On Basilisk Station
by David Weber · first published 1993
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Honor in Trouble: Having made him look like a fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her. Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station. The aborigines of the system's only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens. Parliament isn't sure it wants to keep the place; the major local industry is smuggling; the merchant cartels want her head; the star-conquering, so-called "Republic" of Haven is Up To Something; and Honor Harrington has a single,
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The Culture series is good but I've struggled with getting through it all as well. If you like space opera I can highly recommend the Honor Harrington series, the first book being On Basilisk Station [0]. This has held up for me for well over a decade and I've reread the entire series (~14 books IIRC) at least 4-5 times. I've heard it described as "Horatio Hornblower in space" but I never read that…
on “NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2” ↗David Weber's "Honorverse" series of novels - which starts with On Basilisk Station - has the most believable science fiction "false science" approach I've yet seen in fiction. There's a catch - you have to be OK with long-winded exposition - but the stories are really good, with a…
on “Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy and Physics: A Topical Index” ↗…seem to prefer extended series of books that develop a detailed alternate universe. Three truly excellent series (Author-Series-1st Book): Eric Flint - 1632 - "1632" David Weber - Honor Harrington - "On Basilisk Station" Stephen Brust - Vlad Taltos - "Taltos"
on “Ask HN: Sci-Fi novels?” ↗Incidentally, On Basilisk Station is a free e-book at the publisher's website [0]. They also have an online HTML version [1]. So you can try the first book in the series to see how you like it before purchasing any of the others. [0]…
on “NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2” ↗