book update

[jiltanith]

Just finished In Fire Forged, the 5th Honorverse anthology. I am in absolute awe at Timothy Zahn's capabilities at writing tie-ins. He is the absolute master of tie-ins. (Yes, I've read the Thrawn trilogy.) I've got this theory of why gen for certain fandoms isn't popular and it comes down to official tie-in novels and short stories filling the

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[philomytha]

Huh, I somehow hadn't heard about that book. The Casmir raid sounds quite fun. And yes, more characters who are not Honor (and who are not Manticoran? or is that too much to hope for?) would be nice. 'Fanatic' is still my favourite Honorverse story...

[jiltanith]

The publication date on the book is February 2011, and the library usually gets them out on the hard release date, making that date two Tuesdays ago. I'm not surprised you hadn't heard of it. I knew it was in the works but I didn't realize the release date until it came up in the library preorders.

There's this tradition in the anthologies of Weber writing an Honor story set before OBS. From reading the stories, I think the problem with Honor in the mainline stories is not the "Author's Darling" explanation that others have given so much as Weber's own assessment is correct: admirals are inherently less interesting in an action-adventure series. (Or at least the way he's writing Honor is; the Havenite political drama is as exciting as ever to me.)

The Zahn story is about that Solarian military-tech con artist OC he wrote about in the last anthology. Lindskold's contribution was yet another one about Michael Winton and his future wife Judith. There's just something about her writing in this series that doesn't grab me.