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Original Title: On Basilisk Station
ISBN: 1416509372 (ISBN13: 9781416509370)
Edition Language: English URL http://www.baenebooks.com/p-304-on-basilisk-station.aspx
Series: Honor Harrington #1, Honorverse, Honor Harrington FRG #1 , more
Characters: Honor Harrington
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On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington #1) Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 458 pages
Rating: 4.13 | 39932 Users | 1905 Reviews

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Honor Harrington in trouble: Having made him look the fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her. Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station. The aborigines of the system's only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens. 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.

But the people out to get her have made one mistake.

They've made her mad!

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Title:On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington #1)
Author:David Weber
Book Format:Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 458 pages
Published:July 26th 2005 by Baen Books (first published April 1992)
Categories:Science Fiction. Space. Space Opera. Fiction. War. Military Fiction

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Ratings: 4.13 From 39932 Users | 1905 Reviews

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Honestly, the cat makes me WANT to read it.

According to some googling and some calculations (oooo, fractions), I made it through 54% of this book. A search using Amazon's Look Inside feature tells me I got to page 253. 253!And I still couldn't tell the characters apart.Okay, that's an exaggeration. I knew who Honor was, and her exec, and...her cat. And maybe one or two others. Weber introduces us to a rather large cast, but he fails to give each personality an individual stamp. I couldn't even describe anyone physically, apart from Honor

There are many faults with On Basilisk Station. I'm not going to deny that. The bit where a tense action scene was interrupted for eight pages of background on the ins and outs of space travel was a particularly egregious one, and David Weber is quite frankly, to judge on this, not that good a writer at all. I also understand people who think Honor is a bit of a "Mary Sue", a bit too perfect. I understand, but I don't agree -- at least not at this stage in the series, though I've read analyses

If the rest of this novel had been as good as the last third I would probably have given it a 5 star rating. As it is...excellent book and as our friends in the UK might say, smashing climax in the books tie-up.There were times in this book where my mind wandered off and I had to grab it and drag it back to the subject at hand. Oddly (or maybe not) enough the very thing(s) that caused me to gig the book a star in my rating are probably the same things that will(have) cause(ed) others to rat it a

This series opener is one that's been on my radar for a long time, and I'm delighted to have finally read it! Although I'm a science fiction fan, I'm not generally attracted to military SF, which of course this is. But that's mostly because my impression is that much of that sub-genre concentrates heavily on futuristic military hardware, to the neglect of the human element (and I think the human element is what good literature is all about). But that's not a problem here. To be sure, there's

I feel it necessary to admit a few things before starting this review proper.1. I have watched the Horatio Hornblower movies that were shown on A&E (you know, back when A&E actually could be called Arts and Entertainment as opposed to Tattoo TV). I liked them. (Okay, I really liked LT. Bush {Paul McGann}, but who didn't? The only thing better was The Hanging Gale when all the McGann brothers were working together). I also saw the Peck movie.2. I have only read one Hornblower novel. I

Honor Harrington is a smart and feisty Commander in the Royal Manticoran Navy. She's just been given her first command, the lightship HMS Fearless. Unfortunately she is a bit too clever in simulated war games and upsets the wrong people and is banished to the backwaters of Basilisk Station. Her crew resent her, the senior officer on the station takes off as soon as she gets there, leaving her in command. She discovers that as well as a lot of unchecked smuggling, there is something else very