazon
Audio book on Audible
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I'd start with Weber's "On Basilisk Station."
He doesn't get everything perfect, but he does far better than most.
Young Miles - Lois McMaster Bujold
Old Man's War - John Scalzi
On Basilisk Station - David Weber
As a David Weber fan, your short story amuses me. :P
His Honor Harrington series has reached a truly absurd length. So thanks to you, I decided to figure out just how long it is. I got my page lengths from Amazon, and for consistency I used the mass market paperback edition.
Main (Honor Harrington) sequence
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8160 pages so far. But we're just getting warmed up. There's four side sequences, plus short stories and anthologies. Two of those side sequences (Saganmi Island and Crown of Slaves) actually merge with the main sequences,so they're more-or-less required reading to follow the main storyline.
Crown of Slaves sequence
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Saganmi Island sequence
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Star Kingdom sequence
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Manticore Ascendant sequence
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So those side stories come out to 7992 pages, bringing us up to 16,152 pages so far. But wait, there's more! He's got a bunch of anthologies (most of which intersect with the main sequence too so they are also required reading):
Anthologies
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So the anthologies add another 2992 pages, bringing us to 19,144. And lastly, there's the companion book
That brings us up to 19,928 pages. Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time is a short story by comparison ;P