A perfect mix of military SF and high adventure-if you enjoy your tour, re-up with HH2, The Honor of the Queen. The NPA, the local police organization, is mainly ex-Army and ex-Marines and so they have almost no experience finding smuggling compartments or the like.

But that outpost soon proves to be a powder keg, and it's up to Harrington and the Fearless crew to thwart the aggressive plans of the Haven Republic. Part of Honors overwhelming duties at Basilisk Station is to hold customs inspections. The politicians she's offended banish her to a galactic backwater, Basilisk Station. Against all odds (just the way Honor likes it), she still manages a clever coup in tactical war games, a feat that earns her accolades-and enemies. But her excitement quickly fades-political maneuvering by top brass in the Manticoran navy has left her light cruiser outfitted with a half-baked experimental weapons system. The series' kickoff puts a giddy Commander Harrington at the helm of her first serious starship, the HMS Fearless. Honor-the heroine of this fast-paced, addictive space opera-is a polished, plucky bulldog of a naval officer, part Horatio Hornblower, part Miles Vorkosigan, part Captain Janeway, and with a razor-clawed telepathic cat thrown over her shoulder for good measure. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.Īll rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.On Basilisk Station (or 'HH1' as it's known to the faithful) is the first installment in David Weber's cult hit Honor Harrington series, which has charmed the socks off schoolgirls and sailors alike.

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.īut the people out to get her have made one mistake. The aborigines of the system's only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens. Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station. 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.

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