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Old 02-27-2019, 03:31 AM   #28116
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So, I’ve been away for a while...

Owing to an Amazon credit promotion a little while back, I picked up what looks like the final Honor Harrington novel. I actually hadn’t gotten around to the previous volume yet, or the sixth anthology, or the “Manticore Ascendant” series, so I promptly loaded all of the above onto my reader.

First, though, I had a couple of anthologies to finish: Time Twisters (time travel and alt-history) and Carniepunk (urban fantasy stories set at carnivals). Both were quite good in my estimation, but I think the latter was better.

I was disappointed by only one aspect of Beginnings: Worlds of Honor #6, which was that Zahn’s story appears to have been cannibalized and expanded to become the “Manticore Ascendant” series... by which I mean that random text searches turned up pieces of the short story in both of the first two books. It’s a good story; don’t get me wrong - but I was hoping the novels would complement the story rather than reworking and replacing it.

Anyway, I have now started Shadow of Victory and look forward to finishing it and Uncompromising Honor to complete the saga. After a while (read: long enough for my memory to get a bit fuzzy), I’ll go back to “Manticore Ascendant” and treat it as its own thing - but I have at least 1800 pages between now and then.
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