![]() ![]() In the Honor Harrington series, as well as Path of the Fury, these technology systems are set in the distant future. That's okay he's a sci-fi author, after all, so as long as those parts of his works support their own weight, we can enjoy the sci-fi bits for their own particular flair. The first one is the most important most of his political and social systems are thinly-disguised versions of historical Earth polities and societies - and sometimes not even disguised at all. As I described in a writeup on the writer, he has a marvelous ability to construct, populate and most importantly describe fairly complex systems of fictional technology, politics and social systems. Hopefully I can offer a description of this dichotomy without providing any egregious spoilers. This book, and its successor, are notable for displaying some of the best of David Weber's writing tendencies as well as some of the worst, side by side. It's his latest creation, and as of now (mid-2009) has two sequels. ![]() Off Armageddon Reef is the first book of a science fiction series written by David Weber. ![]()
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