Im Donner der Schlacht

Honor Harrington #13 part 1

by David Weber

Die Solare Navy setzt ihre finalen Schritte zum Angriff auf Manticore in die Tat um und plant einen Zangenangriff. Die manticoranische Regierung bemüht sich weiterhin um eine diplomatische Lösung, aber die Geduld ist am Ende. Beowulf - eine der bedeutendsten Welten der Liga - sperrt sich gegen den selbstmörderischen Plan der SLN und gerät in Konflikt mit der föderalen Ebene. Währenddessen trifft die RMN weiter Verteidigungsvorbereitungen und schließt alle Wurmlochverbindungen unter ihrer Kontrolle für solarischen Schiffsverkehr. Schließlich trifft die solarische Elfte Flotte im Manticore-System ein... und läuft direkt in die Falle.

446 pages, Paperback

First published March 6, 2012

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...