David Weber





David Weber

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October 24, 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio, The United States

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David Mark Weber is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1952.

Many of his stories have military, particularly naval, themes, and fit into the military science fiction genre. He frequently places female leading characters in what have been traditionally male roles.

One of his most popular and enduring characters is Honor Harrington whose alliterated name is an homage to C. S. Forester's character Horatio Hornblower and her last name from a fleet doctor in Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander. Her story, together with the "Honorverse" she inhabits, has been developed through 13 novels and four shared-universe anthologies, as of spring 2006 (other works are in prod...more


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Average rating: 4.01 · 67,551 ratings · 2,985 reviews · 114 distinct works
On Basilisk Station (Honor Har...
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 5,380 ratings — published 1993 — 20 editions
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The Honor of the Queen (Honor...
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 3,466 ratings — published 1993 — 18 editions
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The Short Victorious War (Hono...
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 3,226 ratings — published 1994 — 18 editions
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Honor Among Enemies (Honor Har...
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 2,733 ratings — published 1996 — 14 editions
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Field of Dishonor (Honor Harri...
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 2,780 ratings — published 1994 — 17 editions
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Flag in Exile (Honor Harringto...
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 2,668 ratings — published 1995 — 13 editions
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In Enemy Hands (Honor Harringt...
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 2,451 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions
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Echoes of Honor (Honor Harring...
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 2,342 ratings — published 1998 — 8 editions
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Ashes of Victory (Honor Harrin...
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 2,249 ratings — published 2000 — 9 editions
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War of Honor (Honor Harrington...
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 2,080 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions
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More books by David Weber…
On Basilisk Station The Honor of the Queen The Short Victorious War Field of Dishonor Flag in Exile Honor Among Enemies In Enemy Hands
Honorverse (25 books)
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4.05486801812062 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 39,513 ratings
On Basilisk Station The Honor of the Queen The Short Victorious War Field of Dishonor Flag in Exile Honor Among Enemies In Enemy Hands
Honor Harrington (14 books)
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4.09712935029391 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 32,153 ratings
March Upcountry March to the Sea March to the Stars
Empire of Man (4 books)
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4.07221954742417 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 6,231 ratings
Off Armageddon Reef By Schism Rent Asunder By Heresies Distressed A Mighty Fortress How Firm a Foundation
Safehold (6 books)
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3.98017902813299 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 4,692 ratings
More Than Honor Worlds of Honor Changer of Worlds The Service of the Sword In Fire Forged
Worlds of Honor (5 books)
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3.8232583355923 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 3,689 ratings
More series by David Weber…

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“It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.”
David Weber, Field of Dishonor

“Oh, bother!,” said Pooh, as Piglet came back from the dead.”
David Weber

“Tisiphone stood silent and helpless in Alicia's mind. It was all she could do to keep Alicia's blind savagery from dragging Megaira under and clouding the lightning-fast reflexes which kept them both alive.
She'd never guessed what she was creating, never imagined the monster she'd spawned. She'd seen the power of Alicia DeVries's mind without recognizing the controls which kept that power in check, and only now had she begun to understand fully what she had done.
She had shattered those controls. The compassion and mercy she'd feared no longer existed, only the red, ravening hunger. Yet terrible as that might be, there was worse. She'd found the hole Alicia had gnawed through the wall about her inner rage, and she couldn't close it. Somehow, without even realizing it was possible, Alicia had reached beyond herself. She'd followed Tisiphone's connection to the Fury's own rage, her own destruction, and made that incalculable power hers as well.
For the first time in millennia, Tisiphone faced another as powerful as herself, a mortal mind which had stolen the power of the Furies themselves, and that power had driven it mad.”
David Weber, In Fury Born

Polls

Which series should become our first ever Beyond Reality Series?

The Miles Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold
 
  14 votes 31.1%

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
 
  7 votes 15.6%

The Honorverse (Honor Harrington series) by David Weber
 
  5 votes 11.1%

The Morgaine Saga by C.J. Cherryh
 
  4 votes 8.9%

The Elric series by Michael Moorcock
 
  4 votes 8.9%

The Malazan Books of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
 
  3 votes 6.7%

The Saga of Recluce by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
 
  3 votes 6.7%

The Sun Sword series by Michelle Sagara West
 
  3 votes 6.7%

The Troy trilogy by David Gemmell
 
  1 vote 2.2%

The Deverry series by Katharine Kerr
 
  1 vote 2.2%

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