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Is David Weber going to finish the series?
Post by DBlake   » Wed Feb 03, 2016 2:50 pm

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I have searched websites and facebook, yet have found no information on if the Honor Harrington series will be finished.
I have been told he is in I'll health.
Is this true? If so, I wish a speedy recovery.
Will Mr. Weber be using ghost writers to finish, or will this series go the way of David Gerrolds; War Against the Chator, never finished. Thank you.
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Re: Is David Weber going to finish the series?
Post by Duckk   » Wed Feb 03, 2016 3:02 pm

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David has hit some stumbling blocks with the most recent Honor book, which was supposed to be submitted in October. This was further compounded by computer issues, which have since been (mostly) resolved.
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Re: Is David Weber going to finish the series?
Post by kzt   » Wed Feb 03, 2016 3:16 pm

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IIRC, one of his daughters was appointed and accepted the role as his official successor for the Honor books at Honorcon. So the series WOULD get done.

Given that she was 12 at the time perhaps you might not take that all that seriously.
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Re: Is David Weber going to finish the series?
Post by JohnRoth   » Wed Feb 03, 2016 8:04 pm

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A few weeks ago, Baen announced that the next-to-last book, Shadow of Victory, is scheduled for release in their fall schedule. No idea of exactly when in the fall, though; the fact that Baen hasn't updated the publishing schedule on their site is probably not significant - the next four months wouldn't go through the fall anyway.

I've also been told that he's filed an outline for the rest of all of his series with someone. Again, no idea if this is correct.

I'm sorry to hear he has more health issues. Best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery.
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Re: Is David Weber going to finish the series?
Post by Imaginos1892   » Wed Feb 03, 2016 8:58 pm

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kzt wrote:IIRC, one of his daughters was appointed and accepted the role as his official successor for the Honor books at Honorcon. So the series WOULD get done.

Given that she was 12 at the time perhaps you might not take that all that seriously.

I'd say it's a good thing she's 12 - she might actually have time to finish the series!
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Re: Is David Weber going to finish the series?
Post by Annachie   » Thu Feb 04, 2016 2:14 am

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I wonder if RFC would consider co writing a short story with his daughter for the next anthology, assuming there is a next anthology of course.

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Re: Is David Weber going to finish the series?
Post by kaid   » Thu Feb 04, 2016 1:19 pm

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From what I have read it sounded like he intended to wrap up the Honor series at least for the current era in the next two books one coming out next fall. As it also looks like he is starting to wrap up the current safehold timeline as well in the next book it looks like he is working hard not to leave things dangling.

And then if he wants to do more single book/trilogy stuff in those universes in the future he can for the honor verse kind of go to plan A which was to have the mantle fall to honors kids because frankly she is far to senior to stay a focal character and after the next couple books I don't see how she avoids being stuck full time in the halls of government permanently.
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Re: Is David Weber going to finish the series?
Post by cthia   » Thu Feb 04, 2016 1:29 pm

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kaid wrote:From what I have read it sounded like he intended to wrap up the Honor series at least for the current era in the next two books one coming out next fall. As it also looks like he is starting to wrap up the current safehold timeline as well in the next book it looks like he is working hard not to leave things dangling.

And then if he wants to do more single book/trilogy stuff in those universes in the future he can for the honor verse kind of go to plan A which was to have the mantle fall to honors kids because frankly she is far to senior to stay a focal character and after the next couple books I don't see how she avoids being stuck full time in the halls of government permanently.

Yet making an occasional on-ship appearance in her advanced-advanced age like our illustrious Admiral Kirk. Can you imagine Honor thumbing a ride to Grayson in her retired years and her host fleet being ambushed? Yet the enemy didn't count on a Salamander being aboard. Oops! That's a Kirk like story waiting in the wings!

There can always be ghost-writers and fan-fueled stories written in the far future, in the manner of Star Trek and the momentum that carries those stories.

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Re: Is David Weber going to finish the series?
Post by ccchuck   » Thu Feb 04, 2016 8:32 pm

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Have I missed news about Mr Weber's health?

Does anyone know his current status?
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Re: Is David Weber going to finish the series?
Post by npadln   » Thu Feb 04, 2016 9:06 pm

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Imaginos1892 wrote:
kzt wrote:IIRC, one of his daughters was appointed and accepted the role as his official successor for the Honor books at Honorcon. So the series WOULD get done.

Given that she was 12 at the time perhaps you might not take that all that seriously.

I'd say it's a good thing she's 12 - she might actually have time to finish the series!
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If she doesn't have something better to do when she's twenty... I have this feeling IF it gets to that point it is not going to be her tasked with bringing the series to a conclusion.
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