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Why?:
It has blossomed over the years beyond the tightest and mightiest inner circle of OBS.
If you did not begin the series with OBS, then you're attempting complicated surgery without the delicate stitches that bind and hold it all together.
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I started with On Basilisk Station. Bought it for $5 at a sidewalk sale. It was the original hardcover edition featuring the "more agressive" rendering of Nimitz. It is also a more compact and more durable book, IMO. In many ways the superior book. That particular book is a super collector's item, IMO...
OBS has an inner circle that was forged in the heat of foreign, domestic, military and political battles. Before the mettle in that kettle was forged, all of the impurities in the mettle were removed.
Beginning the Honorverse without reading OBS first is like already having your cherry popped before your first time. A lot of the intimacy, that drives Victoria's Secret (if Honor's middle name is Victoria) is her intimacy with her crew. That first "OBS inner circle" is the stuff of legends & coffee tables.
-Rafe Cordones (Guns)
-Andreas Venizelos
-Prescott Tremaine
-Alistair McKeon
-And Fearless herself.
Honor forged that team with her bare hands and the heat from her leveled missile batteries. There are no imperfections in the [metal mettle].
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