Die Achte Flotte

Honorverse: Saganami Island #2 part 1

by David Weber, Dietmar Schmidt (Übersetzer)

Michelle Henke übernimmt zum ersten Mal ein Flottenkommando. Und wenn sie eines kann, dann mit ihren Aufgaben wachsen. Doch kurzerhand gerät sie in eine Raumschlacht, die jeden verzweifeln ließe ? selbst jemanden wie sie, die seit der
Akademie die beste Freundin der gefürchteten Honor Harrington ist. Bislang dachten die Feinde des Sternenkönigreichs, Honor allein sei schon schlimm genug. Doch sie kennen Michelle Henke nicht.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction

558 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

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 16 novels and six shared-universe anthologies, as of spring 2013 (other works are in production). In 2008, he donated his archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.

Many of his books are available online, either in their entirety as part of the Baen Free Library or, in the case of more recent books, in the form of sample chapters (typically the first 25-33% of the work).

http://us.macmillan.com/author/davidw...

Reviews

[Tandriin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just the first Part of "Storm from the Shadow". I don't know why the german publisher so often split a good english book into two german books. The book will tell us a lot more about Michelle Henke and her first command as a fleet admiral.