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BEGINNINGS: WORLDS OF HONOR BOOK 6 PDF, EPUB, EBOOK David Weber | 528 pages | 02 Sep 2014 | Baen Books | 9781476736594 | English | Riverdale, United States Beginnings (Worlds of Honor Series #6) by David Weber, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® Baen Community. Baen's Bar. About Baen. Free Library. Monthly Bundles. Please login or sign up for a new account. Remember me not recommended for public devices. I forgot my password Password Reset. Sign up for a new account. Helena St. Lucia St. Martin St. Outlying Islands U. Please select region, state or province. Sign Up. Beginnings: Worlds of Honor 6 David Weber. View Series. Go to Cart Keep Shopping. Read Online Email Kindle Ebook to me. View Larger Image. More items related to this product. Best-selling in Fiction. Save on Fiction Trending price is based on prices over last 90 days. You may also like. Paperback Books David Weber. Books David Weber. Weber's Paperback Books. Hardback Books David Weber. Fiction Books in English David Weber. David Walliams Paperback Books. About this product Product Information The hottest military science fiction series of all time continues with a collection of tales by New York Times bestselling authors Timothy Zahn, Charles E. Gann, and David Weber. The mission: to boldly explore David Weber's Horverse; to deliver all the action, courage, derring-do, and pulse-pounding excitement of space naval adventure with tales set in a world touched by the greatness of one epic heroine: Hor Harrington. Beginnings (Honorverse) - Wikipedia It's a reasonably good sci-fi story, but it's not really Honorverse. Early RMN story of some action you've never heard of. It's recognizable as as Honorverse and well written. Great story. Provides a lot of depth to momma and daddy Harrington. Very nice. Obligated Service - Joelle Presby: This one felt really gritty to me, and the main character is a little bleak. It definitely shows a little of the dark side of both Grayson and Manticoran officers. Beginnings is a superior Honorverse anthology - better than In Fire Forged though that has its own charm too. It also marks a departure from earlier anthologies, in so far it starts breaking new ground in the honorverse universe, both in the very beginning before Manticore, hyperspace and all, early in the PD period and in the upcoming Timothy Zahn series set when Manticore changes from a rich but quaint and unimportant state to the commercial power of the Honor times, change due of course to th Beginnings is a superior Honorverse anthology - better than In Fire Forged though that has its own charm too. It also marks a departure from earlier anthologies, in so far it starts breaking new ground in the honorverse universe, both in the very beginning before Manticore, hyperspace and all, early in the PD period and in the upcoming Timothy Zahn series set when Manticore changes from a rich but quaint and unimportant state to the commercial power of the Honor times, change due of course to the discovery of the wormhole for reference the YA Stephanie Harrington series takes place somewhat before this and may later cover aspects of it too The military change when to a superpower is covered btw in House of Steel. But there is also a lot of regular stuff - the meeting of Honor's parents on Beowulf, the meeting of Honor with Laughs Brightly and a "regular woman" 's take on Grayson social revolution which we have so far seem through privileged eyes, but not through the eyes of poorer women coming from very conservative steadings and households, where the Protector is known as "Crazy Benjie", women are still property and the modernization is to be postponed and given token acceptance only.. The Weber stories were excellent though completely predictable from when newly commissioned Lt Alfred Harrington, former enlisted Marine, decorated with the highest enlisted award for classified action is met by "Uncle Jacques" at the spaceport on Grendel to be helped to settle in his medical studies on Beowulf, scene switching soon to one Alison Chu meditating on how to ditch faster her current boyfriend, the arrogant Illescue surprise, surprise The Grayson story also excels through its "common girl" POV contrasting nicely with the Abigail Hearns stories from earlier books. Feb 01, Timothy Maguire rated it it was ok Recommends it for: Weber's diehard fans. I'm going to open this review with three open letters to the people responsible for Beginnings: Dear Charles E Gannon, I have no doubt that if you look hard enough on the campus you work on, you will find one or more 'Green' or environmental groups. I would like to suggest that you attend one of their meetings. You do not need to really do anything there, though some engagement would not do much harm. I am sure you will find no one suggesting a one-state government, especially not one that engages I'm going to open this review with three open letters to the people responsible for Beginnings: Dear Charles E Gannon, I have no doubt that if you look hard enough on the campus you work on, you will find one or more 'Green' or environmental groups. I am sure you will find no one suggesting a one-state government, especially not one that engages in historical revisionism, scientific denialism or political purges. As you might imagine, I found your portrayal of 'Greens' as willing to engage in all of the above as more than a little offensive. While By The Book was flawed in many other ways, your inclusion of such lazy, inaccurate strawmen politics was simply the final straw. I have no doubt that your story was included in Beginnings to increase readers' awareness of your work and on that front, it is not hard not to say that it failed. Next time, you may wish to base your story on something more than personal prejudices. It was, quite simply, an eye-opener, making me want to write my own novels. Since then, I have ravenously consumed your body of work. While I won't pretend I have enjoyed every single one, that's always been due to my own personal preferences. Yet it is hard not to say that for the first time I've been disappointed by one of your books. Beyond the offensive stereotypes it uses as villains, the sheer blatantness by which it is crudely welded into the Honorverse is an insult to the intelligence of everyone reading it. I have no doubt that its inclusion was the idea of the editors at Baen, but it simply reflects poorly upon you that you went along with it. Yours faithfully, Timothy Maguire Dear Baen editorial team, I get that you consider yourself to be a right-wing publishing house. It's hard not to think so when you publish Tea-party handbooks after all. Yet, I have to ask: why are you so willing to let it be such utter dross? By The Book is, quite frankly, a bad story. It's driven by lazy, often poorly thought-out ideas, relies on a central character so bland you can almost see through him and is so badly tied to the Honorverse it's supposed to be set in that you can all but see the lines where it was converted across. This isn't the first time you seem to have published something based on its politics and I suppose it's better that it's just one short story rather than some of your other howlers The Last Centurion, anyone? I'd like to suggest a new position in your editorial team: Quality Control Officer. This doesn't really need to be a new staff member, but it should probably be someone who doesn't attend the local Tea Party rallies. Their job would be, quite simply, to point out when you're letting your enthusiasm for an author's opinions blind you to the failings of their writing. I think you'll find it helps. Yours sincerely, Timothy Maguire PS: I was a little disappointed to see that you didn't bother including Joelle Presby's bio on Beginnings' dust jacket. Given that her story was the highlight of this book, that's a little sad. As it's also a commentary on institutionalised sexism, it's also a little embarrassing when she's the only woman writing in the book. Let's get down to the basics. Beginnings is the 6th Worlds of Honor anthology published in David Weber's Honorverse, collecting five stories themed around 'beginnings'. So I'll go over each one individually as the quality varies wildly. I'll try and keep it short, but this is one flawed story. To be honest, if I was asked to teach a course on Creative Writing, By The Book would be on the syllabus as an example of how not to do it. In short, it's a generic story told very badly whose sole redeeming feature it that it's utterly irrelevant to the universe it's set in. By The Book's constant flaw is that it's generic in all the worst ways. It's about the exploits of a rebellious captain serving under an evil regime. It's about the conflict between those living on Earth and those living in space. It's about determining the fate of the human race. The plot is a who- dunnit in space that relies almost entirely on supposition rather than anything that looks convincingly like investigation. Stop me if you've seen this before.

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