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Title: Changer of Worlds (Worlds of Honor #3) by David Weber, Eric Flint ISBN: 0-671-31975-2 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.81 (16 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Mostly above average--avoid the 'cats
Comment: CHANGER OF WORLDS includes four short stories and novellas set in Honor Harrington's universe.
Best of the four is FROM THE HIGHLANDS written by Eric Flint. A Manticoran captain joins with renegade Havenites, antislavery solarians, and a disgraced Manticoran noblewoman to rescue his daughter from kidnappers. To succeed, he must fight ethnic supermen, the Havenite SS, his own command chain dominated by the Manticore conservatives, and the local police. Excellent.
Honor fans won't want to miss Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington--the beginning of Honor's career and nearly the end of it as she must face a superior officer bent on destroying her as well as external enemies. Relying on her leadership and skills rather than on conveniently discovered superweapons, this is classic Honor Harrington on a small scale.
From a historical perspective, Nightfall is essential to the Honor continuity. It deals with the internal struggle between Admiral McQueen and Saint-Juste and defines the direction for the Havenite government.
Way below average is the title story--Changer of Worlds. The treecats are cute and smart and all but this entire short story is simply a dialogue between a bunch of cats. Nothing happens, no character development takes place. The story merely describes the 'cats' decision to send the new colony of 'cats to follow Honor. Yawn. Read it if you love those 'cats--it is thankfully short after all.
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting background
Comment: This book contains 3 short stories by David Weber and one by Eric Flint. I enjoyed the 3 by Weber very much. His stories give a little more insight to some of the events in the novels about Honor Harrington. One of them is an enjoyable description of her first cruise.
The story by Eric Flint was a confusing hodge podge of plots and counter-plots. It was resolved, but not convincingly. However, the story did tell about the life of one of the less important characters from an earlier story. That was interesting.
Over all I recommend the book to those who love Honor.
It seems that Weber is not going to give us another novel anytime soon. Although, I would be very happy to be proven wrong.
Rating: 4
Summary: If you liked this one you'll like The Warmasters...
Comment: mainly because, with no accompanying notice, Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington is repeated verbatim in that volume! yep, 50% of the "new" book is recycled. Oh it's a decent enough story but I'm uncertain it deserves being repeated in less than two years, especially with no notice that it was, in fact, being republished. So if you've previously read The Warmasters, perhaps in the hardcover that came out 2 months after Changer came out in paperback (ouch) make sure you want the other stories.
Changer is a decent collection in setting some of the series backstory: but Baen has some explaining to do about it's recycling IMHO.
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Title: Worlds of Honor by David Weber ISBN: 0671578553 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Service of the Sword: Worlds of Honor 4 by David Weber ISBN: 0743435990 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: More Than Honor by David Weber ISBN: 0671878573 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: War of Honor by David Weber ISBN: 0743471679 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Ashes of Victory (Honor Harrington Series, Book 9) by David Weber, David Mattingly ISBN: 0671578545 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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