Sci-Fi 5: On Basilisk Station – April 1, 1993
Sci-Fi 5 sits on your shoulder like a treecat to recount how readers met #HonorHarrington in David Weber's "On Basilisk Station." The military adventure storylines fused with political drama spawned a series of follow-up novels, spinoffs and short stories. https://sci-fi-5.libsyn.com/on-basilisk-station-april-1-1993 #honorverse #Podcast #SciFi5

@Scott & i wete chatting anout really long #sciencefiction #book series. He claimed there weren’t many longer than Weber’s #Honorverse, which is at what, 25 books? Ha! I said, pTerry’s #Discworld was up to 41 novels. He then moved the goal posts & said ‘yeah, now let’s measure by *weight*’

Yay, more #honorverse novels. I just finished To End in Fire last night. What an ending. Now I’ve learned that two prequel novels just came out this past tuesday. I guess the new #Mistborn novel will have to wait a little bit longer. I must get to these first.

Okay folks, help me out! See the bracket below? We are voting for the upper right four options.

You can access the poll by clicking my profile and then the pinned toot. Or you can access it via this link (if you're already on Mastodon.Social): https://mastodon.social/@tuckerteague/109462626719773768

WHICH OF THESE FOUR IS THE BEST (IYHO)??
#ZonesOfThought by #VernorVinge

#Honorverse by #DavidWeber

#Foundation by #IsaacAsimov

#KnownSpace (includ. #ManKzinWars) by #LarryNiven

#SpaceOpera #ScienceFiction #scifi

Time now for the THIRD #ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera series #poll

VOTE BELOW!!

Poll One: https://mastodon.social/@tuckerteague/109379340476225064
Poll Two: https://mastodon.social/@tuckerteague/109419498380717272

WHICH OF THESE FOUR IS THE BEST (IYHO)??
#ZonesOfThought by #VernorVinge

#Honorverse by #DavidWeber

#Foundation by #IsaacAsimov

#KnownSpace (includ. #ManKzinWars) by #LarryNiven

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Favourite #scifi Space craft №5
HMS Nike from Honor Harrington novels, the #honorverse

There is very little that is sleek about these ships. They are built for war, as can been seen from the broadside arrays, and are not designed for atmospheric entry.

The hammer-head design is consistent across all craft that are Faster than light capable as the propulsion front and rear to make it work.

And unlike most other SciFi, space battles are fought over vast distances, tens of millions of kilometres apart. Even close range is just under 1 million kilometres.

Faster than light travel is explored in interesting ways in the books, but out of the scope of this post.

Nike is the pride of the fleet, and quite deadly for its class, which is not the biggest. But, for me, looks impressive.

@bookstodon @bookstodon #Honorverse #Ring of Fire Most recent additions to the teetering TBR pile include 3 of the most recent books in Eric Flint's 1632 series and the 4th and last novel co-authored by Flint and David Weber in the Crown of Slaves series.

And may as well play the tag game too, so:
#ScienceFiction/#SF
#Fantasy
#SFF for redundancies sake

I like in #Berkeley #CA / work in the other confusing use of the #SF tag

An extremely non-exhaustive worlds I admire / draw inspiration from / sometimes fic or GM:
#CraftSequence
#VorkosiganSaga
#AllianceUnion
#ImperialRadch
#Eberron
#Honorverse
#DoctorWho
#StarTrek
#StarWars