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Originally Posted by leebase
I've like the Honor Harrington spin off's and collaborations - but at least those haven't been marketed "big author name"-style.
But this time I was truly fooled. First....by falling for "Author's Name as Brand" at the top of the book cover without noticing the small "written by...." at the bottom. I just hadn't come to expect that from OSC. Then the story simply wasn't up to OSC writing ability. All the while I was reading, I thought "has the stroke ruined OSC's writing ability"?
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Hmm, hadn't thought of the stroke.
Maybe it was a contracted work in progress that needed finishing.
Has he released anything newer?
As for the Weber spinoffs and collaborations most read pretty much as the credits suggest. Which is to be expected considering the co-writers are well established authors in their own right with recognizable narrative voices. No disguising expected or likely. Plus Weber has been known to hold up a volume because of the cowriter's health issues. The evidence, until now, is that his collaborations are collaborations of equals. He even altered his long term Honorverse timeline because of the CROWN OF SLAVES books.
The only exception is the latest, THE GORDIAN PROTOCOL, which reads like Weber editing/rewriting Holo, not like his other collaborations. It feels...off. It even lacks his signature infodumps.
