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Technobuilder

Technobuilder

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Hi,

I recently began reading the "Honor Harrington" series by David Weber and just finished the 5th Book "Flag In Exile" Having just started the 6th Book "Honor Among Enemies" I was wondering if someone here would be willing to help me in locating images of the Starships of this particular universe?

I seem to recall having seen ships like the ones depicted on the covers in the past here on this forum, but I can't be sure that was the case. Also I haven't had any luck looking for images online, but that may be due to my own lack of familiarity with the types of sites that would host such images. I figured if anyone might know where to look OR better yet, already had a supply of images to put up, this would be the place to seriously start looking.

So, that's about it. I'd just like to get a better feel for the ships I keep reading about and it might give my imaginings a bit more accuracy in the long run. I appreciate any help this forum might provide. Thank You.
 
Dang it, I can't find them on the website. They were also included on a CDROM in one of the hardcovers. They ARE out there - give Google a try.
 
 
Hey Technobuilder, great to see another Honorverse fan around here. I'm actually the artist who did all of the images you posted... if you don't mind me asking, who sent them to you? I might know them.

Anyway, I did them because when I started reading the books I was in a similar situation as you and scoured the net for really good pictures of Honorverse ships and couldn't really find anything I liked. So I sat down and made my own. Actually, that's how I got hired on as a freelance illustrator for Ad Astra games, the games company who puts out a bunch of official Honorverse stuff.

If you're looking for official art you might check out the Jaynes Intelligence Reviews that we've published for the Manticoran Navy and the Havenites. I helped work on these books and I'm pretty proud of them. They include orthographic views of about a dozen ships from each navy, plus information on marine units, pinnaces, etc.

We also did a poster for Jaynes, which I'll go ahead and post a preview of so that this isn't a total shill post...


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Layout by me, starships by Charles Oines.

These are "Weber-approved," though I wish Charles had made the ships more white. Oh well, can't have em all. :)
 
Thank you very much for taking the time to respond.

I didn't realize those images were your work, but I must say they are very nicely done.

In regards to who sent them, I'm not even sure if he posts here, just lurks around and noticed my query.

Thanks again for the beautiful work.
 
Thomasthe cat - I thought that work looked familiar. I was going to suggest that Technobuilder contact you for more info.

Any chance that there are models (other than the miniatures) in the pipeline? I'll beg if I have to. :p

BTW, OT (somewhat), thanks for suggesting that the board read these novels. I have enjoyed all of the Honorverse novels immensely (I am on the last book now). Any chance there are more books coming out?

Now back to your regularly scheduled drooling over artwork....
 
I'm actually starting to worry about the release of the new books myself.

I'm almost finished with "Honor Among Enemies" and even with the 4 anthologies as well as the 2 side books, I'm still not looking forward to hitting the wall of a cliffhanger I've heard most folks have been waiting the better part of 4 years on.

Any news? Or better yet, any links to sites which might be able to give updates on David Weber's Honorverse series? I've looked on Baen's website with no luck and then found what I thought to be his personal webpage, but it seemed very barebones and there wasn't any real information that I could find on the release of the next book.

Any help would again be greatly appreciated.
 
Honestly, I may be weaning myself away from Weber. I SO loved the early Harrington novels, but as the series went on, he spent more and more time wallowing in interstellar politics and less time talking about Honor and her life. The last few books have been real chores to read.

Look at Drake's 1632 series - the first book was a fun, exciting read. Weber cowrote the next book, and it was twice as thick, twice as slow, and four times more full of people standing around talking about politics.

Man, this is supposed to be an adventure series, no?
 
Technobuilder said:
Any news? Or better yet, any links to sites which might be able to give updates on David Weber's Honorverse series?
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I'm of the understanding that he's just finished the sequel to Shadow of Saganami, the newest spin-off. I believe Eric Flint will be starting on the sequel of the other spin-off, Crown of Slaves soon too.

Personally I am/was in a similar place to Forbin with the novels themselves; the early ones where she's a ship captain hold my interest better than all the political intrigue we got with At All Costs. I think Weber is trying to bring that back that sense of starship adventure with Shadow of Saganami, though, as it is a pretty narrowly focused book compared to Honor's more recent adventures.

There is a forum that Weber posts at occasionally (along with a lot of ill-tempered Harrington fans) called Baen's Bar. I lurked there for a little bit but don't really go anymore.

Lately, as I work on expanding the universe visually for all the stuff we're building at Ad Astra I find I have more interest in the universe as a setting with lots of potential for scenarios and stories than I am interested in any particular character or plot twist. Of course by now I'm so invested in it that I think it'd be weird if I didn't feel that way.

I'm glad you guys like the art and it's a pleasure to share it with you. I've got a lot of other official Honor Art sitting on my hard drive that isn't really starship related. Let me know if you want me to post it here.
 
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Please post away. I'd love to see everything you've come up with.

Thank you.

EDIT:

Apparently from what he posted on that board (of which I hate the interface), he says that "Storm of Shadows" is finished-ish and is also a cliff-hanger. But that because of that, he wanted the next two books to be in and ready to be published before it's released, so the Next proper book after At All Costs, is supposed to be out within the next year.

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Post By David Weber:


If things work out as planned, I should be starting on the direct sequel to AAC . . . shortly. I have a short story I have to write (I agreed to contribute to an anthology; what was I thinking?), and hopefully Eric will very shortly be starting on the sequel to Crown. I had to work the timeline for a lot of events out in some detail to make Storm work, however, so I should be able to write most of the AAC sequel before Eric finishes his part of Crown 2. Hopefully that will mean that Toni gets two more Honorverse novels by the fall, and we're also doing another anthology, with stories by me, Tim Zahn, Jane Lindskold, Katherine Kurtz and (assuming her health holds up) Anne McCaffery. The stories on that are supposed to be delivered early next year. And THEN, after I get that all wrapped up, I will start on the sequel to BHD for Tor, hopefully by December.

Please note that I did say this was all "If things work out as planned."

BTW, I have to get the other two novels into the pipeline before Storm is released because, welllll. . . I guess I might as well go ahead and admit . . . though I don't wanna . . . but still . . .

Okay. Storm is the first real cliff-hanger I've done in the Honorverse, and I want to make sure the other two are already written -- and that you guys know they're already written and in Toni's hot little hands -- before Storm hits the shelves. There. I admitted it.

Take care, all.
 
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Thomasthecat I would love to see any of the stuff you have relating to the Honorverse. I love the uniform and weapons drawings almost more than the starship stuff.
 
Sorry to make the offer and then drop this for a few days. But anyway, here's another poster I did for Ad Astra.

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Is there any particular reason why (in the Jayne's photo) the starships from Manticore and Haven look so much alike?
 
Babaganoosh said:
Is there any particular reason why (in the Jayne's photo) the starships from Manticore and Haven look so much alike?
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Yes. Starship design in the Honorverse follows a very rigid set of rules which were laid out by an self-proclaimed "non-visual" person. The design philosophy for the ships is very much "Form follows function" and in order for the ships to do what they do they have to be arranged in a certain way. This means that all war ships will look pretty similar with the two impeller rings (one fore and aft), the "hammerheads" beyond those rings, and the tapering hull between.

It might help to think of them more in terms of real war ships or submarines; there isn't a whole lot of difference in how a Russian nuclear sub looks compared to its American contemporary, and that's because they are designed to do the same sorts of things. The similarity in looks is an outgrowth of their similarity in function.
 
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