Jayne's Intelligence Review: The Royal Manticoran Navy

Honorverse

by David Weber, Ken Burnside, Thomas Pope

Jayne's Intelligence Review: Manticoran Navy provides a wealth of information on the Manticoran Navy, a must have for all Honor Harrington fans. Included are the uniforms, traditions, honors, histories and ship data of the navy, most of which in rich color. Service uniforms, battle armor, personal weapons, unit organization and tactics are all explained in detail.

Genres: Science Fiction, Military Fiction, Reference, Space Opera

66 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

David Mark Weber is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1952.

Many of his stories have military, particularly naval, themes, and fit into the military science fiction genre. He frequently places female leading characters in what have been traditionally male roles.

One of his most popular and enduring characters is Honor Harrington whose alliterated name is an homage to C.S. Forester's character Horatio Hornblower and her last name from a fleet doctor in Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander . Her story, together with the "Honorverse" she inhabits, has been developed through 16 novels and six shared-universe anthologies, as of spring 2013 (other works are in production). In 2008, he donated his archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.

Many of his books are available online, either in their entirety as part of the Baen Free Library or, in the case of more recent books, in the form of sample chapters (typically the first 25-33% of the work).

http://us.macmillan.com/author/davidw...

Reviews

[Cindy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great resource book for any Honor Harrington fan, and goes well the the RMN edition. I've already used the information in here several times while working on exams for the Royal Manticoran Navy: The Official Honor Harrington Fan Association.