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Originally Posted by Elsi
I downloaded and read On Basilisk Station, which is the first book in the Honor Harrington series by David Weber. I had never read the books, for whatever reason, but after finishing this one I read the next two in the series. There are at least 10 more, and I plan to read them all eventually.
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They are a lot of fun, and several have made the NYT Best Seller list. the last I knew, there were fairly advanced plans for an Honor Harrington TV series. Various parties were interested, and it was a matter of financing. There were the usual sorts of speculations on who would be cast to play whom, save that Angelina Joile would not be acceptable to Weber for reasons unrelated to acting.
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Two other books that are very good are Black on Black and Stars over Stars by K. D. Wentworth.
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I'm fond of those myself. I like SF that revolves around cultural differences and the struggles of different species to understand each other, and these qualify.
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Honor Harrington is "the Navy in space" type of military science fiction. Fast moving and technical.
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And also largely based on the Napoleonic Wars. Honor Harrington's career parallels both the fictional Horatio Hornblower and the real Admiral Lord Nelson, and the Republic of Haven is France both before and after the French Revolution.
David was GoH at a con a while back, and I asked two questions: first, was Treecat communication relativistic, and second, what was the maximum range over which two treecats bonded with humans could communicate? David's response to both was "Tum te tum te tum..." which means "I know, but I'm not telling you. Yet..."
I have a sneaking suspicion about what an important future development might be.
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Dennis