ameliapancake's review
2.0
Waste of time. First story is just the first few chapters of A Beautiful Friendship. Second story was boring AF. Third story was actually mildly interesting. Last section was a bunch of dry data that I thought was pretty interesting and is why this book gets two stars instead of one star. I highly recommend skipping this one.
kejadlen's review
3.0
3/5 - I liked getting the backstory for how Stephanie Harrington discovered the treecats, as well as what McQueen did to stop the Levelers. All the stories were fun, but I was pretty disappointed with the ending of the second one, which really didn't make any sense and came out of nowhere. Although if nothing else, this is worth it for the technical appendix at the end!
katmarhan's review against another edition
3.0
I really liked the first story about Honor's ancestor and the first contact with the tree cats on Sphinx, as well as the third story about the Levellers' uprising in Nouveau Paris. The second story, about the scientists studying pre-human spacefarers' artifacts, with a standoff between the Peeps and Manticore thrown in, seemed like it would make the basis for a longer and more fleshed-out book rather than contributing to our understanding of the Honorverse. I even read the giant info dump at the end of the book and actually learned a lot. It was helpful to understand the colonization process and the history of both Manticore and Haven.
tome15's review
4.0
Weber, David, David Drake, and S. M. Stirling. More than Honor. Worlds of Honor No. 1. Baen, 1997.
In the Golden Age of science fiction, publishers often farmed out successful genre series to many low-paid writers, seldom good, mostly bad or indifferent. Tom Swift, for instance, is the creation of many different hands, most of whom are known for nothing else. At least one publisher created a whole fake biography for a phony French writer of routine space opera. These days, we are well used to television and movie series farming out novelizations to multiple writers, sometimes pretty good writers. Alan Dean Foster comes to mind, and many others made a small pile in the Star Trek and Star Wars worlds. More recently, icons of science fiction like Larry Niven have begun doing the same thing, attracting well-established writers to continue and develop their fictional worlds. There may be more Known Space stories now by others than by Niven. The Honorverse is a good example of the trend. Stirling has his own successful postapocalyptic series of Emberverse novels, and Drake is himself an icon of military science fiction. It is no surprise that these stories do such a good job of setting up the world that you could begin your reading of Harrington stories with them. The first story by Weber about the Harrington family’s first contact with treecats is a very logical place to begin the series. Enjoy.
In the Golden Age of science fiction, publishers often farmed out successful genre series to many low-paid writers, seldom good, mostly bad or indifferent. Tom Swift, for instance, is the creation of many different hands, most of whom are known for nothing else. At least one publisher created a whole fake biography for a phony French writer of routine space opera. These days, we are well used to television and movie series farming out novelizations to multiple writers, sometimes pretty good writers. Alan Dean Foster comes to mind, and many others made a small pile in the Star Trek and Star Wars worlds. More recently, icons of science fiction like Larry Niven have begun doing the same thing, attracting well-established writers to continue and develop their fictional worlds. There may be more Known Space stories now by others than by Niven. The Honorverse is a good example of the trend. Stirling has his own successful postapocalyptic series of Emberverse novels, and Drake is himself an icon of military science fiction. It is no surprise that these stories do such a good job of setting up the world that you could begin your reading of Harrington stories with them. The first story by Weber about the Harrington family’s first contact with treecats is a very logical place to begin the series. Enjoy.
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