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Challenges: Tales From the Earliest Days of the Star Kingdom is the eighth anthology of short stories set in David Weber's Honorverse and will be published on November 4th 2025.
Cover Summary[]
THE HOTTEST MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION SERIES OF ALL TIME CONTINUES WITH A COLLECTION OF TALES SET IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE STAR KINGDOM OF DAVID WEBER’S NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING HONORVERSE
In Honor Harrington's day, the Star Kingdom of Manticore is the wealthiest star nation on a per capita basis in the entire galaxy. It is home to magnificent cities, its planets' oceans and seas — and skies — are open to its people, yet they have maintained the beauty and the magnificence of their natural habitats.
But that was not always true. Pioneers, especially interstellar pioneers, must be tough, smart, and self-reliant, and the people who built the Star Kingdom knew that. They prepared carefully for their enormous voyage, incorporated every measure they could think of, and even so, their new worlds did their best to kill them all. They very nearly succeeded, as the Plague Years pushed the human interlopers to the very brink of survival, forced them to grow and change in ways they never could have anticipated.
In the process, they became the people who could one day produce Honor Harrington, Elizabeth Winton, and the remarkable people willing to stand in the path of the People's Republic of Haven's insatiable advance . . . and to ally with the Republic, when both of them learned to their true enemy was. In many ways, that stand was the inevitable result of a star nation that learned early on that what truly matters is the way one faces the challenges the universe throws at one.
These are the stories of people who learned that lesson, and met — and triumphed — over every challenge of their new homes.
External Links[]
Challenges at Amazon.com