A Rising Thunder: A Missing Part?

[Quadibloc]

I've just finished catching up on the Honor Harrington story, first
reading Mission of Honor and then A Rising Thunder.

I've noticed that A Rising Thunder deviates from the formula of many
of the more recent book in the series.

There have been many complaints by fans of David Weber's Honor
Harrington series that the recent books have spent too much time on
exposition and political intrigue before getting to the "good part",
as it were - the big space battle that tends to form the closing scene
of the novel.

In "A Rising Thunder"... the big space battle one might expect to be
forthcoming... will, if it happens, apparently be in the _next_ book.

*I* still enjoyed the book a great deal, finding it to be interesting
reading. But it seems it won't be a lot of people's cup of tea.

John Savard

[Ted Nolan <tednolan>]

Post by Quadibloc
I've just finished catching up on the Honor Harrington story, first
reading Mission of Honor and then A Rising Thunder.
I've noticed that A Rising Thunder deviates from the formula of many
of the more recent book in the series.
There have been many complaints by fans of David Weber's Honor
Harrington series that the recent books have spent too much time on
exposition and political intrigue before getting to the "good part",
as it were - the big space battle that tends to form the closing scene
of the novel.
In "A Rising Thunder"... the big space battle one might expect to be
forthcoming... will, if it happens, apparently be in the _next_ book.
*I* still enjoyed the book a great deal, finding it to be interesting
reading. But it seems it won't be a lot of people's cup of tea.
John Savard

I thought it was very satisfying that they finally got Haven onside,
and started to recognize the true enemies. The desperate race by
the Solarian shadow jaunta to stay ahead of events yet all the
while precipitating what they were trying to avoid was entertaining
as well.

[Quadibloc]

Post by Ted Nolan <tednolan>
I thought it was very satisfying that they finally got Haven onside,
and started to recognize the true enemies.  The desperate race by
the Solarian shadow jaunta to stay ahead of events yet all the
while precipitating what they were trying to avoid was entertaining
as well.

I know I was dissatisfied with At All Costs because that didn't
happen; the novel seemed like a re-run of War of Honor. But I did feel
that things were already going the right way in Mission of Honor.

John Savard

[Loren Pechtel]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:23:06 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc

Post by Quadibloc
I've just finished catching up on the Honor Harrington story, first
reading Mission of Honor and then A Rising Thunder.
I've noticed that A Rising Thunder deviates from the formula of many
of the more recent book in the series.
There have been many complaints by fans of David Weber's Honor
Harrington series that the recent books have spent too much time on
exposition and political intrigue before getting to the "good part",
as it were - the big space battle that tends to form the closing scene
of the novel.
In "A Rising Thunder"... the big space battle one might expect to be
forthcoming... will, if it happens, apparently be in the _next_ book.
*I* still enjoyed the book a great deal, finding it to be interesting
reading. But it seems it won't be a lot of people's cup of tea.

There's no reason for wasting pages on a big battle.

We just had one of the biggest battles of the whole series, it just
got basically no text because there was utterly no question about how
it would turn out. Manticore vs the Sollies isn't a challenge, there
isn't anything worth writing about. Instead we see the mousetrapping
and then the after-battle analysis.

[John Fairhurst]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:36:44 -0700, Loren Pechtel

Post by Loren Pechtel
We just had one of the biggest battles of the whole series, it just
got basically no text because there was utterly no question about how
it would turn out. Manticore vs the Sollies isn't a challenge, there
isn't anything worth writing about. Instead we see the mousetrapping
and then the after-battle analysis.

We've had a 'fight' between the Solly battle fleet and Manticore's
home fleet, which, as you say, was practically an assassination of
said Solly fleet but this book did feel another holding action rather
than anythiung that really carries the action forward.