Honorverse Today

Dec 01 2024 29 ep. 104 mins 50

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Honorverse Today is a fan podcast providing review, commentary, and opinion for the Honor Harrington and Honorverse book series written by David Weber and published by Baen Books. The Honor Harrington series is one of the largest and most successful science fiction series in history. Yet it has never had a podcast. Until now. The series chronicles the life and world of Honor Harrington from her humble beginnings through the changing of the galactic order. The series includes 14 main series books, 2 spinoff series, several anthologies, 2 prequels, a comic series (which we will not be covering at this point), and several non-fiction reference and/or RPG game books. Honorverse Today will be covering the body of fictional stories, with the possible exception of the comics. More important, we will be covering all of the books in publication order. We know there has been debate within the fandom whether it's best to read in publication or chronological. For a podcast format, we have thought it best to cover the boooks in the order they were published. The Honorverse Today hosts are: Jim Arrowood, JP Harvey, and Raul Ybarra. Honorverse Today is brought to you by TPE Network. You can find the Honor Harrington books at Baen Books. Several books are availalbe in the Baen Free Library found at the site. Theme music is Honor and Sword by Zakhar Valaha. Check his website for all of your podcasting music needs. Honorverse Today is not affiliated with Baen Books or David Weber. Opinions expressed in the show are strictly those of the hosts. They do not reflect the opinions of Baen Books, David Weber or TPE Network.

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HVT-028 Treecat Wars

Dec 01 2024 88 mins

We move into the third book in the Star Kingdom series: Treecat Wars, by David Weber and Jane Lindskold. Published by Baen, this 376-page gem first hit the street in September 2013. With the brutal fire season over, Stephanie and her friend Anders are heading off to Manticore after being selected to attend Forestry Service ranger school. Stephanie’s story, alon

HVT-027 Beginnings

Nov 03 2024 105 mins

Beginnings is the sixth (and second to last) book in the Worlds of Honor anthology set. It contains five short stories, penned by four talented authors: David Weber, Charles E. Gannon, Timothy Zahn, and Joelle Presby. Each of these stories brings us to interesting and important beginnings for many events that we’ve become familiar with in the Honorverse but have

HVT-026 A Rising Thunder

Oct 06 2024 102 mins

“A Rising Thunder” basically picks up where “Mission of Honor” left off, with events that begin in April 1922 PD and span about five months. We’re back in the main sequence, and it seems hard to believe that this novel is the second to the last of the core novels! But we’re not close to being done with the Honorverse content, with lots of material from the r

HVT-025 Fire Season

Sep 01 2024 89 mins

We are jumping right into the second book in the Star Kingdom series, this one titled Fire Season. This one’s a joint venture between David Weber and the now-familiar Jane Lindskold. Published by Baen, it came out at a comfortable 287 pages in October 2012. In the previous Star Kingdom novel, we met an 11-year-old Stephanie Harrington in part 1, then moved forwa

HVT-024 A Beautiful Friendship

Aug 04 2024 65 mins

Well, we’re finally breaking into the Star Kingdom series, starting with the novel entitled A Beautiful Friendship. While they’re closely related to each other, don’t confuse this novel with the short story by the same name contained in the first anthology we discussed a while back (More Than Honor). The short story and this novel were both written by David Weber,

HVT-023 In Fire Forged

Jul 07 2024 81 mins

“In Fire Forged” is the fifth anthology in the Honorverse, containing three short stories and another technical writing. We see the return of two favorite co-authors: Jane Lindskold bringing us the short story “Ruthless” and Timothy Zahn who hits us hard with his short story “An Act of War”. David Weber brings us the third short story entitled “Let�

HVT-022 Second Interview with David Weber

Jun 02 2024 160 mins

Although the timing wasn’t openly discussed, you all knew we had a second interview with David Weber in the works. Well, our calendars finally aligned, and we are excited to drop the second interview with the creator of the Honorverse into the feed.We covered somewhere between 15 and 20 questions, including quite a few listener questions. Even so, it shouldn’t surpr

HVT-021 Mission of Honor

May 05 2024 133 mins

Mission of Honor brings us back to the main series/sequence, as we look at the twelfth novel in that line of the Honorverse story. The events in this ~600-page gem occur between late 1921 through the middle of 1922 PD. Having developed the breadth and depth of some significant events in the overall storyline, David moves away from the technique he’s used across severa

HVT-020 Torch of Freedom

Apr 07 2024 88 mins

As promised, here we are, back in the Crown of Slaves series talking about “Torch of Freedom”, another essential book assisting us in our passage through the Honorverse. This is the second of the novels that comprise the Crown of Slaves series or set of books within the Honorverse. As with the others in this set, Eric Flint was David Weber’s co-author. The influence of

HVT-019 Storm From the Shadows

Mar 03 2024 132 mins

Swinging back to the Saganami Island series, in this episode we discuss the second book entitled “Storm from the Shadows”.Similar to the previous novel, this is another of several that cover certain key events in the 1921 PD timeframe, but from a different perspective. This time a lot of what we see is through Admiral Michele Henke’s eyes. We made this point in the