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On Basilisk Station

  · Having made him look a fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her.

  · Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station.

  · The aborigines of the system's only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens.

  · Parliament isn't sure it wants to keep the place; the major local industry is smuggling; the merchant cartels want her head; the star-conquering so-called "Republic" of Haven is Up To Something; and Honor Harrington has a single, over-aged light cruiser with an armament that doesn't work to police the entire star system.

  But the people out to get her have made one mistake.  They've made her mad.

 

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The Honor of the Queen

  It's hard to give peace a chance when the other side regards war as the necessary prelude to conquest, and a sneak attack as the best means to that end.   That's why the Kingdom of Manticore needs allies against the so-called "Republic" of Haven - and the planet Grayson is in just the right strategic place to make a very good ally indeed.  But Her Majesty's Foreign Service had overlooked a "minor cultural difference" when they chose Honor Harrington to carry the flag: women on the planet Grayson are without rank or rights; Honor's very presence is an intolerable affront to every male on the planet.
  At first Honor doesn't take it personally; where she comes from gender discrimination is barely a historical memory, right up there in significance with fear of the left-handed.  But in time such treatment as she receives from the Graysonites does become wearing, and Honor would withdraw if she could - but when Grayson's fratricidal sister planet attacks without warning and she must stay and prevail, not just for Honor's honor, but for her sovereign's, for the honor of the queen.

 

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The Short Victorious War

  The families who rule the People's Republic of Haven are in trouble.  The treasury's empty, the Proles are restless, and civil war is imminent.
  But the ruling knows what they need to keep in power: another short, victorious war to unite the people and fill the treasury once more.  It's a card they've played often in the last half-century, always successfully, and all that stands in their way is the Star Kingdom of Manticore and its threadbare allies.  Enemies who in the past have always backed down.
  Only this time the Peeps face something different.  This time they're up against Captain Honor Harrington and a Royal Manticoran Navy that's prepared to give them a war that's far from short… and anything but victorious.

 

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Field of Dishonor

  HONOR BETRAYED

  The People's Republic of Haven's sneak attack on the Kingdom of Manticore has failed.  The Peeps are in disarray, their leaders fighting for power in a bloody revolution, and the Royal Manticoran Navy stands victorious.
  But Manticore has domestic problems of its own, and success can be more treacherous than defeat for Honor Harrington.  Now, trapped at the core of a political crisis she never sought, betrayed by an old and viscious enemy she'd thought vanquiashed forever, she stands alone.
  She must fight for justice on a battlefield she never trained for in a private war that offers just two choices: death… or a "victory" that can end only in dishonor and the loss of all she loves.

 

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Flag in Exile

  HONOR HARRINGTON MUST DIE

  Hounded into retirement and disgrace by political enemies, cut to the heart by the murder of the man she loved, and bereft of confidence in herself and her abilities, Captain Honor Harrington has retreated to the planet Grayson to take up her role as Steadholder while she tries to heal her bitter wounds.
  But the People's Republic of Haven is rising from defeat to threaten Grayson anew, and the newborn Grayson Navy needs her experience desperately.  It's a call Honor cannot refuse, yet even as she once more accepts the duty whose challenges she fears she can no longer meet, powerful men who hate and fear the changes she'd brought to their world are determined to reverse them.  They have a plan… and for it to succeed, Honor Harrington must die.
  Two irresistible forces are rushing together to crush Grayson between them, and only one woman - uncertain of her capabilities, weary unto death, and marked for murder - stands between her adopted planet and its devastation.

 

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Honor Amoung Enemies

  HEADS WE WIN, TAILS YOU DIE

  For Captain Honor Harrington, it's sometimes hard to know who the enemy really is. Despite political foes, professional jealousies, and the scandal which drove her into exile, she's been offered a chance to reclaim her career as an officer of the Royal Manticoran Navy. But there's a catch. She must assume command of a "squadron" of jury-rigged armed merchantmen with crew drawn from the dregs of her service and somehow stop the pirates who have taken advantage of the Havenite War to plunder the Star Kingdom's commerce.
  That would be hard enough, but some of the "pirates" aren't exactly what they seem… neither are some of her "friends." For Honor has been carefully chosen for her mission-by two implacable and powerful enemies.
  The way they see it, either she stops the raiders or the raiders kill her… and either way, they win.

 

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In Enemy Hands

  HONOR RAZES HELL

  Honor Harrington has faced ship-to-ship combat, assassins, political vendettas, and duels.  She's been shot at, shot down, and just plain shot, had starships blown out from under her, and made personal enemies who will do anything to ruin her, and she's survived it all.  But this time the People's Republic of Haven has finally found an admiral who can win battles, and Honor's orders take her straight into an ambush.   Outnumbered and outgunned, she has just two options: see the people under her command slaughtered in hopeless battle… or surrender them - and herself - to the Peeps.
  At least the People's Navy promises to treat its prisoners honorably.  But the Navy is overruled by the politicians, and Honor finds herself aboard a Peep battlecruiser, bound for a prison planet aptly named "Hell"… and her scheduled execution.
  Put into solitary confinement, seperated from her officers and her treecat Nimitz, and subjected to systematic humiliation by her gaolers, her future has become both bleak and short.  Yet the one lesson Honor Harrington has never learned is how to give up.

 

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Echoes of Honor

  BACK FROM HELL

  For eight bloody years, the Star Kingdom of Manticore and its allies have taken the war to the vastly more powerful People's Republic of Haven, and Commodore Honor Harrington has been in the forefront of that war.
  But now Honor has fallen, captured by the Peep Navy, turned over to the forces of State Security… and executed on the interstellar network's nightly news.
  The Manticoran Alliance is stunned and infuriated by Honor's death and grimly resolved to avenge it. Yet their military is over-extended and the People's Republic is poised to take the offensive once more, this time with a new strategy, new weapons, a new command team, and a whole new determination to win. The war is about to enter a new phase of unprecidented ferocity… and the Alliance is on the short end of the stick.
  But even as powerful Peep fleets hurtle towards their objectives, neither they nor the Alliance are aware of events occurring on a distant, isolated, inescapable prison planet called Hell. For what no one knows, not even State Security, is that Honor Harrington is not dead. She and a handful of her people are trapped on Hell, and determined to disprove the Peep boast that no one can ever escape it. Honor Harrington is going home, and taking her people with her… even if she has to conquer Hell to do it.

 

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Ashes of Victory

  REPORTS OF MY DEATH HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED…

  The People's Republic of Haven made a tiny mistake when it announced the execution of Honor Harrington. It seemed safe enough. After all, they knew she was already dead.
  Unfortunately, they were wrong. Now Honor has escaped from the prison planet called Hell and returned to the Manticoran Alliance with a few friends. Almost half a million of them, to be precise… including some who know what really happened when the Committee of Public Safety seized power in the PRH.
  Honor's return from the dead comes at a critical time, providing a huge, much-needed lift for the Allies' morale, for the war is rapidly entering a decisive phase. Both sides believe that victory lies within their grasp at last, but dangers no one could foresee await them both.
  New weapons, new strategies, new tactics, spies, diplomacy, and assassination…. All are coming into deadly focus, and Honor Harrington, the woman the newsies call "the Salamander," once more finds herself at the heart of them all.

  But this time, the furnace may be too furious for even a salamander to survive.

 

Last edited: Saturday, November 13, 1999 06:39:18 PM