Timeframe: 1900 PD 1901 PD Contents 1 Cover Summary 2 Plot 3 Background 4 References 4.1 Characters 4.2 Starships 4.3 Stations 4.4 Planets 4.5 Nations 4. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.Īll rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. On Basilisk Station is the first book of David Weber 's series of novels and short stories chronicling the adventures of Honor Harrington. Parliament isn't sure it wants to keep the place the major local industry is smuggling the merchant cartels want her head the star-conquering, so-called 'Republic' of Haven is Up To Something and Honor Harrington has a single, over-age light cruiser with an armament that doesn't work to police the entire star system.īut the people out to get her have made one mistake. The aborigines of the system's only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens. In 1993, when Weber wrote On Basilisk Station, the portrayal of women in science fictional combat was not as rare, but his decision to center an entire series on a female officer was still innovative. Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station.

Having made him look a fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her. INTRODUCING HONOR HARRINGTON Having made him look a fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her.

On Basilisk Station by David Weber