I have to read all the everythings

Read the books (and stories) in the order they were published is the best advice I can give. Pay limited attention to details in stories that were not written by David Weber, Eric Flint, SM Stirling, or Jane Lindskold.

Well, right now, that is the idea.

Read all the books. Read all the books in order. Read all the books that were written by Weber in the order that they were published. Read all the books, in the order they were published, that Weber worked on.

I suppose I could just go to the publisher and try to read them based on the dates they have, but I guess I need to find out if all the books Weber worked on/wrote were all published by the same publisher.

Full disclosure: I haven't read a word of Weber's books...
...I've just let Allyson Johnson read them all to me because reading requires more undivided attention than I can give it, especially when I am driving

But that doesn't mean I'm not an enormous fan who is completely preoccupied with the desire to consume everything related to the Honorverse.

roseandheather wrote:

Armed Neo-Bob wrote:Theemile,

I think you forgot Yuri Radamacher was also an aprilist; finding out Cachat was another is, I think, one of the reasons he won't forgive him.

Also, one of the negotiators for Haven during Mission was another (female, also in Prichart's politcal party, iirc; her name escapes me at the moment.

Rob

You're probably thinking of Leslie Montreau, Giancola's (may he burn in eternal hellfire) successor as Secretary of State. I don't recall any mention of her being an Aprilist, but I may have been crying too hard to notice it at the time.

The Aprilist in question is Senator Ninon Bourchier, as mentioned in Ch. 12 of Mission of Honor.

tiber1978 wrote:However, is there a place that has a timeline for the Honorverse that shows where ALLL the things fall into it?

Basically, go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Weber#Honor_Harrington_series. Read everything in the "Honor Harrington series" and "Works related to the Honor Harrington series" subsections, in order of publication date. This will involve skipping back and forth between the main series and the side ones; for example, you should read the More Than Honor short story collection after In Enemy Hands.

The exceptions are that you don't need to read the Stephanie Harrington young adult series or Zahn's Manticore Ascendant series to understand the 'main' story, as those are not directly tied to it. You can still read them, of course, but if so there's no particular order in which you have to do so. And, as kzt mentioned, some of the details of the stories in the anthologies that are not written by Weber are of... lower canonicity (and/or quality).

Also note that you can (legally!) get free copies of everything up to Mission of Honor from this site: http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/, which hosts images of the freely distributable CDs that were included with some of Baen's books. (You want the 'Mission of Honor CD'.)

Oh my...

Well then, I guess I don't have to leave the house for a while just to make a special trip to my library...

I guess I just find myself trying to avoid that moment where you reach the end of a long series...and you feel lost and unsure of what to do with the rest of your life...

...thankfully, it looks like that is a lot further off than I thought it was...

MuonNeutrino wrote:

tiber1978 wrote:However, is there a place that has a timeline for the Honorverse that shows where ALLL the things fall into it?

Basically, go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Weber#Honor_Harrington_series. Read everything in the "Honor Harrington series" and "Works related to the Honor Harrington series" subsections, in order of publication date. This will involve skipping back and forth between the main series and the side ones; for example, you should read the More Than Honor short story collection after In Enemy Hands.

The exceptions are that you don't need to read the Stephanie Harrington young adult series or Zahn's Manticore Ascendant series to understand the 'main' story, as those are not directly tied to it. You can still read them, of course, but if so there's no particular order in which you have to do so. And, as kzt mentioned, some of the details of the stories in the anthologies that are not written by Weber are of... lower canonicity (and/or quality).

Also note that you can (legally!) get free copies of everything up to Mission of Honor from this site: http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/, which hosts images of the freely distributable CDs that were included with some of Baen's books. (You want the 'Mission of Honor CD'.)

Also, one of the negotiators for Haven during Mission was another (female, also in Prichart's politcal party, iirc; her name escapes me at the moment.

Rob

snipped, but thanks Roseandheather.

jchilds wrote:The Aprilist in question is Senator Ninon Bourchier, as mentioned in Ch. 12 of Mission of Honor.

Thanks, yes that was exactly who I meant. I kept thinking Nancy, and I knew that was wrong.

Theemile, I realize Cachat was too young for the pre-coup Aprilist group; I just took the survivors as "underground and still working," sort of keeping their heads down and re-building. Mostly from the ends of the shorts, which Tiber hasn't read yet.

I sort of viewed Usher as recruiting him into the group, along with the introduction to a classical film education, Bogey, and Casablanca, and thought the second short sort of confirmed it while leaving it deeply murky. Never anything explicit, just being part of Usher's "family." Of course, I am often mistaken.

Rob

tiber1978

You will find some timelines on Joe Buckley's site. If you lose the link, there is another on the FAQs page, as well as one on the Links page above. Also, a bit of authorial humor as his short blurb in the FAQ mixes several of his universes; for additional reading, try Baen's Free Library, or the CD that comes with hardcover main-story books.

Rob

tiber1978 wrote:Oh my...

Well then, I guess I don't have to leave the house for a while just to make a special trip to my library...

I guess I just find myself trying to avoid that moment where you reach the end of a long series...and you feel lost and unsure of what to do with the rest of your life...

...thankfully, it looks like that is a lot further off than I thought it was...

Here's the books thus far in publication order, including a few that are only available online through the Baen Free Library:

The main Honorverse series (Includes the mainline Honor books, the Shadows books, the Crown of Slaves books, and the anthologies.)

1. On Basilisk Station (Apr 92)
2. Honor of the Queen (June 93)
3. The Short Victorious War (Apr 94)
4. Field of Dishonor (Dec 94)
5. Flag In Exile (Sep 95)
6. Honor Among Enemies (Feb 96)
7. In Enemy Hands (Jul 97)
8. More Than Honor (Jan 98) (Anthology)
9. Echoes of Honor (Oct 98)
10. World of Honor (Feb 99)(Anthology)
11. Ashes of Victory (Mar 00)
12. Changer of Worlds (Mar 01) (Anthology)
13. War of Honor (Oct 02)
14. The Service of the Sword (Apr 03) (Anthology)
15. Crown of Slaves (Sep03)
16. The Shadow of Saganami (Oct 04)
17. At All Costs (Nov 05)
18. Storm from the Shadows (Mar 09)
19. Torch of Freedom (Nov 09)
20. Mission of Honor (June 10)
21. In Fire Forged (Feb 11) (Anthology)
22. A Rising Thunder (Mar 12)
23. Shadow of Freedom (Mar 13)
24. House of Steel (May 13) (Compendium)
Grayson Navy Letters Home (2012) in the Baen Free Short Stories 2012 collection.
25. Beginnings (July 13) (Anthology)
26. Cauldron of Ghosts (Apr 14)

The Star Kingdom series:

0. Honorverse Tech Bu9 (Oct 11) in the Baen Free Short Stories 2011 collection.
1. A Beautiful Friendship (Oct 11)
2. Fire Season (Oct 12)
3. Treecat Wars (Oct 13)

The Manticore Ascendant series:

0. A Call to Arms in the Beginnings anthology (July 13)
1. A Call to Duty (Oct 14)
2. A Call to Arms (forthcoming Oct 15)

jchilds wrote:The Aprilist in question is Senator Ninon Bourchier, as mentioned in Ch. 12 of Mission of Honor.

Ah. Yep, too busy crying. Thanks for another character to obsess over!

Armed Neo-Bob wrote:Theemile,

I think you forgot Yuri Radamacher was also an aprilist; finding out Cachat was another is, I think, one of the reasons he won't forgive him.

Also, one of the negotiators for Haven during Mission was another (female, also in Prichart's politcal party, iirc; her name escapes me at the moment.

Rob

Senator Bourchier, the one with a Treecat-like mind glow was another Aprilist. - Chapter 10 MoH