On Basilisk Station

by David Weber

mass market paperback, 458 pages

English language

Published Nov. 6, 1993 by Baen, Distributed by Simon & Schuster.

ISBN:: 978-1-4165-0937-0
OCLC Number:: 62338798

(10 reviews)

This is the first novel in the Honor Harrington series. Honor Harrington is in trouble: having made a Senior Admiral look the 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, over age light cruiser with an armament that doesn't work to police the entire star system. But the people out to get her have made one mistake, they've made her mad. This special limited edition includes an excerpt from the …

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JohnnyCache reviewed On Basilisk Station by David Weber (Honor Harrington, #1)

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3 stars

This was a hard one to review. The first 250 pages were really hard to get through, but I knew from reading reviews that the book is fantastic and the ending would be great. I give this part of the book 1 star. The final 100 or so pages, however, would be rated 4 stars - it would be a full 5 if it wasn't for a handful of sections of droning, over-the-top detail which broke up otherwise unbeatable action sequences. So, overall, a solid 3 stars. I think that the rest of the books in the series might be more enjoyable since a lot of the explanations have already occurred in this book.