David Weber





David Weber

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

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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 production). In 2008, he donated his a...more


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Average rating: 4.06 · 150,564 ratings · 5,242 reviews · 144 distinct works · Similar authors
On Basilisk Station (Honor ...
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 12,634 ratings — published 1993 — 25 editions
The Honor of the Queen (Hon...
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 8,183 ratings — published 1993 — 20 editions
The Short Victorious War (H...
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 7,129 ratings — published 1994 — 21 editions
Field of Dishonor (Honor Ha...
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 6,119 ratings — published 1994 — 20 editions
Honor Among Enemies (Honor ...
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 5,792 ratings — published 1996 — 16 editions
In Enemy Hands (Honor Harri...
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 5,371 ratings — published 1997 — 13 editions
Flag in Exile (Honor Harrin...
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 5,582 ratings — published 1995 — 15 editions
Echoes of Honor (Honor Harr...
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 4,876 ratings — published 1998 — 13 editions
Ashes of Victory (Honor Har...
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 4,687 ratings — published 2000 — 13 editions
War of Honor (Honor Harring...
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 4,323 ratings — published 2002 — 14 editions
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 (26 books)
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4.092269824374667 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 90,192 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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4.128439493478054 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 73,521 ratings
March Upcountry March to the Sea March to the Stars We Few
Empire of Man (4 books)
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4.1277752942929515 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 13,422 ratings
Off Armageddon Reef By Schism Rent Asunder By Heresies Distressed A Mighty Fortress How Firm a Foundation Midst Toil and Tribulation
Safehold (6 books)
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4.05970024979184 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 12,010 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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3.8671403673414666 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 7,459 ratings
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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

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January Science Fiction: This poll determines which 2 novels will move on to the run-off poll for January 2010 SF Book of the Month!

 
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