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Honorverse TodayAuthor: Jim Arrowood, JP Harvey, Raul Ybarra
Honorverse Today is a fan podcast providing review, commentary, and opinion for the Honor Harrington and Honorverse book series written by David Weber and published by Baen Books. The Honor Harrington series is one of the largest and most successful science fiction series in history. Yet it has never had a podcast. Until now. The series chronicles the life and world of Honor Harrington from her humble beginnings through the changing of the galactic order. The series includes 14 main series books, 2 spinoff series, several anthologies, 2 prequels, a comic series (which we will not be covering at this point), and several non-fiction reference and/or RPG game books. Honorverse Today will be covering the body of fictional stories, with the possible exception of the comics. More important, we will be covering all of the books in publication order. We know there has been debate within the fandom whether it's best to read in publication or chronological. For a podcast format, we have thought it best to cover the boooks in the order they were published. The Honorverse Today hosts are: Jim Arrowood, JP Harvey, and Raul Ybarra. Honorverse Today is brought to you by TPE Network. You can find the Honor Harrington books at Baen Books. Several books are availalbe in the Baen Free Library found at the site. Theme music is Honor and Sword by Zakhar Valaha. Check his website for all of your podcasting music needs. Honorverse Today is not affiliated with Baen Books or David Weber. Opinions expressed in the show are strictly those of the hosts. They do not reflect the opinions of Baen Books, David Weber or TPE Network. Language: en Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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HVT-042 Toll of Honor
Episode 42
Sunday, 1 February, 2026
Here we are at the end of the main series set of novels—sort of. You’ll certainly find this book listed that way by some fans, and that’s just fine. However you bin this book, it’s characterized as a stand-alone novel, but it does what we’ve seen others do previously in the Honorverse: it gives us new information and perspective on events we’ve already seen. It also sets the stage for what is referred to as the Expanded Honorverse. Your hosts have discussed this before to a limited extent, and in our interviews with him, Mr. Weber also gave us some detail on the way the Honorverse will move forward in the future. Toll of Honor seems to be a stage-setter or bridge from the Honorverse we know and love to what lies ahead.Featured in this novel are the events revolving around Honor’s duel with Pavel Young. As painful as the events were that ultimately brought the duel about, we get some more color here and it didn’t come across as simply filler material. Along these lines there’s some important and very touching storytelling about a key event or two tied to when Honor officially becomes a Steadholder on Grayson. We also learn a good bit about how the relationship between Horrace Harkness and Iris Babcock begins. This was a lot of fun and a wonderful way to balance the heaviness of Honor’s duel.Related to all this, there’s an author’s note at the end of the book that’s definitely worth the time to read, so please don’t hit the end of the last chapter and shut the book.Your hosts rated “Toll of Honor” with a trio of 5s (out of 5), resulting in an overall rating of 5.Next time we’re going to cover “Friends Indeed”, the fifth novel in the Star Kingdom series by David Weber and Jane Lindskold.For first-time readers, please grab your copy, invite a friend, and join us again for our continuing voyage through the Honorverse!You can find us, and all our episodes at http://honorverse.net, and email us at honorverse@tpenetwork.com. We look forward to hearing from you.Now, let’s be about it!
